Interface Suggestions/Improvements

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:03 am

Originally posted by Renman:
Speaking of overall or historical standings. I thought I once saw a list of "overall wins in the NFFC classic" somewhere. It would be cool to have an overall most wins list. Someday down the road someone could be the "Don Shula" or "Joe Paterno" of the NFFC with most wins. Is that list anywhere? No, we've never listed that and don't have that data handy. It's a good suggestion and one we'll take into consideration, but it's something that may have to be done manually. I'll check to see if that data is available after the transfer from STATS.

mattjb · Post by **mattjb** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:12 am

hi greg. will the standings have an average weekly score as well as the total? obviously this is an important number. thanks.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:10 am

Overall Standings now list W-L records and draft positions. Glad to have that added to all of the overall standings.

Fantasy Points scored should now be under Transactions->Free Agents.

Setting lineups for future weeks isn't possible at this point. However, if you want to look at future matchups, Go to LEAGUE->SCHEDULE and then click on View matchup. Once you get to that page, you can check the weeks ahead.

We're still working on a few other things, but these are the latest updates and enhancements.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:21 am

Remaining FAAB is now visible on the free agent bidding page.

renman · Post by **renman** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:58 am

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:
quote:Originally posted by Renman:
Speaking of overall or historical standings. I thought I once saw a list of "overall wins in the NFFC classic" somewhere. It would be cool to have an overall most wins list. Someday down the road someone could be the "Don Shula" or "Joe Paterno" of the NFFC with most wins. Is that list anywhere? No, we've never listed that and don't have that data handy. It's a good suggestion and one we'll take into consideration, but it's something that may have to be done manually. I'll check to see if that data is available after the transfer from STATS. [/QUOTE]Greg,

You may be right. But I could have sworn I saw a list that had Billywaz at the top of the overall wins in the NFFC classic somewhere. Maybe I am losing my mind. lol

renman · Post by **renman** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:05 am

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:
quote:Originally posted by Renman:
For the record, I downloaded Firefox and now suddenly I have access to the transations when before it locked up gave me an error message.
Well there you go. Now that wasn't so hard. [/QUOTE]Greg,

Actually, it was hard and is hard for guys who are not comfortable with computer software. I did not (and I know others have or are currently running into the same problem) anticipate having to download new software browsers just to views my live scoring and get access to my free agent system. Was it easy to ultimately do? Yes. But it still is an unexpected hurdle for some of us.

Other questions (since this is what the thread is about).

- Any word on the ability to look at our lineup and player match ups for future weeks like we could on the old site?

- On the old site, we could click on any player on any page and up would come his profile. On his profile would be all kinds of statistical info as well as his season long schedule of matchups with his points scored up to that moment in the season. I found this to be EXTREMELY useful.

- On the transation page, can we see who players face the next week like we could in the past?

Just throwing out things that for me would make the system better.

Tanks.

Glenneration X · Post by **Glenneration X** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:26 pm

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:
quote:Originally posted by Glenneration X:
Free agency & live scoring need to be set up similarly to the way it is in baseball for the NFBC.

The season was spent perfecting these two interfaces for baseball and now they're both as good as it gets.

I'm not really sure why it was set up completely differently for football.

Glenn Glenn, obviously these are NOT the same interfaces. Football is using an existing commissioner model that obviously has to be different from the Rostisserie style of scoring we have in the NFBC. We are adding enhancements to the free agent setup in football now and it will be as good as baseball is now. But these are not interfaces that just get copied and pasted from baseball to football.

Live Scoring is being enhanced too, but it did work well for a lot of people last week. We all know IE is a tougher beast as we found in baseball. And we'll see if we can add some of those enhancements we were able to add to baseball. I'll post any improvements on the boards. Not all will get done immediately, but we'll keep working on them. [/QUOTE]I'm sure you'll get there Greg. You promised you would in baseball, for the vast majority of it you did, and now I prefer the NFBC pages to anything else I've used.

I really do hope for the NFFC there will be a way to toggle between teams or have all the teams on the same page as far as Live Scoring is concerned. Having nine teams with the NFFC, it would just add to the ease and fun of my Sundays if this could be achieved the way it was for the NFBC.

PS...Get some sleep, Bud. Two weeks in Vegas and the corresponding lack of sleep seems to have you a bit grumpy. Next year maybe you should do one of the weekends in Minneapolis, Dallas, or Buffalo, would probably help you catch up on your rest.

Thanks for everything Greg. Keep up the great work.

Glenn

BillyWaz · Post by **BillyWaz** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:27 pm

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:
quote:Originally posted by GK:
...how naive am I?...here I thought that I'd read on this MB REPEATEDLY posts by Greg himself over and over how the NFBC was the "guinea pig" for the back-end and that the NFFC site would learn from and correct the mistakes made there from the get-go...Greg, are you reading and/or paying attention to this very important thread here?...thanks much...GK I live on these boards more than you do and answer every question possible here [/QUOTE]The scary part is I think I could see Glenn saying the exact same thing!

Houston, Ambrosius, Kessenich, Stein, and Karant......sure has a ring to it!

Ted's Cracked Head · Post by **Ted's Cracked Head** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 4:00 am

Suggestion: Provide training for the players on how to use the site and software.

It seems as though each time you roll out a new piece of software the players learning curve is steep at first and a little bit of training and knowledge would go a long way.

Define in writing the FA/Waiver or each process and components of the software that we may or may not yet be aware of, providing a variety of examples.

A FAQ sheet for each process would be helpful.

Video Tutorials - you spent time to tape the draft slot process but not to provide basic information for the players.

If you would have created this information and we would have had a chance to review it prior to the season, a lot of the grief for both parties could have been eliminated.

We could have also reviewed your plans and provided our input prior to it going live.