After a solid 5 hours of work tonight, I'm making progress with all of the web and spreadsheet updates. Chances are I'll be able to post preliminary Game 1 stats tomorrow morning. I've also got the year-to-date batting stats in pretty good shape. Pitching will come latter. Remember, I'm doing all of this for two leagues.
You can follow along with the other league here:
junior.fnftbaseball.com
Monday, March 31, 2008
Website Updates
I've added an RSS feed to the FNFT Blog as well as YTD hitter's stats. The format needs to be cleaned up a bit, but this is basically what they will look like.
Did any of you ever use the player links last year that linked to the RotoTimes pages for each player? I can link to Yahoo Sports pages this year if you'd like me to.
Here's an example.
If you used them, please let me know by commenting to this post. I'll probably put them in one way or another, but I'm just curious.
Enough for this morning. I've got to go to my other job.
Did any of you ever use the player links last year that linked to the RotoTimes pages for each player? I can link to Yahoo Sports pages this year if you'd like me to.
Here's an example.
If you used them, please let me know by commenting to this post. I'll probably put them in one way or another, but I'm just curious.
Enough for this morning. I've got to go to my other job.
Good News
First of all, happy Opening Day to everyone. I just logged in to the STATS site at 6:30 a.m. and the stats from last night's game are already there. Granted it's only one game, but 6:30 a.m. is better than the 7:00 a.m. service from the other place. As I age, I more and more sleep farmer's hours, so there were many mornings when I was sitting here waiting for the stats to come at 7:00 so I could work.
(I say this only for your information - not to raise your expectations that the stats will be posted any earlier than they already were. Eggs are for eating. Go do that and when you come back I'll have the stats posted.)
(I say this only for your information - not to raise your expectations that the stats will be posted any earlier than they already were. Eggs are for eating. Go do that and when you come back I'll have the stats posted.)
Sunday, March 30, 2008
***Thank You For Following Directions***
I have re-fired the FNFT World Series Blog and shortened the name to simply FNFT Blog. I am going to use this space to tell you about league information, and also to prattle on about anything that I think is generally FNFT related. I am using this forum because it is much easier to update from anywhere I can get on the web and more permanent than email. I highly encourage you to check in here often at least during the early part of the season as I will keep you all up to date on the behind the scenes doings of the league, and inform you about things like rules clarifications, scheduling quirks, dispute settlements - I don't know, whatever comes up. If you ask me about something that I wrote about in here, I'm going to say, "Did you check the blog?" So check the blog.
Finally, despite how much you all enjoy FNFT, I realize that the league competes for a share of your time and online reading. Therefore, I will follow the convention I use in emails by putting a set of asterisks before and after the headings of ***Really Important Posts***. That's the stuff you really should read. The rest is up to you.
I am post-dating this entry so it stays a the top of the list until the end of the week. Please check here regularly. There will eventually be an obvious link to the blog on the website. Scroll down below this post for newer stuff this week.
UPDATE: I moved this post to it's regular spot. Click on banner above to view entire blog.
Finally, despite how much you all enjoy FNFT, I realize that the league competes for a share of your time and online reading. Therefore, I will follow the convention I use in emails by putting a set of asterisks before and after the headings of ***Really Important Posts***. That's the stuff you really should read. The rest is up to you.
I am post-dating this entry so it stays a the top of the list until the end of the week. Please check here regularly. There will eventually be an obvious link to the blog on the website. Scroll down below this post for newer stuff this week.
UPDATE: I moved this post to it's regular spot. Click on banner above to view entire blog.
Bear With Me
This first week or so is going to be a little slow in terms of getting results as I continue to transition over to the new stats service. There are a trillion spreadsheet formulas that I have to modify before I can post anything.
The new service (STATS) is still working out some of the kinks and changing their online access page. I still don't know about the timeliness of them posting stats. They've posted the two games from Japan, but it's hard to tell from those. I am hoping for early morning delivery, but we'll see.
One bummer is that the stats I get will not include games played by position so I may not be able to publish those in the weekly results. I know that's something important to have so I'll have to see what I can work out. There are other places on the web to get that, but probably no easy way to incorporate it into our results sheets.
With the change to three divisions, adding a 13th team, changing to a new stats service, and changing the main way I communicate with all of you (this blog) this is very much a rebuilding year for FNFT. As I say, bear with me. I'll get it all worked out.
The new service (STATS) is still working out some of the kinks and changing their online access page. I still don't know about the timeliness of them posting stats. They've posted the two games from Japan, but it's hard to tell from those. I am hoping for early morning delivery, but we'll see.
One bummer is that the stats I get will not include games played by position so I may not be able to publish those in the weekly results. I know that's something important to have so I'll have to see what I can work out. There are other places on the web to get that, but probably no easy way to incorporate it into our results sheets.
With the change to three divisions, adding a 13th team, changing to a new stats service, and changing the main way I communicate with all of you (this blog) this is very much a rebuilding year for FNFT. As I say, bear with me. I'll get it all worked out.
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