Now that your fantasy football draft is done, you’re probably wondering how well your fantasy football team will do this season. You can find out at least one professional opinion with one click of the mouse from your Franchise Information page in your league. To get there, just click on your franchise name from any report or screen in your league. Then in the upper right you’ll see a link that says “FBG Rate My Team“. Click on that link and you’ll be taken to the Rate My Team application, which was developed by footballguys.com this year. It’s a great way to receive an in-depth analysis of your team, complete with recommendations about what you can do to improve your roster. Since they worked with us to integrate the application into our leagues using our Developer’s API, it saves you the time of entering your league parameters, so you can get an analysis of your team very quickly. And it’s free! So check it out this opening weekend and enjoy the games!
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Rate My Team
Friday, September 11th, 2009FantasySharks Draft Coach
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
Welcome to Fantasy Draft Weekend! Based on past experience, this is the weekend that a majority of fantasy football leagues conduct their draft. With that in mind, we want to let you know about another great resource integrated into your league for owners to use when they want assistance with their draft picks. It is the FantasySharks.com Draft Coach. The Draft Coach was developed quite a few years ago by Tony Holm over at FantasySharks.com, and it was integrated into MyFantasyLeague.com and has been available to assist with draft picks ever since then. It uses our Open Developer’s API to fetch league information for your specific league, including the scoring rules and roster requirements and draft info, and then it uses the player stat projections from FantasySharks.com and combines it with our ADP Rankings and other info to help make recommendations about which player to select next in your draft. Very cool stuff!
You can access it from the Live Draft room in your league, and from the PreDraft screen as well. Note that it is part of the “Fantasy Links” section of your league, so if you don’t see the link to the Draft Coach, be sure to ask your commissioner to turn that option on in the “For Commissioners > Setup > Menu Setup” screen (it is on by default).
ADP Rankings Updated Daily
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009With fantasy football draft day quickly approaching, make sure you check out our Average Daft Position Rankings! Click on the link to check out the latest player rankings from all of the drafts that have already taken place on MyFantasyLeague.com. You can slice and dice the data in various ways, such as by position, by league size, or by scoring system. You can also choose keeper or non-keeper drafts, and mock or real drafts. And you can specify the time frame, and choose to view data only for recent drafts instead of all drafts in the system. It’s a great resource to help you prepare for your draft to get a feel for which round players have been drafted in by other leagues, especially if you have faith in the wisdom of crowds.
And if you’re a coder that likes to manipulate data like this, you can use our Open Developer’s API to grab the data from an XML feed to do whatever you want with it. We also have an ADP Home Page Module that you can add to your league so all of your team owners have quick and easy access to it. And we have an ADP Widget that you can put on any web page. Use the “Reports > League > MFL Widgets” screen for more info on doing that.
Draft with FanDraft
Friday, August 21st, 2009MyFantasyLeague.com has its own integrated draft room for conducting a live, on-line draft. You can also conduct an email draft over the course of days or weeks directly from our site. And we also have our own free off-line draft program (FFLM). But there are still other ways to conduct a draft if desired. Because of our Open Developer’s API, there are several third party draft tools that you can use to conduct your draft or to enhance your draft experience.
For an alternate off-line draft program that works similar to our own FFLM program, you can use FanDraft, a program from FanSoftMedia. They have integrated one click ability to import your league into FanDraft so it is really quick to get ready for your draft. Then after you draft is completed in FanDraft, you can transfer the draft results back to your league with another click. You do of course need to enter your League ID and password, but otherwise it is all very automatic! Thank you to Randy over at FanDraft for working with us on this integration ability.
If you’ve used FanDraft in the past, or you prefer its interface for any other reason, you now have a great way to quickly transfer the draft results into your league on MyFantasyLeague.com.
FantasySharks Lineup Coach
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Kickoff is almost here! Where did the summer go? Now that your draft is complete, it’s time to set your starting lineup and go after that crucial first win of the season for your fantasy team. If you’re looking for guidance and advice, we have just the thing for you…
Check out the FantasySharks.com Lineup Coach. It is available right from your Starting Lineup page. Just click on the link at the top of that page and you’ll be taken to the lineup coach. It uses our Open Developer’s API to fetch league information for your specific league, including the scoring rules and starting lineup requirements. Then it combines that data with the weekly player stat projections from FantasySharks.com and ultimately makes recommendations about which player to start or bench this week. Very cool stuff! It also displays current injury information along with a short comment about each player.
Note that this feature is part of the “Fantasy Links” section of your league, so if you don’t see the link to the LineupCoach, be sure to ask your commissioner to turn that option on in the “For Commissioners > Setup > Menu Setup” screen (it is on by default).
MFL Power
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
There’s another great resource of customized fantasy football rankings available to you for your fantasy draft. Check out the MFL Power section of the FFToday.com web site. Mike MacGregor has used our Open Developer’s API to create a customized cheat sheet for your league. Just enter your 5-digit League ID from your league on MyFantasyLeague.com, and then it does the rest of the work for you. Their system imports your league scoring rules and rosters (in case you have a keeper or dynasty league), and then it combines that with their stat projections to generate a customized cheat sheet for your draft!
In addition to a draft cheat sheet during the preseason, they also have MFL Power tools for in-season weekly rankings, and for customized player news and injury information for your fantasy team. Be sure to check it out.
Manage League Finances with LeagueSafe
Friday, August 22nd, 2008We’re happy to announce a new feature and a partnership with the LeagueSafe.com web site to help commissioners relieve themselves of one of the biggest burdens for commissioners… collecting league dues before the draft and paying out league prizes after the fantasy playoffs. Any commissioner knows about the annual nuisance. You have to hound your team owners in the weeks leading up to the draft to make sure they remember to pay the annual league dues before the draft. Then for the two or three owners that forget, you have to continue to nag them all season long until they finally pay up. And it doesn’t end there. After the season is over, you have to figure out how to contact the winners and get them their prizes in a timely manner.
Enter LeagueSafe! It was conceived and developed by Paul Charchian, who has been involved with fantasy football leagues for over 15 years as a radio show host and as a co-founder of Fanball.com. So he has thought through the process thoroughly and come up with a great solution for leagues that want to have someone else manage their finances. You can read a Wall Street Journal article about it, or read the Press Release for more information.
For leagues that want to take advantage of the LeagueSafe service, we’ve made it very easy to do with the new option under the “For Commissioners > Setup” screen called “Manage League Finances Using LeagueSafe“. Just click on that option in your league and follow the steps on that screen, and then you’ll be all set. You won’t have to worry about the hassle of collecting dues from your owners, and all of your owners will be able to rest easier knowing that their money is being held by an FDIC insured account, and that it will only be used for paying out the league prizes (and optionally the league hosting fee on MyFantasyLeague.com).
That’s the other great thing about this service. If the commissioner doesn’t want to pay for the MyFantasyLeague.com league up front, he can designate that as an option when signing up for LeagueSafe. Then when owners start paying their league dues, the cost of managing the league on MFL will be taken care of automatically as well. Be sure to visit LeagueSafe.com for additional info or details.
Draft Dominator Application
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Yet another third party program that has been updated this season to include some integration with MyFantasyLeague.com is the Draft Dominator from Bruce Henderson at Footballguys.com. It now has a league import option that utilizes our Open Developer’s API to import your league settings. This will save you a ton of time entering your league rules and configuration as you prepare for your draft.
So if you use the Draft Dominator to help you draft your team, be sure to check out the Footballguys.com web site for the latest version and updates, including the optional Import program.