myfantasyleague.com What's New in 2004

 

New Features

We've spent a lot of time updating myfantasyleague.com to address many of the features requested by our customers.  While we'll continue to work on new and improved features in the coming months (check back to this page for frequent updates!), the following is a list of some of our 2004 system enhancements to date:

(as of June 29, 2004)

Draft -

The commissioner can now undo the last draft pick while logged in to the live draft chat room. This will remove the previous player from the owner's roster and revert back to the previous pick location in the draft. In addition, the commissioner can also suspend the draft timer for specific times (typically overnight) during the draft each day.

User Interface -

The 'Load Rosters' and 'FCFS Waivers' screens have been updated to make their respective tasks easier to perform.

Reports -

The 'Injury Report' has been updated to include additional details regarding the player's type of injury. This information will be included with the first regular season injury report update on Wed., 9/8.

(as of June 22, 2004)

Reports -

The 'Drafted' column on the Rosters report can now be disabled for leagues that prefer not to display this information.

Invitations -

The 'Invite Franchise Owners' page allows the league commissioner to customize both the subject and body of the email message that gets sent out to franchise owners with their league invitation.

Draft -

Commissioners can now skip a draft pick in the middle of the league's online draft.

(as of June 9, 2004)

Trades -

The Trades Setup screen now includes an option to auto-process a trade based on the results of a corresponding trade poll. Please see this description for more information on how this process functions.

Scoring -

Several scoring system enhancments have been added to help commissioners better define league scoring.

  • Both the "Select Rules" page and the 'Edit One Rule' page have been updated to include a more detailed description of each scoring rule.
  • The 'Edit Rules For Positions' page has been updated to include a "Test?" column for each rule.
  • The 'Select Rules' page has been updated to allow you to filter rules by rule category.

Draft -

The Draft Timer Setup page now has a new option to allows the commissioner to specify which, if any, teams in your league should have their picks made automatically for them based on the current Draft Tracker results, as soon as they get on the clock (as opposed to when the draft timer expires). This option will be useful for leagues where one or more franchise owner will not be present during your draft, and you'd like the system to assign players to that franchise automatically, without waiting for the draft timer to expire each time.

(as of May 25, 2004)

Appearance -

The javascript menus now include an option to display vertically along the left-hand side in addition to horizontally across the top of the page.

Scoring -

Conditional Scoring has been enhanced to support all combinations of rules. While most leagues use Conditional Scoring for Passing Completion Percentage, Average Rushing Yardage, Average Receiving Yardage, and Field Goal Percentage, the site can now allow you to define conditional scoring for a player using any category. For example, you can now define a bonus for (total) Rushing Yardage if-and-only-if a player as a minimum number of rushing attempts.

Reports -

The Rosters report has been updated to indicate what pick each player was drafted at (or "FA" to indicate that the player was not drafted).

Waivers -

Leagues that use blind bidding waivers can now specify a bid increment.

Auctions -

a message indicating "In order to have enough money to completely fill your roster, you may bid no more than $xx.xx on any one player." This message is for informational purposes only, for those leagues that force owners to have a full roster at the end of their auction.

(as of May 16, 2004)

Auction Drafts -

The ability to have define different auction funds available for each franchise in their preseason auction draft is now available.

Schedule -

The new 'Randomize Fantasy Schedule' setup screen has been added to allow a commissioner to randomly change some or all of the weeks in a currently defined schedule. None of the matchups will be change - just the order in which they are played. This feature can be repeated as often as necessary.

Draft -

A new setup screen, Change Draft Picks, has been added to allow the commissioner to easily adjust any past draft pick made in the current draft.

Reports -

The Rosters report now includes an optional grid view to display all rosters in a more compact page.

(as of April 30, 2004)

2004 Leagues -

The 2004 leagues are now available. Current customers should use the commissioner home page message to upgrade their 2003 league to a new, 2004 league. New customers can create a new 2004 league. Use the For Commissioners > $$Purchase League$$ menu item to register your league. See our Purchase Page for more ordering information.

(as of April 23, 2004)

Draft -

The draft setup has been enhanced with a new screen, "Draft Order Setup - One Round". This screen will give commissioners the ability to define/edit draft picks on a round-by-round basis. While the MFLsetup tool still works for this, it is no longer required for this level of draft customization.

Reports -

The reports menu has been re-organized for easier access. A "Fantasy Standings Report" submenu has also been added.

Links -

Most league pages now have a new option under the "This Page" main menu called "Add To My Links" - if you click on that option, the system will add the current page to your "My Links" list under the "Links" main menu item. A corresponding Home Page Module (My Links) has also been added.

Numerous Minor Enhancements -

Several minor enhancement to the system have been added as detailed here.

(as of March 24, 2004)

Reports -

To better use the Draft Report data, filters have been added for player position and franchise.

A commissioner can optionally charge the winning auction bid amount as "real" dollars on the accounting report to the franchise owner who won the auction.

The old "Auction Results" report has been broken out into two separate reports:

  • Auction Results - Summary report gives the summary of all completed and underway auctions for each franchise
  • Auction Results - Details report gives a detailed level (player-by-player) report of all completed auctions. This report has also been upgraded to allow you to sort those results based on Player Name, Winning Bid Amount, Winning Franchise, or Auction Started Time.
The new "Power Rank" report has been added to the Fantasy League Reports menu offering a variety of franchise stats. See Power Rank Details for more information.

Auction Drafts -

The ability to have a "proxy" (or E-Bay style) auction for your draft has been added. Please see Proxy Auction Details for more information.

(as of March 17, 2004)

Scoring -

The ability to define fantasy weekly total scores as a given team's total offensive player score minus their opponent's total defensive player score has been added.

Trades -

Leagues can now trade individual future year draft picks as part of the trading process.

Reports -

The "Future Draft Picks" report has been added for leagues that trade future years' draft picks.

(as of March 10, 2004)

Reports -

The "Standings" report (franchise name & icon) can now be separated into two columns and moved as needed. In addition, 'Offensive Points' and 'Defensive Points' have been added as optional columns of data for the Standings report.

'Players Currently Playing', 'Players Yet To Play', and 'Player Minute Remaining' have all been added to the "Live Scoring" report.

For salary cap leagues, the Rosters report now includes each team's individual salary cap and cap room available totals.

Scoring -

When using the Break Ties, Standings Adjuster, and Score Adjuster screens, the system will automatically update the standings. There's no longer a need to use the Recalculate Results screen for these manual changes.

Waivers -

Three new waiver windows positions have been added for a total of eight to allow for even more flexibility for leagues with complex waiver rules.

System Messages -

This new screen has been added under the 'For Commissioners' menu to better inform league commissioners about system notices. In addition, all notices will be archives to allow commissioners the ability to reveiw them throughout the season.

Private Leagues -

The 'Other Appearance Settings' screen now includes an option to show/hide league reports to guests. If disables, non-league members will only be able to view a league's login and home pages.

Taxi Squad -

Also known as a Practice Squad and a Protected Pool, this enhancement allows each franchise to have a separate list of players on their team, but not on their active roster.

(as of March 3, 2004)

Reports -

A new "NFL Team Stats" report has been added to display a team's weekly and YTD stats.

Thirteen new columns of data have been added to the "Standings" report (nonDiv/nonConf W/L/T/Pct, Points Back, Min/Max Points Against, and Div/Conf Points For).

Scoring -

A home field advantage (HFA) bonus option has been added.

An option to count "Points For" multiple times in multi-game (doubleheader, etc.) weeks has also been added.

For leagues that use the league average calculation, an option has been added to exclude the LA's opponent's score from the LA calculation.

(as of February 25, 2004)

Injury Email -

A new option for both franchises (Advanced Franchise Setup) and commissioners (Commissioner Email Setup), that when checked, well send out an email for each injury report. The email will contain either "No players ..." or a list of a team's current roster appearing or on the report. In addition (for leagues that use a fantasy IR), if an owner has one or more players currently on IR that should not be on IR according to league rules, a warning will be included in the message.

Reports -

For leagues that use IR and have rules regarding what injury status a player must be at when going on IR, the system will now display a warning message on the "Rosters" report if a player is on IR but should not be according to your league rules and his current injury status.

For leagues that use contract information (on the Set Salaries/Contract Setup screen) without using salaries, the system will only display the contract information on the "Rosters" report (it previously reported the salary data too).

A new module, "Weekly MVP Players," has been added to the list of home page setup modules. This module lists the top-scoring player at each position that your league uses for the most recent week of the season.

Salaries/Contracts -

Commissioners may now globally adjust all salaries by a certain percentage and all contracts by a certain amount.

User Interface -

If enabled by the commissioner (Franchise Abilities Setup), owners can define their own, custom home page layout to appear each time they log in with their franchise account.

Custom Players -

Commissioners may now enter up to 35 custom players for their league. Some leagues might want to use these slots for college players, or any other players that we do not have in our database (and are not on any of the NFL team's official 53-man rosters) that an owner in you league would like to acquire.

Player Positions -

Two new player positions are now supported in the Starting Lineups Setup screen:

    Fullback (FB)
    Kick Returner (KR)
League commissioners can now change any player's position as necessary. This feature may be helpful for players who at times line up at different positions.

Automatic Playoff Brackets -

The system can now automatically set up the playoff brackets for eight common combinations of teams & games. You'll still be able to manually adjust if needed, but this should make scheduling the playoffs for most leagues much easier.

(as of February 11, 2004)

Franchise Abilities -

The "Allow Owners With Password Access To:" section has been removed from the "For Commissioners > General League Setup" page, and replaced with the "For Commissioners > Setup > Franchise Abilities Setup" option. This screen will offer commissioners a much more granular control over what tasks owners may or may not have available.

Trades -

Added an option to create a poll once a trade has been accepted (to approve/disprove the trade).

Added an option to create a counter-proposal when rejecting a trade.

System Limits -

Uploaded images can now be 40k in size (old limit was 30k)

Poll questions can now extend to 255 characters (old limit was 100 characters).

Up to five custom columns can be added to the Standings report (old limit was two).

Up to eight custom links can be added to the Links menu (old limit was five).

Appearance -

Several new fonts and backgrounds have been added.

Several old menu items (such as Transactions Setup) have been broken out into submenu items for easier use.

Owners can now decide if they want to use the "new" or "classic" menu on the "Advanced franchise setup" page.

Reports -

The Injury, Free Agents, Points Allowed - By Position, Starter Points - By Position, and Nonstarter Points - By Positions reports have had additional search/sort functionality added to them, as well as (where applicable) links from the player names to their respective "player information" reports.

The NFL Schedule - By Team report has been added.

The "Top 10 Players" and "Top 10 Free Agents" modules have been added to the list of available modules in the Home Page Setup screen.

The Accounting report now totals debits and credits separately in addition to each franchise total.

A new Player Search option was added under the Reports menu.

The number of games played and average points per game started columns have been added to the Starter Points - By Player report.

Waivers -

One post-season waiver window (supporting one type of waiver system has been added.

Scoring -

Commissioners can now define OT, ST, & DT scoring rules based on a team's opponent's performance (such as "Opponent's Punt Return Yardage") when using the "Custom Scoring System Setup" screen.

The Minimum Weekly Player Score and Minimum Weekly Franchise Score have been added.

... and there's much more to come so please check back!