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| Newsletter #21 |
3:55 AM ET on 1/5/13 by Jay Soester |
Newsletter #21 is now available. It covers the new league survey, the six games available, our first Super Bowl Pools, updating game results, and it has an update about the NHL lockout situation. Please use this thread or with any questions about the newsletter.
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| 2013 League Survey |
2:32 AM ET on 1/3/13 by Jay Soester |
In a throw back to the earlier days of the league, I've put together a survey that I hope everyone will participate in. I've set up a database to catch the submissions to make determining the results (and subsequently, announcing them) a lot easier.
The sections with a light blue header and the section titled, "Membership Levels" are incredibly important (and the mini-section in between).
You can submit the survey again after the first time, simply use the same password. If you have any questions feel free to reply to this thread.
I pray to get a newsletter out Thursday before it's too late for Fantasy Golf, but I'm not remotely optimistic.
The first deadline of the Fantasy Golf season is 5 AM on Friday (roughly 26.5 hours away as I type this). If you're not already in one of our groups, please join: ID- 829/Password- 123456. Don't forget about NFL Playoffs Pickem and Fantasy NFL Playoffs as well.
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| New Feature: Site Search |
11:24 PM ET on 10/24/11 by Jay Soester |
The league website now features a new search feature which lets you utilize a custom google search to look for anything, anywhere on the website, including the message board.
Hopefully the navigation bar at the top of the page is enough for you to be able to move your way around the website, but if you're having a hard time finding what you're looking for, you can now search for it.
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| Help Needed |
11:55 PM ET on 10/7/11 by Jay Soester |
This is far and away my busiest time of the year. As a result, I need help getting a few things done while I work behind the scenes and maintain the games currently running.
The first assignment available is one that has been around before, the Keeper Leagues Baseball Rosters Assignment. I need a few members to send me the final rosters from each of the Fantasy Baseball Keeper Leagues this season in an excel file. The full details are available in the first post of the assignment thread. Each set of rosters is worth four bonus points.
The second assignment is new. I've put out a Golf Assignment as the first step toward moving Fantasy Golf from Yahoo! to the website (and/or creating a new Fantasy Golf game). It's a simple exercise in information gathering with excel again needed. I'm looking to build a file which lists all golfers that entered one of the 37 tournaments from this season and breaks down the list and number of tournaments they entered. I'm breaking down the work by month with three bonus points awarded for January through August and two awarded for September. The first post of the assignment thread has all the details.
There are two assignments that have been available for a while, but are still looking for participation. The NASCAR Assignment involves helping me move Fantasy NASCAR from Yahoo! to the website (and/or creating a new version of Fantasy NASCAR). I'm offering the standard bonus points, but can offer more down the road for your efforts. I'm still in need of members to help me gather information and update race results and ensure the accuracy of driver, team and schedule information. From there, I'll need help testing the new game and I'll be looking for a writer to handle weekly reviews/previews. That brings me back to the Writing Assignment, I'm looking for a member to do weekly NFL Preview/Reviews in the same manner as Nathan Susanto's work for Formula 1 and the Premier League. I'm also open to any other type of recurring articles from any member willing to write regularly, be it about sports, the internet, humor or all of the above. If you're interested in writing or have an idea for someone else to try, reply to the assignment thread.
Remember that assignments earn bonus points, which factor into the final championship standings. The first three seasons have seen a limit of 52, 62, and 79 bonus points factored into the final championship standings. If the NBA season is lost, bonus points could be as important as ever.
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| 2009-2010 Review Survey Analysis |
3:53 AM ET on 6/13/11 by Jay Soester |
I should begin this piece by noting that I read through the surveys as I received them nearly a year ago and drew conclusions despite not having the time to truly quantify the results. The 42 members who submitted surveys didn't waste their time, what I've received helped shape how things were done this past season and will have an effect on the league going forward. All who provided me with their thoughts received between one and seven bonus points for their effort depending on how much information they provided. Most earned at least five points for the 2010-2011 season.
Visit Frequencies
The first thing I analyzed was the responses to how often each member checked or visited the website or their fantasy teams. Here was the breakdown of responses:
| League Pages & Fantasy Teams |
| Selection |
Website |
Old MB |
Fantasy Teams |
| # |
% |
Rnk |
# |
% |
Rnk |
# |
% |
Rnk |
| rarely |
3 |
7.14% |
T6 |
4 |
9.52% |
T4 |
0 |
0.00% |
T5 |
| once a month |
4 |
9.52% |
T4 |
4 |
9.52% |
T4 |
0 |
0.00% |
T5 |
| a few times a month |
3 |
7.14% |
T6 |
4 |
9.52% |
T4 |
0 |
0.00% |
T5 |
| once a week |
4 |
9.52% |
T4 |
4 |
9.52% |
T4 |
0 |
0.00% |
T5 |
| twice a week |
5 |
11.90% |
T2 |
1 |
2.38% |
9 |
2 |
4.76% |
4 |
| every other day |
3 |
7.14% |
T6 |
6 |
14.29% |
2 |
0 |
0.00% |
T5 |
| every day |
12 |
28.57% |
1 |
10 |
23.81% |
1 |
26 |
61.90% |
1 |
| a few times a day |
3 |
7.14% |
T6 |
4 |
9.52% |
T4 |
11 |
26.19% |
2 |
| whenever I'm online |
5 |
11.90% |
T2 |
5 |
11.90% |
3 |
3 |
7.14% |
3 |
Averages |
5.52 |
5.43 |
7.31 |
First and foremost (for everything from the survey), I have to take into account that I only received information from 42 of the 191 members to participate in the 2010-2011 season. On top of that, the membership range skewed decidedly toward the more active membership.
With that in mind, the results still backed what I expected. Members check their fantasy teams extensively more than the website, and that's certainly reasonable. Without the teams, the website serves no purpose. Based on the numerical results, the website and message board were checked roughly three to four times less often than fantasy teams were. The difference between the website and message board was marginal and on top of that I believe many didn't truly differentiate between visiting the two...either way, they are one in the same now, where they weren't a year ago.
What do I take from this? -
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| Assignments Available |
6:07 PM ET on 4/21/11 by Jay Soester |
I'm short on time as I look for a job, prepare for a job and work on various items on the website. I need help getting some of the more short-term pieces of work done as I work on long-term items and have an alternative assignment for those not capable or interested in the first two.
To sign up for any of the assignments, follow the assignment's link to the message board and reply to the thread with what you'd like to do. The first post of the thread will have more information about the assignment as well.
The Standings Assignment involves helping gather standings data for me so I can build the various standings pages for the main competition, Keeper Leagues and ASASFL. There are 112 bonus points available to multiple members via the assignment.
The Keeper Leagues Roster Assignment involves sorting out the final rosters from the three Keeper Leagues games not currently running so I can set up the draft pages for each division. The Standings Assignment needs to be finished before the non-football rosters are available to finish. Twenty-one bonus points are available to multiple members via the assignment.
The final assignment is a Writing Assignment. I'm looking for around a handful of members to write about ASFL2-related and sports-world related topics in an effort to create more content on the website, save me some time in writing periodically about league happenings, break the monotony of my name on the front page, and generally create some interest on the league website. For now I'm merely seeing who is interested and will figure out how bonus points are handled in the future.
Remember that assignments earn bonus points, which factor into the final championship standings. The first two seasons have seen a limit of 52 and 62 bonus points factored into the final championship standings. This season projects to have around 75 points due to the percentage allowed being upped from 10% to 12% with the loss of Salary Cap Football from the official game list. The 2011-2012 season could see the percentage upped again if either the NBA or NFL season is lost. All bonus points earned through these assignments will go toward the 2011-2012 season.
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| New Front Page Format |
3:50 AM ET on 3/6/11 by Jay Soester |
The ASFL2 website now features a dynamic front page.
You can now to view the top 10 in the standings for each conference as well as overall in the second section to the left.
Underneath the standings, you can view the ten most recent championship point scoring events.
Links to the last five message board posts are also available to the right underneath the twitter feed.
Below that, member birthdays and anniversarys are visible above the traditional "Related Links" box, which acts as a stunt-double for the navigation bar at the top of the screen. What anniversary is the box referring to? Those who signed up for the league on this date will appear with the number of years since their joining. It's my birthday, why am I not showing up? Either you've chosen to have your birthday remain private, or you haven't updated your member profile with your birthday.
Ever wonder why I kept as many pieces of news on the old page as I did? The bottom of the middle section allows you to change the page through all news items the league has saved.
The tags underneath each news item will link you to a search of their instances across all news items. The new "News" section has a few more items left to be finished, but the front page of each section of the website now features this formatting.
If you have any questions, suggestions or notice a problem, please respond to this thread on the message board. That thread also features information on the league going forward.
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