We are almost a week into the start of the MLB season, and I am going to my first Toronto Blue Jays game on Saturday versus the hated Boston Red Sox. Can’t wait! Although if there is no Josh Donaldson in the lineup that will be a real bummer. Latest is the Jays are hopeful he returns Friday. Come on Bringer Of Rain!
Anyway… this is pretty much a wrap on fantasy baseball season as far as our Draft Buddy draft software is concerned. Everyone is done drafting now, I take it?
If you were among our members who used Draft Buddy this season, I hope you found it extremely useful and want to come back and use it again next year. Thank you for the positive feedback, occasional donation, and even suggestions for improvement.
Speaking of which, I wanted to get some of these suggestions for improvement written out and saved where I can easily find them before we ramp up for next fantasy baseball season. I’ve tried keeping them on my desk before and that just doesn’t work very well. Plus, now you have an opportunity to add to the list right here, in the comments section.
Below are some suggestions I received by email, or thought of myself. Keep in mind I cannot promise all of these will happen. Some are a bit of a brain dump of ideas that haven’t even been fully thought out if they are possible. If you see one you really like then by all means comment your support for it, and as always I will do my best.
- FIX: Check conditional formatting for last row in the cheatsheets, as it may be missing.
- FIX: On the new Top 25 feature, some players are appearing more than once… I believe this is due to a handful of players (likely 3 or more) having the same projections of a particular stat category.
- FIX: Not sure the count of drafted players at UT and CI/MI are correct on the summary tab in certain cases. Check Steve P.’s email and file.
- NEW: Add Draft Player buttons to the hitters data and pitchers data tabs, enabling ability to draft from any tab that lists players.
- NEW: Add AB as a scoring category for fantasy points leagues.
- NEW: Add more / improve data such as positions for top prospects in MLB organizations to enhance keeper and dynasty leagues.
- NEW: Perhaps have a separate ranking list of top prospects to draft from beyond the rankings generated from the projections.
- NEW: Player comparison tab similar to the football version… or enhance the online player comparison tool (better idea).
- NEW: Deeper ADP list.
That is all I have for now, but again, if you have other suggestions then feel free to comment below, as will I if I receive (or remember) any other ideas by email.
Thanks again for supporting Draft Buddy. Enjoy baseball season, and go Blue Jays!
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Not sure why I didn’t remember this one, but Ray sent me an email, “One suggestion I have for baseball is to support 7×7 roto/h2h leagues that use batter Ks and pitcher Ls (or net W) as scoring categories.”
Yep, I was told way back that so-called “negative” stat categories such as K for hitters were not used in roto leagues, but that clearly isn’t the case now as a few people ask for these. I will have to figure out how to properly value those categories but would be a good add. In terms of the player value engine for the baseball version, I would like to align the Draft Buddy methodology and Last Player Picked methodology into one unified method.
From Steven: “Here’s one suggestion I’d love to see: some projection systems are better for hitters and others for pitchers. I’d love to be able to select a different projection system for each type of player.”
Thanks Steven. There actually is a way to do this, but I can see it is a bit manual / not obvious. Good idea to make it more intuitive.
From David:
1. Our league does not require a certain number of starters & relievers. As such, the rules are set-up for “Pitcher”. However all the dropdown menus still segregate the pitchers as either SP or RP. It would be better all pitchers were in the same dropdown if “P” is chosen on the rules sheet.
2. Would prefer is players were listed alphabetically by last name, instead of first name.
In response, I’m wondering if we can make both of things optional. We shall see.
Steve: “I do my own projections and could not easily (i.e. in two minutes) figure out how to import them, or in what format they would be accepted.”
Steve goes on to mention LPP, so I’m not sure if he is focused on that or Draft Buddy, but in either case I said to him I’m betting both could be easier … as least easier explained via a video. Videos take a lot of time but I know it would be great to have more of those and some of the older ones are due an update.
Dan sent me an email asking about considering some other sources of projections. If anyone has any good suggestions then please let me know.
Potential roto tab problems for a 20-team league from Matt? Note to self: check saved file MCFBL in my tech support folder.
FIX: Owners tab when changing draft order after keepers are input does not appear to work like it should. Places players on wrong team unless manually update the draft order on the draft report tab.