2015 fantasy baseball Archives

Zeile from FantasyPros 2016 Fantasy Baseball Projections

February 11, 2016 By Draft Buddy Leave a Comment

We announced adding the Steamer-Fangraphs projections to the website earlier this week, updating numerous features including Last Player Picked. Today we added another set of projections, the Zeile consensus expert projections from FantasyPros.

Going by memory and for what it is worth, these projections are named after former St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Todd Zeile. Technically former Card and then 10 different teams in the final 10 of his 16 MLB seasons. We have a Shane Zeile in our database, apparently nephew of Todd per Wikipedia.

With the addition of the Zeile projections, not only do you have another option for LPP, but our player comparison tool has a little more to, well, compare. Say you wanted to look at Bryce Harper vs. Mike Trout for the upcoming season.

Thanks to Dave Kim over at FantasyPros for letting us use the Zeile projections and Average Draft Position data that will find its way into Draft Buddy.

Steamer-Fangraphs 2016 Fantasy Baseball Projections

February 9, 2016 By Draft Buddy Leave a Comment

Attention fantasy baseball fans, the first cut of 2016 projections from Steamer and Fangraphs are now available. Thanks very much to Jared Cross, the man behind the Steamer projections, and Fangraphs for incorporating their playing time adjustments.

The projections update quite a few of our online features in one fell swoop, including team-by-team projections, player pages, player vs. player comparison tool and the dollar value calculator (roto and fantasy points versions), Last Player Picked.

This helps us get closer to releasing the 2016 fantasy baseball version of Draft Buddy. I am targeting end of this week but sorry, no promises! Doing my best here. If you aren’t already signed up as a baseball member (for free) on our website then make sure to do that and we will send an email to all members when it is ready for download.

Props to member Kevin Baker for helping update our MLB team depth charts. That is another piece of the puzzle for a new season of Draft Buddy. Thanks Kevin! Online cheatsheet rankings will get updated after Draft Buddy is released.

Once all of our baseball features are ready for this season, then hopefully I can pull down the front page Under Construction image, too. Lots to do still so clearly it is time for me to get back to work!

It’s Alive! Fantasy Baseball Draft Buddy 1.0 Now Available

February 5, 2015 By Draft Buddy Leave a Comment

The first version of Draft Buddy for the 2015 fantasy baseball season is now available for download!

We are having some slight technical difficulties this morning with the website. Namely, we changed servers (yay), but that buggered our member login software (boo).

I didn’t want to be deterred however, so the file is now available for open download. You do not need to register or login to access it. Maybe come back later and make it official? It helps me track numbers so I know how many people are using it, and then at that time you can use our help desk integrated with the member software for tech support.

Right now Draft Buddy is the same as last season. It includes two sets of projections, one from Steamer-Fangraphs and the Zeile projections from FantasyPros. It includes player stats from the 2012 to 2014 seasons, plus 2014 post-All-Star Game stats. You can set up roto or fantasy points scoring leagues, choose a wide variety of stat categories plus position options. It tracks your drafts and does all sorts of cool things.

Note at the start of last season Draft Buddy was split into two files – Cheatsheet Compiler (custom cheatsheet generator) and Draft Buddy (draft tracker). Partway through last season I managed to combine them into one file, which is great, but some of our instructions and demo videos may be a little dated referencing each file separately. I am working to update them, but they can still be useful as much of the functionality in the combined file is similar.

If you need some help with something, post here in the blog, on Facebook or Twitter, or shoot me an email. Thanks!