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Fantasy Football Draft Buddy 2017 Released

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We are up and running for the 2017 fantasy football season! Early June is our normal release date, and we met that timetable with a soft launch last week.

Check the pages linked below for more info about our custom cheatsheet and draft tracking software, and take advantage of the early bird special right now to save $4 off the purchase price!

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The detailed player projections included by default in Draft Buddy are from FF Today. These include projections for 61 QB, 122 RB, 153 WR and 75 TE, so very deep at the offensive skill positions, plus every projected starting kicker, every team defense, and 120 DL, 140 LB and 150 DB on the individual defensive player side. Nice job Mike K. and Antonio!

One new feature added out of the gate is the option for average draft position (ADP) data from three different sources. We’ve used Fantasy Football Calculator in the past, it is still there, and we added MyFantasyLeague.com and FantasyPros ADP. MFL is from their 12-team public leagues, the popular MFL10s, and FantasyPros is a 12-team composite ADP from various online league management services.

In terms of additional new features, I am working to develop some Draft Buddy features online, which will make them more flexible and provide an improved user interface. These are still in development and testing phases, not ready to be released yet.

We already noticed two issues where Draft Buddy is behaving differently than it did last year in Office 365, so a new bug fix release should be available soon. For those who already purchased – thank you! – if you have any issues or notice anything not quite working the way you expect, then please let me know.

Here is to an awesome summer ahead including many a fantasy football draft, using Draft Buddy!

Fantasy Football Draft Buddy Ready for 2016 Season

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The Fantasy Football Draft Buddy is now available for the 2016 season!

We continue our partnership with FFToday.com to include their detailed player projections in Draft Buddy, including regularly scheduled updates to those projections from now to the start of the season.

Use Draft Buddy to create your own custom player ranking cheatsheets to prepare for your fantasy football draft. Once your cheatsheets are ready, then Draft Buddy helps you track your draft and stay organized.

One of the new features added this season include draft player / undo pick buttons on each position tab, plus players are marked off as drafted on these tabs.

Another feature lets the user hide / show some of the setup tabs by clicking a button. Also, Team Defense or IDP tabs are hidden after compiling cheatsheets if not applicable to the league based on the settings. These changes are meant to make Draft Buddy easy to navigate through the various tabs.

Draft Buddy is based on Microsoft Excel and works in all versions of Excel for Windows or Mac except Mac Office 2008 (no Visual Basic). It is $12.95 right now, discounted $4 off the regular $16.95 price.

Returning customers simply need to login to their member account and Add/Renew Subscription. New customers can register a new account to purchase Draft Buddy.

As always, if you have questions about Draft Buddy before or after your purchase then please contact me via email (mike [at] draftbuddy.com), the comments section below, our Fantasy Help Desk, Facebook or Twitter.

Thanks for your time, and lets get ready for another great season of fantasy football!

Download 2013 Fantasy Football Draft Buddy For Free

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While I’ve been keeping busy maintaining our fantasy baseball stats database, and also turning my attention to the upcoming fantasy football season, I haven’t had much time to properly update instructions, videos, screenshots for our bread and butter product, Draft Buddy.

Draft Buddy, in case you weren’t aware, is the all-in-one custom player ranking cheatsheet creator and draft (or auction) tracking tool. It is in Microsoft Excel. There is a fantasy baseball version which is available for free and a fantasy football version that helps pay the bills.

Draft Buddy works for redraft, keeper or dynasty leagues. You can customize a ton of possible scoring systems. For baseball you can choose roto or fantasy points scoring. It includes stats for all players for the past three years, plus last half of the prior year. It includes projections for the current year, depth charts and average draft position data, and these are updated regularly from initial release in the early spring training or preseason through to Opening Day or opening kickoff.

These are some tricked out spreadsheets. They are older than my kids, which is saying something now that Megan . . . well, anything I say about my eldest daughter she would surely be embarrassed about, so yes, she’s “that old”.

Draft Buddy has gone through a lot of changes over the years, including a name change. You’ll still see some references to Cheatsheet Compiler, the first half of the old combined CC & DB name. The videos give some insight into how Draft Buddy works, but if they aren’t keeping up with the changes, then I need to make new videos. Given the lack of time, as mentioned, I wanted to come up with another way for people to try out the Fantasy Football Draft Buddy.

How about a free trial?

Perfect. And I’m not going to create a separate stripped down version of Draft Buddy, but rather I will make the 2013 Fantasy Football Draft Buddy available to download. To get it, you just need to login or register (for free) and subscribe to the football version. Heck, and get the baseball version too if you missed out this year and want to check it out.

It has last year’s projections in it of course, and player stats from 2010-2012 NFL seasons. If you have any questions then feel free to post a comment here or shoot me an email. I am travelling a fair bit over the next couple weeks, but I will respond to every comment or email as soon as possible.

I hope you like it, and decide to give it a try for the now fast approaching, 2014 NFL season. Cheers.