Comments on: Free Fantasy Baseball War Room

By: redmann

redmann — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:55:16 +0000

Thanks for the generic version Lou. Can you create one that still keeps track of the salaries of all the teams? The category rankings are a nice to have but keep track of the salaries still available is almost a must.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:51:15 +0000

First of all this is a great tool. Thanks for putting this together and making it free
Is there an AL only version?

By: G

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:11:32 +0000

@Lou: Yeah im not in a auction draft so how do I download the regular ones. I downloaded the excel but where do I go from there?

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:24:51 +0000

@G: Hey G. Not 100% sure I get the question, but will do my best to answer. The salaries are meant for auction drafts - so, as a winning bid is made, all you have to do is go to the Players tab and put the team name and wining bid amount next to the player chosen. If you don't have an auction draft, either skip the salary entry or download one of the straight draft tools.

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:21:22 +0000

@Ian: Thanks Ian, I will check out that site too. New ideas are always welcome! There are Excel 2003 versions on the left hand menu as well, hopefully this works out for ya.

By: G

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:25:44 +0000

so how do you use the excel thing? i downloaded it and everything but how do you know the dollar values for each player and do I have to type it in my self? appreciate the help

By: TBone

TBone — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:38:31 +0000

I’m dizzy with excitement and kiddy like a school girl.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:06:00 +0000

Hi All

This is great ….. alas I don’t have Excel 2007 and my PC is chucking a wobbly trying to play around with it.

I have used this software and is also pretty good …. I have used it and won one league and finished second in another : http://mlbmockdraftsoftware.blogspot.com/

It’s all free though donations to the programmer are not a bad idea.

You can import different sets of stats depending which ones you favour.
Its pretty flexible as well, so for our comp which has a modified H2H snake draft it allows me to track its progress well.

Love the site, the writing style, and will keep coming back.

Keep up the great work, Ian (Sydney Australia)

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:28:52 +0000

@AJ: No worries, it's all Lou.

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:15:20 +0000

Just when the news of Adriana Lima eloping threatened to ruin my day, Grey fires off this referral. Simply razztastic! I agree, any way to get a leg up and not waste precious seconds between picks is priceless. Thanks G…

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:53:49 +0000

@redmann: I think I will create a generic format for large leagues. I couldn't do the projected team rankings, but that is a nice to have instead of a must. Give me a day or so. Thanks for the kind words!

By: redmann

redmann — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:18:05 +0000

Lou this is the best spreadsheet I have seen so far. Thanks for posting it for everyone to use.

Any chance of doing one for larger leagues? I would love this in a 18 team format.

Could you just design like a 20 team one and people in smaller leagues could just not use all the team spaces? Just a thought.

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:15:50 +0000

@peter: Thanks! I will update

By: peter

peter — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:34:23 +0000

@Lou: One thing I noticed... Ryan Braun is still listed as a 3B - I don't think he played any games there last year, but I could be wrong.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:30:27 +0000

@Martin: (http://razzball.com/top-40-starters-for-2009-fantasy-baseball/)

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:18:49 +0000

hey what do u think of kevin slowey this year? I think big numbers

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:12:24 +0000

Various sources

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:55:43 +0000

@Lou: I may have missed this, but whose projections have you used? Or are they an amalgam of various sources?

By: peter

peter — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:52:44 +0000

@Lou: Oh, absolutely it's useful to straight-drafters. Like I said, it's a great spreadsheet. And open/available to the public, no less!

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:36:32 +0000

Yeah, it’s not a great straight draft tool, agreed. Designed for auctions, jerry rigged for straight drafts. At a minimum, I thought the ability to cross players off a draft list automatically would be of use to some straight drafters.

By: peter

peter — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:26:53 +0000

It’s a fantastic spreadsheet – it clearly took *a lot* of work. Also, nice to have included spreadsheets for straight drafts, 12 and 14 team (links on the left).

I’d definitely pick it up for my drafts (I’m only doing straight this season, no auction) but for one thing: it doesn’t slice bread.

Which is to say, it was designed for auction drafts – so it doesn’t track a straight draft as it progresses. You can’t see who has current/upcoming picks, and you can’t see who was taken and when. Also, I prefer to not spend time looking up players (to cross them off) during a draft; if you can just type a name in or something (and then that name is removed from the player pool), then you’re cooking w/ gas.

But, again, this sheet wasn’t designed for straight-drafts. For auctions, it looks very, very good.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:24:33 +0000

@sean: Cool.

@Iceman: Went over it about two weeks ago. All rankings are found (http://razzball.com/2009-fantasy-baseball-rankings/)

By: Iceman

Iceman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:20:55 +0000

When’s the middle reliever rankings list? Brutha’s gotta get some hizzolds up in this league!

Gracias

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:19:19 +0000

@sean: There are multiple league type versions. There is a link on the left hand side of the screen in the menu.

By: sean

sean — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:04:30 +0000

@FBHOF: any way we get a ten-team version? I’ve been involved with a pay service that charged a pretty penny for the same thing — except it sucked.

@grey: more content is always appreciated unless it results in more visitors, resulting in me getting hosed on draft day.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:00:05 +0000

@Steve: Yeah, agreed. Thanks for filling out the suggestion card.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:56:08 +0000

@Grey: The more the merrier, I say, since you guys do it in such a way that there’s more than just baseball to your work.
I think it depends to an extent on the posts, though. For example, something like the Top 300 takes some digesting, so to drop something like a “Grey’s 50-Point Plan For Fantasy Baseball Domination” over the top of it might be a little much.
But if you’re talking about posts like the VW post appearing more regularly, then I say bring it.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:49:50 +0000

@Steve: I wonder how people feel about going to three posts a day for the month leading up to Opening Day. I'm never sure if it's information overload.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:45:04 +0000

@Grey: Nah. Did make me a little light-headed though.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:42:50 +0000

@Steve: The Vernon Wells injury post didn't put you over the edge?