Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball Improvements

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Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball got a nice upgrade this year. The things I’m particularly enjoying so far:

A Roto-League Standings Visualization

Roto "Where I'm At" Chart

:beer: Brilliant! :/beer:

A great way to see where you are in your league, and particularly what areas you need to make a move in.

Improved Offline Draft Submission

My keeper league does an offline draft every year. In the past, it’s been several hours of agony entering the results for each team. This year, that all changed. They have a slick little auto-complete widget (probably using the same Y! UI library I do in PHP Tag Engine) that made it quick and easy to enter in all of the draft results.

Drag and Drop Roster Management

Now when you make a bunch of position changes, you don’t have to worry about leaving two players in your first base slot, etc.

Thanks for the great improvements, Yahoo!

Now about getting some RSS feeds for league activity… ;)

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Posted April 20th, 2007 @ 8:17 AM

4 Replies

  1. Jake adds this Comment:

    The last item, the Drag and Drop Roster Management is the key for me, makes the whole experience much, much easier. I like how it highlights for your where you are allowed to move players. Very well done Yahoo.

    April 20th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

  2. Geof F. Morris adds this Comment:

    It’s pretty great.

    April 20th, 2007 at 4:05 pm

  3. eldub adds this Comment:

    Glad you like it. ;)

    April 23rd, 2007 at 9:26 am

  4. J. Botter adds this Comment:

    Alex, where is the Roto-League standings visualization at? I can’t seem to find it anywhere.

    April 30th, 2007 at 1:28 pm

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