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Anyone know what's up with AOL fantasy football? (1 Viewer)
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ahill84006
Footballguy
I heard that AOL and Fleaflicker were combining.....may want to go to the FleaFlicker site and see what that says........
FantasyTrader
Footballguy
I read a press release where aol recently purchased FleaFlicker for an undisclosed amount. Wonder if this has something to do with it, if maybe they're busy implementing FleaFlicker's features, etc.
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FantasyTrader
Footballguy
What he said.
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
Yeah, that's pretty much going to suck if it didn't save old rosters. I remember last year that they said they were moving on from Fanball, but I thought that they were building their own back end from the ground up. Guess they decided just to buy up someone else.
Cleat Spike
Footballguy
Used AOL one time about 3 years ago. I think it was their first year and it was rough. Have things changed around in there yet? Wonder if Google would be smart to jump on this train and create a super-fantasy world of just everything fantasy and tie it in with everything else they do? Hmm? Google Fantasy.
Winning IS Everything
Footballguy
On a sidebar note, our league was with Statsworld and they merged with MFL this year. Everything carried over except posts we had on our messageboard. That sucked as we had trade talks, yearly team MVP's and all kinds of info there. There was no warning from Statsworld or MFL that this was happening. So far MFL seems cool though.
Sorry for the quick hijack............
Sorry for the quick hijack............
Illegal Pants Downfield
Footballguy
Ugh...
Ok, I know it's crap to complain about a free product.
But AOL better make archived data available....
Otherwise I'm going to have 11 guys calling for my head on a stick after convincing them to convert our league to AOL last year.
We had no problem at all with the in-season service. But as a commish, I still needed to grab end of season rosters to prepare keeper values for next season...and I haven't done that yet. And now our league page is gone from AOL's site...
Hopefully AOL/Fleaflicker will open up visibility to last year's leagues at some point...
Editing to add: it REALLY would've been nice if they had sent messages to all of the commissioners ahead of time to warn us to pull down any pertinent information...
Ok, I know it's crap to complain about a free product.
But AOL better make archived data available....
Otherwise I'm going to have 11 guys calling for my head on a stick after convincing them to convert our league to AOL last year.
We had no problem at all with the in-season service. But as a commish, I still needed to grab end of season rosters to prepare keeper values for next season...and I haven't done that yet. And now our league page is gone from AOL's site...
Hopefully AOL/Fleaflicker will open up visibility to last year's leagues at some point...
Editing to add: it REALLY would've been nice if they had sent messages to all of the commissioners ahead of time to warn us to pull down any pertinent information...
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From aol site.
AOL FANTASY FOOTBALL PLAYERS
We are excited to announce that Fleaflicker.com will be the fantasy football game for AOL Sports this upcoming NFL season. Fleaflicker.com is simply FREE & EASY fantasy football. The new design and interface of Fleaflicker will allow you to better to enjoy your fantasy football experience.
Leagues active in 2007 will be transferred to Fleaflicker. We hope this process will be completed soon. In the meanwhile, please go to Fleaflicker.com to take a tour and get familiar with the site. Don't forget to come back to AOL Sports' fantasy homepage during the preseason to check out our free online draft kit, and during the regular season for fun and insightful fantasy content and tools.
AOL FANTASY FOOTBALL PLAYERS
We are excited to announce that Fleaflicker.com will be the fantasy football game for AOL Sports this upcoming NFL season. Fleaflicker.com is simply FREE & EASY fantasy football. The new design and interface of Fleaflicker will allow you to better to enjoy your fantasy football experience.
Leagues active in 2007 will be transferred to Fleaflicker. We hope this process will be completed soon. In the meanwhile, please go to Fleaflicker.com to take a tour and get familiar with the site. Don't forget to come back to AOL Sports' fantasy homepage during the preseason to check out our free online draft kit, and during the regular season for fun and insightful fantasy content and tools.
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
Illegal Pants Downfield
Footballguy
Phew....thanks for posting, gadkins...
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
Still, I get the feeling the problems have just begun.
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
AOL is free and hasn't been too bad. And unlike Yahoo, it included live scoring for free. Not sure why anyone would have actually used AOL over Yahoo last year since AOL was more customizable and had free live scoring. It just remains to be seen how good AOL will be now that it's with FleaFlicker.com instead of Fanball.
finnmaccoul
Footballguy
Actually Kia has a very good product, and the best warranty on the market.
bigfishboy
Footballguy
Fixed. Because I think you mis-typed.AOL has been better than Yahoo the last two years. AOL is free with live scoring, Yahoo is more expensive than MFL if the owners use live scoring. AOL was much more customizable (though it took the commish a while to get it set up).
I have commished several AOL league over the last 3 years. They have earned a try on fleaflicker.
Illegal Pants Downfield
Footballguy
I was reading briefly at the fleaflicker forums, and it seems they had a target date to get all the AOL data ported over by 6/2. Then a post on 6/4 from the fleaflicker guy saying they were going to work around the clock to have it done "within the next few days".
It's now 6/11 and the only new indication was a member post that said he was told it would be approximately 10 days (from a 6/6 email).
It's still only June, I know. But to miss your first 'deadlines' this badly after a buyout announcement doesn't give me warm fuzzies...
It's now 6/11 and the only new indication was a member post that said he was told it would be approximately 10 days (from a 6/6 email).
It's still only June, I know. But to miss your first 'deadlines' this badly after a buyout announcement doesn't give me warm fuzzies...
jswalker1981
Footballguy
I also hope they do this. I want to make a recap video of the 2007 season to play before our draft, and I need to know last year's scores, and I want to throw in some quotes from the message boards last year. I've been checking back every day hoping to see it finally live.
Illegal Pants Downfield
Footballguy
Bumping - Now it seems the fleaflicker founder guy has gone on radio silence. He hasn't posted in almost 2 weeks now, since he said this:I was reading briefly at the fleaflicker forums, and it seems they had a target date to get all the AOL data ported over by 6/2. Then a post on 6/4 from the fleaflicker guy saying they were going to work around the clock to have it done "within the next few days".It's now 6/11 and the only new indication was a member post that said he was told it would be approximately 10 days (from a 6/6 email).It's still only June, I know. But to miss your first 'deadlines' this badly after a buyout announcement doesn't give me warm fuzzies...
Meanwhile, users in the forums are understandably starting to boil over, as a lot of dynasty & keeper leagues obviously have earlier offseason deadlines. Some people are saying their deadlines have already passed (i.e. if leagues have June 1st deadlines). To make matters worse, the guy has gone completely silent, so nobody is getting any answers to repeated questions on how much data will be transferred over (standings, rosters, historical standings, message boards, etc.?), nor any timeframe on when the data will become available.I don't envy this guy's position right now (although I might if I knew how much AOL paid to buy fleaflicker
). However, he needs to do some PR work here, and fast...
Zoomanji
Footballguy
Well, not to stir the pot but why should he worry about any damage control? Its free software so if people leaves he doesn't lose any money. If new people don't sign up, he doesn't lose any money.Bumping - Now it seems the fleaflicker founder guy has gone on radio silence. He hasn't posted in almost 2 weeks now, since he said this:I was reading briefly at the fleaflicker forums, and it seems they had a target date to get all the AOL data ported over by 6/2. Then a post on 6/4 from the fleaflicker guy saying they were going to work around the clock to have it done "within the next few days".It's now 6/11 and the only new indication was a member post that said he was told it would be approximately 10 days (from a 6/6 email).It's still only June, I know. But to miss your first 'deadlines' this badly after a buyout announcement doesn't give me warm fuzzies...
Meanwhile, users in the forums are understandably starting to boil over, as a lot of dynasty & keeper leagues obviously have earlier offseason deadlines. Some people are saying their deadlines have already passed (i.e. if leagues have June 1st deadlines). To make matters worse, the guy has gone completely silent, so nobody is getting any answers to repeated questions on how much data will be transferred over (standings, rosters, historical standings, message boards, etc.?), nor any timeframe on when the data will become available.I don't envy this guy's position right now (although I might if I knew how much AOL paid to buy fleaflicker). However, he needs to do some PR work here, and fast...
Illegal Pants Downfield
Footballguy
I believe the old saying "nothing in life is free" is apropos here. The site is monetized by ad revenues. Fewer participants = fewer ad views/clicks = less revenue. He's doing himself a disservice right now...I think all people want is SOME update from the guy.Underpromise, overdeliver. If you think it's going to be 7/1, tell us it'll be 8/1. Then when you deliver on 7/15, we're all giddy. But right now, the guy has set (and missed) two target dates, has refused to set another target date, and has stopped communicating altogether...just doesn't seem like a great approach to running a business, especially when you have a guaranteed influx of potential new customers from AOL :( .Well, not to stir the pot but why should he worry about any damage control? Its free software so if people leaves he doesn't lose any money. If new people don't sign up, he doesn't lose any money.Bumping - Now it seems the fleaflicker founder guy has gone on radio silence. He hasn't posted in almost 2 weeks now, since he said this:I was reading briefly at the fleaflicker forums, and it seems they had a target date to get all the AOL data ported over by 6/2. Then a post on 6/4 from the fleaflicker guy saying they were going to work around the clock to have it done "within the next few days".It's now 6/11 and the only new indication was a member post that said he was told it would be approximately 10 days (from a 6/6 email).It's still only June, I know. But to miss your first 'deadlines' this badly after a buyout announcement doesn't give me warm fuzzies...
Meanwhile, users in the forums are understandably starting to boil over, as a lot of dynasty & keeper leagues obviously have earlier offseason deadlines. Some people are saying their deadlines have already passed (i.e. if leagues have June 1st deadlines). To make matters worse, the guy has gone completely silent, so nobody is getting any answers to repeated questions on how much data will be transferred over (standings, rosters, historical standings, message boards, etc.?), nor any timeframe on when the data will become available.I don't envy this guy's position right now (although I might if I knew how much AOL paid to buy fleaflicker). However, he needs to do some PR work here, and fast...
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
I moved two leagues there a couple years ago. One I don't commish, but I know the commish very well, and I encouraged the move from Yahoo. The other I do commish, and we already used Fanball, so moving to AOL for the same thing for free was worth the try. Rumors started about AOL leaving Fanball around week 10, I think, last season, and I decided then to move my league to MFL and encouraged the other commish to do the same. He has. You can switch for $60. A twelve team league is $5 bucks a person. It's just foolish to mess around with the freebies for longstanding leagues anymore.
looking to switch services this year, so I am interested to see how this shakes out.....we currently pay $56 at net-commish but with all the free sites out there now I am just fishing around to see if we can get the same service and save the money...we are not opposed to paying maybe up to $70 bucks but I want this to be our last transition...
in the past has AOL/fleaflicker allowwed you to download pictures, have a messge board, etc....I couldn't really tell from the "tour" it has.....
almost everything I have read says MFL is the way to go, is this still true....and I thought I saw something somewhere that says MFL will match your price if you switch....is that true...
tia
in the past has AOL/fleaflicker allowwed you to download pictures, have a messge board, etc....I couldn't really tell from the "tour" it has.....
almost everything I have read says MFL is the way to go, is this still true....and I thought I saw something somewhere that says MFL will match your price if you switch....is that true...
tia
MFL is the best. Can't go wrong. If its a free league, then sure go with the free leagues. But money leagues, MFL without question. They can handle anything you need, address anything you need, which is a huge must in a money league.
bigalgreek
Footballguy
It's a really sad story actually. Oh well, there was a dream that was Rome....
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Dreamer
Footballguy
MFL is the bees knees. I've had multiple leagues on there for 10+ years and I've never had a problem he didn't fix immediately.
pinequick
Footballguy
You've always had the inside scoop w/ these guys... what's going on over there?
bigalgreek
Footballguy
Yeah, I do have the scoop, but won't air my dirty laundry here in the forum. If you want the story, PM me. I have a lot of respect for people still involved.
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