Simon Shepherd
Footballguy
Hey all,
The Draft Dominator is released for 2018!
Here are the links:
Online: https://draftdominator.footballguys.com
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.footballguys.FBGDraft2018
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ff-draft-dominator-18/id1386752875?pt=357855&ct=Forums&mt=8
Support
As always guys any general questions/discussion about the app - fire away here. To report any issues, bugs or to get help using the app, please open a ticket at our help desk: https://sportsguys.zendesk.com
And here's what we changed for 2018:
[*]New pick UI:
[*]Other minor UI tweaks to match the colors and fonts of the Footballguys website
[*]Draft start/resume buttons moved to always be directly above the draft board, where they belong
[*]New column system on the players list. Much easier to switch between column groups (e.g. VBD, Analysis, Projections etc.)
[*]On desktop, every column now also has a tooltip to explain exactly what the metric means (e.g. the VBD start column explains exactly it means)
[*]On desktop, draft results and cheat sheets can be directly downloaded and printed, without needing to first send a link to your email
[*]Draftmaster improvements
[*]Flexible positions per site: your MFL league lists Kahlil Mack as a linebacker but Footballguys has him as a defensive end? Not a problem anymore. The app now switches to whatever position he's in for the league you currently are drafting in.
[*]Incoming stats can be decimals for games played, touchdowns and some other categories
[*]Auto-Imported keepers can be assigned to a specific pick in a specific round
[*]Support for passing, rushing and receiving first down scoring
[*]Small tablets or "phablets" may now be able to use the landscape column layout on android
[*]All tablets and iPads can now be rotated to portrait mode, going down to the 2 column view if necessary
[*]Renaming EDP to ADP+
[*]The active draft can now be deleted at any time from the list drafts screen
[*]Minor ui changes:
[*]Cheat sheets:
[*]Bug fixes:
The Draft Dominator is released for 2018!
Here are the links:
Online: https://draftdominator.footballguys.com
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.footballguys.FBGDraft2018
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ff-draft-dominator-18/id1386752875?pt=357855&ct=Forums&mt=8
Support
As always guys any general questions/discussion about the app - fire away here. To report any issues, bugs or to get help using the app, please open a ticket at our help desk: https://sportsguys.zendesk.com
And here's what we changed for 2018:
- Offline functionality for chrome and firefox - works even with completely zero internet connection
- Drafts are now all synced with the cloud across all your devices
- Import leagues from host websites: every last setting including draft order included. No more manually entering any league scoring or keepers!
- View under the more menu to edit all your fantasy leagues at any time
- More triggers for syncing with the cloud automatically, such as when you visit the edit leagues or list draft screens
- Gold/silver/bronze star system for snake drafts: the top picks are assigned these icons to make tiers obvious for the best available players. Sometimes you might have 1 gold player and 4 bronze; the gold is clearly the best pick. Another time you may have 5 gold, 3 silver and 0 bronze - so 5 great picks, 3 reasonable alternatives and no-one else you should consider.
- Loading draft dialog: progress bar, draft and league title, and a helpful tip for using the app each time you load a draft.
- Desktop UI:
Correct hover and cursor effects across all screens
- Cleaner spacing of all the columns
- 2 column layout meaning the app works in a browser window as narrow as 620px (as well as the 3 and 4 column layouts from last year)
- Players can be picked, nominated, unpicked or added/removed to/from the shortlist directly from the players list, without having to first open the player card
- Menu system much cleaner and easier to use
[*]New pick UI:
On the draft board list, selecting a pick now shows details for that pick in a modal panel instead of a small window bottom left.
- The panel automatically switches to the next pick in real drafts; picks can therefore be entered quicker than ever before making it easy to keep up even on 30 second timers
- In auction drafts, our current valuation for the player is now always visible whenever a player is up for auction
- From the new pick view, the selected or nominated player's player card is also directly available
- Pretty colors back for selected picks on the draft board list! As well as capitalization of player names, therefore making the draft board list look as much as possible like a IRL draft board
- Mock auction bidding now happens directly above the draft board list, not in the pick view, so on large devices, it is always visible top left of the screen - it's the most important part of the screen during an auction, so that's where it belongs.
- Draft board list automatically scrolls to the current pick in the draft, whenever it changes
[*]Other minor UI tweaks to match the colors and fonts of the Footballguys website
[*]Draft start/resume buttons moved to always be directly above the draft board, where they belong
[*]New column system on the players list. Much easier to switch between column groups (e.g. VBD, Analysis, Projections etc.)
[*]On desktop, every column now also has a tooltip to explain exactly what the metric means (e.g. the VBD start column explains exactly it means)
[*]On desktop, draft results and cheat sheets can be directly downloaded and printed, without needing to first send a link to your email
[*]Draftmaster improvements
will draft and suggest more defenses/kickers to cover all weeks
- uses a customized positional need ratio
[*]Flexible positions per site: your MFL league lists Kahlil Mack as a linebacker but Footballguys has him as a defensive end? Not a problem anymore. The app now switches to whatever position he's in for the league you currently are drafting in.
[*]Incoming stats can be decimals for games played, touchdowns and some other categories
[*]Auto-Imported keepers can be assigned to a specific pick in a specific round
[*]Support for passing, rushing and receiving first down scoring
[*]Small tablets or "phablets" may now be able to use the landscape column layout on android
[*]All tablets and iPads can now be rotated to portrait mode, going down to the 2 column view if necessary
[*]Renaming EDP to ADP+
[*]The active draft can now be deleted at any time from the list drafts screen
[*]Minor ui changes:
Position selector hover/selected effects to make it more obvious
- For auction drafts, in the 4 column view, there is now a list of teams with their remaining budgets and max allowed bids in the 4th column
- Sliders: killing the ugly shadow. Making them bigger for an easier target to drag around
- Rankings profile: some help text to explain how to use this advanced view
- Bolding the rank column of the main players list to make it super clear this is the most important column for snake drafts
- The same for the retail column in auction drafts
- The main settings menu on large devices was moved into two columns to prevent it overflowing vertically on smaller screens
[*]Cheat sheets:
keepers marked
- Auction values now 100% consistent with the players list for the first overall pick
[*]Bug fixes:
Issue with alert boxes on desktop being unclosable and therefore freezing the app
- Preventing users manually zero'ing roster or scoring settings (this would prevent drafts from loading)
- Issue where teams having more keepers than the roster size of the league would deduct draft picks from other teams, as well
- Increased default AI picking speed in mock drafts
- All data update issues on desktop resolved
- Mock auction freeze issue
- Display fixes for auction drafts that use decimal bidding
- Draft board grid display: align team columns wherever possible
- Auction drafts no longer force everyone to draft a complete starting lineup (although the AI will still always try to do this)
- Issue where mock auctions initial bid selector was corrupting any future use of message prompts - not allowing text to be entered in them (e.g. "Please enter the name of your new rankings profile" prompt could get disabled)
- RB/WR flex + WR/TE combined leagues will now always have an optimal lineup selected for them every time. Previously it was possible for a WR to go in the RB/WR slot and a RB left on the bench, instead of the RB being placed in the RB/WR slot and the WR in the WR/TE slot.