FBG's Content Wish List (1 Viewer)

[pizzatyme]

Most of us know that FBGs is a terrific site. We all have our favorite things we like about it. But, if you could play webmaster for a day, what is the one thing you'd like to see added to the site.

I'm really trying to make a great thing better here with this thread, so please be constructive.

I'll start by suggesting to add a composite preseason ranking of each position by board members. I'd like to see some of the non-staffers compositite rankings of players. Then, I think each could have a thread in the shark pool discussing thier rankings and why they adjusted players up and down.

The more input we have prior to the season on this site, the better IMO.

What say you?

 

[The Man With No Name]

Dynasty rankings from more than just Sig and Jeff.

 

[jeter23]

Dynasty rankings from more than just Sig and Jeff.

and more dynasty coverage in general.

 

[GrandpaRox]

Dynasty Rankings during the season and after the season is over. Especially after the season is over, Zealots is in the middle of Free Agent signings now and it would be useful especially on the IDP side of things.

Rookie updates at mid season would have been nice also, would help planning for waiver wire pick ups, again especially on the IDP side.

It seems that once the season starts this information is very difficult to find. Great place prior to the season but huge fall off after the season begins.

 

[Sigmund Bloom]

Dynasty Rankings during the season and after the season is over. Especially after the season is over, Zealots is in the middle of Free Agent signings now and it would be useful especially on the IDP side of things.Rookie updates at mid season would have been nice also, would help planning for waiver wire pick ups, again especially on the IDP side.It seems that once the season starts this information is very difficult to find. Great place prior to the season but huge fall off after the season begins.

my dynasty rankings will remain real time all year. Ill get those IDP rankings up very soon, still working through them.Rookie updates - so you would want a midseason update on how the rooks are doing?

 

[gocats]

Dynasty rankings from more than just Sig and Jeff.

and more dynasty coverage in general.

 

[gocats]

Dynasty Rankings during the season and after the season is over. Especially after the season is over, Zealots is in the middle of Free Agent signings now and it would be useful especially on the IDP side of things.Rookie updates at mid season would have been nice also, would help planning for waiver wire pick ups, again especially on the IDP side.It seems that once the season starts this information is very difficult to find. Great place prior to the season but huge fall off after the season begins.

my dynasty rankings will remain real time all year. Ill get those IDP rankings up very soon, still working through them.Rookie updates - so you would want a midseason update on how the rooks are doing?

That would be great

 

[Genester]

I would like to see an alternate cheat sheet for each week of the regular season. FBG is unquestionably the best overall site in the business, but the one area it is inferior to a few other web sites is in performance of the weekly cheat sheet. I fully realize there's a lot of work that goes into putting it together, and from a consistency perspective it is great... I also realize it is one's man opinion. It just seems to be less accurate more often than many others, which is something that can't be said for most other superior products at FBG. Again, I respect Dodds and his opinion very much, but I think it is time to re-evaluate the approach and put a better product out.

P.S. The above view is very subjective I have not done statistical analysis to confirm FBGs cheat sheets are any better or worse. I did run a comparison of my results starting from mid-season of next to last fantasy year (i.e. over 1.5 fantasy years), using FBG and a few other cheat sheets, and for me, FBG was consistently middle of the pack or worse.

 

[Lord Lucan]

Here's what I'd like to see.

One of the most frequent posts last season was of the "who will Champ Bailey be covering?" variety. This was despite the consistent postings that Champ always lines up on the left hand side. It strikes me that many teams largely use one CB on the left and one on the right like the Broncos. If that's the case, I think two sets of information would be useful for each team.

Firstly, whether the two CBs do tend to be on one side or the other (and if so, which side, obviously). Secdondly, whether or not each teams starting WR tends to feature more on one side than the other.

It was the Broncos/Colts game this year that emphasised this the most. We all really should have worked out that Harrison normally roams the right-hand side and Bailey mirrors that side (i.e. his left) so with hindsight it's obvious Wayne might have been in for a good day.

Obviously Bailey is in a league of his own as a shutdown corner and it might not always be easy breaking down which player lines up where but in terms of highlighting profitable match-ups it might still be a very useful exercise.

 

[messinwithu]

I would like to see player pages updated during the season. You guys update your feelings on players during the season in the shark pool so why not copy that same information on the player page and have a master list of player updated dates (like preseason faceoffs or spotlights)? I am not thinking every player but only guys whose value has changed in your opinion (or you have had a lot of shark pool questions about a certain player).

If you were able to add a comment section to weekly player rankings it would be helpful to have the information in one spot. If you could combine the rankings with offensive sleepers with passing matchup and have all that kind of information on one page/list it would more clearly explain why you rank players where you do. An example would be a comment that player X will be covered by Bailey this week so his numbers may take a hit. You could also have that players X may see an increase in production this week because team y's top 2 cornerbacks are injured and listed as out.

Overall a great site with great information - Thank you guys

 

[aardball44]

I'd like to see more information on how to form leagues, specifically keeper and dynasty leagues (which more than a few of us have not yet tried).

A guide helping to define league parameters for keeper leagues (roster limits, how many or few to keep year-on-year, how long to keep them) and the pitfalls to avoid when starting or maintaining keeper and dynasty leagues would be helpful in propagating them. Greater interest in "advanced" leagues among the casual redraft owners spawns new visitors to this site, resulting in more for Joe and Co.

 

[Joe Bryant]

Excellent thread idea. You guys brainstorm here. Let's hear it.

J

 

[crnerblitz]

I agree with most of the posters in that we need more dynasty info. The dynasty rankings should be updated more often in season. Sig and Jeff did a great job, but I think a few more minds added to the mix would improve that product line considerably. On the technical side it seems that if no-one has updated a dynasty ranking in 14 days then the page loads blank and wont allow you to view rankings that are much older.

 

[gocats]

I would like to see Capella added to the staff.At least that way, he could get compensated for being on the board 23 hours a day.

 

[gocats]

I agree with most of the posters in that we need more dynasty info. The dynasty rankings should be updated more often in season. Sig and Jeff did a great job, but I think a few more minds added to the mix would improve that product line considerably. On the technical side it seems that if no-one has updated a dynasty ranking in 14 days then the page loads blank and wont allow you to view rankings that are much older.

Exactly, Id like to see some dynasty rankings by other members, epecially David Yudkin, Jason Wood (havent seen him lately), and Maurile Tremblay if possible

 

[QuizGuy66]

Arrest Rankings

Okay, more seriously, I think if there were either 'keeper' rankings that take into account leagues that keep onlyh 2 or 3 players per year (which I assume would change the ratings for some guys as opposed to dynasty rankings) would be cool. And though it doesn't impact my league, I know some have limited horizons (1 or 2 extra years) in terms of how long a guy can be kept. Something to accomodate that would be cool.

-QG

 

[Kit Fisto]

Dynasty rankings from more than just Sig and Jeff.

and more dynasty coverage in general.

 

[Jene Bramel]

Dynasty Rankings during the season and after the season is over. Especially after the season is over, Zealots is in the middle of Free Agent signings now and it would be useful especially on the IDP side of things.Rookie updates at mid season would have been nice also, would help planning for waiver wire pick ups, again especially on the IDP side.It seems that once the season starts this information is very difficult to find. Great place prior to the season but huge fall off after the season begins.

Many of the IDP staffers addressed rookie issues during the season in our subscriber columns. The IDP Roundtable frequently looked at the rookies (specific questions and open-ended ones), The Dynasty Watch crew profiled up and coming IDPs every week, and I spent five weeks (beginning in Week 7) looking at future prospects in my RTD column. Magaw had a running ranking of rookie IDPs at the bottom of his EETG column as well.We'll make a better effort to address the rookies should the IDP Roundtable continue in 2007 and I'll work on incorporating a quarterly report into my column next year. Thanks for the heads-up.I'll update my IDP dynasty rankings after the first week of free agency. IDPs are very sensitive to coaching change, scheme change and free agency movement. The draft makes a difference too, but usually only in an additive sense. IMO, I wouldn't trust any IDP ranking done in February to be worth its salt in April. I'm not comfortable projecting guys like Cato June, Adalius Thomas, Patrick Kerney, Ken Hamlin, etc, etc until I know exactly where they'll land. I have a hard time with ranking Cato June in the top twenty one day and out of the top 35 the next, which could happen between now and March 3rd.If the majority disagree (I'll start a poll in the Forum), I'm happy to put them together sooner.Feel free to suggest other improvements for our IDP coverage both here and in the IDP Forum. All are appreciated.

 

[Mungo Burrows]

I would like to see an alternate cheat sheet for each week of the regular season. FBG is unquestionably the best overall site in the business, but the one area it is inferior to a few other web sites is in performance of the weekly cheat sheet. I fully realize there's a lot of work that goes into putting it together, and from a consistency perspective it is great... I also realize it is one's man opinion. It just seems to be less accurate more often than many others, which is something that can't be said for most other superior products at FBG. Again, I respect Dodds and his opinion very much, but I think it is time to re-evaluate the approach and put a better product out.P.S. The above view is very subjective I have not done statistical analysis to confirm FBGs cheat sheets are any better or worse. I did run a comparison of my results starting from mid-season of next to last fantasy year (i.e. over 1.5 fantasy years), using FBG and a few other cheat sheets, and for me, FBG was consistently middle of the pack or worse.

:X I've been asking for an alternate set of weekly projections for a couple years now. Like you said, I don't want to take anything away from Dodds and his process, but having a "second opinion" available every week would be an immense improvement.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Dynasty rankings from more than just Sig and Jeff.

I updated mine yesterday...they are a work in progress right now so they will be shifting a bit as I sort things out, but I will continue to update them going forward.

 

[the_sig]

I think this idea has been brought up by many in other threads like this, but I'd love to see a 'post mortem' of sorts during this time of year where FBG goes back and reviews, or 'grades' advice (rankings/projections/etc..)it has doled out through the season. I'd love to see an analysis of pre-season rankings from the past year to see whose rankings were most accurate. I think you'd see trends along the lines of who makes better calls...maybe some guys get the WR's better in general, other guys seem to be spot on with RB rankings...etc, etc.

I have seen some board members tackle this 'grading' on their own, and I applaud that effort, but think it would be nice if the staff had a round table of sorts that it published which covers where things went right, and where things went wrong over the past year. I know that sometimes a critical review of ones work can be tough, but in the end I think it makes for a better product.

 

[Fiddles]

I would like to see player pages updated during the season. You guys update your feelings on players during the season in the shark pool so why not copy that same information on the player page and have a master list of player updated dates (like preseason faceoffs or spotlights)? I am not thinking every player but only guys whose value has changed in your opinion (or you have had a lot of shark pool questions about a certain player). If you were able to add a comment section to weekly player rankings it would be helpful to have the information in one spot. If you could combine the rankings with offensive sleepers with passing matchup and have all that kind of information on one page/list it would more clearly explain why you rank players where you do. An example would be a comment that player X will be covered by Bailey this week so his numbers may take a hit. You could also have that players X may see an increase in production this week because team y's top 2 cornerbacks are injured and listed as out.Overall a great site with great information - Thank you guys

 

[3nOut]

I would like to see an alternate cheat sheet for each week of the regular season. FBG is unquestionably the best overall site in the business, but the one area it is inferior to a few other web sites is in performance of the weekly cheat sheet. I fully realize there's a lot of work that goes into putting it together, and from a consistency perspective it is great... I also realize it is one's man opinion. It just seems to be less accurate more often than many others, which is something that can't be said for most other superior products at FBG. Again, I respect Dodds and his opinion very much, but I think it is time to re-evaluate the approach and put a better product out.P.S. The above view is very subjective I have not done statistical analysis to confirm FBGs cheat sheets are any better or worse. I did run a comparison of my results starting from mid-season of next to last fantasy year (i.e. over 1.5 fantasy years), using FBG and a few other cheat sheets, and for me, FBG was consistently middle of the pack or worse.

I may be wrong, but I believe that FBGs use a game simulator to come up with the predicted players stats for each week and then that is used for the rankings. I'm not sure how much of it is 'gut feeling'. If this is really the case, I'd second the motion to have a different type of cheatsheet, one which is generated by the simulator and the second made by a person (or by each staff member).

 

[3nOut]

I think this idea has been brought up by many in other threads like this, but I'd love to see a 'post mortem' of sorts during this time of year where FBG goes back and reviews, or 'grades' advice (rankings/projections/etc..)it has doled out through the season. I'd love to see an analysis of pre-season rankings from the past year to see whose rankings were most accurate. I think you'd see trends along the lines of who makes better calls...maybe some guys get the WR's better in general, other guys seem to be spot on with RB rankings...etc, etc.I have seen some board members tackle this 'grading' on their own, and I applaud that effort, but think it would be nice if the staff had a round table of sorts that it published which covers where things went right, and where things went wrong over the past year. I know that sometimes a critical review of ones work can be tough, but in the end I think it makes for a better product.

This has been discussed many times and I agree.

 

[3nOut]

I would like to see a slight modification/upgrade to their player rankings pages. I made this suggestion a year or two back:

1. Have a checkbox next to each staff members name to decide whether you want their ranking included in the average ranking. Sometimes you may not trust one or more of the staffs opinions and don't want them included in the average.

2. Besides an 'average' ranking, have one column (or an option box) that returns what the average is if you remove the highest and lowest ranking for each player. Too many times I have seen where one staffer ranked one player, for one reason or another, extremely low or extremely high, which skews the average and may cause a player to be ranked lower or higher than he should be becuae of one person's rankings.

3. I would like to see FBGs hire me to redesign their site Kidding aside, i think the site should be redesigned to organize the content better and to make things easier to find.

 

[whoisjgalt]

For the overall dynasty rankings: an on/off button that would give rankings for PPR or nPPR. It would require you guys to do two sets of overall rankings, but would be very helpful. I'm not asking for separate PPR vs nPPR rankings by position, but that's not a bad idea either - especially for the RB's.

 

[code]

3. I would like to see FBGs hire me to redesign their site Kidding aside, i think the site should be redesigned to organize the content better and to make things easier to find.

I agree the site could use some significant help...I believe Joe and David commented last year that efforts were underway to overhaul things, but wouldn't happen until this year...am I imagining that?

 

[steve_bev]

3. I would like to see FBGs hire me to redesign their site Kidding aside, i think the site should be redesigned to organize the content better and to make things easier to find.

I agree the site could use some significant help...I believe Joe and David commented last year that efforts were underway to overhaul things, but wouldn't happen until this year...am I imagining that?

I seem to remember after the iTunes logo contest there was an annoucement that a site-redesign contest/contract was in the works and would be happening "soon", but hasn't happened yet.

 

[code]

Oh, how could I forget my ultimate #1 feature request...RSS Support (on the newsblog, on the forums, anywhere it makes sense)

 

[Bonto]

Great content but this site needs an interface overhaul.

Draft Dominator built as a Mac app.

I second RSS feeds of player news & of the forums.

 

[snorlax]

I want to see more rankings, projections, and comparisons to current players of college players who will likely be drafted, especially early, in 2008 and later. I know Bloom and others must have some opinions of these guys, but we haven't seen a lot of them.

 

[gocats]

Dynasty rankings from more than just Sig and Jeff.

I updated mine yesterday...they are a work in progress right now so they will be shifting a bit as I sort things out, but I will continue to update them going forward.

 

[messinwithu]

I do like the idea of having a dynasty ranking for PPR since that would change your rankings significantly. I am not sure if you could give each player a PPR value that is added to your rankings and relisted?

I am thinking something like your trade value that you list for each player. If you are able to use a system like that with the player value listed something like this.

Player A 1523

Player B 1410

Player C 1400

Player D 1390

You then give a % bonus for good PPR guys and the list is recalculated?

Player A 1523 no bonus

Player B 1410 1% bonus = 1424

Player C 1400 3% bonus = 1442

Player D 1390 10% bonus = 1529 (Bush like)

Then player values are relisted for PPR

Player D 1529

Player A 1523

Player C 1442

Player B 1410

The % of bonus would not have to be adjusted during the season (unless you need to) so when a player's value is changed the PPR column would automatically update and we would have a PPR ranking. The other benefit to listing values this way in non PPR is that we could see how much better #1 is then #2 etc.

I hope that made some type of sense?

 

[fruity pebbles]

I'd like a write up add to each player for the first 50 or so in the dynasty rankings. Like the rankings but even important to me is how you feel about their prospects and why you rank them as such. Doesn't have to be long or anything. Just a short why, especially if your ranking is quite a bit different than the norm.

 

[Q-Bert]

I agree with most of the posters in that we need more dynasty info. The dynasty rankings should be updated more often in season. Sig and Jeff did a great job, but I think a few more minds added to the mix would improve that product line considerably. On the technical side it seems that if no-one has updated a dynasty ranking in 14 days then the page loads blank and wont allow you to view rankings that are much older.

 

[Q-Bert]

Dynasty Draft Dominator

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Dynasty rankings from more than just Sig and Jeff.

I updated mine yesterday...they are a work in progress right now so they will be shifting a bit as I sort things out, but I will continue to update them going forward.

what are you confused about?

 

[fruity pebbles]

Dynasty rankings from more than just Sig and Jeff.

I updated mine yesterday...they are a work in progress right now so they will be shifting a bit as I sort things out, but I will continue to update them going forward.

what are you confused about?

Why do you have Mike Bell over Michael Turner?

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Dynasty rankings from more than just Sig and Jeff.

I updated mine yesterday...they are a work in progress right now so they will be shifting a bit as I sort things out, but I will continue to update them going forward.

what are you confused about?

Why do you have Mike Bell over Michael Turner?

note the bolded part above.as of now though, Turner is a backup while Bell could be a starter. I'm not a big Mike Bell guy though so I imagine that will be shifting. I think I have Turner too low.

 

[Yitbos69]

Dynasty rankings from more than just Sig and Jeff.

I updated mine yesterday...they are a work in progress right now so they will be shifting a bit as I sort things out, but I will continue to update them going forward.

what are you confused about?

I think it may be that your rankings don't come up because you don't have an overall ranking...you have to go to QB,RB, etc.....Is your overall ranking on the way?

 

[CalBear]

Second on Draft Dominator for Mac.

Data Dominator coverage going further back than 2002; ideally, a data warehouse interface to everything at profootballreference.com.

An auction/draft management tool for commissioners, or a commish mode for DD. (DD's normal interface is sub-optimal for that use).

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

what are you confused about?

I think it may be that your rankings don't come up because you don't have an overall ranking...you have to go to QB,RB, etc.....Is your overall ranking on the way?

just updated those

 

[code]

Second on Draft Dominator for Mac.

I don't understand why the DD is a desktop app in the first place...a web application where projections could be updloaded or edited as a subscribed user would be great...there are a ton of technical advantages to this approach including easing support, observing user behavior, and sticking traffic to the site...

 

[CalBear]

Second on Draft Dominator for Mac.

I don't understand why the DD is a desktop app in the first place...a web application where projections could be updloaded or edited as a subscribed user would be great...there are a ton of technical advantages to this approach including easing support, observing user behavior, and sticking traffic to the site...

I think it would be good to have a web application, also, but not everyone has net access during their draft, so you need something that can run on the desktop.

 

[Colin Dowling]

I agree that diversity in rankings is a good idea. The tool we use to post staff rankings is actually automated and can be edited on the fly. I have no idea what the bandwidth would be, but it would be awesome to invite 50 or 100 folks that post in the SP frequently and have them enter in to tool and do their own ranking, then take the compilation of the rankings for a "Group consensus".

Interesting stuff.

 

[pizzatyme]

Excellent thread idea. You guys brainstorm here. Let's hear it. J

Thx Joe, I do try to help. I'll occasionally bump this to keep it near the front page so infrequent visitors in the off-season will have a chance to add their thoughts.P.S. I'll be in Knoxville in May. Maybe we could have a drink or coffee?

 

[3nOut]

How about a cell phone 'friendly" version of the site that I can access while I'm on the train to work every mornong

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

How about a cell phone 'friendly" version of the site that I can access while I'm on the train to work every mornong

have you tried the "low-fi version"? there's a link at the bottom of every page.http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/lofiv...hp/t305881.html

 

[ThePittbully]

Dynasty rankings from more than just Sig and Jeff.

and more dynasty coverage in general.

most definitely

have you tried the "low-fi version"? there's a link at the bottom of every page.

wow you just reduced my productivity at work by about 50%

 

[videoguy505]

How about a cell phone 'friendly" version of the site that I can access while I'm on the train to work every mornong

have you tried the "low-fi version"? there's a link at the bottom of every page.http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/lofiv...hp/t305881.html

Lo-Fi doesn't jive with my phone for some reason. Have to go Hi-Fi.