Interview w/FBG Bruce Henderson (1 Viewer)

[David Dodds]

Our staff has selected some of the more influential people in the Fantasy Football space. Joe and I, with help from the message board, will interview approximately 20 people from now until the start of the fantasy season.

Here is how this will work.

We are going to solicit questions for 3 business days. The best of these questions will be forwarded to our interview candidate. When he answers them, this content will be posted as free material on the FBG website.

 

[David Dodds]

1. Take us down the history of how the Draft Dominator came to be (mock ups sent to me, program creation, etc).

2. How did you become a proficient programmer?

3. How do you determine what changes will be incorporated into the products? How does someone's idea get on the suggestion list?

4. What's next in the Dominator Line? I think we all could use a Life Dominator.

 

[Anthony Borbely]

What was the single toughest problem you had to solve regarding the creation of the dominators?

What was the single toughest problem you had to solve regarding a glitch?

 

[Bri]

Plans for any other types of programs?

If you could get your hands on the source code for the MyFantasyLeague program, what ideas would you have?

 

[David Yudkin]

Could you (and would you want to) take the infrastructure for the data dominator and apply it to creating similar tools for other fantasy sports?

 

[BusMan]

Any chance of turning the DD into a web application?

 

[mightymorse]

Any chance of turning the DD into a web application?

More specifically, a web application that is not tied to IE, so those of us non-Windows types can stop asking for a platform-independant DD

 

[Anon]

1. How do you really feel about the DD user community, are we helpful ? or annoying ?

2. What is your favorite time of year, the time leading up to the draft ?, In season ?, or the off season ? why ?

3. Are they paying you enough ?

 

[GoBears84]

1. Are there any capabilities you'd like to add but can't until the hardware is available?

2. DD is obviously EXCEL based - do you feel constrained by EXCEL?

3. How hard is it to incorporate user suggestions?

4. What user suggestions you've identified that you really want to incorporate but just can't at the moment?

5. I've been told that the user participation and help providied in "Bruce's Playground" is some of the best that user had seen in an online forum. How much do you rely on some of your expert users to provide answers and solutions?

6. Have you ever had a "perfect draft"?

7. Between your everyday life, answering the questions in the forum and maintaining the application, do you have time to do your own projections?

Thank you for all of your help and support over the years!