Just Wondering...Player Spotlight Series... (1 Viewer)

[Stinkin Ref]

Is there a different way to accomplish what you try to get out of this series without flooding the first page with them?

I realize the shark pool is the bread and butter of the fantasy stuff on here....but if the Player Spotlight Series is going to be such a huge thing all summer, etc....could it maybe have it's own forum or just the pinned thread at the top without them flooding the shark pool?

IMO....just kind of sucks having to sift through so many of these on the first page when you are trying to find other stuff....they end up bumping some other good threads.

and you can probably get rid of this paragraph that is still in the top section of each thread...

"With the labor uncertainty, there are more unanswered questions entering the summer than usual. The good news is that gives us some more time to discuss the merits of players without having to react (or overreact) to the smallest bits of news about a slight injury in practice, or coach speak. We'll have plenty of time for that when it comes (we hope)."

 

[Jason Wood]

Appreciate the heads up on the header, that's been fixed.

As to the discussion of putting the threads in their own forum, that's not something we're comfortable doing. But like any thread, if the interest dies down, any Spotlight thread will fall off the first page in favor of other topics on peoples' minds.

 

[Stinkin Ref]

Appreciate the heads up on the header, that's been fixed. As to the discussion of putting the threads in their own forum, that's not something we're comfortable doing. But like any thread, if the interest dies down, any Spotlight thread will fall off the first page in favor of other topics on peoples' minds.

I am assuming you aren't comfortable because you think it will decrease the amount of traffic/responses....?...but if people want to participate in it, they will go to it.....if each week you are going to throw a new batch of 15 onto the first page and you are planning on doing 140+ of these and keeping all of them open all summer....basically The Shark Pool becomes the Player Spotlight Pool/Forum anyway, with a few other threads mixed in.....so whether you give them their own forum or not, it kind of happens anyway....

 

[Stinkin Ref]

I think you are taking your bread and butter forum here and really flooding it with something.....new visitors/potential customers will come to the forum and see it flooded with threads that all look the same and maybe go wtf...

 

[comfortably numb]

Appreciate the heads up on the header, that's been fixed. As to the discussion of putting the threads in their own forum, that's not something we're comfortable doing. But like any thread, if the interest dies down, any Spotlight thread will fall off the first page in favor of other topics on peoples' minds.

I am assuming you aren't comfortable because you think it will decrease the amount of traffic/responses....?...and I am assuming thats also while you won't just make it a pinned thread either...but if people want to participate in it, they will go to it.....if each week you are going to throw a new batch of 15 onto the first page and you are planning on doing 140+ of these and keeping all of them open all summer....basically The Shark Pool becomes the Player Spotlight Pool/Forum anyway, with a few other threads mixed in.....so whether you give them their own forum or not, it kind of happens anyway....

I don't pay much mind into those threads, and when they are released it is a bit of a shock and awe thing, but they trickle out of the 1st page soon enough.On a side note, why is it so hard for us people to click "page 2"

 

[wiscstlatlmia]

I enjoy the player spotlights

I think its extremely interesting to see which guys get the most responses... those tend to be the guys I focus on more and realize maybe I haven't put enough thought into yet. I like them being on the first page and it creates some organization... which is sometimes severely lacking on these boards with us members making random threads that most of the time overlap into other ones.

 

[wiscstlatlmia]

Appreciate the heads up on the header, that's been fixed. As to the discussion of putting the threads in their own forum, that's not something we're comfortable doing. But like any thread, if the interest dies down, any Spotlight thread will fall off the first page in favor of other topics on peoples' minds.

I am assuming you aren't comfortable because you think it will decrease the amount of traffic/responses....?...and I am assuming thats also while you won't just make it a pinned thread either...but if people want to participate in it, they will go to it.....if each week you are going to throw a new batch of 15 onto the first page and you are planning on doing 140+ of these and keeping all of them open all summer....basically The Shark Pool becomes the Player Spotlight Pool/Forum anyway, with a few other threads mixed in.....so whether you give them their own forum or not, it kind of happens anyway....

would you rather their be 50 or so 'hype train' threads made instead?

 

[Grahamburn]

I think you are taking your bread and butter forum here and really flooding it with something.....new visitors/potential customers will come to the forum and see it flooded with threads that all look the same and maybe go wtf...

These are the best/most important threads of the year.

 

[Stinkin Ref]

the series is already pinned at the top of the Shark Pool with easy links to each individual thread available to all those that enjoy them and want to participate....quick and organized....flooding the Shark Pool with them seems redundant and unnecessary just because you think it will increase traffic to those particular threads....if they are the best/most important people will find it...it's at the top of the page..

 

[Stinkin Ref]

I think you are taking your bread and butter forum here and really flooding it with something.....new visitors/potential customers will come to the forum and see it flooded with threads that all look the same and maybe go wtf...

These are the best/most important threads of the year.

thats why they are pinned at the top of the pool with links that take you directly to each individual player....

 

[wiscstlatlmia]

I think you are taking your bread and butter forum here and really flooding it with something.....new visitors/potential customers will come to the forum and see it flooded with threads that all look the same and maybe go wtf...

These are the best/most important threads of the year.

thats why they are pinned at the top of the pool with links that take you directly to each individual player....

ooooooooooooooooooo wow... I never even noticed that was pinned... thanks for the help LOL... I suppose I see what you mean. But dont you think these players SHOULD be the focus of the offseason? what else is the summer of fantasy football other than making player projections for the upcoming year?

 

[Grahamburn]

I think you are taking your bread and butter forum here and really flooding it with something.....new visitors/potential customers will come to the forum and see it flooded with threads that all look the same and maybe go wtf...

These are the best/most important threads of the year.

thats why they are pinned at the top of the pool with links that take you directly to each individual player....

Right, but they don't all come out at the same time. There are some players I'm extremely interested in and others not so much. I'd rather not have to go into the pinned thread every day to see if there's someone I'd like to discuss. The discussion will be much better within the threads if they're not hidden in a pinned thread at the top of the forum.It's not like there are these epic threads getting bumped to page 2, and if there are, just scoot on over.

 

[Jason Wood]

Stinkin Ref, it's not like this is a new thing. We've done the Spotlight threads for years, in fact they've existed as long as we've had a Shark Pool.

 

[Stinkin Ref]

I think you are taking your bread and butter forum here and really flooding it with something.....new visitors/potential customers will come to the forum and see it flooded with threads that all look the same and maybe go wtf...

These are the best/most important threads of the year.

thats why they are pinned at the top of the pool with links that take you directly to each individual player....

Right, but they don't all come out at the same time. There are some players I'm extremely interested in and others not so much. I'd rather not have to go into the pinned thread every day to see if there's someone I'd like to discuss. The discussion will be much better within the threads if they're not hidden in a pinned thread at the top of the forum.

It's not like there are these epic threads getting bumped to page 2, and if there are, just scoot on over.

(bolded above) ...lol...so you'd rather have to sift through 2-3 pages in the shark pool to try to find your specific guys..than go to one easy location where they are listed by position in alphabetical order.....what sense does that make?I get that more opinions in these the better and that these have "been around forever"....and that they are useful....not bashing that at all....

it is just my opinion and a fact that it jams up the shark pool and it is kind of a pain to have to sift through them all to find the other stuff.....especially for those that may not have an interest in participating in them...almost like it's being forced on people....just wondered if there is another way of highlighting the pinned thread or something at the top even more so people don't miss it if they want to find it (which you really can't if thats what you are specifically coming here to find)....

and while those threads are useful, so are many of the other ones, and the traffic in those threads will be affected by the flooding of the spotlight threads....so if it is FBG's position that the spotlight threads are so important and that they "trump" the other threads and make it more difficult to find some of the other stuff....so be it....it just sucks when you are trying to cruise through the other stuff....

really not that big of a deal....I enjoy cruising the shark pool and would just prefer them to not be every other thread....

 

[Polish Hammer]

Stinkin Ref, it's not like this is a new thing. We've done the Spotlight threads for years, in fact they've existed as long as we've had a Shark Pool.

But in all fairness, I seem to think that this has come up each of the last few years. And it seems to be dismissed in the same manner each year. While I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other, I get why the FBG's do it. From a business perspective you are able to generate lots of datapoints and some usable content for over 100 individual pages without having to pay staff. It is a good investment from that perspective. But let's not pretend that it makes all of your current customer base happy. Clearly this isn't a democracy, it's a business...so it probably isn't worth creating a poll to see what those in the Shark Pool think. Let's just admit that to some degree, it creates a customer satisfaction issue (cost) while generating free content (benefit) and that Joe et all feel it is worth it to do so.

 

[Bronx Bomber]

I dont think having a sepetate forum for these, or keeping them in the pinned thread would diminish any of their value or participation. Look at the Mock Draft forum. That is usually fairly dead but now that the SSL leagues are going on people go there because that s where they have to go. I'm feeling like Im with Stinking Ref on this. I like being able to keep up with the Shark Pool but after all these threads today I feel bogged down.

 

[Sake-Bombers]

If thoughts and discussion about projections for specific players are something that you think do not belong in the Shark Pool, what types of threads do you think are more useful and suited for here?

It seems to me someone coming here as a potential customer would find those threads to be a compelling reason to keep visiting and potentially subscribe.

 

[rizzler]

what types of threads do you think are more useful and suited for here?

Personally, Id appreciate more threads keeping tab on when ben tate will steal arian foster's job. it's so close... i can feel it!!!

 

[Bronx Bomber]

If thoughts and discussion about projections for specific players are something that you think do not belong in the Shark Pool, what types of threads do you think are more useful and suited for here?

It seems to me someone coming here as a potential customer would find those threads to be a compelling reason to keep visiting and potentially subscribe.

I don't think anyone is arguing that projections, etc don't belong in the Shark Pool. I think the discussion is about the fact that there are so many of these that they flood the pool and that they are so important that they are worthy of their own thread. I think Ref was just making a suggestion that would make the site more smooth and easy to use while still maintaining the importance of these Spotlights. If Im putting words in your mouth please correct me.

 

[Stinkin Ref]

If thoughts and discussion about projections for specific players are something that you think do not belong in the Shark Pool, what types of threads do you think are more useful and suited for here? It seems to me someone coming here as a potential customer would find those threads to be a compelling reason to keep visiting and potentially subscribe.

to answer your question....if it's such a great feature and customer grabber, give it it's own forum....and I never said they don't belong in the Shark Pool...perfectly fine with them being centrally located and pinned at the top....and actually that would seem to be an even bigger draw (the fact that they are all in one spot)...just don't see the need to have them also flood the Shark Pool.....some of those customers you speak of might also come into the Shark Pool, see a bunch of threads that look alike and be turned off by it.....not wanting to have to sift through them all to see some of the other threads that relate to other aspects of fantasy football....the first page is your first impression....if there are 15 spotlights on there it doesn't leave room for much else....some may not take the time to go to page 2....I think you can compromise it by highlighting the pinned thread at the top of the page even more (bold, colors, whatever)....

 

[Sake-Bombers]

Okay, I think I understand your point now. It's not the posts themselves. It's the deluge of them. Thanks for clarifying and answering.

I do think they'd be less trafficked and therefore less useful if they were pinned and put somewhere else. But I could be wrong about that.

But either way, chalk me up for not minding how they are presented now.

 

[coolnerd]

I always that the spotlight series was one of the best handled thing in the shark pool. Not sure why they would move to another forum threads that encourage analysis and projection versus just speculation. These are model threads which show the possibilty of what could more regularly take place here.

 

[Bigboy10182000]

I didnt read anything but the first post and I do agree but for different reasons. I actually think it hurts the spotlight series because other issues bump them out before they're noticed. At times I'm not even aware there was one for a certain player because of this.

 

[Bronx Bomber]

I always that the spotlight series was one of the best handled thing in the shark pool. Not sure why they would move to another forum threads that encourage analysis and projection versus just speculation. These are model threads which show the possibilty of what could more regularly take place here.

Yeah, I should probably hold my opinion until after this offseason. I didn't join these forums until the season started last year so I'll wait to see how this all shakes out. I was just going on what I thought was a good suggestion and my first impression.

 

[mashedbananas]

Count me as someone who likes the Spotlight Series threads being in the Shark Pool. I think putting them in a different forum would cut down on the responses....

 

[mlball77]

I actually do like them in the Shark Pool, but I also don't love how they flood everything else out of the Shark Pool for a bit. Perhaps instead of posting 10-15 of them at a time, dialing that back to 7 or so would work? This way, they would remain in the Shark Pool but not totally dominate the first page. -However, while the Player Spotlight batch size would shrink, I would assume that would mean more batches would be necessary during the off-season.

 

[kutta]

The Spotlight threads are about the only things I really read in the summer in the Shark Pool. It's exactly what the Shark Pool should be. I don't like the idea of a separate thread. These threads make the Shark Pool better, not worse, so why change it?

 

[GreatLakesMike]

Love the Player spotlight series and it's not very difficult to read thread titles and then click page 2 if there's nothing I want to open on page 1.

 

[Jason Wood]

Thanks for all the feedback guys. We have discussed the issue among the staff and agreed that we're going to keep things as they've been for this season. We appreciate the thought everyone puts into what we do though, thanks again.

 

[AB in DC]

would you rather their be 50 or so 'hype train' threads made instead?

 

[comfortably numb]

next you guys are gonna suggest there be a baseball forum?

 

[wiscstlatlmia]

what types of threads do you think are more useful and suited for here?

Personally, Id appreciate more threads keeping tab on when ben tate will steal arian foster's job. it's so close... i can feel it!!!

your a snake in the grass Rizzler... a snake in the grass

 

[Bronx Bomber]

Just wanted to say that I'm enjoying the player spotlights. You're doing a great job of mixing them in slowly and in fact Im finding myself jonsing for more of them quicker. Yes I've ignored some of the other SP threads in favor if them, but Im liking them in here and they are holding the most interest to me this time of year.