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Signs of fall--Fanball (1 Viewer)
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Da Good Da Bad an Da Ugly
Footballguy
I'm drafting over there right now, no problems....
bigalgreek
Footballguy
Sorry Pine and others,
We are having a total site outage right now and are working on solving the issue. We should have it back up shortly.
We are having a total site outage right now and are working on solving the issue. We should have it back up shortly.
pinequick
Footballguy
Must be just a portion of their servers that have crashed. Here's the message I get when I try to access my league's website:"SYSTEM MAINTENANCEDue to regular maintenance, the system is currently unavailable for use. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please check back in a few minutes."Yeah, you do regular system maintenance at 7:00 p.m. C.D.T. Get real. . .
pinequick
Footballguy
Bigal:This has been the complaint of uses at Fanball for as long as I have been over there (3 years). Would you be willing to offer any assurance at all that this same thing *will not* happen in Week 1, or can we be pretty much assured that it will?
IronToe Nedney
Prolific poster
bigalgreek
Footballguy
I am really sorry that it happened. I can't really give the reasons for the outage, but they were directly related to us upgrading to a better data center so that we wouldn't have any outages like this.
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GroveDiesel
Footballguy
:( Hopefully it will be up soon. Our draft was supposed to start at 8pm EST. Good luck and God speed.
Tree Fiddy
Footballguy
Man - getting 10+ guys together at the same time to do a draft is like herding cats, but then when you show up and the site gagged and died - that's just ugly 
cobalt_27
Footballguy
Yes, I'm shocked as well. This has only happened to you guys, like, every single year since you rolled out a live draft.Can't wait to see all your improvements to the live scoring module.
Da Good Da Bad an Da Ugly
Footballguy
I spoke too soon. I had been logged in all day. Our draft is occuring on the Fanball league message board. Just for grins I logged out and tried to log back in. Stoopid mistake...
bigalgreek
Footballguy
check it now, Fanball should be back up.
railman305
Footballguy
the site is up but when i enter live draft room, it wont work, says error been caught and resource is overused or something
Musesboy
Footballguy
Thanks, I am in
railman305
Footballguy
cant access anything still
bigalgreek
Footballguy
AOL is coming up next...we are working on it.
railman305
Footballguy
any idea on how long
bonscott
Footballguy
bigalgreek
Footballguy
Well, both REAL services of Fanball and AOL are back up. Sorry for the outage.
BrentBlack
Footballguy
Works well for my league. Thanks Al.
Kevin Ashcraft
Footballguy
Week 1 is never solid week 1 on any site....I have used Fanball, among other services like MFL, and after week 1 everything is fine. People will always get on their high horse and piss about something, no matter what the business is.
I am not absolving Fanball....you would think purchasing a couple extra servers, even if temporarily, would do the job. But people who piss and moan about live scoring, which isnt even official, baffle me. There is a reason Fanball has a customer base. Its the price. I would rather save $30 on the league I run, rather than pay $90 or even $140 for Sportsline.
Now, if their prices come down, I will go with them. I love both services but wont pay those prices as a commish.....as a team owner, SURE. I am in 4 leagues on MFL right now.
I am not absolving Fanball....you would think purchasing a couple extra servers, even if temporarily, would do the job. But people who piss and moan about live scoring, which isnt even official, baffle me. There is a reason Fanball has a customer base. Its the price. I would rather save $30 on the league I run, rather than pay $90 or even $140 for Sportsline.
Now, if their prices come down, I will go with them. I love both services but wont pay those prices as a commish.....as a team owner, SURE. I am in 4 leagues on MFL right now.
Ever Present Lurker
Footballguy
I've always liked Fanball, and there's a good group of people on the message boards, but man, fanball really needs to wake up. Live scoring is always touch and go, but here's one...
The draft card from Fanball's "Real League" (old Exit 42) is useless for more than 1 round. It isn't like MFL, where you can actually use it in a strategy. It's a blind roster. Every year, they ask for suggestions... we fill their box with "Fix the draft card!"... and every year, it's about as functional as a ######ed monkey.
I really like Fanball, I'd really like to see it grow... but they just seem to do the same moronic things, time and time again...
Let's set the over-under for the opening sunday live scoring blackout at:
1:05pm.
The draft card from Fanball's "Real League" (old Exit 42) is useless for more than 1 round. It isn't like MFL, where you can actually use it in a strategy. It's a blind roster. Every year, they ask for suggestions... we fill their box with "Fix the draft card!"... and every year, it's about as functional as a ######ed monkey.
I really like Fanball, I'd really like to see it grow... but they just seem to do the same moronic things, time and time again...
Let's set the over-under for the opening sunday live scoring blackout at:
1:05pm.
Warhogs
Footballguy
I have moved on from fanball as much as possible. I have one team that is run by another guy and he has not been willing to move to another site. I will not be using fanball if I am the decision maker until they have exhibited a couple years of great reliable service. They have handled their league management site poorly for too many years and now need to prove something before I go back.
aren't they under new ownership?
cobalt_27
Footballguy
They sold out before to a British company last year. They were already sliding into obscurity then and put out the worst product one could have fantasized (imagine every nightmare short of losing data, and Fanball experienced it). They've put on a pretty aggressive marketing push this year, featuring "Charch." But, that doesn't take away from the fact that they still have tech folks who have no idea what they're doing and a customer service department and support group that offers nothing in the way of service or support.
You would think Fanball would get it right considering this is the 3rd and final year of the so called "Platinum Membership" that myself and many others signed up for.
We had too many problems and I received too many complaints last year from league members to not at least give other sites a look after this year.
We had too many problems and I received too many complaints last year from league members to not at least give other sites a look after this year.
If only if it was just Week 1 last year, I'd have no problem. It's just gotten progressively worse IMO.I have no problem paying $115 for Sportsline. My other leagues play there.
BrentBlack
Footballguy
That's not true. After the first week there were little to no problems for the remainder of the year. If you want to go to CBS feel free, but there is no need to make things up to justify it.
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stugnut
Footballguy
I had problems for most of the year last year, inlcluding a couple occasions where owners could not log into fanball to change their lineups shortly before kickoff. Owners were frantically calling me to tell me who they wanted in their lineup. That happened at least twice, once was during the middle of the season. I've been with Fanball for 4 years, but after last year I vowed to check out other sites because I was tired of Fanball's server problems that seem to happen every single year. The other thing that bothered me was the slow rollout of new features. On their support forums they have an "Enhancement Ideas" forum, but for the thousands of suggestions they get they only seem to roll out about 4 new enhancements a year, and most of them are minor ones. They are only adding preseason claims this year! This, after two years of promising that it would be available for the last two seasons. How about fixing the bug that allows you to sumbit an illegal roster if you use flex IDP's? They were made aware of it the day they rolled out IDP's three years ago, and as of the end of last season it still hadn't been fixed.
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
I've been on this site since the beginning and have been with mfl.com longer...it simply amazes me that after so many threads I've seen over the years such as this that people still go with services other than mfl.com. It really has no equal.good luck to those that choose otherwise....bonscott said:
corpcow
Footballguy
Every year, there are complaints about draft card not working properly (i.e., the top person on the card was not selected). There are times the "excluding 12am - 8am" doesn't work, and people get autodrafted. E-mails (draft status, etc) don't always come (or they all come in one batch).
A few times this year it looks like league messages were sent ot the wrong league! (It happened a few times for me, plus I got e-mails from a few others where the message was intended for another league).
Last year, we tried out their Draft Room and it totally screwed up our entire draft. We got a refund and had to redraft separately.
And yet, I have 6 teams there this year. Sigh.
A few times this year it looks like league messages were sent ot the wrong league! (It happened a few times for me, plus I got e-mails from a few others where the message was intended for another league).
Last year, we tried out their Draft Room and it totally screwed up our entire draft. We got a refund and had to redraft separately.
And yet, I have 6 teams there this year. Sigh.
corpcow
Footballguy
Ironic, I guess, that the one you pay for isn't stable, and you have to use the free one instead.AOL is free and uses the same software as Fanball. Our draft went flawlessly - the draft room was extremely fast and easy to navigate. I guess AOL had a few extra servers lying around to ensure they could handle the added traffic.
Davej626
5.56 solves all
Two leagues, four years now. Never had a problem before the season. there are occasional slow downs during Sunday a couple of years ago, but no issues last year..
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Wooderson
Fight The Power
Yep same with me. Your going to get a couple times where stat tracker is behind on a couple game for a half hour but then it catches up. All and all I am very satisfied with it.
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