fantasy league system

[micheal332001]

Hi all

Someone asked me about making a fantasy league system.
I am thinking on making this but i would like to know how many people would like this to be made too.

Please vote on this poll so i can find out how many of you would like this to be made.

[teedizz]

I voted yes but what would the hack consist of?

[evenmonkeys]

Why, yes I do. Take a look at the ladder / league / tournament system at www.GameBattles.com. They have thee best system on the internet. I guarantee you'd never find a system better than that. I'd give my left arm for something like that.

[Xtrato]

YEah something like that. Make it customizable too so it can be used for lots of things

[micheal332001]

I think you have the wrong idea on what this will do here is a site that might help you understand http://fantasy.premierleague.com/
http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1

This is not a league system for running a gaming league but a fantasy league where your members will pick 1 player from each group and the winners from each group are picked automaticly and the results will be posted.

Say you want to run a F1 racing fantasy league there would be 6 to 8 groups made by the admin and you would have to choose one player from each group for your team.
Now that you have your players for your team it comes to the race this will be done by a cron job on your forum.
This will randomly pick the winners for each group and if you have picked right your score high if you have picked wrong you will score low.

Do a search on google for fantasy league systems and you will find out more about this.

[chairman miaow]

Exactly the kind of thing I've been waiting for ! :banana:

[4number8]

I would love to have something like this on my site, my members are asking for this on a daily basis, something like this could be used for football, baseball, any sport you can think of, I need it for Nascar :) Hope this is finished before Feb. 19, the season starts than.

[micheal332001]

sadly i will not be able to start on this till the new year.
But i will keep you posted on whats happening with this.

[4number8]

That is fine with me, real life is alway first IMO, I'm Just really glad someone is doing this ;)

[Lionel]

Please if you make it, do it a standalone like you did for vbleague. I am still under 3.07
That would be super for the upcoming soccer world cup (and other soccer events)

[sportsoutlaw]

I would definately be interested in something like this

[micheal332001]

Please if you make it, do it a standalone like you did for vbleague. I am still under 3.07
That would be super for the upcoming soccer world cup (and other soccer events)

Vbleague is not a standalone product it uses vbulletin.
the pro version will use vbulletin alot more.

When i make hacks i will also make them for 3.07 upto the newest version of vbulletin.
But all may hacks would start out as 3.5.1 at this time and be converted to 3.07 and up.
I will try my best to make it so all vbulletin forum versions can use my hacks.

[Lionel]

cool. By standalone I meant no files changes except for admin link and who's online. I installed the beta version, did a couple of minor fixes and it looks good overall.

[micheal332001]

cool. By standalone I meant no files changes except for admin link and who's online. I installed the beta version, did a couple of minor fixes and it looks good overall.

When i make a hack i try to make it so there is as little file edits as i can.
This makes it as easy for everyone to install my hacks.

I will post more on the progress of the fantasy league system when i have sorted a few things out.

[rurbaniak]

I just want to say I'm interested also.

I was just recently looking into having some software built, not for VB but as a standalone. But this would be great.

Since I was just researching this, something I must point out is that to buy stats to use with the software can be highly expensive. For example, to get LIVE stats for the NFL season it costs upwards of $20,000. Unless you enter your stats by hand, there may not be an affordable solution.

PM or e-mail me if you have questions about the stats.

[micheal332001]

I just want to say I'm interested also.

I was just recently looking into having some software built, not for VB but as a standalone. But this would be great.

Since I was just researching this, something I must point out is that to buy stats to use with the software can be highly expensive. For example, to get LIVE stats for the NFL season it costs upwards of $20,000. Unless you enter your stats by hand, there may not be an affordable solution.

PM or e-mail me if you have questions about the stats.

Hi there

I see what you are saying but the admin would click on the winning player to update there stats so it would look some thing like this in the view players bets in admincp.

Players name | choosen team | 1st place | 2nd place | 3rd place | and so on to the 10th place

Then in the 1st place the admin would see a button to click to give that player the over all win.

So in affect yes the admin will be doing it manuly but only clicking one button and it will update all the stats to that player.

Like you said to have it do it all automaticly would be alot of money so this is the next best thing.

If anyone has any ideas on how this can be done please post them here and ill see what i can do on it.

Mike

[Lionel]

Have you done anything at all with fantasy league?
I have just finalized a soccer predictions hack that can be seen here (http://www.haitiwebs.com/haitianforums/soccerpredictions.php?do=winners) and here (http://www.haitiwebs.com/haitianforums/interschedule.php?cupid=0009)

And I was about to do my own soccer fantasy using most of the points distribution system of predictions. If you started to do your fantasy, I had rather wait.

[chairman miaow]

Lionel - that looks superb....it'd be great if you released it !

[Lionel]

Lionel - that looks superb....it'd be great if you released it !

Only to those who know php as it has many prerequisites in addition to my code.
It's not phrased, has no prefixes, and is not documented, and I will not be able to support it (lack of time).

[micheal332001]

Have you done anything at all with fantasy league?
I have just finalized a soccer predictions hack that can be seen here (http://www.haitiwebs.com/haitianforums/soccerpredictions.php?do=winners) and here (http://www.haitiwebs.com/haitianforums/interschedule.php?cupid=0009)

And I was about to do my own soccer fantasy using most of the points distribution system of predictions. If you started to do your fantasy, I had rather wait.

Hi m8

I have started it but have not done much yet as i have vbleague pro to finish.
I like what you have there
I will be starting on the fantasy league system again within the next few weeks when vbleague pro is done.

[Lionel]

For American Football, there is a great script (open source on Freshmeat) that fetches the players from NFL and uses cron to update results. If you want I could dig up for the link. Worst case scenario, I had installed it on my site to study a little, so I could always send you a zip. Me I have no use for it as I focus solely on soccer and have my own pool of players to select from.

[rurbaniak]

Hi there

I see what you are saying but the admin would click on the winning player to update there stats so it would look some thing like this in the view players bets in admincp.

Players name | choosen team | 1st place | 2nd place | 3rd place | and so on to the 10th place

Then in the 1st place the admin would see a button to click to give that player the over all win.

So in affect yes the admin will be doing it manuly but only clicking one button and it will update all the stats to that player.

Like you said to have it do it all automaticly would be alot of money so this is the next best thing.

If anyone has any ideas on how this can be done please post them here and ill see what i can do on it.

Mike


Mike check this site out: http://www.xmlteam.com/fod/

It's a place to get stats on demand and is reasonably priced.

I think for the fantasy league, we need to think a little smaller in terms of what it will do. If it's a full blown league with a bunch of different categories for stats, then it's going to be harder to manually enter stats.

For example: With fantasy football you can go crazy with all different stats and what not, but if kept simple, it wouldn't be too hard to have a few moderators update it after the games.

Let's say for example for this fantasy football league, and we only count Touch Downs and Yards.

Example scoring:

Positions to Score: (QB, RB, TE, WR)

Everyone receives, 4 pts for a thrown touchdown, and 6 points for a running touch down.

Everyone receives 1 point for every 20 yards thrown.
Everyone recieves 1 point for every 10 yards rushing or receving.

Now after each game, a moderator will look at the Box Scores from ESPN or where ever, and plug in the TD's, and Yards for each player.

example: Peyton Manning - 300 Yards Throwing, 5 yards rushing, 3 TD's.

So I enter those three values into the system, and it cacualtes is as 33 points.

That wouldn't be too difficult to manage. Like I said, as long as you have some moderators who can help enter in those values every day/week, whatever it may be, it would work fine.

The site I posted above could give us the rosters, and that would be half the battle.

For American Football, there is a great script (open source on Freshmeat) that fetches the players from NFL and uses cron to update results. If you want I could dig up for the link. Worst case scenario, I had installed it on my site to study a little, so I could always send you a zip. Me I have no use for it as I focus solely on soccer and have my own pool of players to select from.

Oooh ohh! Please post that link. I definately could use that on other things I'm working on. :nervous:

[stutefc]

Oh goodie ... would love this. I have to update my current one using excel.

www.irishleagueforums.net and I have done a web site for the dream team league...ie

http://www.irishleaguedreamteam.com/

[agiacosa]

Folks,

With the Germany 2006, I would like to have a system where my members can bet on teams sort of like a fantasy league. Anyone doing something similar?

[micheal332001]

Folks,

With the Germany 2006, I would like to have a system where my members can bet on teams sort of like a fantasy league. Anyone doing something similar?

This is all about a fantasy league system that i will be making well i hope very soon.

[rurbaniak]

For American Football, there is a great script (open source on Freshmeat) that fetches the players from NFL and uses cron to update results. If you want I could dig up for the link. Worst case scenario, I had installed it on my site to study a little, so I could always send you a zip. Me I have no use for it as I focus solely on soccer and have my own pool of players to select from.

Is this the one? http://freshmeat.net/projects/statfink/

[micheal332001]

Mike check this site out: http://www.xmlteam.com/fod/

It's a place to get stats on demand and is reasonably priced.

I think for the fantasy league, we need to think a little smaller in terms of what it will do. If it's a full blown league with a bunch of different categories for stats, then it's going to be harder to manually enter stats.

For example: With fantasy football you can go crazy with all different stats and what not, but if kept simple, it wouldn't be too hard to have a few moderators update it after the games.

Let's say for example for this fantasy football league, and we only count Touch Downs and Yards.

Example scoring:

Positions to Score: (QB, RB, TE, WR)

Everyone receives, 4 pts for a thrown touchdown, and 6 points for a running touch down.

Everyone receives 1 point for every 20 yards thrown.
Everyone recieves 1 point for every 10 yards rushing or receving.

Now after each game, a moderator will look at the Box Scores from ESPN or where ever, and plug in the TD's, and Yards for each player.

example: Peyton Manning - 300 Yards Throwing, 5 yards rushing, 3 TD's.

So I enter those three values into the system, and it cacualtes is as 33 points.

That wouldn't be too difficult to manage. Like I said, as long as you have some moderators who can help enter in those values every day/week, whatever it may be, it would work fine.

The site I posted above could give us the rosters, and that would be half the battle.



Oooh ohh! Please post that link. I definately could use that on other things I'm working on. :nervous:

Hi there m8

There is a way to have this automaticly run.
But it means that i would have to have someone update all the stats every week for it.
Then when you have payed for your fantasy league system or the free version you will have to buy access to the xml file that would be on my site to update your league stats.
This will take me a bit of time to work out but i will sort it out and make it as cheap as i can for the free version and the pro version of the fantasy league system.

Will keep you posted on whats going on.

[rurbaniak]

Hi there m8

There is a way to have this automaticly run.
But it means that i would have to have someone update all the stats every week for it.
Then when you have payed for your fantasy league system or the free version you will have to buy access to the xml file that would be on my site to update your league stats.
This will take me a bit of time to work out but i will sort it out and make it as cheap as i can for the free version and the pro version of the fantasy league system.

Will keep you posted on whats going on.

Sounds like a fair deal. I'm launching a site, and considering there's about 7 months before Football season starts back up, do you think that you'll have something ready to go by then?

[mclark2112]

I'll pay to have this hack by April!!!! Champ Car Season is coming quickly...

[micheal332001]

I'll pay to have this hack by April!!!! Champ Car Season is coming quickly...

Thats nice that you would pay to have this by april,
But this is not posible as there is alot to this.
If i was to make this by april it would have to be updated by the admin of the site not with the auto system i would like to put in.

So if you dont mind updating the stats yourself then i will get onto it and sort it.
But i would think most people would want it to be auto done.

If it was not auto done the admin of the site would have to get the results of the race or what every they are using this for and enter in the info manuly.
Then run the update script to update all the players stats.

If i made the auto system you would only need to click the update stats and it would pull the info for that race from my site.

This is up to you i will make it any way people want it.

The thing with the auto system i would have to charge for the use of it.

Will let you know more on this soon

Sounds like a fair deal. I'm launching a site, and considering there's about 7 months before Football season starts back up, do you think that you'll have something ready to go by then?

Im hopping to have this working by april or the end of april i still have along way to go on it.

[mclark2112]

I have no problem entering the stats to start off. We did vBookie last year, and that was all manual. Would just like to get it going for the first race, sounds like a fun system.

Let me know how things progress, would still kick in a donation for your time.

I would pay for the service though too.

[micheal332001]

I have no problem entering the stats to start off. We did vBookie last year, and that was all manual. Would just like to get it going for the first race, sounds like a fun system.

Let me know how things progress, would still kick in a donation for your time.

I would pay for the service though too.

Hi there m8

Ok i will sort this out asap for you

What stats do you need to show on this and how do you want your members to choose racing teams and how many they can choose.

[mclark2112]

Hi there m8

Ok i will sort this out asap for you

What stats do you need to show on this and how do you want your members to choose racing teams and how many they can choose.

Now your gonna make me think?

I'm not sure how these systems work... Would you just use the Regular point System that Champ Car uses? Poles, Wins, Laps lead kinda thing...

As far as teams go, is it salary based? Like We could have a certain dollar figure to work with and give each driver a price?

Does that sound right?

Does this help?

Finishing Position Points Earned
1 31
2 27
3 25
4 23
5 21
6 19
7 17
8 15
9 13
10 11
11 10
12 9
13 8
14 7
15 6
16 5
17 4
18 3
19 2
20 1
In addition, points will be awarded to qualifier(s) as follows: At road course
events, one (1) point will be awarded to the fastest qualifier in the first event
day qualifying session and one (1) point will be awarded to the fastest qualifier
in the second event day qualifying session. At oval events, one (1) point will be
awarded to the fastest qualifier. These points will be awarded at the conclusion
of qualifying and are not contingent on the position of the entrant in the starting
line-up. These points will not be awarded in cases where qualifying is not held.
One (1) point will be awarded to the driver with fastest race lap. One (1) point
will also be awarded to each driver that leads one or more laps. One (1) point
will be awarded to the driver who gains the most positions from their grid
position to finishing position.

[Pcparts]

Yes! sure want that.

[mclark2112]

I am really not familier with Fantasy admin, but here is how I would guess it works.

All users would be given a certain dollar amount to start with.

Each Driver would be given a contract value.

So your team could be 1 expensive driver or multiple cheaper drivers, or any combination, maybe force them to have at least a 2 driver team.

Folks would by there drivers and we would input the results of each race.

The system would calculate the points earned per position+ bonus points and pay out to the various teams.

From the admin side, i would guess we would, at the start of the season, input the points for each finishing position and bonus awards. Then, for a race weekend, assign the pole, finishing position, most laps lead.... via drop down menus for each driver.

Then the system could calculate the payouts to the teams when we submit...

Am I thinking right?

[mclark2112]

My idea of the the Admin score inputing:

[sydude]

Just wanted to jump in here and say I'd be willing to pay to get a Fantasy F1 mod, ala Yahoo's Fantasy F1 game.

Thanks!

Sy

[ShadowOne]

i think youd have more bugs than people wanting it...just my two cents...

[Ski-Whiz]

I'd be willing to shell out some $$ for a script that does weekly NFL game picks. Nothing fancy like fantasy players etc... Simply a pick'em style weekly pool..

So it tallies the stats etc..

[SilverBoy]

what happend with this hack?

[micheal332001]

what happend with this hack?

Sorry all that i have not been on here but i have had a op done on my arm and was out for a few months.
I will be making this hack when my arm is better at the moment i am limited on what i can do.

Work has started on this but not much has been done as yet.

[Catsgot9]

I run a poker affiliate site and was wondering if this would work on my poker league? Please advise...

http://forums.9livespoker.com/league.php

CG9

[micheal332001]

Hi all

This hack has been put on hold for the moment but work has started on it.
And i will let you all know when there is a demo of it or some screen shots.
Sorry for the long wait but my arm has got alot better now and i have started to work on my hacks again.

[Pcparts]

Wish you a speedy recovery.

[ForeverForums]

What type of sports would this work for ? Id love to have one for NCAA/NBa/NFL that would rule

[wobbly]

have a look at the website below

http://www.tchatting.com/forum/livescores.php

I run that hack on my forums too, and parse all the info from this guys site. His script is awesome and its part of the script to parse the real time info and updating of the database from his site. I dont know how he does it but would be brilliant if you could incorporate the scores etc for the different leagues like he does so it auto updates.

This would reduce the amount of manual input for the admins as well!!

[ForeverForums]

indeed that looks very nice

[Coleccromos]

In sport forum like the mine serious brilliant east type of pluging. Somebody knows or knows like creating this type of game

[Shazz]

27-0 Poll is closed lol...

[RWDF1]

As I run a F1 site, this is just what I want. It would be fantatic if it could be up and running before March, for the start of the F1 season.

[dodgeuk19]

any news if this is going ahead ??

[iogames]

Well, this hack seems to be more complete that the mentioned above:

http://www.vbhackers.com/f76/sports-manager-nfl-nba-ncaa-mlb-fifa-nascar-nhl-premier-8077/

But I think it will be a great feature to have.... :up:

[iogames]

any news if this is going ahead ??

any?

[RTFA]

Well, this hack seems to be more complete that the mentioned above:

http://www.vbhackers.com/f76/sports-manager-nfl-nba-ncaa-mlb-fifa-nascar-nhl-premier-8077/

But I think it will be a great feature to have.... :up:


Isn't that just more of a mood manager hack variant?

any?

What he said.

[BlueBulletRL]

Would definately be interested in this anyone?

[Coleccromos]

Would definately be interested in this anyone?

It would be perfect for the forums of sports

[hitmann]

Wow so what happened to this? Would be nice to have it

[Criticize]

If this hasnt been made by now thats because nobody wants to do it ;) Too extensive probably to be released here for free. I would love to see it as well, just dont think it will happen.

[bobster65]

If this hasnt been made by now thats because nobody wants to do it ;) Too extensive probably to be released here for free. I would love to see it as well, just dont think it will happen.

Nail on the head M8. I've got a pickem application and Fantasy Football application that I integrated into my site, but to actually release them as hacks here would require a ton of work that I have no desire to do for free. I don't really have the desire to do it as a paid request either. The support itself would be a major headache to deal with. Maybe some day I will hit the lotto and won't have to work and can just play and write hacks lol

[doobiefillin]

is this kind of like a sports pool?

[bobster65]

is this kind of like a sports pool?

Thats probably one of many systems that members would be after.

Sports Pool aka Pickem (not like the one in the casino hack), but one that is an actual league that keeps track of scores from week to week)..
Fantasy Football, Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, NASCAR etc.. (like on Yahoo, ESPN, CBS Sports etc)
Survivor Pool
Salary Cap Football

[merk_aus]

the guy who started this thread actually has a site where this stuff is released commercially however u cant register, access the forums anything and so am worried as to whether to buy his commercial one or not?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

vBulletin.org is not the place to discuss commercial work.

[edytwinky]

So anybody know of a hack that may have been made for this?

Instead of using Yahoo, i'd really like to run my NFL Pick Em and NFL Survivor League through my website.

[micheal332001]

Hi all

Sorry i have not been around much been to busy.

I have started a F1 League of this and will take a bit of time to get it done,
But here are 2 screen shots of the admincp so far

[micheal332001]

Hi all

I have done a bit more on this script in the admincp.
So as you will see from this its coming along well.

Here are more screen shots for you to look over.

[hitmann]

Nice job michael!

I'd be very excited to use a soccer fantasy league on my board!

[F0xy]

any thoughts on when your releasing any of your scripts?

[micheal332001]

This script will be released within the next few weeks i hope.
Thats if all the coding goes to plan.

Will let you know more in the next few days.

[edytwinky]

Is this just for soccer and racing?

[micheal332001]

Hi all

Just a few more screen shots for you as this is coming along abit more now.

This is only part of the signup for the F1 league system,
there is more but not finished just yet.

Im hoping to have this finished within a week or 2.

[SEdwards1]

were is that script available?

[micheal332001]

were is that script available?


This script is not available yet but will be i hope in the next week or 2.

[v12kid]

nice work Michael

is it going to be hard to port this for other sports?

[micheal332001]

nice work Michael

is it going to be hard to port this for other sports?


Hi there

I dont know how hard it will be to port this over.
But i might try and make other league systems like this at a later date.

[hunter22375]

I would like one like this for football! Any possibility? Similar to yahoo fantasy sports?

[parabat]

Rugby would be a must please :))
Looks awesome so far, congrats.

-PB

[micheal332001]

I would like one like this for football! Any possibility? Similar to yahoo fantasy sports?

This will be done but at a later time.
I want to finish the F1 league system one first before starting a new one.

Rugby would be a must please :))
Looks awesome so far, congrats.

-PB

Same as above will be made some time.

And thanks for the nice comment.

[micheal332001]

Hi all

Just alittle update for you.

I have done alot of the user end of this f1 fantasy league system now.
Have finished the user signup
Finished the user resign
Finished race calender
Finished How 2 Play

Finished most of the admincp just got to add the race calender to it.

So im hoping to have a beta release out within a week hopefuly before the next race date.

*** Removed. If you want to have a beta test, then release it with "Beta" marked on vBulletin.org ***

[micheal332001]

just a small update for you all
Im hopping to have a beta version ready soon.
Once this has been tested it will be released.

Im hopping to have the beta done today or first thing tomorrow.
And hopping to have this released within 1 week.
Sorry for the delay but i want to make sure every thing is working before you all use it.

And sorry Marco van Herwaarden for the info that i sould not have put on in that post.

[hitmann]

Nice, looking forward to it!

[micheal332001]

Nice, looking forward to it!

Betatester has the files for testing and if all is fine wilbe released soon

[merk_aus]

is this like all your other mods where the beta tester has the files and then u go quiet and when people start hassling you claim he found errors and your working on fixing?

[micheal332001]

is this like all your other mods where the beta tester has the files and then u go quiet and when people start hassling you claim he found errors and your working on fixing?

No,
the betatester has got the files and as soon as he says every thing is ok it will be released.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

No real use discussing this when it is not ready yet.

Please resume the discussion once this has been released in the release thread.

Closing.