fantasy league system

[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]

Originally Posted by micheal332001

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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

[rurbaniak]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[micheal332001]

Originally Posted by rurbaniak

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]

Originally Posted by micheal332001

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]

Originally Posted by mclark2112

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

Originally Posted by rurbaniak

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.