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BP College Fantasy Football 2007

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BuckeyeNation27

BuckeyeNation27

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It's that time of year again.....probably a little later than "that time of year" actually. I've sent out the PMs and am sad to report that SanAntonioBuck is busy saving the world and protecting our country, so he won't be joining us. What a cop out. Here's who will be returning:
  • BuckeyeNation27
  • 'bergBuckeye47 (probably up for a name change)
  • Buckeyeskickbuttocks
  • Bestbuck36
  • scooter1369
  • kinch
  • Piney
  • oneshot
  • FKAGobucks877
  • BuckeyeSoldier
  • Bucky Katt
And new to the group:
  • SparkyOSU
I'd like to open the floor for any suggestions on improving the league. I've been talking with somebody who runs their own league, and he does scoring by using Microsoft Access and VBA. If anybody knows anything about this and wants to give it a shot.....be my guest. I'll also be giving it a shot. If you want more info, PM me and I'll send you exactly what I have about how it works.

Anything else is open for discussion as well.
-I'm leaning towards including TEs this year for FKA.
-The scoring is always up for tweaks. What was good/bad about last years scoring format?

Finally, there's the draft. I'd like to get started ASAP. I'm also kicking the idea around of having a scheduled draft. I'll randomize the order, then based on that set a specific time when each person makes their pick. I don't know if that's any more/less fun than doing it on the fly in the forums.

I'd like to start the draft soon, but I'll allow some time for rules discussion.

PS - who won last year? I'm too lazy to check.
 
I think we need to decide on a source for stats. If we are going to use the teams' official sites, lets do that and stay with it.

The idea of using Access isn't bad, with the exception that Access is not a cheap program. I have it at work, but often can't get into this stuff or access BP from work.

Openoffice.org has a free database included in their office suite. I can design a layout for it, or we can go with the Excel spreadsheets most of us used last year.
 
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I don't much care about all that jazz...but I do need somebody to post all of the stats and figures and websites and whatnot for returning NCAA players so that I can draft the best team. I mean, that really worked well for me last year...
 
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I should clarify, the Access/VBA thing would make it so you guys don't have to do your own scoring. Here's what he sent me about how it works:

Dave Zook said:
The basic steps it goes through are:
1) The program downloads the scoreboard page of the week from yahoo sports that has the results from all of the weeks games.
2) It then scans through the scoreboard text until it finds a link to each schools boxscore, and downloads those boxscore pages
3) It then scans through the boxscore page for player names, if it finds a match then it uses surrounding information to figure out if the names are there for a rushing td, passing td, field goal, rushing stats etc and grabs the relevant number and stores it in the database. (each boxscore is basically in the same format so once you figure out that a players name is in the rushing stats table, then you know that if you move over 1 column from the players name it'll be the number of carries and 2 columns over will be rushing yards)

The whole thing is done using Access's built in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) using an Inet control to download the websites and a whole lot of text searching to grab the data out.
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FKAGobucks877 said:
I don't much care about all that jazz...but I do need somebody to post all of the stats and figures and websites and whatnot for returning NCAA players so that I can draft the best team. I mean, that really worked well for me last year...
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I have a pdf of every BCS player that is in a 2-deep....courtesy of psxsports.com (who uses it for adding names to NCAA rosters). Grab it here.
 
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BuckeyeNation27;883875; said:
I should clarify, the Access/VBA thing would make it so you guys don't have to do your own scoring. Here's what he sent me about how it works:
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All I have to say is that is some sick stuff. But I am with Kinch... I love me some Excel spreadsheets. And also just appointing an "official" stats site.

About everything else, Last year seemed to work except for the part about my team sucking.

About the draft, if I recall it went pretty quickly last year. If anything each person should give a general time they check BP.

For example I am on and off all day at work but then after 7pm I am normally never online. So, if I am up at night I won't pick again til the next morning.

That way people can get an idea of when they can expect to be up. But I do like the on the fly approach on the forums here.
 
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Here's my .02:

Scoring was great
Not for TEs as point winners, they'll just be a tiny tiny addition to the score for a whole lot of trouble.

Umm I came in second last year? I think it was San Antonio who won... Not sure.

I want to DRAFT, baby.
 
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looking over last year's scoresheet, I only have 2 proposed scoring changes.

1. More points for a safety. Getting a safety is more difficult than kicking a FG or 2 XPs, but it's not treated that way in the scoring.

2. No more bonus points. It's a pain in the ass to keep up with.

Thoughts?
 
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