Category: Site News

May 21st Weekly Release Notes

This weeks bug fixes are for both FantasySP and FantasySP careers.  Nothing ground breaking to report here and this is not exactly interesting stuff. In any case, here goes:

  • Careers – Fix for names with hyphens in them.
  • Careers – Added robots.txt
  • Careers – SEO changes for better titles and descriptions.
  • Careers – Generated sitemaps for each sport to allow bots to easily crawl the site.
  • FantasySP – Fantasy Assistant colors have been slightly changed.  You now see a black titlebox with a green “Select My Team” button.  Before the title box was green as well.
  • FantasySP – Fantasy Assistant has a new message that says “Select Your Team” so new users understand what to do next. (Hopefully this helps)
  • FantasySP – Weekly notices asking for a user to track players have been disabled.
  • FantasySP – A MLB source is no longer being used.

May 14th Weekly Release Notes

The long awaited FantasySP project is finally live.  Introducing Career Timeline!   As you guys already know, FantasySP collects A LOT of articles each and every day from hundreds of sources. We also keep track of how our fans interact with the stories we collect.  Up until now, there was no way to visualize all of the articles we have for each player.

Career Timeline allows us to visualize an entire player’s career!  How about reliving Linsanity or Peyton Manning’s free agency whirlwind from March.  Skip around each year and month and visualize in graph form which months the player generated the most buzz.  Then scroll down to see what all the fuss was about.

I’ve had this idea in my head to create the site for months and I finally had the time to get it done.  It was quite a challenge to get everything working, but I am more than happy with how it all came out.

Enjoy Player Careers and next week will be back to regular FantasySP release notes.

April 30th Weekly Release Notes

This week I’ve been working on the sister project for FantasySP called Player Careers.  It has come along quite nicely and I am very excited, but is not ready for any type of official public release.  I predict that it will be finished sometime in May.  In the meantime, FantasySP will get mainly bug fixes.

Onto this weeks notes:

  • Fix for Yahoo transaction accuracy. Sometimes a transaction would be assigned to the wrong team. (thanks wtapppp)
  • Removed the “!” in the welcome email to prevent spam assignment.
  • Changed color for “Select My Team” to blue because users could not find out where to click when it was Green.

March 23rd Weekly Release Notes

The major takeaway from this weeks release notes is to make learning about FantasySP easier than ever.  A feature overview page or “tour” page was necessarily for new and existing users to fully understand what the site is all about.  I encourage everyone to take a look.  The User Panel has undergone big changes as well.  The “more” dropdown with additional menus is gone.  It is now listed as “Sync Settings Membership”.  A floating help button is to the immediate right in-case anyone has questions.

Now the complete list:

  • I dropped Amazon SES.  Entire site now uses MailJet for email analytics.  It’s nice to finally be able to see open rates and click tracking.
  • Added Notice for IE7 users that their browser is not supported and needs to be upgraded to use the Fantasy Assistant.
  • Added new ranking metrics for pitchers including WHIP, Wins, and Saves.
  • Fix for email setting links in daily newsletter.
  • Added line-up status to mobile website.
  • Implemented Feature Overview
  • Implemented new Help floater.
  • Fix for Fantasy Assistant help drowndown boxes not expanding.