January 28, 2007
I've mentioned before that I'm terribly hooked to Yahoo Fantasy NBA. I tune into the Yahoo NBA boxscores every morning to see the stats of my players (and I have four teams to check up on!). But I find it annoying to have to open the boxscore page of every game and collate the stats of my players just to see how my team is doing. Yeah, I could wait until the end of the day, but I'm afraid my level of addiction can't afford me that much patience.
I've had enough of doing this so I came up with a solution: create my own tool to gather the stats of my players in real-time and put them all on one page. So I've been spending my spare time the past two weeks not blogging and instead working on my pet project. And here's the finished product: Fantasy Sports Live!
Fantasy Sports Live! (a.k.a. "FSLive") lets you see your fantasy team's stats as the day's games are being played, without having to pay for "premium" services like Yahoo's StatTracker. It's completely free to use and it's pretty fast too! I use it every day, of course. It's only for Yahoo Fantasy NBA players right now. If you're a Yahoo fantasy baller, check it out and let me know what you think.
Whether FSLive ends up as a commercial success or not, I've certainly had a lot of fun just working on it. This project has allowed me to merge two of my biggest passions: fantasy NBA and programming. And it's also helped me learn a ton of new things along the way. Here's a partial list of the technologies and techniques that FSLive is built upon:
Before I end this entry, I'd like to thank Borgy for helping me test, promote, and improve FSLive. FSLive is already getting hits from people around the world thanks to Borgy's effort in spreading the word. If you'd like to help promote FSLive, find out how. FSLive for teh win, baby!
I've had enough of doing this so I came up with a solution: create my own tool to gather the stats of my players in real-time and put them all on one page. So I've been spending my spare time the past two weeks not blogging and instead working on my pet project. And here's the finished product: Fantasy Sports Live!
Fantasy Sports Live! (a.k.a. "FSLive") lets you see your fantasy team's stats as the day's games are being played, without having to pay for "premium" services like Yahoo's StatTracker. It's completely free to use and it's pretty fast too! I use it every day, of course. It's only for Yahoo Fantasy NBA players right now. If you're a Yahoo fantasy baller, check it out and let me know what you think.
Whether FSLive ends up as a commercial success or not, I've certainly had a lot of fun just working on it. This project has allowed me to merge two of my biggest passions: fantasy NBA and programming. And it's also helped me learn a ton of new things along the way. Here's a partial list of the technologies and techniques that FSLive is built upon:
- C#
- ASP.NET 2.0
- ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (formerly Codename "Atlas")
- The big three: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Screen scraping techniques
- A heavy dose of regular expressions
- A small dose of ASP.NET caching
- RSA encryption in .NET and in JavaScript (learn how!)
Before I end this entry, I'd like to thank Borgy for helping me test, promote, and improve FSLive. FSLive is already getting hits from people around the world thanks to Borgy's effort in spreading the word. If you'd like to help promote FSLive, find out how. FSLive for teh win, baby!
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