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!
Labels: AJAX, ASP.NET, basketball, fantasy sports, FSLive, geek, NBA, programming, projects
December 08, 2006
I have been playing Yahoo Fantasy NBA since the 2004-2005 NBA season (check out my fantasy profile). I am addicted to this numbers game. The nice thing about fantasy sports is that it makes you
Borgy and I have been toying around with the idea of starting our own blog dedicated to fantasy NBA. We're regular readers of the articles of fantasy NBA "experts" like Rick Kamla and The Talented Mr. Roto, and we thought, "These experts don't know any better than us!" The idea of a fantasy NBA blog started out as a joke, but guess what? It became a reality: check out our new blog, Fantasy Sports FTW! (BTW, "FTW" stands for "for the/teh win!")
I'm not a fan of maintaining multiple blogs, but I really don't want to blog about fantasy NBA on the RubeTube; I'd have too many things to say. Currently, there are three of us writing for FSFTW: myself, Borgy, and Marc Cu. We're all friends from college and we've been playing in fantasy NBA leagues together for the past few years (here's this year's league). We've also
set up a "mailbag" where you can send us your fantasy NBA questions and we'll try to answer them. Our email address is fantasy.ftw@gmail.com. (Setting up our email system took up a considerable amount of time and effort which is probably not worth it, but I don't care. It's fun.) Right now we're focusing on fantasy NBA, but we might expand into other fantasy sports if we get interested in them.
Check us out and let us hear from you! Fantasy NBA for teh win!
Borgy and I have been toying around with the idea of starting our own blog dedicated to fantasy NBA. We're regular readers of the articles of fantasy NBA "experts" like Rick Kamla and The Talented Mr. Roto, and we thought, "These experts don't know any better than us!" The idea of a fantasy NBA blog started out as a joke, but guess what? It became a reality: check out our new blog, Fantasy Sports FTW! (BTW, "FTW" stands for "for the/teh win!")
I'm not a fan of maintaining multiple blogs, but I really don't want to blog about fantasy NBA on the RubeTube; I'd have too many things to say. Currently, there are three of us writing for FSFTW: myself, Borgy, and Marc Cu. We're all friends from college and we've been playing in fantasy NBA leagues together for the past few years (here's this year's league). We've also
set up a "mailbag" where you can send us your fantasy NBA questions and we'll try to answer them. Our email address is fantasy.ftw@gmail.com. (Setting up our email system took up a considerable amount of time and effort which is probably not worth it, but I don't care. It's fun.) Right now we're focusing on fantasy NBA, but we might expand into other fantasy sports if we get interested in them.
Check us out and let us hear from you! Fantasy NBA for teh win!
Labels: basketball, blogs, fantasy sports, NBA
