Rosters

[Maydab23]

I would like to add that the team counts on the top of my roster are done by a count formula. The roster limits are still easily counted this way while still adding an easier view of positional depth and simplifying promotion processing.  To me just changing one cell's value when promoting is much easier than and leaves less room for error than cutting and pasting.

 Also I have the ages self updating as well as hyperlinks to each players baseball reference page.

Yeah I notice that now. I suppose I am fine with it how you have it in that regard. I love the self updating ages. I guess my only critique then is it is a bit hard to read. I am not very knowledgeable on these things but at least on my ipad and phone it is a bit grainy and hard to read. Also would prefer a vertical format like past rosters instead of individual horizontal pages.

Sorry if I am being nitpicky, just my opinion. I am thankful for everybody's hard work.

[Jss0062]

I think it's a matter of google drive, I need to find a way to upload the actual file without using one of the services.

Maybe this will work.

[chrisetc21]

Either way, we need to come to a resolution of the roster issue.  I don't have excel which makes my updating these sheets not possible.  Things that aren't absolutely necessary to distinguish a player are just superfluous for these sheets in my opinion.  I have no interest in looking up the birthdates of 6 or 700 draftees because 5 or 10 players in the whole league may have duplicate names.  As long as the appropriate player is given to the appropriate team in FanTrax I think birthdates are a time consuming luxury.

This league has been in existence two seasons and the Commish role has been a revolving door.  The reason for this is undoubtedly the large amount of time to maintain all of these types of things.  So when there are things that take an extraordinary amount of time that don't have a significant impact then we can either ditch those things or we need more of a group effort to handle them.  This is why I proposed the fixed arbitration and simpler rosters. 

If we can't resolve this then free agency won't begin on time and the season may be pushed back.

[Maydab23]

Either way, we need to come to a resolution of the roster issue.  I don't have excel which makes my updating these sheets not possible.  Things that aren't absolutely necessary to distinguish a player are just superfluous for these sheets in my opinion.  I have no interest in looking up the birthdates of 6 or 700 draftees because 5 or 10 players in the whole league may have duplicate names.  As long as the appropriate player is given to the appropriate team in FanTrax I think birthdates are a time consuming luxury.

This league has been in existence two seasons and the Commish role has been a revolving door.  The reason for this is undoubtedly the large amount of time to maintain all of these types of things.  So when there are things that take an extraordinary amount of time that don't have a significant impact then we can either ditch those things or we need more of a group effort to handle them.  This is why I proposed the fixed arbitration and simpler rosters. 

If we can't resolve this then free agency won't begin on time and the season may be pushed back.

I agree. This is why I think it would make he most sense to delegate a lot of the tasks. I know we sort of had an executive committee for Fantrax but I think we need something like that for the league. For example a head commissioner to oversee everything and verify some peoples work from time to time to make sure nothing funny is going on and have a few tasks they do themselves (Chris) and then a group of people to handle different areas. For example, I already volunteered to do the extensions. Now that rosters are updated on fantrax we could have 1 or 2 people be in charge of updating fantrax rosters when trades/FA/Promotions happen. We could have one person in charge of updating the roster spreadsheets once that gets up to speed. 2 people in charge of updating draft, etc. Then get people to help on short term projects as needed like when a group of us helped with the fantrax rosters.



Identify the tasks and delegate them out to a group of 3-5 people that are on here fairly consistently and willing to help.

A sort of executive committee that is overseen by the commish would help a lot I think.

As far as the rosters, I like the DOB. it happens with more than a few players and not just duplicate names. A lot of names on rosters are something like billy jones when on bbref it is William jones and it helps to ensure it's the correct player.

Anyways, I'm all for the setup Jss0062 has going up. It's just hard to read. I agree the handedness is somewhat superfluous and I would understand if he didn't want to include it for workload.

[Jss0062]

Chris send me the rosters you have and I will be glad to handle them.  Just title me Chief of Roster Operations. 

Shane were you able to view the file I uploaded straight to the board for download?

[Maydab23]

Chris send me the rosters you have and I will be glad to handle them.  Just title me Chief of Roster Operations. 

Shane were you able to view the file I uploaded straight to the board for download?

Yes, I could.

They look great, good job.

[haseloff]

I've got fairly extensive knowledge of excel. No experience with google docs though. Always willing to help.


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Same here.  I'm awesome with Excel, never worked with the GOOGLE suite.  I can learn, let me know.

[chrisetc21]

Chris send me the rosters you have and I will be glad to handle them.  Just title me Chief of Roster Operations. 

Shane were you able to view the file I uploaded straight to the board for download?

I will email them.  Appreciate your help.  The rosters will have to be viewable in some manner however whether it's posted on a web site, posted on this site, or through something like google drive.

[chrisetc21]

Chris send me the rosters you have and I will be glad to handle them.  Just title me Chief of Roster Operations. 

Shane were you able to view the file I uploaded straight to the board for download?

Sent

[Jss0062]

Sent

I got them, they are really in pretty good shape. I will try to get the draft updated on them and do a few ownership corrections. I will email you the link to insert them into the site sometime Monday.