Free Agency Questions and Comments

[Jss0062]

I'm probably missing something but I'm having difficulty reconciling some of the players currently being bid on with Fantrax and the rosters spreadsheet. For example, when I look up Kurt Suzuki in Fantrax, it says he's on Oakland's team. When I search all sheets within the roster spreadsheet, he doesn't show up, which makes perfect sense if he's no longer on a team but makes me wonder how to figure out who the current free agent players are. Is there a way to do this that I'm not seeing?

Fantrax shows the actual team he plays/played for. Often they don't show that team incorrectly.  If you search on fantrax all players you will see what the players on our fantasy teams look like. Best practice is to use the fantrax available players and cross check the spreadsheet.

[johnbosma]

Maybe I'm using the wrong Fantrax? I'm working from the Fantrax that we used in 2014 and is linked at the top of the main page.

When I look for available catchers in Fantrax, Chris Stewart and a handful of other players show up as available but several others are currently being bid on (Kurt Suzuki, J.P. Arencibia, etc.) don't show up on the available players list and when searching for them by name, they don't show up unless I look them under 'all players' instead of 'available' and they show their real-life team and a Fantrax team.

Sticking with Suzuki as an example, it shows Minnesota as his real life team and Oakland as his AFB team. When I search for him in the spreadsheet, he doesn't come up.

I might be missing something obvious (wouldn't be the first time I've done that) but I'm still unclear on how to identify free agents unless they show as available in Fantrax, which doesn't always seem to be the case.

[Maydab23]

My fantrax shows Suzuki as top C available. Maybe it is an older page of fantrax and you should be on the 2015 season league page.

[johnbosma]

That was it - thanks!

[Jss0062]

I don't know how to update those links. I'll change them when I figure them out

[ldsjayhawk]

The links across the top are updated by clicking on the league link on the main menu bar across the top.  Then click modify league.  Then go all the way to the bottom and find the old link.  Then you just copy and paste the new link over the old link.

[ThePetis]

I'm probably missing something but I'm having difficulty reconciling some of the players currently being bid on with Fantrax and the rosters spreadsheet. For example, when I look up Kurt Suzuki in Fantrax, it says he's on Oakland's team. When I search all sheets within the roster spreadsheet, he doesn't show up, which makes perfect sense if he's no longer on a team but makes me wonder how to figure out who the current free agent players are. Is there a way to do this that I'm not seeing?

Just a guess, but are you accessing FanTrax via a saved link?  If so, you are probably looking at the 2014 league page in Fantrax.  Check the "My Leagues" button in FanTrax, it should have only the 2015 leagues in there.

[Jss0062]

The links across the top are updated by clicking on the league link on the main menu bar across the top.  Then click modify league.  Then go all the way to the bottom and find the old link.  Then you just copy and paste the new link over the old link.

It's not open to me to do that.

[ldsjayhawk]

Maybe the co-commissioner is not able to adjust those links?  It looks like chrisetc21 is listed as the commissioner.  He is probably the one that would have to do that.

[ldsjayhawk]

Is it each Friday that the next position will open up?  For example, this Friday will be 1B & 3B.  Then next week 2b & SS?