Opinions about Fantrax

[ldsjayhawk]

Please use this thread to share your opinions about and experience with Fantrax. Just trying to figure out the best way to move forward with things.

[BHows]

1.) The functions that I have used on Fantrax seem to be satisfactory although I personally have nothing to compare them to.
2.) My experiences with their support has been very good. Very quick response but their answers aren't too detailed. Usually requires a couple messages to get things resolved.
3.) Their team that adds players can be contrary. When requesting a player they require you to "prove" that player exists. Usually a link to the player's Baseball Reference page will do. Sometimes it doesn't.
All in all a pretty good experience

[TheProfessor]

I think that FT is great for day-to-day operations of the rosters (as opposed to Yahoo, CBS Sports, etc.). I would not revert to another option.

While more off-site operations (transactions, FA) _could_ be moved to FT, as Roy demonstrated, I actually prefer to have an external site that handles all of the operations. I am probably just old-fashioned in that regard, but the trifecta of FT-spreadsheet-offline forum is the one I prefer.

[Brent]

I like FT for day-to-day operations, etc.

Contracts in FT seem to be decent. The few leagues I am in that have contracts on FT all have different terminology for how contracts are entered, but that's pretty easy to get used to.

I don't like FT's message board feature for Free Agency.

I'm in a few off-site leagues that have a site for administration to include rules, drafts, free agency, waivers, etc. Then FT for day to day operations and contracts. 

The one thing I don't like about FT's contracts is that you don't get a visualization of the contract in years, just normally a final year or how they encode ARB contracts. The SS's show each year and for me that's easier to track how long someone is under contract for roster planning.

[christof.furness]

If it is something that can be done on Fantrax great. I tend to use proboards more for these sort of leagues rather than profsl. Anything simpler works for me

[Brent]

If it is something that can be done on Fantrax great. I tend to use proboards more for these sort of leagues rather than profsl. Anything simpler works for me

Same. Most of the leagues I am in now have the admin stuff on Proboards and scoring/contracts on Fantrax.

[Brent]

I see contracts are being uploaded into Fantrax.  I'm not sure what we'll use to indicate how long a contract is for or if it's a prospect or now, but here is a couple ideas.

Prospect below threshold:
$0.5 and for the Year enter Spec or Prospect or even just a P

Prospect over threshold:
$0.5M and the the last year of the contract with a P either before or after.
Michael Busch $0.5M 2027P or P-2027 something like that.

A normal contract signed in FA or an Extension would be:
Gunnar Henderson $12.0 2029

[ldsjayhawk]

Sorry.  I didn't read this earlier.  I posted this on another thread.  Here's how the contacts will work:

P-n/a = 2050 => 1st after the season the player exceeds the prospect maximum
P-2027 = 1st
P-2026 = 2nd
P-2025 = 3rd -- last year of prospect contract

All other contacts are the year the contract expires. 

I'll have to come up with something when an extension is made in-season.