tsfloyd  2/4/2016 11:36 PM

When is the time to start draft prep for this year?

Metsox  2/5/2016 6:13 AM

My vote would be earlier is better! Can't wait for another season of BM....

holty85  2/7/2016 8:23 PM

Word on the street over at basketballmonster, it's not. It's dead in the water. Too much work apparently. Not worth the headache.

ken_admin  2/8/2016 9:01 AM

We'll have a site, but we're not sure if it'll be membership or not.  Either way, I would expect projections to be ready for early March.

Metsox  2/10/2016 11:27 AM

No way! That stinks. So just the preseason projections?

Marlins821  2/10/2016 7:32 PM

Cmon guys we need you. At least I know I do. Bring the memberships back. 

fabeaka  2/11/2016 5:36 PM

I need Baseball Monster 2016. It will allow me to breathe...no, but seriously!

#13721  2/13/2016 12:09 PM

I second that. Baseball monster has allowed me to win my main leagues that past 3 seasons. We need it back!

drw3722  2/17/2016 11:34 AM

Me want monster now!

fairweatherfan  3/8/2016 12:20 PM

Big fan of the DFS.  Hope you offer subscriptions.  I will definitely sign up again!

justinshilot  3/9/2016 11:25 AM

Do you think we'll still be able to view daily projections for roto if we import projections from an outside source?  The ease rankings factored in for daily lineup changes is what made this site the best imo.

ken_admin  3/9/2016 12:40 PM

Currently, the site does not support using imported projections for the short-term tools (daily/weekly) so it would require some work on our part.  We do plan to update the site at times this season so we'll add this to the list of desired features.

thegreek  3/10/2016 6:50 AM

Hey Ken, you have any recommended sites or methodology to replicate what baseball monster was able to provide? Thanks.

Metsox  3/11/2016 8:57 AM

Yeah, very excited to use whatever functionality you offer and thankful for you making the effort free of charge. 

I will definitely miss not having your tool when setting weekly lineups. I usually would look a week ahead for two start pitchers. And It was fantastic for finding guys with good platoon splits for the week.

Quite frankly, I am pretty sure all my success in fantasy is attributable to this site so very sorry to see it paring back operations. 

holty85  3/11/2016 3:28 PM

are we live then? today is the 11th, but it still says "you have to be a member to use this feature"

ken_admin  3/11/2016 7:50 PM

I'll update the site Saturday morning.

holty85  3/12/2016 10:55 AM

I still can't access portions, still says "you need to be a member"

ken_admin  3/12/2016 11:08 AM

You should have access to the projection pages now.  You can import your own projections too.  The import attempts to read the import file, but the safest method is to create the format described on the Import Projections page.  You can also try FanGraph's or FantasyPros.

holty85  3/12/2016 11:18 AM

does it not work with CBS then? I can't get it to import my league teams

ken_admin  3/12/2016 11:26 AM

Currently, it's working for Yahoo, and CBS/ESPN will come next.  I'll be working on both today.

holty85  3/12/2016 11:26 AM

thnx

coleblack  3/12/2016 12:24 PM

So where can we get projections?  Fangraph's projections are all first name last name in the same column, and they apparently can't be imported that way

ken_admin  3/12/2016 12:39 PM

You should be able to export their data here and import those files:

http://www.fangraphs.com/projections.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&type=steamer&team=0&lg=all&players=0

Does that work?

holty85  3/12/2016 12:55 PM

doesn't work for me.

holty85  3/12/2016 12:55 PM

this is what I get: 

Home

A system error has occurred. The administrator has been alerted. We apoligize for the inconvenience.

ken_admin  3/12/2016 12:59 PM

Had to fix a small issue so please try again.

tomm0  3/12/2016 1:00 PM

I was able to import both hitters and pitchers from that link.  

halpink31  3/12/2016 2:25 PM

I'm not able to import my team players from Yahoo.

ken_admin  3/12/2016 2:50 PM

How about now?

coleblack  3/12/2016 3:03 PM

That worked for me, Ken.  Thanks.

holty85  3/12/2016 3:42 PM

I was able to import projections now, but still can't import my CBS

ken_admin  3/12/2016 4:25 PM

CBS and ESPN are not working yet, but I'm looking at both this weekend.

Metsox  3/12/2016 4:28 PM

Thanks. If anyone has formatted Steamer or Zips files would love to plagiarize your good work....

Not sure if we can post those here....

edit: Alright, never mind, not going to be lazy, will grab from Fangraphs as suggested above

holty85  3/12/2016 4:30 PM

thanks

holty85  3/12/2016 4:31 PM

Also do you have a spot where we can donate? I know you said this would be a free "lite" version, but I still think there is enough product here for you to earn some $ for it. 

ken_admin  3/12/2016 4:33 PM

I believe you can import the raw data files from FanGraphs with no modifications.

I appreciate the offer for donations, but I hope to have a full site running again next year so there will be opportunities to spend your money :)

tomm0  3/12/2016 4:34 PM

Metsox the FanGraphs link kslight posted lets you select Steamer or Zips.  I was able to import Steamer in without any issues.  The projections feel so safe though.  Seems like they wouldn't help much in predicting breakouts.

holty85  3/12/2016 4:34 PM

haha ok roger that!

ken_admin  3/12/2016 4:34 PM

I believe the FantasyPros raw formats will work too.

holty85  3/12/2016 4:40 PM

how do you remove custom projections after you have uploaded it? or better yet how do you toggle between sets of custom projections? such as zips and steamer

ken_admin  3/12/2016 4:42 PM

You can only have one imported set of stats.  You could always create a second account for a different set.

For deleting, I could add this, but why would you delete a custom projection since if effectively removes that player.

holty85  3/12/2016 4:43 PM

Would I be able to import my CBS League(once you get that up and running) to that second account as well, that uses the other projection database?

ken_admin  3/12/2016 4:44 PM

Yes, that should work.

Metsox  3/12/2016 5:00 PM

Thanks guys....

Metsox  3/12/2016 5:08 PM

Please bring this site back next year. It's so much better than anything else i have seen. You guys do fantastic work. 

Although, when I don't win my league you will be blamed. Big time. 

Can't believe Byung Ho Park is so high based off steamer projections. 

I was able to get steamer projections for both hitters and pitchers loaded. If you can hook it up to CBS that would be amazing just to look at a clean sheet for who is draftable. But this works great. Thanks for making the effort.

holty85  3/12/2016 5:18 PM

so problem, I tried making another league account to import another set of projections, it seems to have carried over the projections I imported on this first account. 

holty85  3/12/2016 5:22 PM

So I deleted the 2 different CBS accounts I made and tried starting from scratch and now it won't let me import anything I get this message:

ken_admin  3/12/2016 6:15 PM

I believe the importing is still working. Can you email me your CSV file? kslight@baseballmonster.com

jaywords1  3/12/2016 7:36 PM

My pitchers seamlessly imported from fangraphs depth charts, but I can't get the hitters to transfer over.

ken_admin  3/12/2016 7:50 PM

Can you email me your hitters file: kslight@baseballmonster.com

ken_admin  3/12/2016 9:01 PM

I've made some changes to support more formats if you can try again.

jaywords1  3/12/2016 9:08 PM

It works now. How do I edit player positions? I want to take A Rod off of DH, it skews my Position Values.

ken_admin  3/12/2016 9:10 PM

It should work if you edit those here:

https://baseballmonster.com/custompositions.aspx

I'll add a link to this page in the menus.

jaywords1  3/13/2016 12:43 PM

Ah, although my pitching projections from FanGraphs imported seamlessly, everything is wrong. I am drafting now and Chris Sale is projected to have 30 something saves. Batters are working though.

ken_admin  3/13/2016 1:10 PM

If it's not too late, can you email me the file you imported?

holty85  3/13/2016 2:34 PM

Any ETA on when CBS will import?

#11212  3/13/2016 3:16 PM

trying to add a custom category (quality starts) to fangraphs' depth chart projections after exporting their csv, but the import doesnt work here in baseball monster if i make any modifications to the csv. any advice?

ken_admin  3/13/2016 3:22 PM

If you format the CSV based on this doc, does that work:

https://baseballmonster.com/BaseballMonsterImportInstructions.pdf

willpetzel  3/13/2016 4:29 PM

Hi

I imported the Depth Chart projections from Fangraphs, which worked really easily. that said, I'm running into an issue where all of the negative categories for pitchers are showing up with terrible z scores, which is making comparing hitters and pitchers impossible. I've included my team analysis as an example. any insight you can offer would be greatly appreciated. It has David price as the 285 ranked player overall, for example. Thanks!

Pitchers

	Own	Round	Rank	TRank	Value	PosV	Name	Inj	Status	Team	Pos	g	News	IP	H	RA	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	WHIP	W	SV	QS	L	ERAV	WHIPV	WV	SVV	SOV	IPV	QSV	LV	ERV	HRV	BBV
		4	54	7	0.42	RP 0.18	Zach Britton			BAL	RP	65		65.0	53	19	19	19	69	4	2.63	1.11	4	33	0	2	1.26	0.54	0.31	2.30	0.38	0.39	0.00	0.01	-0.19	0.05	-0.46
		6	77	17	0.29	SP 0.35	Chris Sale			CHW	SP	34		227.0	186	73	73	50	277	23	2.89	1.04	16	0	0	9	2.27	4.32	3.49	-0.42	4.07	3.54	0.00	-3.30	-3.55	-4.17	-3.04
		21	285	179	-0.12	SP -0.07	David Price			BOS	SP	34		213.0	194	74	74	42	216	21	3.13	1.11	15	0	0	8	0.37	1.76	3.22	-0.42	2.99	3.27	0.00	-2.82	-3.61	-3.72	-2.37
		27	372	250	-0.20	SP -0.15	Jon Lester			CHC	SP	32		210.0	185	72	72	50	207	19	3.09	1.12	15	0	0	9	0.67	1.37	3.22	-0.42	2.83	3.21	0.00	-3.30	-3.49	-3.28	-3.04
		40	554	397	-0.44	SP -0.39	Felix Hernandez			SEA	SP	34		224.0	199	79	79	55	220	20	3.17	1.13	15	0	0	11	0.01	0.93	3.22	-0.42	3.06	3.49	0.00	-4.24	-3.93	-3.50	-3.46
		41	562	404	-0.45	SP -0.40	Jaime Garcia			STL	SP	19		114.0	111	43	43	29	91	9	3.39	1.23	8	0	0	6	-0.89	-1.22	1.37	-0.42	0.77	1.34	0.00	-1.88	-1.68	-1.06	-1.29
		44	613	432	-0.62	SP -0.57	Jeff Samardzija			SF	SP	31		202.0	187	75	75	46	177	18	3.34	1.15	12	0	0	10	-1.19	0.22	2.43	-0.42	2.30	3.06	0.00	-3.77	-3.68	-3.06	-2.71
		46	639	443	-0.72	SP -0.66	Scott Kazmir			LAD	SP	28		162.0	147	63	63	44	151	17	3.50	1.18	10	0	0	8	-1.86	-0.48	1.90	-0.42	1.84	2.28	0.00	-2.82	-2.93	-2.84	-2.54
		54	752	507	-1.19	SP -1.14	Collin McHugh			HOU	SP	31		185.0	177	77	77	49	159	21	3.75	1.22	12	0	0	10	-3.74	-1.79	2.43	-0.42	1.98	2.73	0.00	-3.77	-3.80	-3.72	-2.96
		63	871	563	-1.70	SP -1.65	Derek Holland			TEX	SP	29		169.0	170	78	78	51	142	22	4.15	1.31	9	0	0	9	-5.87	-3.93	1.63	-0.42	1.68	2.41	0.00	-3.30	-3.86	-3.94	-3.12
		65	904	573	-1.89	SP -1.83	Mat Latos			CHW	SP	26		150.0	157	75	75	47	120	20	4.50	1.36	8	0	0	9	-7.05	-4.72	1.37	-0.42	1.29	2.04	0.00	-3.30	-3.68	-3.50	-2.79
	Own	Round	Rank	TRank	Value	PosV	Name	Inj	Status	Team	Pos	g	News	IP	H	RA	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	WHIP	W	SV	QS	L	ERAV	WHIPV	WV	SVV	SOV	IPV	QSV	LV	ERV	HRV	BBV
					-6.62	-12.65	Avg Stats/Total Values					363		1,921.0	1,766	728	728	482	1,829	194	3.41	1.17	124	33	0	91	-16.02	-2.99	24.59	-1.93	23.20	27.76	0.00	-32.48	-34.40	-32.75	-27.78

holty85  3/13/2016 4:46 PM

It's because you rostered Mat Latos. He is a viral Z score killer. Better dump him before it infects your batters. 

ken_admin  3/13/2016 4:54 PM

Of your 11 pitcher settings, 7 favor relief pitchers.  Only wins, strikeouts, innings, and quality starts favor starters. Checking your league, it looks like all your teams show similar results for the starters.  Are you forced to own a certain number of starters?

willpetzel  3/13/2016 4:54 PM

haha

it's a dynasty league with 26 keepers, and even then, you're right!

willpetzel  3/13/2016 4:55 PM

not forced to own a certain number of starters, but forced to make 7 starts per week.

ken_admin  3/13/2016 4:58 PM

Is this Roto or H2H?

The trouble is there are hundreds of RP who rank higher than the SP because of your categories.

willpetzel  3/13/2016 5:01 PM

I get what you're saying re: the relievers and how they are going to show up ahead of the starters. it's h2h and SPs mean a ton in this league because of the 7 GS min each week. thanks for the quick reply!

tomm0  3/13/2016 9:01 PM

Any chance something can be done about DH players when using position ranks?  It doesn't make too much sense seeing them at the top since most leagues allow any hitter in a DH/Utility spot.  Maybe only do that if the league has the DH Active Roster Spot filled out?

ken_admin  3/13/2016 10:09 PM

They do tend to move to the top, and I'll see what I can do to fix this.

bobmcadoo78  3/13/2016 11:18 PM

Thanks for the tutorial Ken, this will help my drafting.  I'm going to miss the site and would gladly pay for for your services in 2016.  I've won my league twice using your site and I don't think I've ever finished the regular season lower than 4th place.

Metsox  3/14/2016 9:57 AM

Will Steamer projections be updated between now and season start? Are they constantly updating? Or am I good to run my draft off the projections I have loaded now. Don't know why they would change but just curious....

holty85  3/14/2016 10:29 AM

CBS still doesn't import?? What's the ETA

ken_admin  3/14/2016 11:10 AM

I've added some debugging for your account if you can try one more time.

holty85  3/14/2016 2:27 PM

Nope.

Metsox  3/17/2016 10:45 AM

I tried importing Depth Charts the same way I did steamer. Was anyone able to make it work?

edit - scratch that, got it to work. Wish it didn't overproject relief so much. Otherwise, looks great though....

struckos  4/14/2016 1:58 PM

Please bring it back next year. Can't do this without you guys...