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by Groxx 5179 days ago
Very interesting idea - I'll have to introduce it to one of my friends :) You wouldn't happen to have football a fantasy football branch in the works, would you?

One complaint: on the root page, the right (?) puts text off-screen, and you can't scroll to view it because that hides the text.

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Thanks. I've made it show on the left now!
Perfect :) Much better.
What do you like about this version that you would like to see in the football one?
Tyrone, first of all I love the data visualization efforts. As a personal baseball stat nerd myself, I always appreciate a site with in depth stats.

As for a football version, since the format is week to week you should heavily consider incorporating weekly matchups for players (ex. Arian Foster vs. Indanapolis Colts Defense, at home). There are a few good resources that I could direct you to for projecting matchups, but if you made your own incorporating split stats you could honestly provide a great resource to fantasy owners and, with the right marketing, capture a good portion the fantasy football market.

Positions are much more important for fantasy football than they are in baseball, so the tabbing system you have right now to distinguish pitchers and hitters is good, but expanding that concept to QB, RB, WR, WR/R, K, DEF would provide a good resource for all fantasy owners.

If you have any questions, email me. I'd love to help you out with this, and I could go on and on about where you could take this idea. The market for this type of site is just getting off the ground! My contact information is in my profile.

Unfortunately, I have no answer for that. I'm not a fantasy anything player, so I really don't know what would be useful. I can get ahold of my friend though, a (sports) journalism major who plays a few leagues at a time, and see what he'd like :)