Last Player Picked

As you may know, it is possible to display Price Guide dollar values inside your league homepage using a Firefox add-on called Greasemonkey. A Greasemonkey script with values customized for your league is available at the top of each Price Guide results page.

I’ve talked about this feature in the past, and a reader suggested I add it as a category to the blog. I thought that was a great idea, so now you can click Greasemonkey Scripts to the left to see past posts about this, including screenshots of the scripts in action. I encourage you to check out those posts if you haven’t tried out this feature before and want to find out more.

The same reader asked how to have two (or more) scripts to handle multiple leagues with differing configurations — for example having different scripts for two different Yahoo leagues. I actually don’t think I’ve made a post about that, although I may have explained it in emails and comments. In Firefox, just go to Tools – Greasemonkey – Manage User Scripts and click Edit for the script you want to change.

In whatever text editor (e.g. Notepad) that pops up, you should see a line near the top like this:

@include        http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/*

Change that line to include your league ID:

@include        http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/000000/*

…where 000000 is your numeric league id. (It should be the same as the URL to your league homepage.) Make sure you keep the “*” at the end. Save the file and close, and the script should only apply to that particular league. Repeat those steps for the scripts for your other Yahoo leagues as well.

The process is similar for CBSSports and ESPN. On CBSSports the include line will be something like:

@include        *leaguename.baseball.cbssports.com/*

…where leaguename is the name of your league. (Once again, it should match the URL of your league homepage.)

ESPN will be this:

@include        http://games.espn.go.com/flb/*leagueId=00000*

I’ll be happy to explain more in the comments if anyone has questions about this.

UPDATE 02/18: The ESPN script is now working. I’m still adding IDs for some minor players, but anyone who is fantasy-relevant should show up.

I just got a heads-up that the Greasemonkey script for ESPN is currently out-of-order.

ESPN switched around all of their player IDs, which broke the script that inserts dollar values onto their league pages.

I’ll need to update the IDs for a thousand or so players to get it back up and running. So if anyone happens to have already compiled a bunch of ESPN player IDs, I’d love to know about them.

I’ll let you know when everything is fixed.