SubscribeHaving unveiled in-season fantasy dollar values, I’m ready to reveal my latest project — Price Guide values on your league homepage.
The screenshots below are Price Guide values inserted into one of Yahoo’s expert fantasy leagues – the Friends and Family League. The values are customized for the settings of this exact league (14 teams, 1 catcher, 2 Util).
Here’s the pitching staff for Brad Evans, currently in last place:
Some free agents:
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It’s all done through the magic of the Firefox plugin Greasemonkey, and it is completely customizable for your specific league settings.
If you have Greasemonkey installed and are at least mildly comfortable editing scripts, you can try out the Yahoo league version for yourself. All you should have to do is replace the Price Guide URL in the script with the URL for your league.
Suggestions are welcome. Once everything is polished up I’ll see about putting it out on UserScripts.org.
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Thanks for this tool. I tried it out on my custom league and it worked great. What is the string to get 2009 projected values instead of YTD? I see that it’s 09S for YTD 09 stats.
Right now it only works with the year-to-date. Yahoo uses a 4-digit ID to identify players, and I haven’t ID’ed players in the projections.
Very, very cool.
Just fantastic.
Great idea, and well done!
You got one for ESPN yet?
@Ron: I’ve got one working for AllStarStats (easy, because they use the same IDs as Yahoo).
My next priority is CBS, and then probably ESPN. The biggest challenge is matching up the IDs from each of the websites… If someone knows of a source or has some free time, let me know.
“The values are customized for the settings of this exact league (14 teams, 1 catcher, 2 Util).”
How do I customize it for my league?
@Joe: Enter your league settings in the Price Guide, and you should see links at the top of the results. Those links are Greasemonkey scripts that are customized for your league.
The Yahoo version seems to be broken for multiple leagues. The default http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/*
works fine but when you replace it with a unique address http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/12345 (where 12345 is the league number), it doesn’t work. I was trying to create unique scripts for each of my very different leagues. Thanks!
@Mike: I’m not having any trouble setting up multiple leagues as long as I use this:
http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/12345/*
You might just need the asterisk on the end for it to work.
The “/*” at the end was the needed addition. Works great! Thank you.