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ken_admin (1666 posts)  8/18 8:45 AM

Welcome to Basketball Monster, and here’s what’s new for this season.  Some are ready now, and the remaining will be coming soon:

• Projection Ranges – based on analyst settings and the player’s historical variance, we’ll be generating high/low projections for each player.  These should be ready by the end of August.
• Updated Draft Monster – This was an experimental tool last season, and it’s back this year.  It uses the new Advanced Standings which are based on probabilities of winning categories over your opponents rather than just a simple better or worse rating.
• Matchup Monster – The new H2H tool which debuted towards the end of last season is back.  This will simplify your matchups, allowing you to select add/drops to improve the probability of winning your categories.
• Advanced ADP – Rather than rely on 3^rd party ADP, we’ll be generating our own.  We’ll also have multiple versions based on the more popular league settings.  This will give a more accurate idea of where players are drafted based on your exact settings.
• Advanced Ownership %: Like the Adv ADP, we’ll be creating unique versions of the ownership % for the more popular league settings. This will give a more accurate idea of player ownership based on your exact settings.
• Ottoneu Support – Thanks to their new API, we will be supporting importing and updating leagues during the season.  It sounds like they will expanding it further into roto standings/matchup imports and maybe even live draft results.
• Super Monster Monday Chat – Each Monday, for Super Monster members, Kyle will be hosting a 30-minute chat to help users set their weekly lineups and answer whatever else is asked.

As we add more new things, we’ll post alerts to the website.  If you have any suggestions, feel free to let us know in this post.

#211386 (9 posts)  8/18 8:55 AM

amazing work as always gentlemen

#257705  (5 posts)  8/18 8:49 PM

Love this guys! The projection ranges and advanced ADP will be very helpful as we prep for drafts. 

ken_admin (1666 posts)  8/21 10:16 AM

Also new: Analyst Draft Tags

https://basketballmonster.com/MessageTopic.aspx?topic=24072

Stirnholm  (5 posts)  8/22 4:00 AM

Hi Ken, everytime i want to use the draftmonster tool, it turns to the Authentication page after clicking "update Fantrax connection", but my fantrax sure is authorized. I also use the right fantrax ID in draftmonster...but it doesn´t work. Do you have any idea, what i am doing wrong?

Thank you for your work and Big UP!

ken_admin (1666 posts)  8/22 8:51 AM

I see FanTrax is listing all of your leagues so it seem to be authenticated correctly.  Which league is showing you this?

redair123  (4 posts)  8/23 11:05 AM

Is there a tutorial for connected Draft Monster to an NFBKC contest? I'm not sure how to connect to existing draft.

ken_admin (1666 posts)  8/23 11:30 AM

We cannot connect to their draft.  I believe they have a CSV export of rosters, and maybe that's updated during the draft?

rsimon11  (71 posts)  8/23 2:28 PM

But under Draft Monster it shows a link to the NFBKC - I thought that was something new you added this season.

ken_admin (1666 posts)  8/23 2:59 PM

Yes, that's a bit misleading, and I'll give it a look.

rsimon11  (71 posts)  8/23 3:03 PM

That's too bad! I only play on NFBKC and I was so excited to see that!

ggg (4 posts)  9/7 7:50 AM

Is the "Advanced ADP" already available?

ken_admin (1666 posts)  9/7 8:13 AM

We probably won't get useful ADP for a while yet, probably closer to the end of the month.  We'll start gathering before then so maybe we'll have enough sooner,.

ggg (4 posts)  9/7 8:20 AM

Thanks for the response. Will the ADP include dollars as well?

ken_admin (1666 posts)  9/7 8:22 AM

We can give that a look too.  I imagine there will be less data to view but hopefully enough to be helpful.

ggg (4 posts)  9/7 8:25 AM

All competitive leagues I know are moving to Auction so that will be helpful. Thank you

buttsy00 (26 posts)  9/9 7:28 AM

Are the new Projection Ranges out now and if they are, how can I see them?

ken_admin (1666 posts)  9/9 8:31 AM

We're still working on these, and sorry for the delay.  I would expect something within the next week.  For now, they'll be displayed on each player's profile page and then on projections.

ggg (4 posts)  10/3 5:43 AM

@ken_admin - any updates on the "Advanced ADP"?

ken_admin (1666 posts)  10/3 6:07 AM

We should have enough drafts after this weekend so early next week.  It should improve the closer we get to the season.

maxsulli  (11 posts)  10/3 9:37 AM

Very specific question for advanced ADP - for custom scoring auction leagues is there a way to get info on Average Draft Prices for players on those across leagues with similar scoring systems? I don't even know how it could be done but figured I would ask