r/fantasyfootballcoding

Your Fantasy League Deserves Its Own Sports Network

Some of you might remember us from about a year ago.

I'm a commissioner, and like a lot of you, I've always believed the hardest part of running a league is keeping people engaged. The more everyone's into it, the more fun the whole thing is!

That's the problem I've been obsessed with enough to dedicate so much of my time and money for over a year now trying to solve. So many of us end up building league sites, writing newsletters, posting power rankings and trade breakdowns and draft grades just to keep the group chat alive. I've loved doing it...when I have the time, which unfortunately isn't always true.

For me, the draft grades are where this whole thing actually started. In my main league I used to write pick-by-pick reactions and full team grades every year, and my leaguemates loved them enough to bug me until I caved and did it again. I made spreadsheets to speed it up and it still took me hours. So I built a tool to do it. And then I couldn't stop thinking bigger. Why can't there be a platform to give your league its own media network? A place where I can easily create power rankings, draft grades, newsletters, and easily share them with my league? What about deep, beautiful history and analytics to go alongside it? What if we went even bigger? The NFL gets ESPN, live draft coverage, analysts, weekly recaps, all of it. Why doesn't your league get the same treatment?

That's The Fantasy Network. Your league gets its own site with its full history, a page you can make your own, and a media sports network with a reporter named Beakman who covers your league, just like the pros.

He grades your draft live as it happens. He reacts to your trades minutes after they post. He writes your recaps and power rankings, calls out your managers by name, and remembers what they did last season and the one before that.

We cover all league types and all formats! Dynasty, keeper, chopped, redraft. Have weird roster configurations? No problem. In some deep IDP league? That's covered too!

For those of you who saw our posts last year, got excited, signed up on the waitlist and DM'd us, first of all thank you! I already went through and made sure to message every single DM we've ever had personally. We wanted to fully launch last year, but it just wasn't going to be good enough, and we didn't want to just throw some generic AI slop out there, with a clunky & buggy app.

So we spent the last year grinding relentlessly, honestly, but it's real now, and invites will start going out over the next few weeks. I hope this launch tease video and our updated landing page give you all a taste of what we've been building.

The core of the platform is entirely free! Onboard your league, see your league's entire history, create your own articles for your league and customize it all! If you want the full blown media network experience and deep analytics then you can upgrade and try out what we have to offer.

This is not some Sleeper wrapper bolted onto ChatGPT. The stats are licensed, the NFL photography is licensed, and there's a lot of proprietary work going on underneath that we are genuinely proud of.

It's Sleeper right now, but we intend to support ESPN and Yahoo (pending API access approval) this season, with an iOS and Android app pending review over the next few weeks as well.

I'd love your honest feedback and ideas in the comments, or just DM us. And to everyone who signed up last year and waited this long, thank you for sticking with us. Let's finally get your league the coverage it deserves. <3

u/TheFantasyNetworkHQ — 5 days ago

Track your league median in real-time

Hello fellow fantasy football nerds.

If your league uses the median bonus win/loss and you want to see how everyone's tracking against the median live during the games, check out Smart Standings. It's free, and it gives your league a live standings page with median results updated in real-time, so you don't have to wait until Tuesday.

Happy to answer questions, have a nice day :)

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u/playsmarttechnology — 6 days ago

Fantasy Football Draft Assistant Android App

I built a free Android draft assistant app and need 12 people to join my closed beta test before I can publish it to the Play Store. All you have to do is click one opt-in link — that's it. No downloading anything sketchy, no surveys, just a tap.

**What the app does:**

• Live NFL injury reports and probability scores updated each round

• Smart pick recommendations based on your draft position and roster needs

• Snake, Linear, and Auction draft support

• Trade & cut likelihood meter with potential landing spots

• Fuzzy player search — finds players even with typos

• "Already Drafted" button instantly pulls up the next best option

• PPR, Half-PPR, and Standard scoring

• 100% free — no account, no login, no subscription

**To become a tester:**

  1. Comment below or DM me your Gmail address

  2. I'll add you and send you the opt-in link

  3. Click the link — done!

You don't have to actually use the app (though I'd love the feedback if you do). I just need 12 people opted in for 14 days to meet Google's requirements.

Appreciate any help — trying to get this live before draft season! 🏈

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u/2pianonymous — 7 days ago

Help with scraping Yahoo League History

Ive been manually tracking history for a few of my leagues in a spreadsheet. Been doing it for years. I’m now making a personal app (to share with my league) to have the same data. I now use Sleeper and already connected it but I was hoping to grab the daya from the first 8-9 seasons we had in Yahoo.

Is this still possible? I read about the new application process. Unsure if there is a different way? Otherwise, my only real option is to screenshot each page of each week of each league which sounds like a terrible time.

I’m not a coder nor do I plan on doing anything commercial with the app. Just replacing my current system (google sheets) with a better visually looking one.

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u/Sirpretzelz — 10 days ago
▲ 10 r/fantasyfootballcoding+3 crossposts

I've been commissioning the same league for 6 years and our group chat dies every year by week 7 and nobody sets their lineup - so me and a dev built something to try to fix it.

I've been commissioning the same league with my high school friends for 6 years. Same story every year. September hits, everyone's talking trash, the draft gets people fired up, and then somewhere around Week 7 it just dies. Half the guys stop setting their lineups. Nobody talks in the group chat. I'm texting people to remind them to make moves like I'm their babysitter.

Me and my dev friend started building League Desk. Every week it drops a front page story, committee power rankings, and manager specific stories written specifically about your league. Calls out managers by name, tracks rivalries, remembers bad decisions going back years. You can set how cruel the coverage gets.

Example story and full details at leaguedesk.io — first 50 commissioners get the first year completely free. Launching late July for preseason and draft coverage.

Sorry for delete and repost, had to fix a typo. Please comment with any questions!

u/Upper-Interaction468 — 12 days ago

A Companion App for Your Leagues (Sleepers and ESPN Supported)

Hi all! A while ago I posted about my free to use API on this subreddit, but I never posted the actual product.

League Logs is a free to use companion app (iOS and Android) for your fantasy leagues. It's an ever expanding mix of features but the highlights are:

  • weekly newsletter and feed
  • trade analysis/trade finder/etc tools
  • AI chat
  • roster value tracking (daily snapshot)
  • league and roster insights
  • player and pick values

Completely free to use other than some of the features of usage caps with an optional subscription to have unlimited use.

Would love any feedback or feature ideas. I'm seeing a lot of overlap with what all of us are working on, would be happy to compare notes.

u/Niloc_M — 9 days ago