[USML Announce] USML web site issues

[Richard Robbins]

Didn't FAAB last year require a fair amount of manual effort on Mark's part?
 
If we're able to handle trades and lineup changes on line with manual or
semi-manual processing of FAAB as in the past, how bad would that be?  I'm
trying to get a sense of how rough things were with FAAB last year from
Mark's perspective as compared to our old-old service as compared to what
CBS Sportsline offers.

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Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [USML Announce] USML web site issues


 
Greetings;
     It depends on how much Sportsline can be tweaked.  But if it comes down
to maintaining our current rules (especially FAAB) or modifying them to fit
Sportsline I'd vote for changing services - as long as it's not too much of
a hassle for the Commish.
   Rick

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From: "Blocker, Mark B." <mblocker at Sidley.com> 


League: 

  I have returned from my vacation in England to see that there are lots of
e-mails addressing many different items relating to roster entry and roster
moves.  I will try to address these over the next few days with Jeff's
assistance.  I scanned the e-mails quickly last night and one astute comment
that was made is that we were somewhat spoiled by our use of All Star Stats,
which can readily accommodate many different styles of playing roto, and was
easily able to adapt to our unique rules.  It appears that Sportsline is not
so readily adaptable.  This means we have two choices: we will either need
to (a) modify somewhat our current rules to make the far-less-expensive
Sportsline system work, or (b) abandon Sportsline and return to All Star
Stats (or something else).  I personally would prefer the former, but I am
interested in the views of others.  Also, I understand that this decision
could hinge on how many of t he cur rent problems we can fix over the next
few days, but let me know if you have specific views.

  I will be around today at work if anyone wants to chat about this. 

  -- Mark B. 



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