Starting 2013

I just sent out the invite to the league for 2013. First, I congratulated the winners of 2013, then I used doodle.com to find out the best time for us 10 guys to get together for a 'rules call'. There's a lot to discuss in that call, we need to talk about doing our first auction draft in baseball, plus points in football, I think we should drop bowl games from our 4 sports... It seems that football points are ridiculously perfect as we had a 6 way tie for first place going into the playoffs! I've been listening to sirius xm fantasy sports talk almost every day and they're starting to talk about baseball - so its about time to decide on a strategy! I'm just listening to player by player strategy at this point...

Baseball soon

I'm starting to think about baseball. But first, one of our long time players politely backed out of the league. We have at least 3 potential backfills- two pros that want to co-manage, a big baseball fan that hasn't played fantasy baseball and a neighbor that hasn't played in awhile. Leaning towards the co-managed team, not sure if I can just make that decision or if I need to check with the rest of the league first.

Regarding baseball prep, I'm listening to xm fantasy sports and following everyone on twitter. The players' names are coming back to me quickly :) excited to play!

Scenario Generator for Bowl Pick em

I had built a excel file that could run all possible scenarios for our fantasy bowl predictions. In ESPN they require all picks to be done before the first game, but in yahoo, you can make changes for any game right up to game time.

Now I'm thinking about re-writing the scenario generator to go through all possibilities without even knowing who each person chose to win the game and how many confidence points they assigned to each game. Could be interesting...

College Football Bowl Pick 'em

One of the four fantasy sports in the Ultimate Fantasy League is College Football Bowl Pick 'em.

My strategy was quite simple this year, I googled "college football bowl lines and computer projections". I glanced at the first couple hits until I found I site that looked trustworthy and similar to how I might predict them in my head.

Our UFL rules require each person to pick the winner of the game and put a number of "confidence points" on each winner. I ordered the confidence points based on the spread, so for example, the game with the highest spread was my highest confidence pick (worth the most points). I picked several upsets based on computer projections and the little college football I watched over the season.

So far so good, I've only missed one game of 7 so far - the one I missed was worth about 20 points though...

Mobile

I'm testing a post from my phone with the "blogger" app. I'm thinking about how I rarely use a browser to look at my fantasy teams, I usually use the yahoo apps. I wonder what should be added to the apps to have all the same functionality as the browser? Maybe better filters and news?

Welcome to Ultimate Fantasy Tips

Back in 2006, several people that had been playing fantasy sports for many years decided to combine 3 sports into a single "Ultimate Fantasy League". UFL was born and has been going strong for at least 6 years. We've been learning from each other and getting better and better at fantasy, so this is our little blog to share our thoughts in the hopes of not only making our league better - but all fantasy leagues better each and every season. Here's our site with some news and stats: http://www.hovellcreative.com/ufl/