I love how you incorporated online poker design idioms into your interface. Did you talk about that in your initial pitch to YC or is that something you decided on later?
Will I be able to multi-table drafts? What's the official stance on bots? Just kidding. Halfway. This is a great idea and I hope you guys do well. Is there a friendly rivalry with Chris Fargis going on?
Yes, you can multi-table. Bots aren't really a worry in this, since you can already set a draft queue, and soon we'll have customizable rankings. We (and all other FS sites) basically have a bot built in for you.
I looked it up when the first information about the Summer YCs was available. Nevertheless, it seems very difficult to get into, so maybe a tutorial would be called for. I am really not the target audience, though, as I don't care one iota for spectator sports. Although I am interested in game theory and gambling, so who knows.
I'll definitely work on explaining it to people better.
One of my cofounders is absolutely crushing at fantasy football and rarely ever watches a game. It's more than anything looking at statistics and learning how they apply.
A lot of the sports leagues demand royalty from fantasy sports leagues. There have even been lawsuits over this as they believe it to be proprietary data. Are you guys paying them royalty?
Real good concept. Add a real money feature and i'd play.
another note , in your about us you say
"We're currently the only site offering live drafts all day every day throughout each sport's season. We offer short term, hands off leagues, so you won't be penalized if you can't login five times a day to manage teams. And we offer guaranteed cash prizes with a simple, easy to understand structure"
Im sure there are other sites. I think your game lobby is better than yours. I look forward to trying it when other players are on and its real $.
cheers.
I really like the design and the concept is quite clever. I think there's a definite niche here. However, I too am annoyed by the scrolling feedback bar, and my browser won't let me close it once it's opened.
Windows XP & Firefox 2. The Cancel button jumps in and out of view, but doesn't stay available long enough to click it. It works fine for me in IE though.
Actually it turns out it only occurs when I change my browser size away from maximized. It never allows me to scroll down far enough to see the buttons...
Cool idea - I was definitely looking for this two months back. I'm excited to see the type of stuff that you guys are adding to fantasy sports.
Maybe you could add some cool, weekly pickems, at least for football. I don't know anyone that plays basketball or hockey. I'd imagine football is way ahead for fantasy sports, and I don't think people will start fantasy football now.
"register in seconds" and the huge "play free now" button did a really good job of funneling me to the register page that I couldn't use because I don't have an invite code. I realized that I needed to request an invitation only after I had filled out 2/3rds of the registration form.
I like the design a lot. I find the fixed scrolling thing on the left disorienting. You've got a lot of extra room in the bar at the top; can you make the login box, the register link, and/pr the navbar links bigger?
I don't mind the feedback button scrolling, after all it's a beta site and it makes good sense to have the Feedback button jump out at people otherwise they'll never do it.
congrats on the launch - maybe its just me - but it took me a while to figure out what the site does - I don't think that info belongs in the FAQ section.
Design is clean - well done.
Again I'm not a big Fantasy player or online gamer but there are terms and language on the site (Draft lobby) that I simply did not know what they are referring to.
a short demo video, or "new to fantasy sports?" tab would be helpful. I guess I felt like I wanted to use the site but did not know what to do.
Flex is pretty awesome. We use it for the draft and lobby. The lobby we probably could get away with AJAX for in the future, but I'd dread using that for the draft.
Yes we have. It is legal in most states. We will post this info in our terms of service once the lawyers finish them up. States where it is not legal are still able to play in free games.
Certainly they fund some sites that don't go anywhere, but this site has a very clear potential for profit. It's the best one I've seen come out of YC in a while.
