Draft Buddy 2014: Version 1.0, Projections: 9/2

[Mike FF Today 721]

• Draft Buddy - Here we go for year #14 of the DB!

The Draft Buddy is Excel-based and allows you to create customized cheatsheets for all your leagues and functions also a Draft tracker and manager. You can view screenshots of the program here.

 

System Requirements: The DB program requires a version of Microsoft Excel in order to function. The benefit of Excel is that Draft Buddy is both Windows and Mac compatible, with one exception - Microsoft lost their heads a few years ago and stripped out vital code making the DB incompatible with Mac Office 2008. The good news is, the DB does work with all other versions of Mac Office, including Mac Office 2011.

 

Purchase Info: You may make your purchase with your credit card through Paypal, or by check/money order. Order here Please make sure you are logged in with your FF Today Account BEFORE you make your purchase. It will make the purchase process much easier for you.

 

Login Help: If you have any trouble logging in after your purchase to download the Draft Buddy, please send us an email and we will assist you ASAP.

 

Product Support: Mike MacGregor and Mike Krueger will be offering tech support here at this board or you can send us an email if you have any questions. We will be happy to help!

 

As we've done in the past our Early Bird Price is $12.95 through July 31st ($16.95 after). Your purchase will entitle you to product updates through the start of the regular season (9/7) and get you one free entry into our $2500 DB Survivor Contest.

 

Here's our tentative schedule for projection updates. Unscheduled updates will also occur. Rest assured, we'll be on top of everything.

 

6/8 - Initial release

6/19 - Done

6/26 - Done

7/3 - Done

7/10 - Done

7/17 - Done

7/24 - Done

7/31 - Done

8/7 - Done

8/14 - Done

8/21 - Done

8/25 - Welker concussion, Bradford ACL - Done

8/28 - Done

9/2 - Done

Remember, you don't need to download a new copy of the DB for the projection updates. If you've already purchased the DB...

 

1. Open up the Draft Buddy

2. Click the "action" tab

3. Click the "Update Projections" button

4. Enjoy!

 

Draft Buddy

 

 

We welcome your feedback on the 2014 version of Draft Buddy in this thread but if you have specific problem or question please start a new thread and we'll be able to respond in a more timely manner. Thanks and happy drafting!

 

MK

[Mike MacGregor 20]

Welcome back everyone!

 

First regularly scheduled projection update is ready as of now. Open your copy of Draft Buddy, go to the action tab and click the Update Projections button. This will update projections, ADP and depth charts.

[Mike MacGregor 20]

June 26th update is ready to roll! Looks like MK has Randall Cobb moving up, Joe Flacco moving down, Knowshon Moreno moving down, Jordan Matthews moving up. Not a lot of changes (for not a lot of news in the last week), but you are all set with latest projections, depth charts and ADP.

[Mike MacGregor 20]

7/3 update is in the books. Not a lot of changes with the lack of news, but a few tweaks throughout, plus ADP and depth charts updated.

[Mike MacGregor 20]

Not a lot of news but our 7/10 update saw a few tweaks to get us all ready and updated before training camps get rolling soon. Go to the action tab and click Update Projections.

[Mike MacGregor 20]

Not a lot of news = not much to update, but we are updated (projections, ADP, depth charts) as of 7/17, just in time for training camps that start NEXT WEEK! Woot!

[Mike MacGregor 20]

A little late today, thanks to Sidney Rice, Ray Rice, and more relevant news in the past 24 hours than we've seen in 2 weeks, but we are all up to date - projections, depth charts and ADP. Cheers!

[Mike MacGregor 20]

Busy morning already! 7/31 update is in the house - projections, depth charts and ADP all updated. The latest and greatest as a result of training camp news.

[Mike MacGregor 20]

8/7 update is done, just in time for preseason to get going, tonight! (Ignoring the HOF game.) Open Draft Buddy, go to the action tab and hit Update Projections*.

 

* If you've already input keepers or draft picks or draft pick trades or a custom draft order (anything you changed on auction or draft report tabs), make sure to change the reset options on the action tab to "no" before Compiling Cheatsheets.

[cmh6476 1,010]

sweet

[Mike MacGregor 20]

Who is drafting this weekend? 8/14 update is ready!

[Chad32676 0]

Hey guys, Ive be a loyal customer for years. I live and die by your rankings and draft buddy every year. This is the first time Ive ever been baffled. Can you please help me out with this. In a ppr league, your overall rankings have Gerhart up at 8, Lacy way down at 15 and Jimmy Graham at 26. As I said, I always trust your rankings over any other site, but these seem to be way off. If you could explain, Id aprreciate it. Thanks.

[Mike MacGregor 20]

Hi Chad. Thanks for the kind words!

 

I think what you are seeing is a combination of the projections from MK, and the settings. In terms of projections Gerhart is higher than most places. Lacy is also projected lower than consensus. I think Graham is pretty much in line with usual expectations (as in, very good).

 

Lets look at your settings. What is your starting lineup and backup set up on the rules tab? I opened Buddy, changed scoring to PPR and set the starters as QB = 1, RB = 2, WR = 3, TE = 1 and no flex, 12 teams, and I got quite different results with respect to Graham. As follows:

 

Graham 7th

Gerhart 12th

Lacy 27th

 

Let me know what your settings are at and we'll figure this out. Also make sure to check the PPR scoring is set for WR and TE.

[Chad32676 0]

I uploaded my settings right from my custom scoring that I have here on the site. Its PPR, QB = 1, RB = 2, WR = 3, TE = 1 and no flex, 12 teams. Graham seems to be the major issue. I do have PPR set, not sure what Im missing. Should I just start from scratch?

[Mike MacGregor 20]

You can email me your copy of Draft Buddy and I'll take a look. Compiler@fftoday.com

[Chad32676 0]

Thanks Mike, its coming.

[Kyslick 0]

I'm having similar concerns. I have added my 1pt PPR scoring rules into draft buddy but I'm more than a little concerned by some of the rankings. Gio at #8 overall ahead of Calvin, dez, etc...gerhart at #11, while Eddie lacy at #19. I do lots of research on my own and have played for 20 years. I have Lacy at #5 overall. Prob won't consider gerhart till rd 4. I've used DB for 3 or 4 years and like to rely on it for reference after the first few rounds, but I'm a little concerned that the payer rankings/projections are way off base. I understand that gerhart has tremendous potential but he's unproven on a terrible offense. Arian foster at #17 overall? He's also ahead of lacy, dez, AJ, Marshall. Julio is at 15 overall, second only to Calvin at WR? I've triple checked my settings and have updated a number of times. Maybe we are just that far off on how we evaluate players, but I'm not feeling it guys. Any insight is appreciated; hopefully I'm doing something wrong.

[Mike MacGregor 20]

Chad and I worked out his questions via email, which is why I didn't respond back to his last post. That was more a settings thing, but in your case Kyslick I believe it is more the projections included in Draft Buddy that don't jive with your thoughts on certain players. I have some difference of opinion myself, such as Gerhart and Lacy. Note, Mike Krueger does the projections, in case you weren't aware.

 

One thing you can do is copy the FF Today projections over to the blank Site B section in Draft Buddy for each position tab, and then adjust the projections as you see fit. Change the default allocation key on the options tab to 100% Site B (your projections) and hit Compile Cheatsheets, and the cheatsheets will generate off of that.

Another option is to manually adjust the rankings after compiling cheatsheets. You may want to do that after the last update prior to your draft, as compiling again will wipe out your changes.

 

If you are looking for insight as to why certain players are ranked / projected where they are, then I would direct you to the fftoday.com website to look at the change logs from MK, and the player outlooks included on the detailed rankings pages and player pages.

 

Cheers.

[Mike MacGregor 20]

8/21 update is up! Updated projections, depth charts and ADP, all in time for start of Week 3 preseason and many a fantasy draft this weekend (including me, Saturday night). Where is the "two running backs smoking some weed" emoticon? This will have to do…

 

 

and for Steelers fans:

 

[Mike MacGregor 20]

An unscheduled update! 8/25 - as a result of the Welker concussion and Bradford ACL out for the year news

 

Hit Update Projections (action tab) for new projections, depth charts and ADP.

[Mike MacGregor 20]

Next to last schedule update is ready! 8/28 - updated projections, depth and ADP. Big move: Jamaal Charles dropped from #1 to #2. Chiefs fans are concerned about that OL. Eagles fans are

[Mike MacGregor 20]

9/2 update is ready! The Saints still don't have a kicker, but I think we've otherwise figured out the kicker roulette. Derek Carr moves up to #1 in Oakland. Gronk is set to play Week 1. Week 1 is here! Woo!