Kilg.us – Fantasy Stat Tracker …Tracker

The Fantasy Stat Tracker is my new side project. I just started development on Saturday, April 26. This project was borne of my personal frugality. I’m too cheap to pay $10 for the StatTracker® from Yahoo! on my fantasy baseball league. Instead I’m going to do the only logical thing: spend way more than $10 worth of my personal time building my own fantasy baseball stat tracker. I hope to keep a running commentary on the progress of the development of the Fantasy Stat Tracker here on this blog. While I have some vague ideas of where the project may go, it has no firm direction. At this point I am simply building an application that will let me personally track statistics for my fantasy baseball league.

Current Status

The current status of the Fantasy Stat Tracker is as follows:

• You (read: “I”) can log into the application;
• If you have multiple teams created in the application, you can select the team to view;
• If you have a single team, all you can do is view your team;
• When viewing a team, you will see up-to-the-minute statistics for each player’s day’s and season’s performance;
• When viewing a team, you will see combined statistics for all player’s daily performance;
• When viewing a team, you can identify players that are riding the pine that day and their statistics will not be included in the team’s combination;
• The application displays at-bats, runs, hits, doubles, triples, homeruns, RBI, stolen bases, caught stealing, net stolen bases, walks, strikeouts, and estimated batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage for batters;
• For pitchers, the application displays wins, losses, saves, innings pitched, hits, earned runs, runs, walks, strikeouts, homeruns allowed, and estimated ERA, WHIP, strikeouts per 9 and walks per 9;
• The applications only displays wins and losses for the season–not for each day–for pitchers;
• The applications doesn’t know how to properly add fractions of innings
• The application has virtually no visual design.

Future Goals

My immediate goals for the Fantasy Stat Tracker include:

• Develop functionality to create user accounts;
• Develop functionality to create teams of players to track;
• Automatically load in MLB players;
• Create a visual theme and apply to the site and this blog;
• Make the application available for others to use.

Beyond those goals, I’m trying to build a stat tracker that will beneficial to me. Hopefully that will mean it could be beneficial to others.

Public Use

If I get this application to the point it is ready for public use, I hope to be able to make it available free of charge. As I said earlier, I’m too cheap to pay for a stat tracker. How can I expect anyone else not to be? That being said, if we end up having more than a few like-minded baseball nuts sign-up and I need to look at robust hosting to handle the load, I’ll have to respond accordingly. Of course, as you can see from the Current Status above, we’re a long way from public consumption!

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Well, it is the middle of the night and it was my random awakening that inspired this blog and my initial post. I think I’ve said enough for one night. As the Fantasy Stat Tracker develops, I’ll post updates to this blog.

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