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| Friday Website Downtime |
1:32 AM ET on 7/4/15 by Jay Soester |
Let me begin by apologizing for the website downtime on Friday. It was down for somewhere around eight hours.
I've honored all picks that were emailed to me. I've credited those who would normally make a pick in MLB Day-to-Day Pickem with a pass for Friday if they did not make a pick. There didn't seem to be any issues in CFL Pickem. If you need to make a pick and the website isn't cooperating at any point in time, you can always email your pick to commish@theasfl.com.
Why was the website down?
The hosting company created a technical ticket for me on June 29th out of the blue saying there was a folder with too many files in it. A fairly reasonable request, but the folder and files were created over five years ago when I was a beta tester for OOTP9 & OOTPX, I had no reason to expect any issue. It's not the first time they've made a request for me to change something about the website and I'm sure it won't be the last. The server for this website is shared among many websites and the hosting company felt the size of the folder was degrading the server's performance in this instance.
When the hosting company creates technical tickets, their system automatically sends an email. Unfortunately, I've been having issues with the means I typically access the email address they sent the ticket to for the past week. That rendered me completely unaware of the issue until the website was down. As soon as I saw the issue, I rectified it and notified them of the fix. The hosting company told me the website would be back up within an hour or at worst in a few hours. I followed up with three every other hour from that point for six hours until the website came back around 6:20 PM ET, over eight hours after I fixed the issue.
You can also follow updates whenever the site is down via @asfl2 on Twitter. Hopefully that will be increasingly rare going forward.
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| Malware Warnings |
11:07 PM ET on 7/27/14 by Jay Soester |
I've been working for a few days to get the Malware warnings from Firefox and Chrome to be resolved.
There are ways to get around the warnings:
Chrome:
1) Click the "Advanced" link next to the "Go Back" Button.
2) Click "Proceed at your own risk"
FireFox:
1) Click "ignore this warning" in the bottom right of the alert box.
The issue is caused by the ad network on the website (Smowtion). Unfortunately, they seem to bee on the verge of going under and haven't been much help. I've been removing the ads page-by-page as best I can and will continue to do so. Please do not click on any ad that looks remotely suspicious.
I apologize for the issue and would like to reiterate that I would never knowingly put forth malware. This website is solely designed for fantasy sports, sports talk and community discussion. I have no intention of developing or releasing any sort of software at this time.
I'm currently appealing the distinction with google. Once it is overturned, the warnings should disappear entirely.
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| NHL Playoffs Pickem Available |
10:44 AM ET on 4/30/13 by Jay Soester |
NHL Playoffs Pickem will also be run through the league message board. Follow the template in the first post of the thread. The deadline for entries is 8 PM ET tonight. I apologize for the delay in the announcement.
Don't forget that the second round sees the advancing teams reseeded to where the highest remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed in each conference.
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| Newsletter #22 Available |
3:12 AM ET on 3/20/13 by Jay Soester |
Newsletter #22 is now available. It covers the the eight games available, league survey, Money Leagues NCAA Tournament Pickem and updating game results. Please use this thread or email me with any questions about the newsletter.
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| Newsletter #21 |
3:55 AM ET on 1/5/13 by Jay Soester |
Newsletter #21 is now available. It covers the new league survey, the six games available, our first Super Bowl Pools, updating game results, and it has an update about the NHL lockout situation. Please use this thread or with any questions about the newsletter.
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| Happy Fifth Anniversary |
11:56 PM ET on 11/14/12 by Jay Soester |
You may have noticed that I'm listed in the "Happy Anniversary" box on the right side of the page.
On this day five years ago, I began work on creating a league that had been bouncing around in my head for a few months after having to give up on the ABL due to time constraints. My idea was designed to not require as much time, but potentially involve as many people. I originally got into crappy geocities website making with themed fantasy leagues across the draft sports. I was going to return to that and include every game Yahoo! offered. After consulting with those who used the website in the past I decided to run with the idea. A sign up form was together by the end of the day, rules sorted out within the next few days and unofficial games ready within two weeks. I'm sure most I consulted didn't realize the extent to which I meant "all" at the time.
I soon realized I could add to the list of games by including games on the league message board (the Standings & Playoffs Pickem games) in an effort to get people to use the league website more regularly than just to check the game and overall standings. After a few seasons, I realized in order to make anything out of the league I was going to have to move every game onto the website from Yahoo! and after figuring out the language I need to learn to make that possible, I've been working at it ever since.
Last season I had this to say in the anniversary article, "The website has improved exponentially each season from that point forward. I hope to continue that trend through the next four years with all games on the website within the next 5-10." I have a hard time believing that first sentence continued this past season. Beyond College Football Pickem, CFL Pickem & and a method to make it easier to keep bonus points updated behind the scenes (which I've been trying to find the time to fix the front end of for months now), there hasn't been much progress too much progress.
The lack of progress was mostly due to an unforeseen series of events in my personal life leading to the Help Needed thread. On top of what was originally posted, I've since come back from a weekend attending a wedding with my ex in the greater NYC area (as joyous as it sounds) to discover I was burglarized, with my laptop being the primary item taken. I also had about $10,000 conned out of my be a family member who used his father's death and funeral as the ruse to get the money. And lastly, I've seen my aunt taken a turn for the worse in the last month, though she has bounced back some in the last week or so. All of that has taken up time I otherwise needed to work on new features or money I could have used to invest in some improvements and/or someone to help carry the workload. I've had to take up a lot of overtime in my day job (which, oddly enough, today is the one year anniversary of) to help try to recover some of the money that was taken until I can otherwise receive it, which may not happen for months yet if not longer.
While my ultimate goals for the league haven't changed, the timetable may have to. Once I've earned back a decent chunk of the money that was stolen, I hope to register the website as a company of some kind. From there, I hope to be able to hire and/or invest. Currently, I'm lucky if the league breaks even from month-to-month as the ad revenue has steadily decreased and was never much to begin with (an average of about $5/month last year) and I don't have the time to invest in putting together Money Leagues for the draft games. As a result, I may look into beginning to charge membership fees as early as the 2014-2015 season (two from now and beginning 13.5 months from now, at the earliest). It wouldn't be much ($5, $10 at most until all games are on the website), could be alleviated by earning bonus points (X amount would be worth $Y off your membership fee), would vary by the amount of games you participate in (including a free level), and would result in concrete prizes for overall rank and/or Champions League result.
I hope to put together a league survey closer to the start of the new season covering everything from potential membership fees to improving games already on the website to thoughts on moving games to the website that are still on Yahoo! and to improving activity across the league.
Thanks to everyone participating, without you we couldn't have made it this far.
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| Fantasy Olympics Available |
9:30 PM ET on 7/11/12 by Jay Soester |
Matthew Hardman has stepped up and volunteered to run a Fantasy Olympics game on the league message board. The game covers the team sports in the London Olympics as well as predicting the overall medal count.
Entries are officially due by 3 AM ET on Saturday, July 28th with the tip-off of China vs the Czech Republic in Women's Basketball, but the deadline for women's soccer is 10 AM ET on July 25th and the deadline for men's soccer is 8:30 AM ET on July 26th (the first game for each kicks off at the respective time).
Bonus points will be awarded to all that participate with the amount given dictated in part by the number of participants.
If you have any questions, reply to the game thread.
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