Custom Teams Feature Updated
The new Custom Teams feature will replace the My Team and My Projections feature and now have the ability to create as many different team lists as you’d like, all while utilizing the existing leaderboards and projection pages.
If you’ve been using the old My Teams feature, your team will already appear in your custom team list as “My Team”.
To get to your team once it’s created, just click on the Leaders or Projections link.
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
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I’m unable to edit, look at leaders or projections once my team is created. I keep getting:
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Thank you for your patience.
Is the feature fully functional right now?
This should be corrected now, please let me know if you run into any other issues.
I’m a new user and I’m getting the same error when I try to use the Edit feature.
Your lists should be working now. There were a few other people’s lists that were broken too. Hopefully that’s it for the bugs.
This is excellent. Much thanks.
I was using the “My Team” feature last year until the link disappeared and I could no longer find my team. Today I named a new team and made a list of players. When I clicked on the “leaders” link in an attempt to get some stats, I was taken to my 2011 team. The new team seems to be gone now. I’m probably the only one who wasn’t born with an instinctive understanding of how these things work, but just in case I’m not alone, some instruction would be nice.
It looks like you only have the one team currently, which is your team from last year.
Once you finish entering in all the players, click the “create custom player list” button. Then your new team will appear in the list on the right and you can then click the “leaders” or “prjojections” button.
Maybe it’s me doing something wrong, but is there a way to add players to your custom team without making a new one all the time? Is it the same as the custom reports?
Yes, it’s the same as custom report in that it creates a new one every time instead of overwriting. This was intentional, so you can easily create many iterations of your team. You can always delete the previous version if you no longer want to see it.
If it ends up being a big pain for a lot of people, I can look into making them overwrite if you name your team the same. I was just worried about people accidentally overwriting their team.
No worries, I was just making sure I was doing it right. Thanks!
Thanks for all the work you do on this site. It’s amazing stuff!
My preference, if it means anything, is that I would like to have my team overwrite when I make a change. Creating a new team each time seems a bit more cumbersome. I’m curious whether I’m in the minority, or if I speak for many others.
In terms of creating a new team each time, just making sure you’re aware that there’s the edit button that doesn’t make it so you have to completely re-enter your team each time.
What if there was a collapsible “edits” feature where it only showed the most recent version of your team by default, and then you could click to see all the previous versions of that team?
Well, however you guys do it, I’ll go with the flow. But I did like how player addition/removal was with the old My Team structure. It seemed simpler. And, yes thanks, I did know that I wouldn’t need to re-enter my entire team. I guess I can simply adjust to the new format and move on. I’ll get used to it. Thanks!!!
Sorry Dark Overlord, I only just saw this. Drop down would be a nice solution.
Thanks! I was viewing old stats (leaders) and wondered if it was possible to split season by first and second half of the year, or before and after all star break.
This is awesome! Is there any way to add totals for the whole team at the bottom?
Is there a way to turn Pitchers OFF but have all other positions on in the Batting area?
I can’t add one player to my roster without creating an entirely new team in the process. Is there a way to update and edit a team? Of note, I am clicking on “edit” and adding the player to the list. If I then hit “create custom player list” it creates an entirely new team, which seems redundant when I’m just adding one player and subtracting another.
I am having a hard time with this as well. I want to update a roster by adding and subtracting some players and it did not seem to work. I kept trying to use edit and the deleting players but they kept showing up in the leader boards and then back on the roster. I ended up deleting the team to start over..added a player and saved…and now can not add or subtract other players.
Help! Thanks!
When you edit a team and then re-save it, it does not overwrite the old team, but creates a new one. I will change this as obviously there is some confusion here.
OK…took me a while but I think I got it now!