any chance of having this by the us open? :) - I know it's probably a "no", but can't help but be excited about the possibilities! :)

please do!

What's the ETA on that? PGA is live at Fanduel this week.

Just wanted to say, I see that this has been added, and I am using it, and it is such a really nice little minor convenience!

Thanks!

Not trying to pile on, but I've been affected directly by both outages recently. I noticed it was slow tonight before it stopped. This time the entire site crashed pretty much during the crunch time.

I've developed my own offline tools for optimizing fanduel NBA lineups and thankfully had that to fall back on ... haven't developed it to the point where I can as gracefully lock/exclude as i can on FC, and I like being able to quickly interface with the game logs, etc. on FC ... but ... gosh ...

It's hard to pay money for something that ends up costing us EV .... ever? I mean. It is a tough business. If you are going to run a business like this the product can NEVER fail. I don't have as much on the line as guys like larry but that's really insignificant - it's the principle of it. Before the product is put out for sale, this needs to be ridiculously over-the-top as secure as it could ever be, with backups on backups.

It's not life or death, and honestly, the other services I've used have had worse problems - I still maintain that just because the other services fail more often, that does not make it acceptable for anyone to ever charge for a system that we become 100% reliant on (face it - if you've got 100 reservations and 20 minutes to figure it out, you're screwed. I think most of us that multi-enter every day take reservations banking on the fact that this product will work. When it doesn't, we are in an extremely compromised situation and ... like I said ... it is kind of insane to pay money for something that ends up losing us money (or EV, however you want to look at it).).

If it's not reliable I'd rather change my strategies and not end up with a bunch of reservations that I have to scramble to fill. I consider myself lucky to have had an offline replacement. Last time this happened, I couldn't say that. I know almost nobody else can. We are 110% reliant on this product and if that's not something that should be smart to do - please let us know.

It's tough because we had a problem, it was deliberately and swiftly "fixed" ... except ... not really. I'd rather you say 'listen its not going to work for x-days and after that it will be robust enough to handle all of our new subscribers, and then some, FOR SURE."

My two cents.

-Sean

Hey Tai,

I play on fanduel and my problems weren't related to exporting, they were related to importing custom projections.

Also, the issues I had only occurred during high traffic times - so me testing things throughout the day will have no bearing on whether they work when the volume is ramped up before lock.

In any case, I appreciate the honesty about some of the technical limitations that are being faced in the transition. The last word was for Tuesday, and it's not Tuesday yet, so -

I will play accordingly tonight, but look forward to having full confidence once again in the performance under heavy traffic ...

I understand what I asked was a difficult question to answer - nobody can predict the future. So thanks for the reply! I was just looking for the most information on which to base my decisions, so, this helps.

I'll give it a run tonight and let you know if I have any problems, but I'll keep the number of reservations to an amount that I can handle with a plan B, and just knowing that there could be a potential issue is very helpful - I will say that when this happened on Friday, I was convinced that it must have been an issue on my end and wasted a lot of time trying to resolve a browser or OS-related issue that didn't exist ... but I did that because I've never had a problem before even in high-traffic time periods.

I'll let you know if there's any issues! ;)

Now that you mention it, I had some slight issues loading projections on 11/12 but everything went through fine, problem also occurred around the same time you mentioned (right before lock, 30 mins leading up to).

Just some sluggishness I hadn't seen before and it would only load part of the projections, had to remove all and reload once or twice and it was fine, didn't think much of it.

Tonight, same problem, except server errors mixed in, sluggishness ... basically the same thing - totally unable to load projections, I stopped trying at about 6:56 and scrambled to make a lineup by hand to submit over top of the few dozen GPP reservations I had (intended to be multiple lineups) .... really a total disaster.

I could run an optimization based on the FC projections seemingly as fine as normal but the major problems came in when trying to upload my own projections. So it's on that end.

I don't know what to say. Feeling pretty burned up right now. This was for FanDuel NBA.

Never had any issues at all up until today (technically yesterday but that was pretty tolerable, just a minor inconvenience. This cost me a ton of EV on a Friday night ...) ...

Well I know that dissenting opinions will not likely be very politically correct in this forum ...

But has anyone used FC and another service, like say a basketballmonster, and done any comparisons? Do we think that FC has sharper projections than BM? And if so, what's making them so?

I've heard it said by the powers that be that the site is best used as a tool, and we're not necessarily paying for the default projections, but for the tool. And that is fine. I make my own projections. BUT I like to compare from as many different sharp sets as possible and have a little bit of knowledge about which have been the sharpest, and also in some areas. Like for example one service could be the best at predicting minutes but another service has sharper performance projections, if that makes any sense?

Any thoughts on past experiences are greatly appreciated, especially beyond "I used ____ service during ___ time and did (good/bad)" ...

That's good stuff crash!

For the record though numberfire in my experience is a total garbage proj, for all the sports I've ever looked at. And rotowire not far behind.

The eye test tells me that these have more logic in them than those setups.

Like I said I'm not looking for the answer to be "yes these projs are a one-stop shop for all your lineup needs" I'm just wanting to know more about them, so I can decide what the strengths and weaknesses currently are- and maybe even help to improve them!

LOL I just noticed I said NHL in the headline, and PGA in the body.

I guess actually, the same questions apply for both sets. But I already have my own projections for PGA, that is more of a curiosity.

The NHL one I'm curious as to what some of the inputs are, so I can better use the house projections - OR - know which parts I will lean on less heavily than others, that type of thing ...

And I agree if you're already pulling line data, I assume your source also has the powerplay lines, would be nice to have that displayed as well, if they are on a powerplay unit and whether it's 1 or 2, right there on the sheet ...... as was already suggested but these are two of the first things that jumped out at me, as well!