Fantrax & Google Sheets (Re: Weekly Lineups)
PostedCOLON Sun Oct 10, 2021 8:22 am
I just want to make sure everyone fully understands this particular part of the new sheet design and how it benefits you. I fully acknowledge that having Google sheets and using Fantrax is a redundancy but Fantrax can only do so much for us. It can't track everything that we need to know.
In recent years, I implemented an option to reuse your previous week's lineup that you entered in your sheet. It was meant to be a shortcut so you don't have to go through the act of re-entering the exact same names on your sheet from the week before when you didn't make a roster move and you had no plans in using different players.
The downside was that if anyone didn't fill out their weekly sheets, there was no way to monitor or confirm the lineup used in Fantrax was actually legal. The entire point of the Google sheet is a way to validate your lineup. Filling out your lineup in Google isn't meant to be a requirement but having a legal lineup is.
To best explain this new checkbox option, I'm collecting a weekly report from Fantrax detailing the current rosters and how everyone has filled out their lineups.
https://www.fantrax.com/fantasy/league/ ... =ALL_TAKEN
If a player is in your lineup, they'll be "Active". If they're one of your 3 scratches, they'll be "Reserve". If they're assigned to injured reserve, they'll be "Inj Res".
To simply use the information I've collected from Fantrax which is the lineup you have entered into Fantrax, check the box at the top of your weekly sheet to populate your sheet with your current Fantrax lineup.
http://bbkl.ca/viewtopic.php?p=323163#p323163
At a bare minimum with your Google sheet, you can check that box and you'll have the Fantrax information populate your sheet. And that's even if you use a different Fantrax lineup from the previous week.
If you still wish to fill out your Google lineup, the Fantrax lineup is still integrated to your sheet where your lineups must match. Meaning, the same players should appear on both Google and Fantrax as "Active", "Reserve" or "Inj Res".
The lineup you that enter in Google must match your Fantrax lineup and in turn that lineup must meet all our requirements for a legal lineup. If you use the checkbox, your Fantrax lineup is essentially Google lineup.
I also want to point this out...please make sure on Fantrax the players you assign to your 3 reserve spots and your injured reserve spots, those are signed players (currently under an NHL contract). I've also made sure that you can't enter more 3 reserves in your lineup in Fantrax like in previous years.
If you have any questions about how this works or if you have issues with your sheets, please ask away. I spent a lot of time this summer working on this to make sure everyone is using a legal lineup at all times.
In recent years, I implemented an option to reuse your previous week's lineup that you entered in your sheet. It was meant to be a shortcut so you don't have to go through the act of re-entering the exact same names on your sheet from the week before when you didn't make a roster move and you had no plans in using different players.
The downside was that if anyone didn't fill out their weekly sheets, there was no way to monitor or confirm the lineup used in Fantrax was actually legal. The entire point of the Google sheet is a way to validate your lineup. Filling out your lineup in Google isn't meant to be a requirement but having a legal lineup is.
To best explain this new checkbox option, I'm collecting a weekly report from Fantrax detailing the current rosters and how everyone has filled out their lineups.
https://www.fantrax.com/fantasy/league/ ... =ALL_TAKEN
If a player is in your lineup, they'll be "Active". If they're one of your 3 scratches, they'll be "Reserve". If they're assigned to injured reserve, they'll be "Inj Res".
To simply use the information I've collected from Fantrax which is the lineup you have entered into Fantrax, check the box at the top of your weekly sheet to populate your sheet with your current Fantrax lineup.
http://bbkl.ca/viewtopic.php?p=323163#p323163
At a bare minimum with your Google sheet, you can check that box and you'll have the Fantrax information populate your sheet. And that's even if you use a different Fantrax lineup from the previous week.
If you still wish to fill out your Google lineup, the Fantrax lineup is still integrated to your sheet where your lineups must match. Meaning, the same players should appear on both Google and Fantrax as "Active", "Reserve" or "Inj Res".
The lineup you that enter in Google must match your Fantrax lineup and in turn that lineup must meet all our requirements for a legal lineup. If you use the checkbox, your Fantrax lineup is essentially Google lineup.
I also want to point this out...please make sure on Fantrax the players you assign to your 3 reserve spots and your injured reserve spots, those are signed players (currently under an NHL contract). I've also made sure that you can't enter more 3 reserves in your lineup in Fantrax like in previous years.
If you have any questions about how this works or if you have issues with your sheets, please ask away. I spent a lot of time this summer working on this to make sure everyone is using a legal lineup at all times.