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INTRODUCING All of RG’s New Features for NBA Season:
Hey all, sorry if we’ve been aloof from the Forums lately, but we’ve been busy on the back-end getting these new features, articles and tools up for NBA Season (and future sports)! Here’s a run-down of new tools to keep an eye out for while building your lineups tonight:
1) Improved NBA Projections
We’ve now improved our NBA Projections (w/ a big shout out to Riley). Now instead of large tables in the Grinders Incentives area, you’ll get a sortable table, updated at a fixed time, daily. But the better part is the new formula. Our NBA Projections now use 4 factors before calculating a players projections each day:
A) Opponent – Example: If D-Wade averages 30 PPG, and the Heat Average 100 and they face the Suns who give up 120 PPG, this component projects D-Wade to score 35 Points. Same for Marcus Camby w/ Rebounds vs. the Kings who are allowing ~47 RPG. And so on.
B) Recent Performance – Average F-Pts in the recent time period
C) Season Average – Season Average to reduce variance
D) Misc. Adjustments – Adjustments for the unforeseen and other necessary changes manually made by the RG NBA Crew: Injury, Substitution, etc.
The Projections have been performing very well with limited run so far, and will only improve as time goes on and we improve the formula and adjustment criteria. When the sample size gets bigger we hope to reveal some results on how well they’re doing.
2) Daily NBA Plays
Our users wanted more regular columns and picks for NBA season, so we delivered! Now you can expect a Daily, Members Only column with picks from RotoGrinders NBA writers DB730, Notorious and Cameron. Each day the column will contain 2-3 valuable picks at each position with prices. This will continue on for MLB Season and NFL Season as well (for NFL we’ll do a different position each day of the week).
3) Lineups Page
Cal posted this already, but the Lineups page is now up for NBA Season, and it will contain status tags for a player leading up to the game (i.e: Doubtful, Probable, Game-Time Decision, etc.). Not only that, but Grinders Incentives Members can conveniently access players’ daily projections right from the lineup page! (See Green #‘s in Image above)
Remember you can click on the (i) info icon box next to a players name for a quick view of that players game log and prices for each site. This page will continue for MLB Starting Lineups, and for NFL Season.
4) Improved Daily Research Console
The Daily Research Console you’ve grown to know at the top of our page has some new improvements:
A) Improved Daily Optimal Lineups – The Daily Optimal Lineups now use our improved projections and we’ve fixed all previous bugs with the tool (we think). We now have a way to adjust the lineup, even if a player is scratched the day of the event.
B) Top Values – Top Values now uses Projected Points for the day of, instead of a historic average. This is a better measurement to look at while setting your lineups. As always, the Top 10 are Free daily, and you can get the full list with access to Grinders Incentives
Grinders Incentives
Here’s a peak of the Grinders Incentives Area for NBA. If you’re a member of Incentives you get full access to all of the above + all our other site features + lots of $$$ in monthly freerolls per site. Click here for full details on Grinders Incentives.
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on 31/1/12
@Taximike said…
Very nice. But your DS salaries are not accurate.
TM, we’re dependent on the feeds from our partner sites, didn’t know they were off today until just now. We’ll be working on getting to the bottom of it though. I think it’s just using salaries from a previous day this week, but I’m not sure. We’ll make a post again when we know more.
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on 1/2/12
Impressive, the amount of content you guys put out on a daily basis is kinda insane
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on 1/2/12
Thanks Teblow! Much appreciated.
Regarding the issue with Salaries today, it looks like we had a server issue today while importing the salaries, so we were left with the salary #‘s from yesterday. This is not a chronic problem, and we should be fine moving forward. Until we do a server upgrade it may happen again. If it does, just make a post in the forums and let us know.
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on 1/2/12
Very nice addition RG! its going to help us NBA newbies a bunch. Your twitter posts have already helped greatly. I havnt gotten caught with a scratch in awhile thanks to them.
Im still not winning. LOL! but at least Im a consistent 2nd!
Also, has anyone else ever mentioned that your little basketball icon looks more like a baseball than your baseball icon? lol! -
on 1/2/12
@misfit said…
Also, has anyone else ever mentioned that your little basketball icon looks more like a baseball than your baseball icon? lol!
I think they did, and we tried to separate them more a little while ago, but maybe we didn’t do a good job with it! We’ll add it to the list and try and get it fixed by MLB Season.
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on 1/2/12
Love the constant improvements you guys are making. Your site is looking better and better each day. Keep up the great work, and thanks for everything you guys do.
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on 4/2/12
How do I get access to the Grinders Incentives? I already have an account with Fanduel and it seems like you have to sign up through here to get access.
I like the way the research looks. -
on 4/2/12
When I click on the Daily Research and then click Fanduel – Basketball – I only see the spreadsheet of players for a split second. What am I doing wrong? I would like to see the optimal lineups and projected scoring. Any suggestions?
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on 4/2/12
@Blitzburgh said…
How do I get access to the Grinders Incentives? I already have an account with Fanduel and it seems like you have to sign up through here to get access.
I like the way the research looks.Unfortunately, you can only be a part of incentives for a site if you use our links to sign-up for that site, and then subsequently deposit to the site. That said we plan to offer ways to gain access to incentives for sites other than Joust, DraftStreet and FanDuel in the future and we may offer the potential to purchase a membership. Hope this clarifies and let us know if you have any other questions regarding Incentives.
The Grinders Incentives Page is located here: http://rotogrinders.com/incentives
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on 4/2/12
@buxnbrowns said…
When I click on the Daily Research and then click Fanduel β Basketball β I only see the spreadsheet of players for a split second. What am I doing wrong? I would like to see the optimal lineups and projected scoring. Any suggestions?
try chrome or firefox it must be a bug with explorer i was going to pm cal or cam about it!
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on 4/2/12
@jl9000 said…
try chrome or firefox it must be a bug with explorer i was going to pm cal or cam about it!
Thanks JL, we’ll check this out in Explorer over the weekend.
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on 5/2/12
@jl9000 said…
try chrome or firefox it must be a bug with explorer i was going to pm cal or cam about it!
Where’s the resident IE tester to catch this stuff? :-)
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on 5/2/12
That sucks. I would be willing to pay for a membership if it is reasonable.
Please let me know if this is something that is a possibility.
Extra income for you guys; if someone is willing to pay for information that most get for free, I would think you would jump on it. -
on 5/2/12
@rotokevin said…
Whereβs the resident IE tester to catch this stuff? :-)
Yeah, I am good on Chrome, but IE at work (one version back, maybe IE 8, but I am a Luddite and need help to identify which version it is) does not get any other than FD and if I click to the others then back to FD then even that does not work.
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on 5/2/12
@Blitzburgh said…
That sucks. I would be willing to pay for a membership if it is reasonable.
Please let me know if this is something that is a possibility.
Extra income for you guys; if someone is willing to pay for information that most get for free, I would think you would jump on it.Yes, I agree….$5-$10 per month seems reasonable for insider access for those sites we did not have the good fortune of signing up with via RG links.
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on 7/2/12
We’ve had quite a few requests for this. It’s in our plans to offer Incentives as a subscription product, but it sounds like we need to move that up the list.
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on 7/2/12
would those incentives include redeposit bonuses or just sign up bonuses and extra analysis?
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