Include SP, RP filter in free agent search when league uses only the P active roster position
My league only uses the P roster position allowing managers to use any pitcher they want to fill their rotations. However this has eliminated the SP and RP filters in the free agent search. The only filters available are "All Pitcher" and "Probable".
We score stats for starters and relievers, which still requires managers to search for starters or relievers from the free agent pool.
Please include the SP and RP filters in free agent search regardless of what a league uses. This should extend to any search for those leagues who may use roster positions that cover multiple positions like corner infield, middle infield, corner outfield etc. Managers should be able to filter by individual position.
Just active all search filters at all times regardless of what a league may use.
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RC
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Please add filters for SP and RP back to free agent search. I requested this three seasons ago. There is no reason why these should have been removed in the first place. Again, my league plays uses the P roster position for all pitchers instead of having SP and RP roster spots. The reason is that we want the ability to tailor our own mix of starters and relievers, rather than have it dictated that everyone needs to have 5 SP and 3 RP, or whatever the "traditional" way is. We still play with traditional SP and RP scoring categories but it's a more of a choose your own adventure style that we really like.
So the problem is by doing it this way Yahoo! has designated every pitcher as P, INSTEAD of just adding the P position designation to the role they are already qualified for, i.e. a starting pitcher in my league should be designated as SP and P. In traditional leagues Yahoo! already does this when a pitcher qualifies for a different role like when a reliever qualifies as a starter that pitcher gains the SP position in addition to their RP designation.
Long story short, by not having the SP or RP search filter it makes it a pain ********** to search quickly for pitchers.There's no reason this can't be changed for.
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Green
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@ RC - it's kinda surprising that nobody even vaguely gets your pretty obvious point. You don't need the filter to determine "all players available to be rostered in this spot", you need to differentiate between classes of players available for a single category spot but who, effectively, "play a different position" by generating position specific statistics - like Saves and Holds. Just like wanting to be able to filter to see only starting pitchers to evaluate Quality Starts.
It is uselessly unhelpful to have to sift through dozens and dozens for relievers when you have no interest in them for that search.
It will never be a perfect filter as players do cross the definition boundaries, but I totally get where you are at. Sure - you can use any "Pitcher" in a "P" spot, but it's a virtually useless tool.
There is no analogous argument for hitters since no statistic is particular to one sole position or sub-position.
If a regular scoring stat was, say, "Passed Balls" and the only filter for batters was "Batters", it'd be roughly the same thing. Not quite, but close - and almost as frustrating.
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RC
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Right, in the example of AL and NL-only leagues, it makes sense that the filters are limited because an entire segment of players has been already been excluded from the game.
My suggestion/feedback to Yahoo! is about getting them to address leagues using a roster position that blankets more than one position: like P for SP and RP; or corner infield (CI) for 1B and 3B, etc.
My league has dealt with the lack of a pitcher specific free agent search filter for 3 years now. We still have scoring categories for both starting pitchers and relievers, so being able to filter out starting pitchers or relief pitchers would make our free agent searches much easier.
Yahoo wouldn't need to make any change except to re-enable the filters that "standard" leagues already use. The additional filters will only improve the Yahoo platform, there isn't a downside and "standard" leaguers wouldn't notice a difference.Yahoo continually adds league customization features every year, which I commend them on, but some of the little things are going unaddressed like search filters.
Why defend Yahoo? I was under the impression that this feedback forum was to give Yahoo FBB players the opportunity to help Yahoo improve their platform. At the end of the day most if not all of the feedback/suggestions posted on this forum will only improve the game play, provide more customization and make Yahoo fantasy leagues better. Getting Yahoo to listen is the challenge. So vote for good ideas and save the idle combativeness, sarcasm, and deconstructive criticism for something more important, like Twitter.
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RC
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Right, in the example of AL and NL-only leagues, it makes sense that the filters are limited because an entire segment of players has been already been excluded from the game.
My suggestion/feedback to Yahoo! is about getting them to address leagues using a roster position that blankets more than one position: like P for SP and RP; or corner infield (CI) for 1B and 3B, etc.
My league has dealt with the lack of a pitcher specific free agent search filter for 3 years now. We still have scoring categories for both starting pitchers and relievers, so being able to filter out starting pitchers or relief pitchers would make our free agent searches much easier.
Yahoo wouldn't need to make any change except to re-enable the filters that "standard" leagues already use. The additional filters will only improve the Yahoo platform, there isn't a downside and "standard" leaguers wouldn't notice a difference.Yahoo continually adds league customization features every year, which I commend them on, but some of the little things are going unaddressed like search filters.
Why defend Yahoo? I was under the impression that this feedback forum was to give Yahoo FBB players the opportunity to help Yahoo improve their platform. At the end of the day most if not all of the feedback/suggestions posted on this forum will only improve the game play, provide more customization and make Yahoo fantasy leagues better. Getting Yahoo to listen is the challenge. So vote for good ideas and save the idle combativeness, sarcasm, and deconstructive criticism for something more important, like Twitter.
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Anonymous
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If your league does not have a position available, like apparently yours does, you will not see SP and RPs.
Same thing happens with NL only or AL only leagues. NL only the AL players are not shown. Same for AL only leagues, no NL players are shown.
Deal with your league's settings.
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RC
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So.... All pitchers doesn't work when having a SP filter and RP filter would work better. It's pretty annoying, almost as annoying as trolls on message boards.
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Anonymous
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So....you are saying....All Pitchers DOES work then.
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RC
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To Anonymous 1:
In my league we use the P designation for all pitchers i.e. there are no SP or RP roster positions on our rosters, every pitcher spot on the roster is designated as P therefore a manager can fill those spots with starters &/or relievers as he chooses. In doing so Yahoo! has removed the SP and RP filter from the free agent search.
ThanksAnonymous 2:
Uh...bruuuhh read the post more carefully...Uhhhh let me break it down a little bit more clearly in case you also didn't read the above response to the first comment...
When the commissioner designates that the league will only use the P roster position for every active pitcher spot, Yahoo then removes the SP and RP search filter, leaving only the ALL PITCHER search filter. I WANT YAHOO TO GIVE US BACK THE SP AND RP filters in the free agent search. If you've never played in a league that uses on the P spot then you wouldn't know what I'm talking about
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Anonymous
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Uh.....dude......
All pitchers, regardless of SP only, RP only or SP/RP qualify for the P roster slot. Filtering on All Pitchers includes .....uh......all pitchers.
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Anonymous
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You can pick All Pitchers. That includes anyone that can play in the P slot on your roster.