New RFA Bid List

[paladisiac]

If you find any problems with RFA Bid List, please post here. First, read:

01) The initial load seems slow at first, upwards to 20-25 seconds (subsequent loads under 10 sec). i'll see if this persists and chat with Stan about improving the time.

02) The entire RFA Bid List will not come up at once for performance reasons. i suggest querying 1 position at a time -- DB or CB, for example. i plan on adding links in between "Previous" and "Next" to go straight to a specific position.

03) To see the RFA Bid List, always choose the "Restricted Free Agents" status. Choosing anything else will show you an "off season" RFA list.

04) i had a helluva time coding the "purple" "pending bid" logic. it might still be off. But does anyone use it? i could save some processing time by cutting it.

[paladisiac]

About your points:

01) Place your cursor over the original owner's team name to see the bid/lock date.

02) All players do not list on the page at once for performance purposes. i will look at returning this functionality but encourage you to select Restricted Free Agents by position which most likely will be the future of this list functionality.

[Fierce said:]


From the main league page, and for that matter from all the other pages I tried, when getting into the restricted free agency list page I've noticed the interface has changed. Not sure if that's intentional or not. A couple of major drawbacks I've noticed at this time -

1. You can't see when the bid times out, which is very handy to know.
2. All players do not list on the page at once.

Again, not sure if it's intentional or not, but just thought I'd raise the flag on it in case you admins hadn't seen the problem yet. Thanks.

[Jenstad]

Just my $.02, but the new page view is horrible and makes it much more of a pain to look at RFA....to the point that I didnt even bother going to the end.

[Bluecaterpillar]

paladisiac wrote:
02) All players do not list on the page at once for performance purposes. i will look at returning this functionality but encourage you to select Restricted Free Agents by position which most likely will be the future of this list functionality.



Just to elaborate a bit more on Jenstad's comments, I think a lot of users would not mind the slower load time in exchange to a return to full listing... Having to browse 3-4 pages to get a clear pictures is not fun; but opposite to that, having to list 10 positions and get 10 results is even less attractive. If you multiply by 3 teams, almost daily for 3 weeks during the peak of RFA... that's a lot of hang time!

I disagree with the other posters: the page look slick, it's efficient, it has all the info I ever needed... but the broken down paging is much slower and for those users only able to do a quick 5 minute-check on 2,3,4 teams... it just does not fly.

Please keep the page design but consider bringing the full listing back!
-Blue

[paladisiac]

on the next update, i'll bring it back. it runs pretty slow in our test environment but so do the partial listings by 3-fold, so maybe the entire listing works better after Stan's SQL fix (for the detailed view page which uses the same underlying code).

i'll try to put out the next update earlier-than-planned too. (i wanted to put an initial "current draft picks" out.) There are a handful of little things i can put-out in a maintenance-type of update, including a full rfa listing.