Fantasy Baseball Emergency

by kings33 on Mar 17, 2007 5:41 PM EDT

Here we are, just 2 weeks away from the start of the seasoon, and TQStats comes out with a brand new release. And let me tell you, for a deep league - people who love minor leaguers - it's awful.

We've used them for more than 10 years, and they threw away all our history. They jumbled our rosters, and changed our salary structure, and every team is missing minor leaguers, and not even obscure ones, but the Yunel Escobars of the world.

No warnings, no beta - nothing. As commish of this 19 yr old league, I have to tell you I'm fuming.

I think All Star Stats is going to be my replacement, as others won't support our categories, and CBS has issues with their commissioner site navs... I'm an online marketer, and I'm lost trying to figure some things out, and whether or not they'll fit with our arcane setups.

AAArgh!

Any ideas?

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They did the same thing to my AL-only league. We renewed and the rosters disappearred. They were non-plussed about the headaches they caused us, and we switched to Rotowire. It is less expensive but doesn't allow access to the player notes.

If each team pays another $40 bucks apiece, we'd have their full service. $40*12=$480 plus the $69 Commissioner Service for the league brings the total to the same thing as NBC/All-Star Stats.

I am curious how these stats services will compete against the finances of an ESPN, Yahoo! and CBS.

Fake Teams

by ephinz on Mar 17, 2007 5:45 PM EDT reply actions

TQ Sucks

We had our leagues with TQ for I don't know how many years, but they waited until not long ago to inform our commissioners that they were no longer accomodating our scoring format. Total bush league move. I understand the business side of things, but they should not have waited until so late to inform us.

We reformatted our scoring and went to Sportsline, and the overall view is that we should have done it a long time ago.

Suck it, TQ!

by greg456 @ Minor League Ball on Mar 17, 2007 5:50 PM EDT reply actions

Completely ridiculous

Same problems here: the disappearing rosters when we renewed, the missing players in the redesigned website, the mistaken salaries. I especially love this: "Decimal salaries are no longer supported. To ensure salaries are still accurate, we have multiplied each salary by 100. For example, if you had a player with the salary of $1.90, that player will now have a salary of $190. The default salary has been adjusted accordingly." What the heck is that about?

by 4thest on Mar 17, 2007 6:19 PM EDT reply actions

salaries X 100

Yeah, we had the same thing... we used a $52 cap (1/5 of 260)

They multipled by 100, they said, but then we had some guys whose new salaries were $495... We use .10 increments, so how does that happen?

If it wasn't for disappointments, I wouldn't have any appointments.

by kings33 on Mar 20, 2007 9:16 AM EDT up reply actions

Been happy with customstat.com

going on 7 years.

by Con on Mar 18, 2007 1:08 AM EDT reply actions

TQ

TQ is great. I think the new look will be well worth the wait.

by cardinal0512 on Mar 20, 2007 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions

right

yeah, who needs scoring categories and rosters when you can have a new look. I'm sure you have no ties to the co whatever...

by igreen01 on Mar 21, 2007 5:41 PM EDT up reply actions

TQ Stats should be ashamed of itself

We went to TQ Stats several years ago specifically for the statistical category flexibility. I'm furious.

by cincychili1 on Mar 21, 2007 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions

FWIW

CBS Sportsline will let you input a formula for almost any custom category. That's where my leagues ended up. Thanks for waiting until two weeks before the season, TQ Einsteins!

by igreen01 on Mar 21, 2007 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions

I just asked for a refund

I can't believe they did this. My league was ruined just like others have mentioned. A specific category is missing, players are gone, etc. All two weeks before the start of the season. I think they thought everyone would just suck it up and deal with it, but I am going to Rotowire or CBS.

by rcobeen on Mar 22, 2007 1:35 AM EDT reply actions