What do you think of the draft tracker?

[Brock Beauchamp]

This is an all-new feature that we created from scratch. How do you like it? How could it be improved? We kinda fly blind when creating this stuff the first time and feedback is really helpful because after looking at something for hours on end, I kinda get tunnel vision and miss ways it could be better.

https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-draft-picks/2022/

[brewers888]

Great job with the draft tracker.

[Joseph Zarr]

The Draft Tracker is great in terms of format. What would obviously make it 'better' is a more robust set of offerings - ie filling out the articles, videos etc. (which obviously would require more robust something to get that right away). AND, this being said, for a first run it's been super current and really impressive considering as you say it was created from scratch!

[Brock Beauchamp]

2 hours ago, Joseph Zarr said:

The Draft Tracker is great in terms of format. What would obviously make it 'better' is a more robust set of offerings - ie filling out the articles, videos etc. (which obviously would require more robust something to get that right away). AND, this being said, for a first run it's been super current and really impressive considering as you say it was created from scratch!

All that stuff will fill out automatically as we tag these players in future front page articles and videos. 

[Robocaller]

In the past, there was a thread set up to announce signings. In that thread, links to multiple scouting sites were provided for each player (except of course the players who didn't make any scouting lists). It was sort of a repository of information. And a moderator updated signings.

If all that material could be provided, that would be great.

[Playing Catch]

On 7/19/2022 at 4:06 AM, Robocaller said:

In the past, there was a thread set up to announce signings. In that thread, links to multiple scouting sites were provided for each player (except of course the players who didn't make any scouting lists). It was sort of a repository of information. And a moderator updated signings.

If all that material could be provided, that would be great.

Thank you, Eye Black, for your years of service!

I presume, as Brock mentions above, that this draft tracker will automatically upload scouting info/etc. as time goes forward. Is the little "pending" target to let us know if/when they have signed?

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, Playing Catch said:

Thank you, Eye Black, for your years of service!

I presume, as Brock mentions above, that this draft tracker will automatically upload scouting info/etc. as time goes forward. Is the little "pending" target to let us know if/when they have signed?

We'll be updating scouting reports manually. I'm currently considering how to implement some sort of link aggregator into this but I'm kinda leaning toward that being a 2023 feature. I need to move toward the trade deadline now - MLB mashing these two events together is great for fans, really hard on content creation - so I'm not sure how much editing the tracker will receive from here on out.

The articles and videos will populate automatically as BF writers write about these guys more often.

Yep, the Pending target means they are available to sign but have not. It turns green when they sign, at which point a dollar figure will be added. If they opt not to sign, it turns red to indicate the pick was lost.

[Robocaller]

4 hours ago, Playing Catch said:

Thank you, Eye Black, for your years of service!

I presume, as Brock mentions above, that this draft tracker will automatically upload scouting info/etc. as time goes forward. Is the little "pending" target to let us know if/when they have signed?

I didn't figure out what the pending symbol meant until yesterday.

[Brock Beauchamp]

27 minutes ago, Robocaller said:

I didn't figure out what the pending symbol meant until yesterday.

Yeah, it was kinda obscured until players started signing. The language behind those symbols was surprisingly difficult to get “right”. 

[Robocaller]

2 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Yeah, it was kinda obscured until players started signing. The language behind those symbols was surprisingly difficult to get “right”. 

It would have been simple. Just label them "unsigned" until they sign.

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

11 minutes ago, Robocaller said:

It would have been simple. Just label them "unsigned" until they sign.

 

Except that conflicts with players who opt to go to college or refuse to sign, which is a third category that has yet to appear. ?

[Brock Beauchamp]

Does “Yet to Sign” make more sense than “Pending”? Like I said, the terminology here has been frustrating. 

[Robocaller]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Except that conflicts with players who opt to go to college or refuse to sign, which is a third category that has yet to appear. ?

players who refuse to sign are "unsigned."  It's not rocket science.

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, Robocaller said:

players who refuse to sign are "unsigned."  It's not rocket science.

 

There’s a finality to one and not the other that I want to differentiate. 

[ClosetBrewerFan]

I like "Will not sign".  Really no confusion about that.  I think this is a great feature.  It will be nice to have that all info in one place.  Realize it will take some time to reflect reality since it is a manual process, but even so, will be useful.  Thanks

[Robocaller]

9 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

There’s a finality to one and not the other that I want to differentiate. 

But with the possibility of draft and follow, there is no finality until next year for some players.

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Well shoot. Changing the terminology is more complicated than I expected now that the draft picks are in place. I'll try to get to this at some point but my focus needs to be on the trade deadline for awhile.

[patrickgpe]

Late to the party, but I agree with everyone, even if you could edit his name once he has signed like what was done in the past, it would be awesome. 

[snoogans8056]

Would be nice to do with the International signings. Rumors and such.

I like the 'mystery box' players, and that weird random day in the year where we sign a bunch of 16/17 year old Venezuelans has kind of taken over a lot of the excitement that the draft provides (especially with the emergence of Chourio).