In Billy Wilder's classic The Lost Weekend, Ray Milland is always making plans and promises to his girlfriend, his brother, the B-girl at his favorite bar, even his bartender, but he always has one more thing to do before he can follow through: take another drink–or ten. As you might have guessed, Milland's character was an irredeemable alcoholic. At BP, we always have to do one more thing as well, because we are irredeemable perfectionists. In this case, the one more thing is an effort to make our projected Depth Charts and Player Forecast Manager as accurate, bug-free, and innocent as a newborn babe. We're not quite there yet; having changed a great deal behind the scenes, we need a little more time to check through and make sure everything and everyone is where they are supposed to be–it wouldn't do to have Wee Willie Keeler popping up and trying to claim Nick Markakis's playing time. Although, you never know, Orioles fans–he might be an upgrade.
We hope to release both products to beta testers today and have a full roll-out on Wednesday. We appreciate your patience as we get the DC and PFM up to our standards, and yours.
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So *you* did it? It's *your* fault???
(Thanks for the notice.)
Will Minnesota's Tsuyoshi Nishioka be included in the depth charts or the PFM? He seems to be missing from PECOTA.
Thanks!
Presumably, you've been working on this for 10 months now. To let it get down to the last day like this is just poor planning. There have been major missed deadlines for each of the past five years. To continue the [bizarre] alcoholism parallel that Goldman leads with...the first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have it. The "problem" in this case is not an individual error or technical issue; it is a poor process for planning, managing, and controlling quality.
So, note to Colin and everybody else at BP: you can't win.
"Winning" would include: acknowledging the causes of issues in the past, detailing what has been done to fix them, and then delivering products on time.
I guess there's nothing in the world that can't be complained about.
Without that loyalty they might be forced to respond to economic intensives to make deadlines, or else risk giving away a lot of product for free and/or have customers switch to one of the other sites with a cheaper product that's available earlier and preforms better against Marcel.
Just to clarify, I am not as annoyed with BPro missing the deadline as I am with those of you flaming the people who are annoyed.
Clearly, that's the only conclusion that can be reached because people are freaking out that they are going to get their fantasy predictions closer to February 20 than February 10.
Many subscribers have to declare keepers or respond to trades around this time of year and they have strict deadlines... the kind that can't be pushed back... so it baffles me when paying customers get mad that things are delayed that they are met with smarmy comments and their posts get negative feedback from the BP Defenders.
As I noted at the start of my comment above, I love the product when it works. But perhaps the "real journalists" would take you more seriously if you actually HAD to meet deadlines. My recollection (I don't actually care enough to go back and pull the reference) is that when the PECOTA spreadsheets came out, the PFM release was set for 2/14 with the implication that it might come sooner. My assumption is the server upgrades over the weekend and other "issues" got in the way. I'd be happier if I could be using the PFM instead of whining about not having it, which I suspect we all have in common.
Too snarky?
"Irredeemable . . . that's what you are . . ."
The 'i' information dots are great - thank you
The multiple team entry option on the saved page is also a plus.