Welcome to the newest installment of FanGraphs Changelog, the place we replace you on a few of the current enhancements we’ve made to the positioning as we work to construct a greater FanGraphs.
First, a number of belongings you may find out about already:
App Updates!
We’ve added The Board to the FanGraphs cellular app, which could be obtain right here: App Retailer (iOS) or Play Retailer (Android).
In including prospects to the app, we’ve outgrown the underside tab bar, so now you can choose between a number of preset tab bar configurations; Members can absolutely customise the tab bar. To customise the tabs, go to the Extra Menu and choose “Customise Tabs.” As a reminder, all options within the app could be discovered throughout the Extra Menu.
You Aren’t a FanGraphs Member
It seems to be such as you aren’t but a FanGraphs Member (or aren’t logged in). We aren’t mad, simply dissatisfied.
We get it. You wish to learn this text. However earlier than we allow you to get again to it, we might prefer to level out a number of of the great the reason why it is best to turn out to be a Member.
1. Advert Free viewing! We can’t bug you with this advert, or every other.
2. Limitless articles! Non-Members solely get to learn 10 free articles a month. Members by no means get lower off.
3. Darkish mode and Traditional mode!
4. Customized participant web page dashboards! Select the participant playing cards you need, within the order you need them.
5. One-click knowledge exports! Export our projections and leaderboards on your private initiatives.
6. Take away the pictures on the house web page! (Actually, this does not sound so nice to us, however some folks needed it, and we like to present our Members what they need.)
7. Much more Steamer projections! We now have handedness, percentile, and context impartial projections accessible for Members solely.
8. Get FanGraphs Stroll-Off, a personalized 12 months finish evaluation! Discover out precisely the way you used FanGraphs this 12 months, and the way that compares to different Members. Do not be a sufferer of FOMO.
9. A weekly mailbag column, completely for Members.
10. Assist assist FanGraphs and our total workers! Our Members present us with essential sources to enhance the positioning and ship new options!
We hope you will take into account a Membership at this time, for your self or as a present! And we understand this has been an awfully lengthy gross sales pitch, so we have additionally eliminated all the opposite adverts on this article. We did not wish to overdo it.
We’ve additionally applied a brand new Member function that permits customers to set their default participant web page view choices, whereas additionally permitting for short-term modifications:
One of many challenges of becoming a data-intensive web site right into a cellular app is determining find out how to permit customers to view the ever-growing variety of tables they wish to see. For instance, I may need default tables that I usually have a look at for a given participant (within the picture above, it’s the Customary desk), however at this time I have to see that participant’s wRC+, WAR and Win In all probability Added to settle a debate with a pal. Utilizing the Non permanent view choice, I can briefly allow the tables to see these stats. The subsequent time I take advantage of the app, nonetheless, it can reset to the default view that I’m used to.
We’ve additionally applied push notifications for each Android and iOS. After enabling notifications on the OS degree, yow will discover the principle controls for the notifications within the Extra Menu beneath “Notifications.” There you’ll be able to select to comply with updates primarily based on a scoring change in a specific staff’s sport, see when that staff’s sport goes remaining, or each:
In case you are utilizing iOS, you’ll be able to allow Reside Actions throughout the Scores tab to comply with a reside updating Win Expectancy Graph in your lock display screen. Notice that iOS limits Reside Actions to 5 at a time:
You may as well get a notification once we publish a brand new article, or comply with a author by tapping the subscribe (bell) button on their byline. Notice that co- and tri-bylines are thought-about distinct from particular person authors:
You may as well now submit suggestions instantly within the app to report a bug or request new options:
RosterResource Contracts on Participant Pages
Final month, Jon Becker added participant contract particulars to the RosterResource Payroll pages. We’ve now built-in that function into the participant pages. Should you go to a participant web page, discover the RosterResource part on the aspect bar, and click on Contract Historical past, yow will discover the contract historical past for the participant contracts we now have tracked since 2020, once we built-in RosterResource into FanGraphs:
We’ve additionally upgraded the Nearer Depth Charts to incorporate extra details about a given look, together with what number of innings the pitcher pitched, which innings they pitched, the variety of batters they confronted, and the leverage once they entered the sport:
Legacy Crew Utilization Lineup/Def
We’ve moved the 2 participant utilization instruments — Batting Lineups and Defensive Lineups — from the staff pages into RosterResource:
These provide totally different views than the Lineup Tracker, displaying the batting and defensive lineups vertically. The “row banding” permits you to see utilization streaks extra simply.
Aptitude
We’ve continued increasing our customization choices for Members. We needed to do a black header to go together with our Darkish Mode, which could have been impressed by a few of the current Metropolis Join uniforms. However in contrast to the Metropolis Connects, the header and theme is completely as much as you, the FanGraphs Member!
When you have any questions, please go away them within the feedback under, and in case you have any recommendations for website options, please be sure you tell us. And lastly, a thanks to our Members! Membership is the easiest way to assist our workers, and be sure that we will proceed to develop and enhance the positioning. We couldn’t do any of this with out you!
