Potential Points on ESPN?

[slaughterrt]

This may be a thread for Commish Corner, but is there a way to track potential points on ESPN? Looking to switch over draft position for non-playoff teams to prevent tanking (starting next year of course). But we are on ESPN and I haven’t seen a way to determine the optimal scoring points.

Rob

[Wile E. Coyote]

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I think I see what you're wanting or trying to do.

ESPN tracks the aggregate points scored for all players played by each team in the standings tab as "PF". This part is easy.

The only way that I know of to track "potential points" would be to go to your league's scoreboard, and click on "Quick Box Score" for each game, for each week.

Just under "Total Points" there is a link to "Show Bench". That will give you the bench points for both teams in that game. When you click show bench, it will display both teams bench points for that game below the actual box score of the game.

Then what you would have to do is manually enter each team's bench points, for each week of the season, into a spread sheet such as Excel.

Then add the bench points up in the spread sheet.

Then: Total points scored + total bench points = aggregate points for each team.

All you're tracking manually is the bench points; so this really wouldn't be hard if you kept track of each team's bench points in a spread sheet each week of the season. It would probably only take you about 1 minute for each game played in your league each week.

HTH

[Ruggenater]

As far as I know (I commish a league on ESPN), this isn't readily available anywhere. Tracking manually sounds like a nightmare.

[slaughterrt]

Yeah I was looking and couldn’t find it. No intention of doing it manually. Was just looking for a way to prevent tanking.

[Pac_Eddy]

Yeah I was looking and couldn’t find it. No intention of doing it manually. Was just looking for a way to prevent tanking.

Ah, the annual tanking issues.

As of today, I recommend either of these: 1) allow tanking or 2) potential points, even if you have to manually do it.

At least you will only have to do it once, after playoff seeds are determined.

[remedy29]

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I think I see what you're wanting or trying to do.

ESPN tracks the aggregate points scored for all players played by each team in the standings tab as "PF". This part is easy.

The only way that I know of to track "potential points" would be to go to your league's scoreboard, and click on "Quick Box Score" for each game, for each week.

Just under "Total Points" there is a link to "Show Bench". That will give you the bench points for both teams in that game. When you click show bench, it will display both teams bench points for that game below the actual box score of the game.

Then what you would have to do is manually enter each team's bench points, for each week of the season, into a spread sheet such as Excel.

Then add the bench points up in the spread sheet.

Then: Total points scored + total bench points = aggregate points for each team.

All you're tracking manually is the bench points; so this really wouldn't be hard if you kept track of each team's bench points in a spread sheet each week of the season. It would probably only take you about 1 minute for each game played in your league each week.

HTH

This is not how Potential points works. Potential points is the theoretical best starting lineup you could have submitted had you started the top performers at each position each week fo the players on your team for that week. Potential points is NOT a sum of your starting lineup and your total bench player scores.

I commish a redraft on ESPN. I will check again, but I doubt ESPN calculates potential points.

[Jason]

If you tracked it manually weekly I don't think it would be so bad but going back and doing 13 weeks of games would completely suck. I haven't played on ESPN for a couple years but never saw an option for potential points.

https://sites.google.com/view/dynastyff ... authuser=1

I found this on reddit, in "other downloads" it's supposed to be some kind of excel potential points calculator for ESPN.