Comments on: March 2008 Contest!

By: Darkdante

Darkdante — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:44:29 +0000

HOoray for me I’m in fourth and i know nothing of baketerball, um no wait, tater-ball, BASEBALL,no wait….basketnet? oh yeah basketball!

By: Goob

Goob — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:05:19 +0000

Sherry, I’m sorry you had trouble with the links. I checked the links on Safari, Firefox, and IE and they worked fine, especially after I removed the password. Plenty of other people were able to join as well without much problem. Like I said in the post, I picked Yahoo because compared to all the other similar sites on the net, it’s by far the most user friendly.

I looked in advance for a plug-in to go with the forums, but there isn’t a single tournament style mod out there. I found a script that I could install on the site here and run it, but it was clunky and required manual updating for scores, rankings, etc. Plus it looked like crap. I found 7 or 8 scripts as well that didn’t deliver what they promised, so I had to dismiss them. In the end, I decided to go with Yahoo because I had spent over 6 hours trying to set up a tournament here on the site to no avail and I was tired.

I didn’t start this contest for my own benefit. I thought some of the reader here would enjoy it – running this contest and giving away $25 out of my own pocket isn’t bringing me anything. I knew setting this up was a little last minute, but I gave people 24 hours to join and figured people would appreciate the opportunity, no matter how short, to play this year instead of me waiting until 2009 to do this.

I’ll hold another fantasy tournament next year and will certainly take into account everything that happened this year. Again, I’m sorry you had a bad experience, but I run this site as a side hobby to my already hectic life. I’ve always tried my best and will continue to do so in the future.

By: Sherry

Sherry — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:11:20 +0000

This is the second time that links from your site haven’t worked. I signed up for the Yahoo as you required and still couldn’t make it work, couldn’ find groups or brackets. You need to be more careful. I’m about to remove you from my feeds. My readers don’t need these worthless links and I don’t have the time to double check your sloppy work.

A little more thought and less trying to jerry rig your site to another full blown fantasy game would be appreciated in the future. You could have set this whole thing up on your own site with a little foresight.

By: Goob

Goob — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:50:33 +0000

Cool, welcome to the tourney. It’ll be interesting to see if any of us know what the heck we’re doing!

By: darling

darling — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:06:10 +0000

I signed up. I enjoy doing these fantasy sports leagues, even though I don’t really know what the heck I’m doing!

By: Devans00

Devans00 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:13:41 +0000

My bad!

I pointed people to the wrong group. Goop fixed things so you just click the link above now.

Wooooo March Madness!!!

By: Goob

Goob — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:25:38 +0000

I’ve now set the group to be public, so people don’t need a password to join anymore.

If you’re having trouble signing up, try the following. Log into your free Yahoo account (or create a free yahoo account first, then log into it.) Then come back here to HIF and click this link to go directly to the group page. Join the group, fill out your bracket, and you’re set.

I’ve also associated the group with “South Carolina” since that’s my alumni!

For the record, the name of the group is “HITF B-Ball Tourney” without the quotes. Maybe that will help people find it.

By: Devans00

Devans00 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:23:47 +0000

EDIT BY GOOB: Nope, that’s not my group! The number in the post above is correct, but I’ve removed the password requirement so everybody should be able to see it and join easier now.

Hey, I found the group.

The number was wrong.

By: Devans00

Devans00 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:15:15 +0000

Trying to sign up but can’t find group. What school is group associated with? That’s the only way you can find a group in the directory.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:08:25 +0000

Exactly how do we sign up again??

By: Goob

Goob — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:59:47 +0000

Sherry, good question, I’ll add another edit to the post above.

By: Sherry

Sherry — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:46:25 +0000

Sorry, when you hit the link, it says “error, you are not a member of this group”

By: Sherry

Sherry — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:42:28 +0000

I’m trying to sign up but I don’t have a yahoo account and so I have no user name there. Do I need to do that in order to sign up. I tried just putting in the password with my name to no effect. I’m trying to link my readers to this, but can’t of course if it doesn’t work.