Oh right so does it only work once the draft has taken place?
Mav3rick wrote:
It does yeah, it was just a summary of the result of the draft really.
Probably Taca only needs it to fetch teams data and selections, did you notice anyway my post in the Test Draft topic, showing time calculations need to be amended in the tool?
thebillfella wrote: ↑24 Jul 2017, 15:22
Does anybody have an updated player list for this season that they could send me please? Having trouble getting it on my phone on hols!
Unfortunately I created an *.xls for you this morning but was unable to attach it. Kinda strange, but it said "invalid file extension".
Tried a *.txt file with the same data & failed to attach again. "invalid file extension". So how do you add files?
having waited till monday morning,
I confirm the tools all return an error
tested the GRID even with just one ID (mine)
tested a small League of just 3 teams 3688
hopefully it's just the certificate issue again, and not some change by FPL
although, I used the league tool last week, and it worked
we use it to have team IDs before season start, in the 5AS H2H Declaration topic viewtopic.php?f=82&t=125137
and they were ok before the deadline
Divisionals will start in GW4... but I figure Taca would have to update Cup results manually?
crossing-fingers...
MoSe wrote: ↑14 Aug 2017, 10:18
having waited till monday morning,
I confirm the tools all return an error
tested the GRID even with just one ID (mine)
tested a small League of just 3 teams 3688
hopefully it's just the certificate issue again, and not some change by FPL
although, I used the league tool last week, and it worked
we use it to have team IDs before season start, in the 5AS H2H Declaration topic viewtopic.php?f=82&t=125137
and they were ok before the deadline
Divisionals will start in GW4... but I figure Taca would have to update Cup results manually?
crossing-fingers...
It is indeed not working now. It was still working about 10hrs ago as I managed to use it at that time. Hope it will be back up soon.
If that was done out of privacy considerations, I have to point out that they're visible anyway in the fpl league itself,
and that with some teams named the same way, manager names are sometimes useful to tell one team from the other.
I observe they're still visible in the pending entrants section at the bottom.
So maybe it's a table output formatting issue?
I am not sure if it is out of privacy considerations but I guess it is not. I think it could be just the way Mav had set it to parse the data. The bad news is both the league sidegame and the GRID are down again at the moment.
Thanks Mav That's strange. It is working now. When I tried to use it earlier today, it was down. That's why I posted that message. Once again, really appreciate your work for this
I think the FPL website changed their json stuff again. The GRID and the SideGameData are not working at the moment. I wish the FPL site would stop making these changes... Hopefully Mav can solve it.
Tacalabala wrote: ↑10 Sep 2017, 10:14
It's loading for me this morning, but I think there might be some sort of parsing issue - check out GW3 score for 344008
they look correct now
as noted in the Cup topic for Libero's zero
MoSe wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 09:27
In Taca's defence, it's notorious that the otherwise excellent and indispensable Mav3rick's GRID tool occasionally fetches all zeros for a/some team's gw, even if that's a past gw, even if previously that data got correctly fetched and it wiil be again in the next future (... but not immediate... i.e. the next day it will work, but if you repeat the grid 1 minute or 1 hour later, you get the same "wrong zeros" ). I always thought this glitch is FPL fault, not Mav's, but have actually no direct way to trobleshoot it.
No, it happened several times to me last season, and to andybarrell too
say, once every 2 or 3 gw
maybe you don't use past GW data and you were never hit on the current GW while in Divisionals I keep formulas on for up to 5 past gws to be shown in the round summary, too much hassle saving just numbers and then reinstating formulas every round.
I overwrite the whole GRID every GW, and there were more chances for it to show, or for you to notice it, as opposed to copying just the current GW rows.
Also using it for our Fiso H2H Division, and got some zeros once in a while there too
the error message is obvious, FPL has changed something, Mav needs to burden himself with some maintenance, he gets our eternal gratitude
the zeroes are sneaky, the Grid and/or League tools appear to work, but for one or a few random players, data fetched is all zeros
can't say whether it's because timeouts, or errors in FPL data, or what
odd thing, if you retry shortly after, you get exactly the same zeros
you have to retry after some time, say one hour or a couple, and it gets the correct data (hopefully not losing another player/gw)
luckily, in sidegames where we insert over 100 team IDs, GW with errors are a minority
MoSe wrote: ↑11 Sep 2017, 13:20
the error message is obvious, FPL has changed something, Mav needs to burden himself with some maintenance, he gets our eternal gratitude
Indeed, FPL had changed some of the URLs for their API. Fortunately the data we're using hadn't changed though.
MoSe wrote: ↑11 Sep 2017, 13:20
The zeroes are sneaky, the Grid and/or League tools appear to work, but for one or a few random players, data fetched is all zeros
can't say whether it's because timeouts, or errors in FPL data, or what
I'll have a look at this now and see if there's some "re-try" logic I can insert.
thanks Mav, I had personally experienced only 1 case in previous 4 GWs this season with my grid tool runs,
as I said I took the habit to check the imported data in my xls, so it didn't harm me (andybarrel also posted something similar)
and then we had Libero case in FISO Cup GW3 this season, 1st one Taca ever noticed
will report in case I see it happening again, so let's hope no news good news
I'm here to report a different odd glitch tho.
I was about to prepare one of my GW scores scatter graph for the Forum League GW5, from data collected yesterday
so I could easily notice 4 odd spikes in the "R" data (Overall Rank, rightmost column)
I reran https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/SideGameData/27051/5 right now, and the same errors are still there
they're sorted correctly, all other data appears to be correct, only their OR is incorrect in the League Tool output
not an often used item (e.g. in Divisionals I use it as 3rd tiebreaker, so rarely used that I double-check when needed)
but I thought useful reporting it
it's puzzling to me how a tool can fetch 1160 records correctly, and then in only 4 records 1 item comes up wrong
corrupt data and inconsistency by FPL across their several /drf/ resources?
always blame FPL
Very puzzling. As you say it's odd that 4 out of 1200 wouldn't work, and obviously there's no difference in the way each individual team is retrieved.
I have seen issues in the past where some properties (such as TV) were reported differently on FPL depending on which screen you looked at, although I'm sure that was in the early days last season after the site changed.
For anyone thinking that all this data collection looks really hard (it's not really, you just need a little knowledge) then this article was posted on Reddit.