FantasyLink: Helping you over-analyze you fantasy baseball team since 2012.
What is FantasyLink?
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FantasyLink is a Chrome browser extension that integrates FanGraphs, Baseball Reference, Razzball, Baseball Prospectus, Baseball Savant, & Baseball Theater directly into your fantasy baseball league website.
Do I need it?
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Do you play fantasy baseball? Is your league site run on CBSSports.com, ESPN.com, or Yahoo.com? Do you often find yourself unimpressed with the stats that those sites provide you? Do you think xFIP has more predictive value then ERA? If you answered yes to these questions, you probably spend a little to much time switching back and forth between your league website and more in depth baseball sites. This extension is designed to cut down on that wasted time.
How does it work?
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FantasyLink scans through your league’s team clubhouse, free agency, and trade pages looking in specific places for player names. Whenever a player is found, the extension inserts a link to that player’s profile on more in depth statistical websites (you can adjust the sites in the extension’s setting). Now looking up Mike Napoli’s BABIP is as easy as clicking the little FanGraphs logo next to his name
I’m sold, now how do I get it?
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FantasyLink is available for download right here in the Chrome Store. If you know javascript and want to tinker with the extension’s code, you can fork the project on Github at https://github.com/sglantz/FantasyLink.
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Excellent extension on Yahoo and ESPN. Would love to see Fantrax compatibility.
An awesome extension, but unfortunately it’s not working with ESPNs new UI. Anyone know if it will be update?
Great extension, I would love for it to be able to be used with FanTrax but the Yahoo support is great!
Awesome extension. I’d love to see it work with FanTrax and be able to view baseballprospectus player pages.
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Changed my season! Thank you!
Terrific tool. From CBS, I’ve had no issues.
This extension is great in theory. But while in Yahoo’s “swap mode” on my team page, it won’t let me click any of the links. I have to switch over to “classic” mode before it works.
This is phenomenal!
The only thing I miss is it working with Fantrax. Add that option, and BAM you have a perfect app!!
Amazing.
Extremely helpful!
This is so helpful and makes it fast and easy to link to the two best stat sites in order to do research. I use it on Yahoo and it works great. I wish Yahoo had decent stats or research capabilities but until that time, you need this extension. By the way, this is the first extension I have ever downloaded.
Works great and makes it incredibly easy to get a more in depth look at players via fangraphs.
Ahh, you don’t know how many times when I’ve been looking over trade offers and have went to fangraphs. This saves me a ton of time! FANTASTIC IDEA AND APP!
Great resource to have, no more switching between tabs/windows and constantly doing player searches. Makes ESPN leagues even more attractive!
Currently in a 40-man, 20 team ESPN Franchise league and this will be insanely helpful in 2012. Thanks! You have no idea how many times I’ve had ~20 tabs open trying to find relevant data on a few players. Huzzah!
I’m a huge fantasy baseball wonk, playing in multiple leagues and investing far too much time into them for anyone’s good (especially my 30 team, 34-man-roster salary-capped dynasty league). Being able to jump straight to Fangraphs, one of the best resources for advanced baseball metrics on the internet, is a dream come true.