Tired of manually selecting preferred players for your fantasy football draft? This extension lets you copy and paste player names from your custom cheatsheet and load them into the Yahoo pre-draft interface. Here’s how it works:
Navigate to “Draft” > “Pre-Draft Rankings” from the menu and click “Edit My Pre-Draft Player Rankings”. Click the button to expand the default player list and paste your player names in the provided text box. Click “Next” to organize your player list and then click to search for players and queue them to be added to your list. Click “Save Changes” when your players have been added to the queue. All done!
This extension is for those who choose to auto-draft and/or those who get their cheatsheets from third-party sites like fantasypros.com.
Source code is available at:
github.com/hgoodman/yahoo-pre-draft
This is a third-party extension, not supported by Yahoo!
Works perfect and absolutely fool proof.
Whew – game changer, life saver. Used my pre-draft list, copy/pasted in from excel spreadsheet and worked like a dream. Thank you!
Love it! After some basic formatting, I had my own rankings in yahoo, side by side with their X-rank to abuse! Thanks so much
Only finds about half the players right now. For instance, Josh Jacobs (Player Not Found) What gives? Will change if someone can help me out.
Have used this the last few years for baseball and football. Not perfect, but sure beats manually ranking 300 players.
Phenomenal tool. Recognized 99% of the players I imported from my own list, and saved me untold hours trying to rank my list using the built-in interface.
works for fantasy football
Thank you so much for making this. I used it for my auto-draft league for the past two seasons and who knows how much time and anguish it saved me. As Natalie Merchant once said: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Does not pickup the correct players. Just doesnt work well with yahoo FF. wasted my time
This saved me hours of time. I grabbed my favorite rankings off the web, pulled the player names out of the spreadsheet, pasted them in, and seconds later had my Yahoo rankings in order. Praise be to Henry Goodman — you’re the man.
One word of advice — click the “expand default player rankings” button before clicking next. And if you have already set some pre-draft rankings, just click start over and then use the extension. Otherwise, it won’t work.
I built a custom cheat sheet on http://draftwizard.fantasypros.com/.
In about 30 seconds, I was able to export that list to excel, make a field with just names (filtering out teams), paste it into this plugin and set it as my custom pre-draft rankings on yahoo. It matched every name (400+) on the first try. In past season I would have spent 2+ hours doing this manually.
Awesome plug-in, thanks!