One of the driving forces behind what we're going to need to do is what we want to provide. Obviously, we'll have the weekly stats, customizable leagues, rosters, scoring, etc. But what are we going to provide that is interesting and unique?
The hosting packages we are looking at seem to somehow include forums and 'blogging', so that is somewhere to get started. I'd like to write a column, and I know Mike Y would like to write a column.
We need to look at a way to provide convenient player status updates, as Yahoo! does with the Note icon next to players names. This may be something we'd end up paying for (I was looking at KFFL.com's packages, and they are not unreasonable).
I have gotten really into 'Salary Cap' football this year while playing at Yahoo. It uses the same player statistics as normal FFL, so I don't think it'd be a huge drain on system resources, and would be something fun and different that we could do.
Survivor and Pick-em type games are always interesting; while they would require a little bit of specialized work on finding statistics, it probably would not be all that hard.
For my class at UNF, I am working on a web/mysql based poll management system, so we could adapt that to easily add polls to the site as we see fit.
This is basically what I envision. What other things do you see us reasonably able to provide, or what crazy-impossible dreams do you have for the site?
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