Comments on: Fantasy Football and Google Docs – Winning Strategies

By: Zola

Zola — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:05:15 +0000

People should read this.

By: Dave Kaufman

Dave Kaufman — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:27:08 +0000

@JR – Thanks! I made the changes all over Techlife for all future readers. I also checked out your site and liked the article on Rokenbok toys. I will be checking those out.

By: JR

JR — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:53:43 +0000

Hey Dave, came across this older post and noticed that the links to the google docs blog are now broken (thanks to us changing the address)… You should be able to change the URLs to googledocs.blogspot.com where it used to read google-d-s.blogspot.com
sorry ’bout that…

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Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:34:25 +0000

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Techlife » Everyday Websites - Reader Feedback — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:01:40 +0000

[...] Google Docs has become a regular for word processing and spreadsheets. I am constantly using it for collaboration with others. [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:05:40 +0000

This year, I formalized my draft tracking (to help learn league tendencies and help project drafting runs, etc.), and created the following quickly using Google Spreadsheets. Very simple, and the graphing provides a nice illustration of this year’s patterns.

HTML Version (View Only)located via http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pucwH8F2sbJ6w3bBuS1SkGQ&gid=0

Downloadable .xls Version via http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pucwH8F2sbJ6w3bBuS1SkGQ&output=xls

I am clearly not an Excel whiz, so if anyone has suggestions on how to improve it, please feel free to comment.

By: Dave Kaufman

Dave Kaufman — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:57:59 +0000

@Jake – great point. I think that Google Docs fancy AJAX, DHTML, HTML and Javascript is the culprit in some cases, but that aside, it is still an issue when you color code data.

Good catch though.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:05:07 +0000

I’d imagine not being able to print colors is a limitation of the fact that Google Docs is really a bunch of fancy HTML and JavaScript than it does that it’s in Beta. Most browsers drop backgound colors when they print anything.

By: Dave Kaufman

Dave Kaufman — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:18:42 +0000

@ Guy – First check out Tom’s links they are great examples. You can see how his whole league is using the Google Docs tools.

You raise a great question. I did about 95% in Google Docs. The missing 5% was because Google Docs is still in beta and some features such as printing with colors didn’t seem to work. I converted to PDF and printed that.

Also I have heard really complex sheets might not work as well. I haven’t imported anything like that though.

If you ever used Excel you can import your Excel docs which is nice.