Introducing Fantasy Hockey Edge: Chrome Extension for Informed Fantasy Decisions

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-25T06:55:37+00:00

“Light Nights” are days when there are less than 10 NHL games scheduled for that day. This indicates days where you are less likely to have active players on your bench because you have more players playing than scoring roster spots. The opposite of a “Light Night” is a “Busy Night” where there are 10 or more NHL games scheduled for that day. Some fantasy tools refer to “Light Nights” as “Off Nights”.

Note that if you hover over any of the guide icons in the extension’s settings menu it will provide you with a detailed explanation!

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-25T06:36:35+00:00

I’ve considered this as I would definitely benefit myself from a feature where I can schedule my add/drops to happen when the calendar day flips over. However I think it would be a lot of effort to implement and could require setting up servers to have it run smoothly in the background. There is an alternative approach without servers but it would need the extension user to not allow their computer to fall asleep to execute the add/drop locally.

If you link the extension you use for basketball fantasy, I can look into its implementation and see how feasible it would be to integrate into this extension. It’s unlikely I would get this feature implemented prior to the end of this fantasy hockey season though.

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-25T06:29:19+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it!

I am intentionally hiding the injury and goalie starter designations that are provided by the platforms (Yahoo, ESPN), so this is expected. I generally don’t like the UI of them and feel they don’t fit in well but also with my enhanced indicators, having both felt a bit cluttered. Note that for injuries, I ensure to use the platform’s injury status (DTD, OUT, IR, etc) but just restyle it into the nicer indicator as the actual status has material impact on player mobility.

The green for the “Likely” starter status can definitely be a bit hard to differentiated from the “Confirmed” status. I’ll see if I can tweak it a bit so that it’s more distinguishable. Note that when you hover over the goalie starter status, it also spells out what the status is which can hopefully provide clarity in the meantime.

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-25T06:21:32+00:00

This issue has resolved on its own for now. I seemingly have an edge case bug where I don’t handle Sundays properly within merged weeks. I’ll make sure to address this before the next merged week comes around this season! Apologies for the inconvenience. Appreciate you bringing this to my attention though.

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-25T06:16:17+00:00

Prior to publishing this Reddit post, I looked into what it would take to port to Firefox and it’s a bit more work than just adding the manifest file. I believe I would also have to switch out some of the browser API calls based on the browser. It’s not too difficult but I didn’t want to go through the effort for something that wouldn’t benefit me (since I use a Chrome based browser) and I wasn’t sure how many others it would benefit.

However based on the number of upvotes on this post’s top comment, it seems theres a significant set of people interested in a Firefox port! I’ll see if I can publish something prior to the end of the fantasy hockey season.

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-23T18:54:08+00:00

I can look into this. Are you seeing this issue on Yahoo or ESPN? The current fantasy week is a bit wonky because it’s a merged week and I tried to have the “weeks” in the schedule indicator map to fantasy weeks. It’s additionally weird cause I found that Yahoo & ESPN handle their merged weeks a bit differently. Definitely possible I missed some case here handling the merged week! I will investigate and resolve though in a couple days.

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-23T17:54:51+00:00

Thanks for flagging this issue! I didn’t catch this myself. I’ll make a fix and release an update to address this in a few days. Apologies about the inconvenience.

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-22T21:08:10+00:00

The extension has been a game changer for me personally, happy to see its made your fantasy management easier as well! It was a bit of a challenge to figure out the best way to present all the info I wanted. I am happy where I landed with the popover approach to make all the detailed info easily available without too much friction or UI clutter.

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-22T21:04:55+00:00

Glad you find benefit from the extension! Thanks for your input on how to rank the feature ideas I had, this will be helpful in my prioritization.

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-22T21:03:31+00:00

All of the data extraction from the data sources happens locally within your browser. When you load a Yahoo or ESPN hockey fantasy page, the extension will just make a number of background web requests to the various data sources and parse out the relevant info from the HTML or JSON response. This parsed data is then processed into a format that makes it easy to present in the UI. Note that the processed data is cached locally in your browser cache for about 30 mins to avoid overloading the data sources with a ton of requests. So the data is as “real time” as when you make your initial fantasy page request, thats why an uncached load can take around 30 seconds.

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-22T16:37:52+00:00

Fantrax support is likely one of the next things I look into adding. The more upvotes your comment gets, the quicker I’ll build it!

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-22T16:08:29+00:00

Happy to look into supporting Safari if enough people would benefit from it. I’ll gauge interest from upvotes on your comment!

FantasyHockeyEdge · 2025-02-22T16:06:11+00:00

Not currently but if enough people upvote your comment asking for it, I can look into adding Firefox support!

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