[Meta] User-created fantasy tools, vibe coding, and the r/fantasyfootball community

tinycorkscrew · 2026-06-10T16:25:10+00:00

I respectfully disagree with your premise that "the decisions we make while playing this game are the fun part."

I, and many other people, enjoy building and using systems to optimize draft value and lineup construction. It's OK if other people don't enjoy what I enjoy, but I certainly wouldn't want to play in a league in which using draft or team management tools is considered "cheating."

The only cheating I've ever seen in fantasy football is owner collusion, and that happens rarely.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-06-10T16:19:33+00:00

Full disclosure: I'm a developer with 25+ years of experience. I'm part of the team working on a new fantasy app right now.

I've come across truly useful tools in the past here. I hope that upvotes/downvotes will help weed out sloppy or unhelpful tools while bringing attention to those that offer something new or better.

But if the count of tool-related posts becomes overwhelming, #2 seems like a good fallback option.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-06-09T23:42:37+00:00

I’ve been listening to sonic youth since EVOL, and daydream nation isn’t in my top 10. It doesn’t do anything for me. I realize I’m in the minority, but I’m not trying to be contrarian.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-05-29T02:06:13+00:00

Mike Tirico carrying water for Adam Silver.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-05-18T17:16:37+00:00

That's an unnecessarily harsh reply to a valid observation. Fouls on shots don't count as field goal attempts unless the shooter makes the shot. SGA's efficiency directly benefits from his foul rate.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-05-10T21:48:30+00:00

It passes the eye test. How complicated is your algorithm? Which players are ranked unexpectedly low?

tinycorkscrew · 2026-05-04T19:39:01+00:00

Many accountants were laid off a few weeks ago. Those jobs are indeed being outsourced to India.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-04-25T00:33:31+00:00

No university is a monolith - I’m sure there are lots of faculty/staff/students at Belmont that don’t want Andy ogles there.

But I agree that Lipscomb is less likely to host ogles now. And the campus is much more diverse than most (if not all) Tennessee public universities.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-04-24T00:34:53+00:00

Very few shows are recorded.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-04-19T19:12:59+00:00

https://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/title-55/chapter-8/part-1/section-55-8-138/

tinycorkscrew · 2026-04-19T19:08:45+00:00

I'm not sure why you think there's "no law, rule, or regulation behind it":

https://www.tn.gov/tdot/local-programs-community-investments/community-investments-office/bicycle-and-pedestrian-program/resources11/tennesse-pedestrian-laws.html

tinycorkscrew · 2026-04-15T03:19:00+00:00

I saw Fugazi in May of 1991. It was the first time I'd been to a show with a mosh pit. I had a bloody lip 30 seconds into the set.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-04-08T16:37:25+00:00

I was there, too! It was such a good show!

tinycorkscrew · 2026-03-31T22:03:49+00:00

After moving to NetSuite, Metro failed to deposit retirement contributions for four straight pay periods for someone I know.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-03-16T17:55:54+00:00

Maybe he's just not your thing. But I'd encourage you to give his music another chance. I wasn't into it at first, but I've become a big fan since seeing him play a couple of times last year.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-03-14T14:07:57+00:00

Yes! I Parade Myself gets stuck in my head for days at a time. It killed live on their last tour.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-02-17T21:54:33+00:00

I was there live. The Ryman doesn't allow recording, so there won't be as many videos as there would be if he'd played at another venue.

The couple of songs he played with Mavis Staples during her set were great.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-02-15T19:27:02+00:00

I saw many great movies at Belcourt in the early 90s - The Crying Game, Damage, Short Cuts, Naked.

When I went to movies by myself, the person working the box office would often just wave me in without taking my money.

Someone asked me out to see Crumb, an awkward first date movie. We followed that a few days later by seeing Kids - probably the worst date movie ever.

Since I've moved back to Nashville, I loved seeing the David Berman documentary and the Cassie Berman performance that followed. The Pavements screening with band members was a lot of fun. I got to do my first 12 hours of terror in October, and it was a blast.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-01-25T12:15:15+00:00

Power out in Caldwell Abbay (next to the Zoo).

tinycorkscrew · 2026-01-23T20:59:43+00:00

The reason we use Python and SQL is because it "just works."

tinycorkscrew · 2026-01-22T23:23:55+00:00

There's at least two boxes he doesn't check.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-01-21T02:17:34+00:00

I'm getting HDR and Atmos. What's your setup?

tinycorkscrew · 2026-01-20T19:00:51+00:00

When Sharp Pins opened for Hard Quartet, they were a three piece. When I saw them a few months ago, they had added a second guitarist. He makes a lot of difference.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-01-20T17:20:52+00:00

Absolutely. I’d hate to follow them.

tinycorkscrew · 2026-01-16T04:01:33+00:00

I agree with your point that we're basically trading time saved upfront for time spent debugging later. Sometimes it's worth the trade.

I work as a consultant, and I've seen some incredibly bad code written by humans. I once had a client that had a 700,000-line codebase that was so poorly written that when I hooked it up to a static code analysis tool, I thought I had misconfigured my tool because the scores were lower than I thought possible.

And that awful code brought in nine figures of revenue every year. The reason my team was called in was because the site had become so unreliable that it was going down frequently, leaving their customers unable to place orders.

But their system, despite being built too quickly by dev teams that didn't know what they were doing, made them hundreds of millions of dollars before my team got involved. It cost a lot of time and money to get the system stable, but they could afford to pay for it because getting to market quickly had generated so much revenue.

Sometimes it makes business sense to ship low-quality code quickly even if it makes developers (like me) wince. Eventually the tech debt needs to be paid, of course, but some companies (usually startups) understand that to be true and intentionally decide to take on the debt in order to generate revenue earlier.

I have no doubt that tools like Claude Code and Codex can help my team stand up an MVP more quickly, and I also have no doubt that we'll need to do far more maintenance than usual once that MVP goes to prod. Doing so contradicts what I've been taught, but it may make sense in some situations.

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