Fantasy football drafter GUI

Last football (fantasy) season, my league had a live draft. I didn’t want to do the old magazines, web printouts, highlighter, scratch paper, etc deal, so I decided to write a simple GUI that showed me the fantasy ranks from various online sports sites. Of course, once a player is removed, I wanted to eliminate him from the list and see only the available players.

The end result was a nice Java Swing GUI football draft tool that had the following features:

• View the rankings from a variety of sources
• Hide/show taken players as the draft moves on
• Add players to an interested in list
• Add players to your team list
• Sort by position, projected points, name, etc.
• Search player rankings table.
• View additional details about player in web browser from any source.
• Operate a client/server mode, where 1 server drafter can hide players and all connected clients reflect those changes.

I opened sourced the project on GitHub: https://github.com/joshclemm/ff-drafter/

I’m thinking bigger for next year with maybe some smarts thrown into the ranking algorithm. I’d like to dynamically re-rank players based on the outcome of the draft. Maybe this tool will one day turn into a mobile Android or iPhone app - so be on the lookout.