Can I help you create an Online League?

[machomike]

Hello! I've been working on a project called FHMNOW to provide a fully featured hosting platform for FHM online/multiplayer leagues. This would include a FTP server connection, a league website for on-the-go viewing, and even Discord bots, all accessible from your FHMNOW account.

Anyone who has looked into starting their own online league knows it is technically challenging. I'm hoping this platform can lower the barrier to entry for new commissioners and result in a more vibrant multiplayer ecosystem for FHM.

https://fhmnow.com/

I'm looking for a few early adopters interested in integrating their leagues with FHMNOW to help me work out the bugs. Your league can be brand new or already existing, modern, historical, custom - doesn't matter to me! Even if it's just you and some friends playing against mostly AI teams, let's do it.

Here's some examples of the league website:
Depth Charts | Player Cards | Stats | Box scores | Salary cap | And more! Feel free to browse around

Commissioners have their own accounts and upload their CSVs right on the website, and that updates their league site on the fly. Your FTP server connection details are also accessible from the admin account right on the website. Discord bots are still in development but will be ready soon.

If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to ask away here or reach out on Discord (machomike).

By the way, I've decided FHMNOW will remain FREE long term. I may eventually in the future place some ads on the website instead of charging commissioners, but no plans for that are imminent right now as my server costs are still quite low.

[tomkmb]

man, this looks awesome, great stuff!

[sgrondin98]

Its a very very very nice project !!!

Its almost all i want and need

Nice project.

[Bluenoser]

Very nice, very professional. Well done, should be a huge success.

[machomike]

Project Updates:

Discord Bots

We have Discord Bot integration working! Here's a look at how it works-



After connecting the bot to your Discord server, you just populate the channel name and click "Publish". Doing so will send the current Standings, Points Leaders, Calder Race leaders, etc etc etc to your Discord server.



I have more ideas on how to improve the Discord integration, so I'll update this thread once there are new developments.

UI Upgrades

The website UI has been steadily improved over the last few weeks, including improvements to the Team Homepages, League Homepages, Team Lineups (see below), and many more pages. Feel free to browse around!



Over the past few weeks, I've added two leagues to FHMNOW which I'm pretty excited about. One is a longstanding multiplayer league with a full GM roster. They mostly wanted to take advantage of the website. The second league is a small group of friends who wanted to play together against mostly AI. This is a brand new league where the commissioner had no prior experience and no FTP server, so I got him set up with a FTP server connection in addition to the website. Onboarding these leagues helped me identify and resolve some technical quirks, and overall their onboardings went well. Here's League 1 and League 2.

With that said, I'm still looking for early adopters to use this platform for free until the FHM13 release later this year. Like I described above, early adopters help me improve the website and get the word out. Please reach out if you're interested!

[tomkmb]

This is fantastic, those lineup diagrams are the sort of thing that the player base have been desiring to be included in the actual game for a number of years now.

[machomike]

Project Updates:

Along with now being a free service, FHMNOW is now compatible with single player saves and you can create a private league right on the website. You can create a single player or online league by doing the following-

(1) Go to https://fhmnow.com/account to log in or sign up
(2) Select "Create a new league"
(3) Access https://fhmnow.com/account again to see your League Admin profile where you can upload CSVs

Got a few requests to make this possible and finally put in the time to get it working.

I still need to spend some time building out all possible playoff formats among some other things that might trip you up, so if anything is missing or you'd like something added, please reach out! I will almost certainly work on it and get it added.

Other than that, there are a few developments I'm proud of, such as...

Automated Power Rankings:



More expansive Game Previews:

[machomike]

Live Draft - Admins:




Live Draft - GMs:



Just added a pretty sweet live draft portal for multiplayer leagues! As you can see in the above screenshots, there's a public portal for GMs and an admin portal where commissioners can control the draft.

Once the commissioner maps each team to the correct Discord user, GMs can make selections with !draft commands in the configured Discord channel. Only the mapped user can make a selection for that team. Alternatively, commissioners can enter picks on the GMs behalf on the Draft Admin page.

Enabling Discord announcements will automatically post to Discord announcing selections, tagging the GM on the clock, and announcing dead hours when the clock pauses (for slower-paced drafts).

If you have any questions, just let me know! This is available to all multiplayer leagues on FHMNOW which is of course free to use. If you'd like to try it out, you can set up a league on the website just by creating an account and choosing "Create new league"