Comments on: FanSoft’s Cheatsheet Creator

By: How I build my cheat sheets: The Fantasy Football Geek Blog

How I build my cheat sheets: The Fantasy Football Geek Blog — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:00:10 +0000

[...] Cheat Sheet Creator is a website I reviewed earlier. [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:12:58 +0000

I hate to be brutal, but since I build websites for a living I tend to be a little ruthless in my critiques of them, especially in cases like this, where something has the potential to be great and a few easy, obvious fixes are holding it back.

By: FFGoat

FFGoat — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:21:57 +0000

You guys are brutally honest. Keep up the good work.

Oh and Haze…thanks for the tip.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:29:06 +0000

Nice tip, thanks. I didn’t mind my method, but it’s good to know there’s an even simpler way.

By: The Hazean

The Hazean — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:27:59 +0000

“I find a set of player rankings in a table somewhere on the Web – it doesn’t have to be all that good or recent since I’m going to be changing the heck out of it anyway. It just needs to be in an HTML table so Microsoft Word will know to turn it into a table when I paste it in. I then paste the table from Word into Excel, and voila – instant spreadsheet of fantasy football players.”

That is more work than necessary to get a list into Excel. You can bypass word completely.

Are you using Excel 2007? If so, open Excel. Go to the Data tab at the top. Click on “From Web” in the table. Then give the browser that pops up the web address of the site you are pulling rankings from. Click the check box and voila, instant spreadsheet.

Not sure where these tabs are in previous verisions of Excel, but I know there is a way to import data from the web in those too.

Happy hunting!