Saturday, December 31, 2011

Inflation Calculator November 2011 update

Added 2012 to the drop-down menu for the Inflation Calculator. Until the official data is released in mid-February, comparisons using 2012 dollars will use the most recent monthly data from 2011.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Inflation Calculator November 2011

Looks like the October 2011 update may not have made it to all devices. November 2011 update is now pushed correctly.

Now available on Android Market.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 2.3.1

Couple bug fixes discovered as football season comes to a close:
  • Fixed a bug where the odds for teams on the brink of elimination were being underestimated.
  • Improved calculation of division odds in points leagues to favor teams with higher point totals.
  • Improved calculation of playoff odds in points leagues to lower odds for teams facing insurmountable point gaps.
  • Corrected some issues where odds did not always add to 100%.
  • Fixed a text display error in the magic number window.
Both the full version and demo version have been updated on Android Market.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 2.3

Ready for the hockey season to start and the basketball lockout to end!
  • Hockey and Basketball added!
  • Added total strength of schedule.
  • Corrected the scale of strength of schedule calculations.
  • Clarified the strength of schedule descriptions.
  • Added an error message indicating if no magic number exists.
  • Fixed a crash that occurred when the magic number was being calculated for leagues where the second-place team in a division had 0 wins.
  • Fixed an issue where odds for past seasons of baseball points leagues were being calculated with incorrect data. Current seasons, category leagues, and football leagues are unaffected. You will need to delete and re-add your league to calculate these past seasons correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where division odds were shown incorrectly in charts if a league had divisions of different sizes.
  • Any statistics other than hockey +/- that end up accruing negative points will be represented as 0.
Both the full version and demo version have been updated on Android Market.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Inflation Calculator August 2011 Update

A couple days late, but I've now updated the Inflation Calculator with August's CPI data. I am now labeling versions of this app by the most recent month of data, so instead of calling this 1.0.6, it's called Aug 2011.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 2.2.1

I'm putting out another release because Week 1 revealed a few new bugs in the app. Sorry for the multiple releases in 24 hours.
  • Fixed a user-submitted bug where a crash occurred during probability calculation. Not sure what situation caused the crash, but corrected the culpable code.
  • Fixed a bug where no data appears on the magic number screen in certain cases. This most frequently happens in leagues where fewer than 50% of the teams make the playoffs during Week 1, when no team has a large enough lead to have a magic number.
  • Fixed a bug where week 1 graphs would display the entire season instead of just the single week.
  • Fixed a bug introduced in 2.1 where physical keyboard users pressing the enter button after entering a league URL or league ID would cause a crash when clicking the Get League Info button.
This update is now available for both the full version and demo on Android Market.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 2.2


Week 1 of the NFL is over, and it's time for some predictions! Plus, these new features:
  • Strength of Schedule added for all leagues: figure out the difficulty of your remaining schedule and who has benefited from an easy schedule.
  • Added touch scrolling to graphs.
  • Disabled magic number menu item for completed seasons.
This update is now available for both the full version and demo on Android Market.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Pizza Slice Price 1.1


I originally intended for Pizza Slice Price to be a one-release app, but got some pretty good feedback on how to improve the user interface. So here's a new update, with the following changes:
  • Added support for up to 10 pies.
  • Added detailed display of pizza size and cost.
  • Updated colors.
This update is now available on Android Market.

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 2.1

New feature time for those of you who don't like looking at tables... graphs!
  • Added probability graphs for playoff, division, and championship odds. Graphs in the free demo contain fewer data points than graphs in the full version.
  • Added option to refresh team names for an existing league through the edit league settings menu. Not applicable to past seasons.
  • Fixed a bug where the predictions would sometimes be sorted incorrectly while simulating, especially mid-simulation.
  • Fixed a bug where the user would initially not be able to scroll to a just-updated week.
  • Fixed a bug where a league waiting to be re-activated would display a "Team settings error" instead of "League has not drafted yet."
  • Fixed a bug where the app might crash while loading team settings data.
  • Fixed a bug introduced in 2.0.1 of the free version where, if a calculation finished while you were looking at a different week, the bottom 3 results would be saved instead of the top 3.
  • The keyboard now closes when clicking the Get Team Settings button.
This update is now available for both the full version and demo on Android Market.

Monday, August 29, 2011

September Release Schedule

With the start of the NFL season, September is a busy month for the Fantasy Playoffs Predictor. I'll be updating the app no fewer than three times in September, tentatively on the following dates:
  1. Saturday, September 3
  2. Tuesday, September 13
  3. Tuesday, September 27
I'll be adding new ways to analyze league data, plus support for fantasy basketball and hockey. Let me know what you are interested in seeing. Stay tuned!

Monday, August 22, 2011

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 2.0.2

Working on some new features with three weeks to go before the first football predictions come out... but got some user emails today reporting a bug with offline drafts. So I've pushed out another bug fix release:
  • Fixed a bug where some offline drafts would show up as "not drafted yet." Thanks to John and Dan for reporting this bug via email.
  • Fixed a bug where the current week would sometimes not show up on the magic number screen.
  • Fixed a bug where teams without an acronym would cause a crash.
Both the full version and demo are now available on Android Market.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Inflation Calculator 1.0.5

Now updated with July's CPI data. What do you want to see in the next version of CPI Inflation Calculator?

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 2.0.1

No new features - but fixes for two prominent bugs in 2.0 that needed attention:
  • Fixed a bug where the predictions would sometimes be sorted incorrectly while simulating, especially mid-simulation.
  • Fixed a bug introduced in 2.0 where calculating the magic numbers for a league would crash.
  • Fixed a bug introduced in 2.0 where the spinners would reset if the screen turned off while adding a new league.
Both the full version and demo - now with ESPN Fantasy Football support - are now available on Android Market.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Pizza Slice Price

Pizza Slice Price 1.0
for Android 1.6+, free

So I went to my favorite pizza shop today and noticed that 3 large slices cost more than a small pizza. I wondered how much more profitable those slices were... it took me a while, but I finally have the answer.

Hungry but watching your wallet? Pizza Slice Price lets you compare sizes and prices of slices and whole pies. Whether you're in the mood for a couple slices from a neighborhood restaurant, a 16" from a large chain, or a favorite homemade recipe, as long as it's round, you can calculate it!

Now available on Android Market.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 2.0


Ready for football season to begin!
  • Support for ESPN Fantasy Football!
  • Added automatic tiebreaking by points to points leagues. Points leagues with teams tied in both wins and points will still display as a tie at the end of the season, as will multi-category leagues.
  • Adjusted simulations to weight past performance more heavily. This was the result of fixing a typo which was causing past performance to be underestimated.
  • Fixed a bug where the user would initially not be able to scroll to a just-updated week.
  • Fixed a bug where the final week of the season was not being predicted in past leagues.
  • Fixed a bug where predictions were off for leagues with extremely long team names.
  • Fixed a bug where, when selecting a league, changing seasons after retrieving the league information would cause the incorrect information to be saved.
  • Fixed a bug where retrieving an update would never finish if a team had no manager.
  • Fixed a bug where leagues with no games played would display odd results.
  • Fixed a bug where incomplete league schedules might cause odd results.
Both the full version and demo are now available on Android Market.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Inflation Calculator 1.0.4

Another update to the inflation calculator today, with the June data from the BLS.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 1.3


New update, with additional features and a smoother user interface.
  • Added ability to determine playoff and division magic numbers for the current season.
  • Added menu option on the playoff probabilities page to manually stop a playoff probability calculation. A manual start can occur by clicking the "Recalculate" option.
  • Removed an auto-backup feature which was causing freezing on slower phones. Playoff probability calculations are now only saved at completion or manual stop.
  • Re-ordered non-playoff leagues by their probabilities, not expected wins.
  • Fixed a bug where non-playoff leagues would return a "playoff settings error." These leagues will be treated as leagues where only the division leader makes the playoffs.
  • Fixed a bug where leagues would not load if their schedule contained byes.
Both the full version and demo are now available on Android Market.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 1.2.1

Small update today.
  • The price of the full version has been dropped to $1.99!
  • Added menu option on the playoff probabilities page to copy the data to the clipboard.
  • Added menu option on the playoff probabilities page to re-calculate a week's data or an entire season's data. This will not interrupt a currently calculating week.
  • Fixed a bug where the app would re-check for an stats update even if it had just found that there was no stats update.
  • Fixed a bug where team names would not be displayed properly in leagues without playoffs.
Both the full version and demo are now available on Android Market.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Inflation Calculator 1.0.3

Inflation Calculator has been updated to reflect an updated conversion rate for the year 2011, based on the CPI data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It also now contains the ability to move the app to the SD card.

Now available on Android Market.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 1.2


New in this version:
  • Added the ability to calculate probabilities for older baseball seasons (2004-2010).
  • Reduced the frequency of a bug where the standings were sometimes ordered incorrectly.
  • Fixed a bug where the refresh settings button did not work.
Both the full version and demo are now available on Android Market.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 1.1


Now with the ability to predict the number of wins a team will end the season with, the odds of winning the division, and the odds of taking home the championship.

Other changes:
  • Portrait resolution now shows team acronyms, landscape shows full team name and acronym.
  • Scrolling on league pages has been added.
  • Fixed a bug where the next week button might not appear.
  • Fixed a bug where a user could not load data if the Internet disconnected while loading a league for the first time.
  • Fixed a bug where playoff probabilities for weak division winners may have been overestimated.

Note: Users of version 1.0.1 will see a re-calculation of previously saved data to provide the new probabilities.

Both the full version and demo are now available on Android Market.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 1.0.1

Fantasy Playoffs Predictor 1.0.1
for Android 1.6+ (Android 2.1+ required for versions 2.4+), free limited-functionality version or $3.99 full-functionality version.
Requires Internet connection to retrieve information from your fantasy league provider.

Is your fantasy team in "go for it now" mode, or is it time to trade your stars for keepers? This app tells you if you're ready to take home the fantasy championship.

The Fantasy Playoffs Predictor's unique algorithms determine your team's odds of making the playoffs, winning the division, and taking home the title. This data can help you decide if your roster will carry you to the postseason or if you'll need to take a chance on some sleepers to move up in the standings.

This app is for use with ESPN Fantasy Baseball head-to-head leagues that use a Points, Each Category, or Total Categories scoring system. It supports public, prize-eligible, and private (standard or custom) leagues that are visible to the public. No login required!

This summer, we will add support for ESPN Fantasy Football, ESPN Fantasy Hockey, and ESPN NBA.com Fantasy Basketball - all in this one app. This app will support fantasy sports in future seasons - there will be no need to buy a new app every year! The paid version of this app will always be ad-free.

The demo version of this app provides the odds for the top few teams only.

In the event that you are in a head-to-head league without a postseason, the app will predict the likelihood of each team finishing first in its division.

This app requires an Internet connection. It will connect to your league provider to retrieve league-relevant data. Most league updates will require less than a half megabyte download. No personal information not relevant to your fantasy league is retrieved or sent. In the event of an error, we may retrieve your league ID to see if we can reproduce the error.

Both the full version and demo are now available on Android Market.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Inflation Calculator 1.0.2

Inflation Calculator has been updated on Android Market to version 1.0.2 this evening. It contains an updated conversion rate for the year 2011, based on the CPI data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The next update of this data will come on June 15, 2011.

Although other inflation calculators exist, the goal of this app is to provide the BLS data free of advertisements and permissions.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Inflation Calculator 1.0.1

Inflation Calculator 1.0.1
for Android 1.6+, free

Nothing too fancy about this one. Just an inflation calculator based on the Consumer Price Index provided by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.

New in version 1.0.1: Fixed an error where a rotation would cause the year field to reset.

Now available on Android Market.