RotoTracker adds full support for the new game type from DraftKings, but a change in their format may require some manual changes if you are getting skipped results.
Here's the TLDR:
On December 11, RotoTracker added support for the new Best Ball contests. This means that, for RotoTracker+ customers, new contests you import will be correctly categorized in your Style cohort. You will also see the style in the filter dropdown, to restrict all reports to just Best Ball contests.
If you are not a RT+ customers, then the results will still import fine, you just won't get the filtering unless you upgrade.
As normal, if you have already imported some Best Ball contest and want them recategorized under the new style you will need to delete the recent upload to roll back your database to a point prior, then do a re-import.
However, unfortunately DraftKings has done something a bit strange with these new contest entries. If you are finding that your imports in the last 24 hours have not imported some of your contest entries, then please read ahead!
For some reason, when DraftKings started spreading Best Ball contests in September at the start of the NFL season, even though these contests were not complete, they were added to your entry history files, and RotoTracker dutifully (and unwittingly) imported them. Of course, they had no results, so all were chalked up as losses. The prize pools were all set to $0.
If you did DraftKings imports between September and now, then you will probably find these erroneous Best Ball contests polluting your database, all chalked up as losses.
The problem is that now the Best Ball contests have completed, they have reappeared at the top of CSV files, now with the correct results in! RotoTracker sees these results, notes that you already have that entry result in your database, and skips it and all other records in the file!
We have just rolled out a fix so that pending Best Ball contests in entry history files — ones that do not have a prize pool — are not now imported into your database. Instead, we just skip over them. So moving forward, if/when this happens again, RotoTracker will handle the situation better.
However, this does not fix the problem retroactively, unfortunately, and we don't want to go in and delete entries in personal databases. So if you have issues with old, incomplete Best Ball contests then you need to delete your recent DraftKings uploads back to a point prior to when these were imported. We think if you roll back to early September that should be fine.
Then do a fresh import like you normally would, either a manual upload or with RotoTracker Sync. You should then have correctly categorized, correctly recorded Best Ball contests along with everything else.
Another sport added to the slate.
Yet another sport has been added: This time, DraftKings has started to offer contests for Aussie Rules Football (officially known as Australian Football or AFL, but not to be confused with Arena Football League added a year ago).
You know the drill by now: RT now has first-class support for these contest results. You'll find Aussie Rules in your sports filter dropdown and in your cohort reports and profit charts. Everything should work seemlessly, but if you were one of the few to try and upload a file in the last few hours with Aussie results and got some errors, delete and re-import to get all your data in.
Just a quick note to say that we have added support in for FanDuel's Bundesliga contests. As all other soccer contests, these will get grouped into the "Soccer" sport.
As we wrote yesterday, both major DFS sites have started offering fantasy contests for the Korean Baseball Championship (KBO). We added support for this under a new "Baseball" sport, and categorized new FanDuel contests as such (to keep it distinct from your MLB results).
DraftKings have now completed its first KBO contests too. Unfortunately, they have decided to handle this new sport by categorizing it (rather erroneously) as MLB in your CSV files. So if you did an import in the last day or two, you will see your DraftKings KBO results imported successfully, but categorized as MLB rather than Baseball.
We have just pushed out an update that sniffs the title, and if it starts "KBO" then we instead categorize these as the new Baseball category. It's not ideal (we'd rather DK grouped these distinctly in the CSV file!) but hopefully it is a good quick fix for you so your data matches up. We will monitor this, and if the file format changes, we'll make the necessary updates.
FanDuel also spread a free-to-play contest for Call of Duty: Warzone. They decided to categorize this "warzone." We have added support for this, grouping them under the existing COD sport.
As always, if you had import errors (or if you want your DK KBO sport grouped outside MLB), then just delete your last upload and reimport.
Both DraftKings and FanDuel are opening up fantasy contests to KBO.
Both FanDuel and DraftKings are adding fantasy contests for the KBO League, the Korean Baseball Championship, the live league of which got underway on Monday.
FanDuel has already completed some one-day contests, and we have updated RotoTracker to handle this new contest type. As always, if you had errors over the last 24 hours, delete your upload and try again to make sure all your data imports correctly.
Notably, FanDuel has categorized this as simply "Baseball," and we have followed suit — you will find the contests put in this new category, distinct from MLB. This makes sense to us as it allows for the flexibility to expand into other niche baseball leagues and group them all together.
None of our users have uploaded KBO results yet, but as soon as they do, we'll work to add in support ASAP. We're not sure how DK will be categorizing these in the CSV file yet, but we will endeavor to match them up with the FD results so they are grouped together.