Public leagues

Can someone please tell me how you can examine a particular manager’s past teams? I was never aware that could be done other than looking at the ATG tournament links.

I thought I might better start another thread.

I hope you all know that all leagues are public, easily accessible simply by changing numbers at the end of the url
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/442620
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/442621 bot league in this case
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/442622 etc

All teams are public similarly
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1522878
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1522879
etc

Heck, teams are public even before leagues are fulfilled. I am sure Cristano will be delighted to learn which stadium each manager picked in the Cristano1 invitational. FrankieT didn't go for a neutral stadium, it's one of the most lopsided stadium, I can tell you this much.

It's all there on the internet, folks

Actually, I can simply paste one of my team to illustrate. Stadium and roster value in plain view while I am drafting I am not sure if there is a way to see the draft card, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was one glitch:

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1537125

Ha...no doubt and no secret...Hilltop...for now

Glad you are back stirring up some old dust!

Thanks Marc. I'm still a bit confused.

First Question: I can see a list of all of my teams (Active and Recently Completed) by clicking the All My Teams link on the Your Account menu. The URL for that page is: https://365.strat-o-matic.com/member/teams.

Alternately, I can click the Archive of your older completed teams link to view history of all of my teams. The URL for that page is: https://365.strat-o-matic.com/member/teams/past.

I can remember many years ago, you could substitute another player's ID into one of those links to see their list of teams. However, TSN "fixed" that feature, so that you could no longer see someone else's list of teams. It would appear that cristano knows another method to view that list. Can you (or cristano or someone else) explain the steps to see that list?

Second Question: To look at another league, I know you can go to the Standings link on the Your League menu for one of your existing teams, then substitute the ID of another league. In that scenario, URL looks like this: https://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/######.

When I substitute the league ID of a league that has not yet been drafted, I am not able to see stadiums (which is as it should be). However, your post implies that one can see other managers' stadiums before the league is drafted. Am I missing something?

Thank you for asking those questions, RD. Those are my questions as well.

Yep, dying to know. Thought that loophole was closed years ago.

Same answer to both questions: one who wants to see team stadiums before a draft needs to set up an automated web crawler program that goes through all url numeric values of teams (not leagues). I am sure some whiz kids could set up such a program within an evening.

You could do it manually, like I did last night, but it's a time consuming effort (although it took me only 15 minutes to find a team in the Cristano1 invitational)


As I wrote, I am not aware that draft cards are available, but who knows, maybe some loopholes exist.

To repeat, all information sits on internet, so it's obviously easy to find loopholes.

The question I pose is this: why is any of this worth the effort?

The easiest, no tech way to cyber stalk another manager's teams is to just write down the ID's of leagues as they are forming and retain the records. But again, from my perspective, who gives a rat's ass?

Chrissie appears to be something of a whiz at Excel, which he claims to use to simulate entire seasons so who knows whatever other uses he has found for it.

Most managers, even the better ones, are an open book and even a small sample of their work is enough to discern their tendencies and prepare appropriate counter measures. My preference is to just focus on what works and what doesn't and leave the rest as extraneous noise.