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Re: [FF]: 2016 Season Long Fantasy FIRST

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Originally Posted by ttldomination View Post
*sigh*

This decision is fine (we needed a call sooner or later), but it's worth mentioning that as of right now, it's an absolute pain in the $@#$@#$@# to automatically import a reliable team list...

...that is to say that TBA isn't a reliable source, FIRST API won't have 2016 data until the 2016 season starts, USFIRST is apparently out of date, and firstinspires is (currently) remarkably difficult to extract data from.

I'm not really expecting you to do anything, just my little rant.
- Sunny G.
The easiest way I have found to import teams for drafts is going to this page:
1)http://www.firstinspires.org/team-event-search

2)Finding the event (which is a lot faster on the new website)

3)Then copying the team information table and pasting it into excel. For me it creates a single column of cells with all of the data.

4)The last step is to sort the data from A-Z which puts the teams in order and all at the top.
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