Okay, so, I’ve been messing around with this fantasy basketball thing, and let me tell you, figuring out the schedule is a real pain. I wanted to make a grid to see which teams play when, you know? Just to make my life a little easier. So, I started poking around, trying to find an easy way to do this.
First, I thought, maybe there’s some website that already does this. I checked out a few, but they were all clunky and didn’t really show me what I wanted. Most of them just had team schedules, but I wanted a simple grid. Like a big calendar view or something.
Next, I thought, “Alright, I’ll just do it myself.” I grabbed a piece of paper and started drawing out a grid. It was messy. I started writing down team names and realized I was gonna be writing all day. It was way too much work, and super easy to make mistakes.
Then I got smarter, I decided to use a spreadsheet. Excel, Google Sheets, whatever, same thing. I started typing in the dates across the top and the team names down the side. Then I started filling in the boxes with how many games each team had that day. It took a while, I’m not gonna lie. I was constantly going back and forth between websites, checking who was playing when. Ugh.
My “Brilliant” Solution
But here’s where it gets, uh, slightly less tedious, I guess. I figured out I could color-code the cells! I used different colors to represent the number of games. Like, green for four games, yellow for three, blue for two. You get the idea. It made it way easier to see at a glance which days were packed with games and which days were light. This way I could finally visualize the whole thing and see the best streaming options each week!
It still took a good chunk of time to get it all set up, but once I did, it was actually pretty helpful. I could see which teams had a lot of games on certain weeks, which made it easier to plan my roster. And it was all laid out in a way that made sense to my brain.
The Final Result (Kind Of)
So, yeah, that’s my journey into the world of fantasy basketball schedule grids. It wasn’t pretty, and it definitely wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be, but I ended up with something that works for me. I’m sure there’s a better way to do this, maybe some fancy program or something, but for now, my color-coded spreadsheet is doing the trick. Maybe next season I’ll try to automate it or something. We’ll see.
Anyway, if you’re into fantasy basketball and you’re as much of a schedule nerd as I am, maybe this will give you some ideas. Or maybe you’ll just laugh at my struggles. Either way, I thought I’d share my little adventure. Now, back to figuring out who to pick up off the waiver wire…
- Started by looking for websites, but they weren’t what I wanted.
- Tried doing it by hand, too messy and time-consuming.
- Spreadsheet time! Typed in all the dates and team names.
- Filled in the games, checked a ton of schedules, my eyes hurt.
- Color-coding to the rescue! Made it way easier to read.
- Took a while, but it works. I can see the busy days now.
- Not perfect, but it’s my beautiful, hand-crafted, schedule grid!
That was a long process, I need to go outside. Maybe find a hobby that’s a little less…intense.