This is the draft guide that I will use for all of my upcoming drafts. That is to say…I trust it quite a bit. I’ll share a bit more on usage over the next week (hopefully with a video tutorial link before 8/10)…hopefully.
An embedded version of the dashboard in a vertical format is below. However, the only way to use the dashboard properly is to download the Tableau Public program. It’s free and can be found HERE
There are two reasons you have to download the program, along with the dashboard:
1) you need to assign players as they’re selected to either in/out of your roster and this isn’t possible within the online version
2) you’d lose all of your progress if the browser were to refresh during a draft (that would be a disaster)
Quick shout out to Blake at Tableau’s Support Desk. He, along with Tableau in general, are simply awesome. Blake worked with me an icky amount (for him) to help me get this thing perfect. Note that you’re downloading two things: 1) Tableau Public from the link above and 2) the dashboard itself- click the icon at the lower-right of the dashboard below that looks like a rectangle with a downward facing arrow. There is a blank space near the bottom of the dashboard and the lower banner (where the icon is located) is just below that. A pop-up will appear and you’ll choose to download the workbook. Once you have both on your computer…open that puppy up.
I’ll explain how to make your selections in the video. The short version…if you can follow it…is that you left-click on the score prediction for the player being selected and then a pop-up will appear. You’ll see one referring to sets near the right side. Select the appropriate set: my roster set or taken players set. This will drop them from the overall list and put them on the right in their appropriate list. Note that I made a landscape and a vertical version of the dashboard. You’ll see both as tabs in the file when you download it. Both function in the same manner. Just in case the icon is blocked by an ad in your browser, you can go directly to the site where the embedded image comes from HERE
Without further chatter, the dashboard is below.
