MAC Tool gone?

[dutchmen58]

I cannot seem to find the MAC tool. Is it discontinued?

[RAY@HQ]

It is discontinued. Details here: https://www.baseballhq.com/articles/support/faq

[One Man Wolfpack]

All I know is this - I have probably been a member of Baseball HQ for up to 20 years at least. I have never seen such a mess as what I have seen with the new "improved" web site - I started my draft prep prior to the site change and "poof" - new updated downloadable files are completely different formats that previously used. Some parameters are non existent, negative ABs (what is a negative AB?). The Scoresheet aids for platoon players are nowhere to be found. In the past the platoon adjustments were visible to calculate platoon differences for lineup creation. They are now nowhere to be found. You click the Scoresheet link and all that is listed is their fielding range number?!? That's a big help. I can get that info from the player list posted by Scoresheet on their web site for free. I previously used the MACK engine to track ALL of my players performances. Gone. Please tell me that there will be something equivalent to the MACK Engine going forward. Baseball HQ has gone from organized to bedlam, all while trying to prepare for a fantasy baseball draft. Sorry for the piss and vinegar - but this really stinks.

[TMac]

I used the Mack Team Tracker ... a lot. I'll miss it. It was a good draft day tool in keeper leagues, to keep track of stats, via projections.

[TMac]

Is there a Tutorial available, for using the new site?

[RAY@HQ]

Rolling updates posted here, and there are two links at the top to the Welcome article and new site FAQs. Check out all of those and you should be up to speed...

[Larry Hockett]

I like the ability to sync the new MACK tracker to some (emphasis on "some") services. That would be invaluable. However, the leagues I am in don't use a service that links. That is understandable and not a complaint.

The issue is you took away the old MACK tool as you put up the new one. The old MACK was a great tool for building and tracking custom targets and select players. That disappeared. So if some leagues don't sync, you have taken away a service completely. We're left high and dry with no transition.

Let's face it, this changeover was poorly conceived and executed.

[Larry Hockett]

It is discontinued. Details here: https://www.baseballhq.com/articles/support/faq

It is not explained in this linked FAQ.

[Howie M]

I'm still "holding my powder" for now, but the elimination of MACK..... I still don't understand it, and I am not nearly alone.

ideally, there was some sort of formal or informal polling/focus groups etc months ago that led to a conclusion (even if misplaced) that subscribers either were dissatisfied with MACK, or chafing for something more modern.

HQ is generally excellent at transparency, imo. not sure I have seen a ton of that on the MACK issue. I do think elaboration would be productive - even if the end bottom line is "ok, in retrospect..."

nobody - nobody - is perfect. especially me.

[RAY@HQ]

It is not explained in this linked FAQ.

Sorry, that was the wrong link, try this one: https://www.baseballhq.com/articles/...t-our-new-site

[teddyballgame]

I like the ability to sync the new MACK tracker to some (emphasis on "some") services. That would be invaluable. However, the leagues I am in don't use a service that links. That is understandable and not a complaint.

The issue is you took away the old MACK tool as you put up the new one. The old MACK was a great tool for building and tracking custom targets and select players. That disappeared. So if some leagues don't sync, you have taken away a service completely. We're left high and dry with no transition.

Let's face it, this changeover was poorly conceived and executed.

I side with this poster.

The roll out here of your "new and improved" site is getting really frustrating. If you are going to have a MACK engine with sinked sites and you have a bunch of sites that aren't sinkable, why don't you have the option of the old Mack engine? i used that all the time to figure out what my needs would be within my league and now I am left blind.

Short sided decision here on the MACK and I am not a happy camper with the issues on this site now.

Just do better.

[mexipat]

The whole new site rollout has been so bad that I stopped using this site for draft prep. The decision to do the rollout during draft season is baffling.

[patnkeren]

The MACK engine was a lot of the reason I subscribe to HQ. The new league "sink" is of no value to me as a Scoresheet player. I may just drop HQ next fall and only purchase the Forecaster each year. That is how much dropping MACK means to me. I do like the quick responses that I have received for past questions, so I'm not knocking the staff here. It was a poor decision to drop MACK. It has been stated MACK had basically outlived its usefulness, correct? Who came up with that decision? Programmers? It was simple and elegant...

[aabakings]

I will be cancelling my subscription due to the cancellation of the MACK tool. This has been the most useful thing to me on the website for many, many years. I don't play Fantasy, and don't participate in leagues other than playing APBA Baseball. I have been a subscriber for probably 30 years. Attended my first Arizona gathering in 1997. MACK let me see my players each day on several APBA leagues, and is a valuable tool for getting to know and watch players who will be in our drafts for next year. The various sites that are proposed a sources for "teams" don't work because you can't have players on several teams. In MACK, you could have five or six teams where the same player was on multiple ones. I don't see how this is possible now. I simply don't care about the modern stats that fill the pages on BaseballHQ now. Barrels, exit velocity, and dozens of them mean little to me. I've been a baseball fan for over 60 years, and every day I lose more and more interest in the game. Evidently nobody thought it important to do some polling on what subscribers used or wanted. Looking for players in the new format is a gigantic pain. It is slow loading, and for I'm sure many of us includes information that is simply useless. Get off my lawn.

[JonE]

Well, there was a "poll," sort of. It was site analytics, which showed clearly that relatively few people used the MACK, and when the fact of declining use was combined with the technical difficulties of sustaining it, the decision to replace it seemed pretty straightforward.

Now, in hindsight, it appears that every single subscriber who still used the MACK really, really, really liked it, and used it extensively despite its flaws. And all of them are announcing their displeasure with authority. Which is their right. And it is also their right to decide that the site no longer serves their needs, and halt their subscriptions. (Although it seems a little churlish, or something, to criticize a fantasy baseball website for failing to serve interests other than fantasy baseball.) And yes, again in hindsight, HQ might have done more to prepare people for the transition away from the MACK, or to prepare folks for the workaround.

(I don't think there is any way they could have done this at a different time, given the impossibility of making a change during the season and the need to devote October and November to producing the Forecaster.)

Again, anyone is entitled to feel that this site does not serve their personal needs. But HQ works hard to serve subscriber needs, and the MACK kerfuffle is an exception rather than the rule. I'm staying.