ESPN Fantasy Football – Draft Tool Problems?
August 21, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Contests & Sweepstakes, Software & Online Apps
It’s that time of year again, guys switch from spending their time watching crazy videos of stupid stunts and pranks to preparing for their fantasy football team. I’ll be repeating my fantasy football seasons this year with ESPN Fantasy Football and Fox Sports Fantasy Football websites.
The only problem is that my draft is tonight for the ESPN league and I’m not sure if the draft tool is going to work or not. The assistance for knowing whether or not it is, is less than helpful.
To test the draft you click on link clearly labeled and you’ll see the screen above. When you click on the “Press Button to Begin Draft Test” in Firefox 3 I’m prompted with the following screen.
That file downloads and it shows that java is installing and a little non-descript window displays saying everything has installed fine.
Then the site just goes back to the original page. I think what would be really helpful is if something actually occurred on the site to show you what the draft tool is going to look like and how it should display when it’s going to work.
Hopefully I’m ready for tonight. Now I’ve got to go see who I should pick first since I’m going first.
I am having the same problem, except on the screen where you are prompted to download java, the buttons are all disabled so I can’t even choose to start the test. Good luck, I’d be anxious to hear if your draft worked.
The ESPN site doesn’t want to play nice with any other version of JAVA if you are using Internet Explorer. To correct this, go to Add/Remove programs and uninstall every version of JAVA except the 5.0 update 6 they want you to download. Then run the test again. That worked for me.
Obviously, the easiest fix is to download Firefox and off you go. Firefox workes perfectly with any JAVA version and the ESPN draft site.