Wow — September is here already. MLB is coming into the final stretch, and NFL is just about to start. The season opener is Patriots at Seahawks on Wednesday, September 9, at 8:20 PM ET.
Are you ready for some football?
The world of sports is always moving forward, and so is ASL.
August’s biggest headline is that we started the rebuild of The Machine user interface. We also continued to improve the DFS Optimizer, and we completed important infrastructure work that supports ASL’s next generation of fantasy sports products.
The Machine User Interface Rebuild Has Started
One of the most exciting developments in August was the restart of meaningful work on the user interface for The Machine, ASL’s original flagship fantasy football product family.
The current rebuild map includes 58 pages. We have rebuilt five pages, but our focus has been primarily on Rate My Team. Eventually we will modernize the design and incorporate support for MLB, NBA and NHL in addition to NFL, but our focus now is to bring back The Machine the way it was in 2016.
Here’s a quick peek at Rate My Team alive in a modern React/TypeScript environment:
It is currently connected to static data. The plan is to rebuild the user interface first, then rebuild the math and structure that supports it.
If you want to see what the original Rate My Team product did, here is the older demo video: https://youtu.be/lr9qQttPaGc
This is still early rebuild work, but it is an important step. The Machine is moving from concept and architecture back toward visible product development.
DFS Optimizer Improvements
ASL also continued improving the current DFS Optimizer during August.
The DFS Optimizer is now cleaner, faster, and more stable than it was earlier in the year. We also updated the product information and help pages.
ASL also prepared the DFS Optimizer for football season and created two new videos:
· A 30-second feature overview: https://youtu.be/0thWzlw_Enw
A 5-minute tutorial: https://youtu.be/yTHqq8Z65H0
The Foundation Under the Products
ASL also made major progress on the infrastructure underneath its products.
That may not sound very exciting, but it matters. Stronger infrastructure makes future product development faster, cleaner, and more reliable.
In August, ASL completed two important infrastructure phases and made progress on a third. The most important completed item is the Stat Archive System, which gathers and maintains ten years of historical player statistics for NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL.
That archive supports several future ASL advantages: better math, better testing, internal projection development, The Taguchi Brain, and stronger next-generation fantasy sports tools.
ASL also completed work designed to make projection updates faster and more reliable. That matters for DFS users because projection updates are time-sensitive, especially close to contest lock.
The roadmap image below shows how I think about ASL’s buildout. The vertical tracks are ASL’s major next-generation product lines. The horizontal track is shared infrastructure — the foundation supporting those products.
August moved several important blocks forward. That is the kind of progress ASL needs as we continue moving toward next-generation products.
When I am in full software-development mode, I am bouncing back and forth between two laptops, keeping Anthropic Opus 5.0 Copilot AI’s moving forward on ASL’s roadmap.
What Comes Next
September’s goals are to continue DFS Optimizer improvements, continue The Machine user-interface rebuild, complete more infrastructure work, and keep pushing the next-generation product roadmap forward.
ASL is building again — faster, cleaner, and on a much stronger foundation.
