Best Fantasy Football League Sites (1 Viewer)

[mcnabbmcnow]

What is the best site for managing a fantasy football league?

1. Someone told me yahoo has no waiver system and you can pick up free agents during games. Don't like that at all.

2. Live scoring must be moderately fast and not priced too high (ESPN Edge $30?)

3. Ability to commincate with other owners must be easy.

4. Trades must be able to be vetoed.

5. If the site shows your players bye weeks next to their name and has good stats, this helps.

What would you say is the best?

 

[The Shizzle]

CBSSportsline. Very pleased with it I guess.

First year with Myfantasyleague, not bad, alot of features and reports.

I don't like Yahoo or ESPN, and I have no experience with Fanball.

 

[kevinray]

I used yahoo forever, but our league got to complicated and yahoo is aweful and over priced if you want to do anything other then the basics. having to get stattracker for live stats is a joke as well. I looked at MFL and its options are off the wall. You could do anything with the site but I chose fanball this since it was cheaper and seemed like less work.

Fanballs nice but weird. It seems like a constant work in progress but if your willing to work around some minor problems its a good host.

 

[Archangels FF]

CBS sportsline - remember how aol dial up internet used to dominate the industry because it was easy to use, graphically enhanced and had alot of options? well thats CBS Sportsline right now. Easy to use, in depth stats and graphically fun. Although there draft software did not work out well this year.

Yahoo - Just a good basic fantasy site, pretty reliable, but with few options and no graphics. I found their online drafting to be flawless.

MFL - havent played on it in a while but people say it has gotten better.

ESPN - not too thrilled about espn although they did add some things this year. draft application just ok and i havent figured out a way to see any free information on players???

hope this helps

 

[bizarro]

What is the best site for managing a fantasy football league?1. Someone told me yahoo has no waiver system and you can pick up free agents during games. Don't like that at all.2. Live scoring must be moderately fast and not priced too high (ESPN Edge $30?)3. Ability to commincate with other owners must be easy.4. Trades must be able to be vetoed.5. If the site shows your players bye weeks next to their name and has good stats, this helps.What would you say is the best?

I use yahoo and cbs sportsline. I don't think that Yahoo or sportsline has a waiver system like you described, however, in my sportsline league we just agree not to make transactions untill 9PM on tuesday night. Nothing prevents you from making the transaction early, but if the timestamp on the transaction is less than 9PM (even 8:59), the comissioner reverses it. Low tech, but effective.Forgot to mention, we had some timeout issues with the draft from sportsline this year. Entire sportsline site went AWOL, just a few picks into round one. After about a 45 minute delay, we were able to finish, but I had to close and reopen my browser two or three times when java? app seemed to freeze up for me.

 

[RickJames]

I use League Manager at AOL. It's free, VERY Flexible and has DECENT live scoring.

It's kind of ugly, relatively speaking, but it's more than functional to me.

 

[Spartans346]

www.efsports.com

This is by far the best fantasy football out there!

 

[BrentBlack]

Free Service- AOL

Pay Service- MFL

That seems to be the consensus from the 34 other threads regarding this topic.

 

[Marek]

After using ESPN, Yahoo, and MyFantasyLeague, I will say that MFL is unquestionably the best of all of them for most "sharks".

The statistical content, league customizability, and features found on that site are impressive. Now I definitely think some of the other sites are "prettier", but in terms of features, stability, and flexibility, it's on an entirely different level. They just released this year's version of the MFL Game Day tracker, which updates every 30 seconds or so, has crazy amounts of statistical breakdowns for your leagues FF games and the related NFL games, and all kinds of great content. Best of all, everyone in your league can use it once you've paid for your league.

They even added Antsport's "Victory Points" system, which I think is most excellent. The only down-side I've seen was its draft system was a tad flakey for 1 or 2 guys (out of 20), but as the commish, I was easily able to fix whatever issues they had.

Of course, the upside to Yahoo is it can be free But I assume that's not an issue here.

 

[shadow2k]

I don't think that Yahoo or sportsline has a waiver system like you described, however, in my sportsline league we just agree not to make transactions untill 9PM on tuesday night.

Sportsline has a waiver system.

 

[evilempire]

I've used CBS Sportsline in the past and didn't have many problems with it, but it just didn't do it for me -- whatever the reason.

I've had friends tell me they hated Yahoo's system, so I've never ventured there.

I use Real Time Sports and have never had any problems with it. It might be a tad on the pricey side (about 70 bucks), but it can break things up with divisions, conferences, keeper rosters, customizable scoring, etc. It's graphically nice to look at and has a ton of nice extras, including the NFL schedule, league leaders and fantasy leaders based on your scoring system.

I've been using it for about four years now and really like it. Customer service has always been helpful, too, on the rare occasion when something has gone amiss. Have never had problems with the draft, either.

 

[intrinsic]

please, please, please

USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION!

Not only are you being lazy, but you are wasting your own time when you could be reading past threads that have hundreds of replies instead of starting a new one and waiting for responses.

 

[mcnabbmcnow]

What is the cost per team for Myfantasyleague.com as compared to CBS Sportsline? Or is it just a cost as a whole?

 

[IDP4ME]

www.efsports.comThis is by far the best fantasy football out there!

Stay far away from that site. IMO, it's run by iceholes and idiots. Although it's cool in what it can do with a salary cap, they don't support your league problems, only occasionally return emails and frequently experience hardware failure! AND it's $60 per team per year to play with NO prize money and NO live scoring.NOTE:Some of this could have changed in the last year as I got so disgusted I bailed in 2005.