best free/cheap league site (1 Viewer)

[skopi]

My wife is starting up a casual fantasy league for her workers (after a coworker who had been running the league left). Anyone have advice on which free or relatively cheap site has a solid league?

They originally used nfl.com which has a very strange drafting system which seems to randomly pick your draft position each round and requires exactly 12 players in the league. Then they switched to yahoo which required you to setup one complete list of players to draft for an autodraft. (ie., you could not say you want a QB in round X, etc, it just picked whoever was the next on your list).

So thoughts on a decent site for a casual league would be nice.

thanks,

Scott

 

[ScoobyDoo]

ESPN is free and seems to work pretty well.

 

[bagarner]

ESPN is not bad at all. Yahoo is really nice as well. In fact, most of my money leagues are played through Yahoo. I personally think Yahoo is better than ESPN, but that is probably because I have used Yahoo for so many years.

 

[The Reytheist]

My work league had a fantastic season with http://www.fleaflicker.com/ last year. We're back again this year.

 

[UW72]

I never played on Yahoo but I can support ESPN, you can customize almost every setting you want, it is free and has live scoring.

On FleaFlicker you cannot change all the settings and some special rules that apply to some leagues are not possible.

NFL.com is 130 bucks a year, that's about 11 USD per player for keeper leagues. Redraft leagues are free. Here are also some limitations to the possible set ups. Most annoing is that fractioned points are not possible and you can only run 12 team leagues.

I never played on Fox sports but heard only good things about Fox sports.

 

[The Reytheist]

I never played on Fox sports but heard only good things about Fox sports.

That's surprising. We were going to have our league hosted by Fox last year, but had to migrate the league during week one due to terrible server bandwidth and laughable customer service. I know I'm not alone in that, given a few threads posted last year.

 

[Mystery Achiever]

Then they switched to yahoo which required you to setup one complete list of players to draft for an autodraft. (ie., you could not say you want a QB in round X, etc, it just picked whoever was the next on your list).

I'll go with the ESPN votes, but the autodraft takes your next player. I don't know that any site's autodraft system is "smart enough" to all;ow you to designate players by round. Plus, imo, it is a bad idea because it is less adaptive to the way the draft goes.ETA - a problem with Yahoo is that the waiver wire never closes, i.e. ypu can go online in the oddle of a game and get an injured players back up. Can a Yahoo user comment on if this is still the case with the free version?

 

[Stv50]

My work league had a fantastic season with http://www.fleaflicker.com/ last year. We're back again this year.

The big problem with fleaflicker is that it allows people to just leave the league. I have been in a few of these leagues and everyone has multiple teams leave the league. Sometimes right after a draft. Even though AOL took over this is still a problem. I will not be in any of these leagues next year.

 

[pollardsvision]

i've yet to find a site that'll do what espn does for free.

a couple limitations i have noticed

1. i haven't figured out how to do staggered PPR, and i assume it's not possible on ESPN

2. i don't think you can adjust auctions budgets from the standard $200 to account for really large rosters and IDP leagues

#2 is not a big deal as i can't think of any other sites that'll do auctions for free anyway.

yahoo's okay, except i can't think of any reason to choose them over ESPN. free live scoring and auction capabilities make ESPN a clear choice over them.

(and i'll never use yahoo anyway until they get better with adding players to the waiver list in baseball. it's ridiculous)

 

[FFdork]

It's also worth noting that Yahoo hosting is not 'free' if you like Live scoring. If everyone in a decent-sized league pays for the Live scoring, you could have just used MFL.

I tried to get a Fleaflicker league going just to check them out, but I came up with the idea a little too late. It did have free Live scoring.

 

[skopi]

Thanks everyone for the quick response.

May your players exceed their expectations!

Scott

 

[UW72]

I never played on Yahoo but I can support ESPN, you can customize almost every setting you want, it is free and has live scoring.On FleaFlicker you cannot change all the settings and some special rules that apply to some leagues are not possible.NFL.com is 130 bucks a year, that's about 11 USD per player for keeper leagues. Redraft leagues are free. Here are also some limitations to the possible set ups. Most annoing is that fractioned points are not possible and you can only run 12 team leagues.I never played on Fox sports but heard only good things about Fox sports.

Similar question was asked here in a German FF-Forum and there have been two guys who liked Fox sports best, dunno...I like what you can get for free from ESPN. It has free live scoring and almost every setting can be customized.

 

[mozzy84]

fox sports worked fine for us last year. Never used any other ones besides yahoo and that doesnt have live scoring.

 

[Mr. Peterson]

Does anyone know of a league that allows 1/2 point per reception for RB's?

I'm doing a PPR league (that already drafted) and I wanted a full point for WR's and TE's but only a 1/2 point for RB's.

Is there a league that offers that?

 

[Sack-Religious]

Does anyone know of a league that allows 1/2 point per reception for RB's?I'm doing a PPR league (that already drafted) and I wanted a full point for WR's and TE's but only a 1/2 point for RB's.Is there a league that offers that?

I know Fleaflicker does, and I'm pretty sure other places do, as well.