Best free FF hosting site (1 Viewer)

[Godsbrother]

I am going to propose moving away from CBS this year and was wondering which free sites are good, have decent mobile apps, and has the same level of customizable scoring and scheduling that CBS provides.

Please do not bring up pay sites.

Thanks

 

[Gottabesweet]

Also interested. My redraft switched from CBS to ESPN after 15 years. ESPN won the vote 10-2 over Yahoo

 

[Dezbelief]

FleaFlicker for a free site can't be beat.

 

[ldizzle]

ESPN is ok. Death to Yahoo, especially after how many eff ups they had last year

 

[TZMarkie]

ESPN is ok. Death to Yahoo, especially after how many eff ups they had last year

I am not much on the ESPN layout, it just seems.....I don't know, cumbersome to me. Its hard to pinpoint, but I just don't much like it.

I actually rather like Yahoo, but I think deep down the majority of that is just familiarity and I'm used to it.

I think you are actually referring to the problems that happened in 2013 right?

There was one particular Sunday where guys couldn't make changes the better part of the day.

That was a real #####.

Other than that, I don't remember any major issues last season. You remember any offhand?

I'm just curious if I'm forgetting anything.

TZM

 

[Godsbrother]

Thanks for the input guys. Looking at the Sample FleaFlicker league now.

 

[Winning IS Everything]

Yeah, I am in a Fleaflicker league and like it. Not fancy, but works, and works right. Have not had issues since we switched there a few years ago.

 

[wodahSShadow]

Have played ESPN, Yahoo and NFL.com. ESPN, by far, for me.

 

[Phantom Knight]

Between ESPN, FleaFlicker and Yahoo my vote goes to Yahoo. I don't remember perfectly, but I was in a FleaFlicker league 2 to 3 years ago and while it had some nice touches, it also frustrated me at times. ESPN, I don't have anything bad to say. But I like the look and feel and structure of Yahoo better than both of these.

Some more customization would be nice. Being open year round and having better year to year transitioning (dynasty leagues) would be nice. Having robust message board/file posting would be nice and at times its lack was a frustration with Yahoo. Yahoo does not have the breadth and scope of MFL and so cannot support every type of league that MFL can - some highly customized scoring or rosters greater than 30 for example would not work in Yahoo. But for the vast majority of leagues, Yahoo does the job wonderfully and is highly polished - the nuts and bolts of the actually fantasy football application are top notch. Also, the player news section is better than that of many paid sites including (pardon me for saying) FBG where the news sections seems to stopped being updated soon after the season starts.

As an aside something else I really like (and usable whether or not your league is hosted on Yahoo) is the report of average points scored over the last 3 (or is it 4?) weeks. With a few exceptions (injured players for example), in week 12 I could care less what someone did in week 4 or 5. Seeing what a player has averaged over the last 3 to 4 weeks (total points would not account for bye weeks) is something I find helpful in seeing a player trending upward (or downward).

 

[BroadwayG]

I'll take Nfl.com over yahoo over espn over flea flicker.

 

[Craig_MiamiFL]

I prefer Yahoo to any (pay or not) site personally. Clean looking and easy to setup plus good player updates.

 

[cr8f]

We always regret free leagues, but hope you have a better experience than us.

 

[roarlions]

I looked into some free leagues in the last month and the 2 issues that bothered me the most were:

1. Inability to have tiered PPR scoring (most leagues seemed to allow 1 PPR for each position, but that was it).

2. Inability to have a slow online draft on the site. Most either allowed for quick, live draft or import rosters when a draft was held on another site.

 

[Godsbrother]

Thanks for all your feedback. We haven't made any decision so keep 'em coming.

 

[Alkahsu]

If your league uses fraction scoring like most leagues ESPN doesn't display scores correctly unless they've fixed it.

Example: Team A scores 98.98 points and Team B scores 99.02 points both teams score would show as 99 and Team B would (correctly) be awarded the win.

 

[houston]

I'll take Nfl.com over yahoo over espn over flea flicker.

How long have you used nfl site? I almost changed from ESPN last year.

 

[charlie87168]

I personally enjoy yahoo. Never liked the setup of espn. Hate cbs and nfl.

Biggest f up yahoo had was 2 years ago when nothing was being updated one sunday there entire system crashed. Came back on after halftime of 1 o'clock games. I believe same for the 10 am game this season.

But its just so easy and comfortable to use there app is great.

 

[BroadwayG]

I'll take Nfl.com over yahoo over espn over flea flicker.

How long have you used nfl site? I almost changed from ESPN last year.

4 years I think. I thought it was horrible at first, but it has grown on me. Now none of them are anything to write home about, but with NFL, yahoo, and ESPN you get all the fluff player news and videos which at least give the site some personality. Flea flicker is like looking at a shared google doc with 1/100th the functionality of MFL.

 

[Johnny Blood]

I looked into some free leagues in the last month and the 2 issues that bothered me the most were:

1. Inability to have tiered PPR scoring (most leagues seemed to allow 1 PPR for each position, but that was it).

2. Inability to have a slow online draft on the site. Most either allowed for quick, live draft or import rosters when a draft was held on another site.

Fleaflicker does both.