Best site for free leagues (1 Viewer)

[Tony Reali]

What's the best site to hold free leagues? I was going to do a keeper league.

Fleaflicker, ESPN, Yahoo, CBS, NFL, etc?

I like fleaflicker's stuff you can do (i was able to set bonuses for if your player breaks an NFL record ) but ive never used it before to manage or play so I'm not familiar with it.

 

[Underachievers]

I love the Yahoo layout...but it would suck for keeper leagues because you do not have year round access to the league. If that is not an issue for you...then I would certainly recommend Yahoo.

 

[Tony Reali]

I love the Yahoo layout...but it would suck for keeper leagues because you do not have year round access to the league. If that is not an issue for you...then I would certainly recommend Yahoo.

I hate Yahoo's ranking system and weird positions though (like the Joe Webb QB/WR fiasco last year)

 

[Saint]

IMO, Yahoo has the best user interface and live scoring. Very clean and user friendly.

 

[munygon2]

I play in both ESPN and Yahoo and much prefer Yahoo due to the interface.

 

[Tony Reali]

So has anyone even used Fleaflicker? I've heard it's the best one

 

[Phantom Knight]

I love the Yahoo layout...but it would suck for keeper leagues because you do not have year round access to the league. If that is not an issue for you...then I would certainly recommend Yahoo.

+1 Great interface! And for my tastes a great built-in report - last-3-weeks-average-points-per-player!I would add a couple of things in regards to keeper/dynasty leagues. Yahoo definitely shuts down during the offseason. So if you do offseason trading/free agent pickups/rookie draft, Yahoo is probably not your best choice. But if offseason activity is not important...Sometime in July you can create a new league and automatically import the previous year's data. You can also designate team keepers (so it works for keeper/dynasty leagues with a little setup. And while Yahoo (I believe) does not explicitly support trading draft picks, I know that the commish can change draft picks so while it may not be automatic, you can still trade picks.

 

[Chairshot]

ESPN offers year round access and does keepers pretty easily.

I've mostly used ESPN the past couple years and I'd say the level of features and options available are really nice for a free league. I don't have much experience with Yahoo, tho, so I can't comment there. I've also heard good things about NFL.com.

With all the free options available, if you have fairly standard/traditional rules there is really no reason to pay for a league anymore.

 

[Phish Brigade]

ESPN offers year round access and does keepers pretty easily.

Just to be clear, ESPN isn't available year round. They shut down the site (albeit briefly) every spring. Fleaflicker has definitely improved this year. Even though ESPN isn't exactly glitzy, Fleaflicker is pretty bare bones in comparison. I don't care how good the interface is on yahoo, I boycotted that site and it's limitations years ago. Especially if you play IDP, yahoo is awful.ESPN > Fleaflicker -- Aside from the live scoring its definitely better but not by a huge margin.

 

[glong989]

Yahoo. Their interface is the best of the free sites and they have a helluva lot better information and live scoring. I don't really see how player rankings a site puts out really has anything to do with the quality of their free league interface/usability

If the weird positions from time to time are really that big of a deal to you then you can easily vote as a league to limit these to one position that they can be used for which the commish can mandate.