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So insightful!We stick with CBS b/c everyone is fine with it and we've got a lot of years of league history & records archived on the site. The site design is better than MFL IMO.FFYesterday said:
New sites hoping to win customers from CBS should be coming up w/ a way to transfer people's league's history and records. Might be the only way we ever leave CBS... that stuff is definately a major, MAJOR bonus
this is why I will not which, dynasty leagues
I'm not sure that this will impact fantasy leagues at all. MLB.com does all of their stuff in house (and is actually so good at it that corporations pay them for online help) - sportsline's baseball leagues are basically the same as the football ones.
rumor in the other thread is that you get extra special bonus for picking #3. No one has done it yet (shocking)
that is a good point and I'm sure people's experience will be different. I'm in 2 sportsline leagues, several yahoo leagues, a fleaflicker league, fanball/aol league and one myfantasyleague.com league. They all have their good points, but I like sportsline's the best. AOL's is second since it's free and has all the options that the paid fanball league does.Fear & Loathing said:
I don't know. I'm in a Sportsline football league and a baseball league. We didn't really have too many problems in the football league, but the baseball league had a lot of problems. Long delays on stat updates, incorrect stats and the draft tool was a disaster. A lot of the time, I would have to double check my stats because I knew what sportsline had up was wrong.
On the flip side, I had zero problems with Sportsline Baseball and my stats were correct all year. Maybe I just jinxed my football league for 07.
We switched from CBS this season at the start of the season with their crappy service. We quickly went to MFL and got our league up and going. Now everyone loves it and was thrilled that we got rid of CBS. MFL costs alot less, has a much better history option (for an additional cost that still brings it much cheaper then CBS) and your team and league history can be imported. We took our rebate and the $30+ will pay for half of MFL next year. Thanks CBS !!
Is this a well-camouflaged "WDIS" post?pagermill said:
I couldnt disagree more on the MFL vs CBS. We used CBS for over 5 years and switched this passed season and couldnt be happier. All of our owners were worried about the switch and it took them a week to get use to the different interface however after a couple of weeks every single owner thanked the fantasy gods for MFL. I cant imagine anyone having a hard time navigating MFL. There are 6-8 buttons at the top all with drop downs. Its not very difficult at all, however I guess there are people out there that still havent gotten that mouse over and click thing down yet. The options on MFL far out way CBS in almost every single way, and the look and feel is just amazing.
I agree with you on the advertising on CBS. It needs to go. I am paying for FF service not to see an advertisement of crappy McDonalds.
None of these features are on the MFL leagues that I play in.Not interested in designing my own webpage.
I know way to much work to design a page and make it look nice. MFL just looks sloppy. Like a couple of kids created it.
They arent ? Then your commish hasnt taken the time to setup your page. MFL gives you tons of options on what you want and dont want. It appears the leagues you are own havent been set up properly.Wilbur Wood said:
Perhaps, although it is an "FBG" message board league.I play in 4 or 5 different football and baseball leagues each . To me it would be a nightmare to have all sorts of different uniquely designed setups.
I understand that this is just your opinion and I will never look to take that from you.I was in the same exact position that you were in 2 weeks ago. I was a staunch supporter of CBS and would never really think of leaving even though there were some very big problems in my league this season. However, we really had some major waiver issues and I emailed every day and went to the help center every day and they did not get back to me once or fix my problem like they said they did in the help center. This combined with all of the other problems we had (not getting on Sunday morning is a huge thing, even if the commish can do it and adjust anything) forced me to seek out another site.Wilbur Wood said:
MFL offers the same generic history options that CBS does for free if you click on reports and go down to records. However I highly recommend spending the 15 bucks if your league has a bunch of junkies in it. The add on is just amazing.
fwiw your old sites are all accessible from previous years too...i have a folder where I bookmark them all so if for some reason I want to look back at a previous season I can do it with just the click of my mouse.someone also said they couldnt find their draft from this year but they have used MFL for like 3 yrs, I dont get that...if they posted the link I would be able to find it in under 5 seconds and I have been using MFL for just one year longer...in the end people dont like change they are scared of it for whatever reason but that is their choice...MFLs GAMEDAY APP is amazing, for those that dont know what it is its a LIVE SCORING APP that tracks EVERY LEAGUE you are in and it also has a sound option(free too) that you can turn on and it will announce EVERY SCORE in the NFL and also sacks and turnovers if you pick that option too...Last year GameDay was a beta test and this year they rolled it out...next yr I expect they will add even more bells and whistles to it
you dont need to spend time on web design but if you want to you can...here is a dummy league I just set up in 10 seconds...there are still a few more steps but as you see the site will walk you thru it...if you wanted to add a league logo or something like that I would hardly say that is web designing CBS vs MFL who wins
to try to help put to rest the mistaken impression that you need to know anything about web design when using MFL, check out these links applied to the above league - all of these "skins" are available for everyone with zero effort other than clicking one button on the "select a skin" page:halloween skin
http://football17.myfantasyleague.com/2006...=65874&O=71 and that link allows you to add or remove things from the homepage too, very easyily
One more thing to add to the people that have posted the MFL vs CBS league.A lot of this stuff, and what I was able to do with my site is already layed out in the mfl forums. All you need to do is cut and paste. Not one thing I did came from me knowing anything about web design. I know what you are saying with your time though. I have a lot of time so I like messing around with it. I am actually learning a little as I go
It's not just knowing, it's doing.And IMHO CBS looks more professional then each of the skins linked a few posts above. Just my opinion, i'm sure others may disagree.
Exactly - i took the 25% off for my league fee this year. Ther's no telling how much %50 of next year's fee will actually be. I'll be waiting to see if they bone everyone by upping the price.Do you have a multi-year deal? My league has not yet been informed of the 2007 price.
take your 25% and move to AOL then. AOL (free) and Fanball are identical as far as I can tell.Took the 25% and moving on to fanball
FWIW-Under the FAQ section of the rebate offer it says they won't increase the price for the Fantasy Football Commisioner in 2007.Exactly - i took the 25% off for my league fee this year. Ther's no telling how much %50 of next year's fee will actually be. I'll be waiting to see if they bone everyone by upping the price.
You must be a fan of McDonalds and Budweiser ads. Enjoy !
No they haven't, they got much much worse. Last year they had slowness, but we got through it. This year they had total unresponsiveness, at key times, and for the first several weeks the live scoring was almost unusable (especially with firefox for some reason).Now they've gone and FUBARed the power rankings in my league and its caused a complete cluster#### for the playoffs. I've already told everyone we need to switch to MFL, and will continue to rally hard to do so despite our use of CBS since its inception.
EDIT: oh yeah, and to heck with all their ads. I'm so sick of that damn Chevy ad sticking out into the message board when I use Firefox (yeah I know adblocker yada yada, always forgetting to add the extension).
Maybe i missed it on the "offer", but i went back in to the help section to see if tis is correct and can find nothing on the price remaining the same.FWIW-Under the FAQ section of the rebate offer it says they won't increase the price for the Fantasy Football Commisioner in 2007.Exactly - i took the 25% off for my league fee this year. Ther's no telling how much %50 of next year's fee will actually be. I'll be waiting to see if they bone everyone by upping the price.Do you have a multi-year deal? My league has not yet been informed of the 2007 price.
