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Dynasty league management sites (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter fezic
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I am the one who posted the topic, but will also give a response to the question and say that we use AOL and it has been ok, considering it's free. But, several things that have made us want to switch:
1. Navigation is not necessarily logical, hard to find some functions/features.
2. Pages load very slowly in general
3. Rookies not added to the pool until mid June, about 2 months after the NFL draft
4. Every year we have problems with converting into offseason mode - anyone with players on "injured reserve" (per owner designation) receives error messages and cannot add/drop players until AOL support makes the change to the IR designation for applicable player.
5. Upgrade to the site recently performed deactivated our waiver wire until week 2 of the regular season, and for that matter the waiver wire has never been configurable the way we want it to be (process 48 hrs from the time the player was initially waived. It's on a weekly cycle that cannot be changed, sometimes takes 9-11 days for some players to process on waivers).
I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones I noticed. I know everyone must think this about the site they use, but there HAS to be something better out there.
1. Navigation is not necessarily logical, hard to find some functions/features.
2. Pages load very slowly in general
3. Rookies not added to the pool until mid June, about 2 months after the NFL draft
4. Every year we have problems with converting into offseason mode - anyone with players on "injured reserve" (per owner designation) receives error messages and cannot add/drop players until AOL support makes the change to the IR designation for applicable player.
5. Upgrade to the site recently performed deactivated our waiver wire until week 2 of the regular season, and for that matter the waiver wire has never been configurable the way we want it to be (process 48 hrs from the time the player was initially waived. It's on a weekly cycle that cannot be changed, sometimes takes 9-11 days for some players to process on waivers).
I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones I noticed. I know everyone must think this about the site they use, but there HAS to be something better out there.
Finatic
Footballguy
bonscott
Footballguy
The new season sites are available on MFL in early February and rookies were loaded up a couple weeks later.
GregR_2
Footballguy
I love MFL overall and strongly recommend it. Some of the positives and negatives that might be less obvious in my mind:
Positives:
* They have an agreement with fantasyauctioneer.com, whose auction software blows MFL's away. You can do auctions at FA and have the results transferred over for you. They also have had a discount for using FA for MFL auctions in the past, though be sure to ask about it when you sign up.
* Fairly flexible options for tracking contracts and salaries.
* Previous years are maintained, and they offer the new leagues very early.
* Drafted rookies are available early.
* If there's something you can't do on the website easily you can probably do it fairly easily in the FFLM offline tool.
* Plenty of ability to customize your site, write your own HTML and stylesheets, etc.
Negatives:
* Undrafted rookies are not available until later in the season, though you can create a placeholder for the player manually. We had to do this with 2 players this year... though we do have incredibly deep rosters and have drafted 98 rookies so far with the draft not over yet.
* Some issues with how default salary and contract info is done. Instead of assigning the defaults to the player it seems to just treat any player with a null as having the default. That works great for displaying the values, but when you need to increment all the contract years you can't do it and have to go manually enter all the players that the default value was being used for.
* Some issues with the blind bidding waivers not allowing you to specify players to be dropped if you win the bid.
Positives:
* They have an agreement with fantasyauctioneer.com, whose auction software blows MFL's away. You can do auctions at FA and have the results transferred over for you. They also have had a discount for using FA for MFL auctions in the past, though be sure to ask about it when you sign up.
* Fairly flexible options for tracking contracts and salaries.
* Previous years are maintained, and they offer the new leagues very early.
* Drafted rookies are available early.
* If there's something you can't do on the website easily you can probably do it fairly easily in the FFLM offline tool.
* Plenty of ability to customize your site, write your own HTML and stylesheets, etc.
Negatives:
* Undrafted rookies are not available until later in the season, though you can create a placeholder for the player manually. We had to do this with 2 players this year... though we do have incredibly deep rosters and have drafted 98 rookies so far with the draft not over yet.
* Some issues with how default salary and contract info is done. Instead of assigning the defaults to the player it seems to just treat any player with a null as having the default. That works great for displaying the values, but when you need to increment all the contract years you can't do it and have to go manually enter all the players that the default value was being used for.
* Some issues with the blind bidding waivers not allowing you to specify players to be dropped if you win the bid.
