League Management Sites-What is the best one (1 Viewer)

[AcerFC]

I have been a commish for a fantasy football league since 2003. I have been playing in fantasy for a lot longer and I was one of the many guys who ran stats from the paper on Monday/Tuesday mornings.

When the Internet made it easy to move a league online, we jumped at the chance (2003 being our first time- did take some years off). We went with ESPN because I figured that they were a huge company and how could they get it wrong. Well, it proved to be garbage and we came back in 2004 because it offered a huge discount. 2004 was not great but it wasn’t horrible. Then we came back in 2005 and left after the 2nd week. We went to EA Sports who was free. I personally liked EA as a commish but there was problems with some people logging on. (I still have nothing bad to say about EA, but we left after 1 season)

I have commished a baseball league on CBS Sportsline so we went there. They have not been very good as documented by many posts (For us-maybe not for everyone). SO, I went looking on the boards for advice and found many different threads about League Management sites and thought it would be great to have all the discussions under one post. I cant say enough for GregR’s post about League Rules that got pinned as people can easily find what they are looking for. I don’t know if the mods will see fit to pin this, but I do think that it might help commish’s like me who don’t know where to turn for their service.

Please let me know if you have a thread that I have missed. I will try to continuously update this list as they come. I tried to do the best search that I could for all sites.

Hope this helps

edited to add: If you post your thoughts about each service in this thread, please keep your post like PoolShark (post 5). Give input on pluses and minuses, not why other leagues are bad

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[Marc Levin]

You. my friend, just earned yourself a pin with all that work.

Any more league software threads can be closed and referred to this one.

 

[JohnnyU]

I know that took some time.

 

[AcerFC]

I know that took some time.

It did take a lot of time, but guys on this board have helped me immensely, if nothing more then to just give me good ideas. I felt that it was the least I could do.Plus it helps me as a commish so its a win-win for everyone

 

[PoolShark]

Excellent idea for a thread!

I've been using CBS, RTS & MFL for many years each for the 3+ leagues I play in. IMO...

CBS has the best, "cleanest" & most eye-pleasing set up. You're own players are highlighted everywhere which makes it easy to compare them to others statistically. The problem with CBS, as it has always been in my 5 or 6 year experience, is delays and lock ups. Page loading is almost always slower than RTS & MFL (cable), and many times this year I haven't been able to get on at all during crucial late Sunday mornings. Additionally, they are more expensive then the other two. IMO, it doesn't matter how great you set up your site if log in issues constantly hamper teams.

MFL is the most "drab" of the 3, but they are also highly customizable if you have the time and inclination. I prefer their tabbing and information availability over the others. Just about anything you need can be had with just one click on the multiple drop down menus. I honestly can't remember ever having log in issues on MFL, and they are usually very fast as you jump from page to page. Pricing is also reasonable.

RTS is the site I use for the league I run. They are "in the middle" of the other 2 in most categories, but their basic service is the least expensive of the 3. Log in problems are very rare. Tabbing and information availability is a little more confusing than the other two, IMO.

When my league went online, we did one year with CBS, but after experiencing the previously mentioned problems we jumped to RTS and have been happy with it. If I had it to do again, I'd probably go to MFL instead, but I don't think you can go wrong with either. We have stayed with RTS because everyone is familier with the interface and the service is decent & cheap.

I believe all 3 offer a "test" league where you can surf through everything and evaluate their set up before making a decision. Good luck if you have a decision to make, and once again great thread!

 

[The Funk Bud]

A site that you didn't mention and the one I like the most is aol.com. Its interface is nice, the league setup is very customizable, it provides plenty of user options, the living scoring is fast and reliable, and best of all it's FREE!

I've used cbssportsline, nfl.com, and myfantasyleague and have been disappointed with each of them. Myfantasy league isn't as user friendly. CBS and NFL.com are unreliable. And when I think about paying $130/yr. for cbs' overloaded servers come Sunday afternoon, it makes me appreciate AOL all that much more.

 

[bentley]

A site that you didn't mention and the one I like the most is aol.com. Its interface is nice, the league setup is very customizable, it provides plenty of user options, the living scoring is fast and reliable, and best of all it's FREE!I've used cbssportsline, nfl.com, and myfantasyleague and have been disappointed with each of them. Myfantasy league isn't as user friendly. CBS and NFL.com are unreliable. And when I think about paying $130/yr. for cbs' overloaded servers come Sunday afternoon, it makes me appreciate AOL all that much more.

Great work on the original post. I also agree with The Funk Buddha. We've used AOL for two years and are absolutely thrilled with it.

 

[MOAT]

This is a great thread. I'm going to have to run through those threads, esp. in the off-season (hopefully not starting this week).

AcerFC wins Post Of The Week this week!

 

[Sister Havana]

Excellent info here.

 

[Maelstrom]

Haven't seen anything for FleaFlicker.com yet. They have some fairly advanced web programming, could be considered one of the first "web 2.0" (I really hate the designation btw) FF websites.

The site seems pretty easy to use, fairly customizable and easy for a commissioner to setup. They have some fairly nice graphs and info about players and teams to help in comparisons. And they are free.

The downside - being free, they are ad supported. This means lots of ads, although they are not extremely distracting usually. The site was designed to allow for them without interfering too much with the content. Plus, Firefox + AdBlock = no ads at all. But it is a downside if you hate ads.

The other downside is that they are new on the scene (this is their 2nd year, I believe), and seem to have a very small staff (not even sure if they have a full staff or if it is just a single guy handling everything.) I am a little concerned about their scalability if they start getting large.

Overall though, we ran a fun league there this year after first trying AOL, which we switched off of fairly quickly. I haven't heard any complaints about it either. Hopefully no one in the league minds me posting the link if anyone wants to look around the league:

FBG BF2 League

For those looking for a free league, definitely check this one out while looking around. I think it stacks up well with some of the more established sites.

edit: added link to league

 

[Marc Levin]

This is a great thread. I'm going to have to run through those threads, esp. in the off-season (hopefully not starting this week).

AcerFC wins Post Of The Week month, so far this week!

 

[bentley]

Haven't seen anything for FleaFlicker.com yet. They have some fairly advanced web programming, could be considered one of the first "web 2.0" (I really hate the designation btw) FF websites.

The site seems pretty easy to use, fairly customizable and easy for a commissioner to setup. They have some fairly nice graphs and info about players and teams to help in comparisons. And they are free.

The downside - being free, they are ad supported. This means lots of ads, although they are not extremely distracting usually. The site was designed to allow for them without interfering too much with the content. Plus, Firefox + AdBlock = no ads at all. But it is a downside if you hate ads.

The other downside is that they are new on the scene (this is their 2nd year, I believe), and seem to have a very small staff (not even sure if they have a full staff or if it is just a single guy handling everything.) I am a little concerned about their scalability if they start getting large.

Overall though, we ran a fun league there this year after first trying AOL, which we switched off of fairly quickly. I haven't heard any complaints about it either. Hopefully no one in the league minds me posting the link if anyone wants to look around the league:

FBG BF2 League

For those looking for a free league, definitely check this one out while looking around. I think it stacks up well with some of the more established sites.

edit: added link to league

What caused you to switch off AOL?

 

[Maelstrom]

Haven't seen anything for FleaFlicker.com yet. They have some fairly advanced web programming, could be considered one of the first "web 2.0" (I really hate the designation btw) FF websites.

The site seems pretty easy to use, fairly customizable and easy for a commissioner to setup. They have some fairly nice graphs and info about players and teams to help in comparisons. And they are free.

The downside - being free, they are ad supported. This means lots of ads, although they are not extremely distracting usually. The site was designed to allow for them without interfering too much with the content. Plus, Firefox + AdBlock = no ads at all. But it is a downside if you hate ads.

The other downside is that they are new on the scene (this is their 2nd year, I believe), and seem to have a very small staff (not even sure if they have a full staff or if it is just a single guy handling everything.) I am a little concerned about their scalability if they start getting large.

Overall though, we ran a fun league there this year after first trying AOL, which we switched off of fairly quickly. I haven't heard any complaints about it either. Hopefully no one in the league minds me posting the link if anyone wants to look around the league:

FBG BF2 League

For those looking for a free league, definitely check this one out while looking around. I think it stacks up well with some of the more established sites.

edit: added link to league

What caused you to switch off AOL?

Liked FleaFlicker better, honestly. I didn't have a problem with AOL (being that I know Fanball's commissioner software pretty much in and out and it's the same thing) but FleaFlicker had a shorter learning curve for everyone involved. There are some setup things with the Fanball/AOL system that can be a little confusing if you are not used to the system as well, and since we were checking out a couple different services at the same time, we just ended up choosing FleaFlicker.

 

[bentley]

That's cool. The way I originally read it, it seemed like you had some huge problems with using the AOL software. We've never had any, but I was wondering if maybe we were just lucky. I'll be interested in giving FleaFlicker a look.

 

[pizzatyme]

I really like www.fantasybowl.com

Their interface is really user friendly. They may be using someone else for their service, but I like it!

 

[Gottabesweet]

Good work.

 

[yinzer]

I was in a league on commissioneronline.com last year. I thought it was pretty good. Easy to navigate, no extra advertisments or stuff to make it harder to focus on what your looking for

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

As someone who has made quite a few "list" posts (including the college bowl one in the sig), I can appreciate the effort that this took.

Nice job.

 

[AcerFC]

As someone who has made quite a few "list" posts (including the college bowl one in the sig), I can appreciate the effort that this took.Nice job.

Thanks Jeff, I appreciate it

 

[Jim Otto]

I'm certain this is addressed in one of the above links, but I'm way to lazy to look.

I am Commish of a Sportsline league and am thinking of switching us to MFL. I like the customization and the reviews here are always glowing.

I have set up a league (it's free for the rest of the season) to test it out and I'm in the process of setting up scoring. We use decimal scoring, which is the way to go without a doubt, and when I put in my scoring setup and run their "test" I am getting round numbers. I have a feeling that this is just the limitations of the test run, and that it works fine in actual games, but I would like confirmation.

Here is an example of how I'm filling out the fields:

.1 points for each 1 yard rushing

I would expect that to give me 5.5 points for 55 yards rushing, yet the "test" only says "5".

So, does decimal scoring work on MFL? Or am I an idiot?

TIA

 

[AcerFC]

I'm certain this is addressed in one of the above links, but I'm way to lazy to look.I am Commish of a Sportsline league and am thinking of switching us to MFL. I like the customization and the reviews here are always glowing.I have set up a league (it's free for the rest of the season) to test it out and I'm in the process of setting up scoring. We use decimal scoring, which is the way to go without a doubt, and when I put in my scoring setup and run their "test" I am getting round numbers. I have a feeling that this is just the limitations of the test run, and that it works fine in actual games, but I would like confirmation.Here is an example of how I'm filling out the fields:.1 points for each 1 yard rushingI would expect that to give me 5.5 points for 55 yards rushing, yet the "test" only says "5".So, does decimal scoring work on MFL? Or am I an idiot? TIA

I was actually in the same exact position as you were in and that is why I started this thread. Here is the answer to your questionAssuming you have your scoring set-up correctly, have you gone to Commissioner > General Scoring Setup & changed the # of decimal places to 1 or 2?

 

[Jim Otto]

I was actually in the same exact position as you were in and that is why I started this thread. Here is the answer to your questionAssuming you have your scoring set-up correctly, have you gone to Commissioner > General Scoring Setup & changed the # of decimal places to 1 or 2?

Thank you.

 

[OrangeCurtain]

This is exactly what I came here to find, kudos to you AcerFC.

 

[bentley]

Just wanted to say again that although there aren't many threads about it, AOL is very customizable, reliable and free.

 

[Brewzers]

Just wanted to say again that although there aren't many threads about it, AOL is very customizable, reliable and free.

I currently use Fanball. I just checked out AOL and my biggest question was answered, you don't have to be an AOL subscriber to play. I can't believe I'm paying $60/year to Fanball and AOL is the same thing only free! Am I missing something or is this the biggest no brainer ever?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Just wanted to say again that although there aren't many threads about it, AOL is very customizable, reliable and free.

We run a league where there are 2 seperate 'leagues' of 12 teams (more like AL and NL in baseball). Each league runs pretty much independent of the other with one week of inter-league play and a final "Super Bowl" between the two leagues. Each one has a seperate draft and its own player pool. Its also a keeper league. Do you know if the AOL software can handle a set up like this?

 

[Maelstrom]

Just wanted to say again that although there aren't many threads about it, AOL is very customizable, reliable and free.

We run a league where there are 2 seperate 'leagues' of 12 teams (more like AL and NL in baseball). Each league runs pretty much independent of the other with one week of inter-league play and a final "Super Bowl" between the two leagues. Each one has a seperate draft and its own player pool. Its also a keeper league. Do you know if the AOL software can handle a set up like this?

You could do it, but it requires a lot of commissioner juggling and score overrides. You would use two seperate leagues to accomplish it, and have some dummy teams for the inter-league play weeks/Super Bowl.Probably better off using something like MFL that handles this, even though it costs.

 

[bentley]

Just wanted to say again that although there aren't many threads about it, AOL is very customizable, reliable and free.

We run a league where there are 2 seperate 'leagues' of 12 teams (more like AL and NL in baseball). Each league runs pretty much independent of the other with one week of inter-league play and a final "Super Bowl" between the two leagues. Each one has a seperate draft and its own player pool. Its also a keeper league. Do you know if the AOL software can handle a set up like this?

It won't do that at this point. It will only allow players to be on one roster. With that restriction, you'd have to set it up the way Maelstrom said and it would be quite a headache.

 

[Monarch]

Just wanted to say again that although there aren't many threads about it, AOL is very customizable, reliable and free.

We run a league where there are 2 seperate 'leagues' of 12 teams (more like AL and NL in baseball). Each league runs pretty much independent of the other with one week of inter-league play and a final "Super Bowl" between the two leagues. Each one has a seperate draft and its own player pool. Its also a keeper league. Do you know if the AOL software can handle a set up like this?

It won't do that at this point. It will only allow players to be on one roster. With that restriction, you'd have to set it up the way Maelstrom said and it would be quite a headache.

I am the commisioner of a 24 team league. We went with MFL. Two 12 team leagues are set up in two different conferences and the winners of each conference play in a final. MFL allows players to be on more than one team. I think it worked well.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Just wanted to say again that although there aren't many threads about it, AOL is very customizable, reliable and free.

We run a league where there are 2 seperate 'leagues' of 12 teams (more like AL and NL in baseball). Each league runs pretty much independent of the other with one week of inter-league play and a final "Super Bowl" between the two leagues. Each one has a seperate draft and its own player pool. Its also a keeper league. Do you know if the AOL software can handle a set up like this?

It won't do that at this point. It will only allow players to be on one roster. With that restriction, you'd have to set it up the way Maelstrom said and it would be quite a headache.

I am the commisioner of a 24 team league. We went with MFL. Two 12 team leagues are set up in two different conferences and the winners of each conference play in a final. MFL allows players to be on more than one team. I think it worked well.

Thanks for the info. Our current league is set up exactly as you describe here in MFL and it works fine, I was just wondering if their were any alternatives.

 

[huckyoda]

My league would like to implement a new playoff system but I am not sure any of the sites can support us - if anyone knows, would be much appreciated.

We have 10-12 teams and traditionally have had four teams in the playoffs - by best records with total points as the tie breaker - the standard system. Our top total scorer missed the playoffs and we decided on the following, if possible: Top three teams by record (total points as tie breaker) make the playoffs. The fourth playoff team is a wild card - the top total points remaining in the league, regardless of record.

Does anyone know of any websites that can support this?

 

[AcerFC]

My league would like to implement a new playoff system but I am not sure any of the sites can support us - if anyone knows, would be much appreciated.We have 10-12 teams and traditionally have had four teams in the playoffs - by best records with total points as the tie breaker - the standard system. Our top total scorer missed the playoffs and we decided on the following, if possible: Top three teams by record (total points as tie breaker) make the playoffs. The fourth playoff team is a wild card - the top total points remaining in the league, regardless of record.Does anyone know of any websites that can support this?

Most league commishioner sites allow this. It just takes your commish to manually put in the match ups based on your playoff seeds. MFL, Sportsline, ESPN and EA sports all can do it (based on experience). I am 90% sure RTsports and yahoo commish can do it as well but I have never used them

 

[turnit643]

Most league commishioner sites allow this. It just takes your commish to manually put in the match ups based on your playoff seeds. MFL, Sportsline, ESPN and EA sports all can do it (based on experience). I am 90% sure RTsports and yahoo commish can do it as well but I have never used them

RT can do it too. The commish just has to enter the playoff schedule like on other sites.

 

[bentley]

Most league commishioner sites allow this. It just takes your commish to manually put in the match ups based on your playoff seeds. MFL, Sportsline, ESPN and EA sports all can do it (based on experience). I am 90% sure RTsports and yahoo commish can do it as well but I have never used them

RT can do it too. The commish just has to enter the playoff schedule like on other sites.

AOL does it, too.

 

[Zackster]

I have been using Fanstar for the last 7 or 8 years. Completely customizable, I haven't run across anything that I can't do. Great graphics and lots of information. Customer support, by far the best in this business.

Check my site out if you like or go to fanstar.com.

http://www.fflmanager.com/football/zacksfantasy/index.php

 

[Red Max]

I have been using Fanstar for the last 7 or 8 years. Completely customizable, I haven't run across anything that I can't do. Great graphics and lots of information. Customer support, by far the best in this business.

I am retiring as Commissioner of my League after 9 years in charge. Since going online we have used RTS for our League and I have been pretty happy with the results.The guy who will be taking over is thinking of tweaking a few things and has discovered 'FanStar' and is considering moving to this site instead. He was wondering if anyone else out there had used this site for their League and what their thoughts were. I have not come across it before, but judging by Zacksters comments it looks pretty sound. Any other thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[chadavan]

We've been using commishfantasyfootball.com with great success over the last few years.

 

[Cybergeek]

Are there any league management sites that offer open bidding on weekly waivers?

In my leagues we open waivers Tuesday morning and close Saturday at 7pm. As each bid comes in, I send an email to the previous high bidder to announce that they have been outbid and keep all bidders aware of the current high bid amounts. It's a lot of work and very time consuming. The bidding intensifies Saturday and becomes difficult to keep up with.

If there is a site that can handle this type of bidding waivers I would switch all of my leagues from MFL. The best they can do right now is a one time blind bid where the highest bidder wins. We use real dollars to bid and no one wants to use it because they feel that they would have to overbid on players.

A +1 proxy bidding system would also work. In this system owners would submit a blind bid that would be the maximum amount that they would be willing to spend on a player. The system would then bump the bidding automatically, one dollar at a time, until the amount submitted is surpassed by another bid.

The key to any of these systems is real time email notification to the owners involved.

 

[AcerFC]

Are there any league management sites that offer open bidding on weekly waivers? In my leagues we open waivers Tuesday morning and close Saturday at 7pm. As each bid comes in, I send an email to the previous high bidder to announce that they have been outbid and keep all bidders aware of the current high bid amounts. It's a lot of work and very time consuming. The bidding intensifies Saturday and becomes difficult to keep up with.If there is a site that can handle this type of bidding waivers I would switch all of my leagues from MFL. The best they can do right now is a one time blind bid where the highest bidder wins. We use real dollars to bid and no one wants to use it because they feel that they would have to overbid on players. A +1 proxy bidding system would also work. In this system owners would submit a blind bid that would be the maximum amount that they would be willing to spend on a player. The system would then bump the bidding automatically, one dollar at a time, until the amount submitted is surpassed by another bid.The key to any of these systems is real time email notification to the owners involved.

Dont quote me on this but I do remember reading something in the MFL manual (yes I did actually read it) about being able to do some type of ebay style auction for free agents. The only thing was that you had to set the draft up as an auction draft. Like I said, I am not 100% sure and would need to go back and re read some of the manual which I cant do right now.Couldnt you also do something like this in the message board though so you dont take the brunt of the work?

 

[Zackster]

Are there any league management sites that offer open bidding on weekly waivers? In my leagues we open waivers Tuesday morning and close Saturday at 7pm. As each bid comes in, I send an email to the previous high bidder to announce that they have been outbid and keep all bidders aware of the current high bid amounts. It's a lot of work and very time consuming. The bidding intensifies Saturday and becomes difficult to keep up with.If there is a site that can handle this type of bidding waivers I would switch all of my leagues from MFL. The best they can do right now is a one time blind bid where the highest bidder wins. We use real dollars to bid and no one wants to use it because they feel that they would have to overbid on players. A +1 proxy bidding system would also work. In this system owners would submit a blind bid that would be the maximum amount that they would be willing to spend on a player. The system would then bump the bidding automatically, one dollar at a time, until the amount submitted is surpassed by another bid.The key to any of these systems is real time email notification to the owners involved.

Fanstar will let you do this. I currently use a blind bid, where the bids are hidden. I checked and you can email the whole league when some one bids on a player. Fanstar.com

 

[MavsXT]

Quite frankly, I haven't closely reviewed all the fantasy management sites in the last couple years, but I was so impressed by the flexibility, ease of use, and price of My Fantasy League.Com when I chose it 5 years ago that I've had no reason to go look for another site. They continuously attempt to update and improve the site each year. The early bird price they offer is unbeatable.....And most importantly, NO other site that I could find offered the ability to accomodate the complex scoring system of my league, particularly the IDP scoring. I have no plans to look for another site unless something changes drastically in the quality of MFL.com.

 

[nuts&bolts]

Just wanted to say again that although there aren't many threads about it, AOL is very customizable, reliable and free.

I currently use Fanball. I just checked out AOL and my biggest question was answered, you don't have to be an AOL subscriber to play. I can't believe I'm paying $60/year to Fanball and AOL is the same thing only free! Am I missing something or is this the biggest no brainer ever?

It's the biggest no-brainer ever. It is exactly like Fanball, in all the ways that matter. The only things different:1) FEWER advertisements, if you can believe that,

2) Smaller space for uploaded pictures (Fanball gives you 170x170, AOL is 100x100).

That's about it, I think. Everybody who uses Fanball either is blindly loyal, or just doesn't know about AOL.

 

[Gordon44]

I have been using Maverick software which you can find at www.synsport.com for the last few years. Their service is second to none (as in responding to your question on their chat board within minutes) and the base software has all kinds of unique goodies. I'll write more about it later.

 

[Lowen1]

Just wanted to say again that although there aren't many threads about it, AOL is very customizable, reliable and free.

I currently use Fanball. I just checked out AOL and my biggest question was answered, you don't have to be an AOL subscriber to play. I can't believe I'm paying $60/year to Fanball and AOL is the same thing only free! Am I missing something or is this the biggest no brainer ever?

It's the biggest no-brainer ever. It is exactly like Fanball, in all the ways that matter. The only things different:1) FEWER advertisements, if you can believe that,

2) Smaller space for uploaded pictures (Fanball gives you 170x170, AOL is 100x100).

That's about it, I think. Everybody who uses Fanball either is blindly loyal, or just doesn't know about AOL.

Agree. After using fanball for about 4 years, we switched to AOL 2 years ago. Exact same features. In fact, the two times I've e-mailed AOL for help, I get an e-mail incident report from fanball. So, fanball people are maintaining the site. A couple of years ago, there was a poster here named bigalgreek or something like that. He worked for AOL's Commissioner service. Basically he told me that AOL pays fanball for the programming, and gives it away free, to get people to try AOL - the theory was if you liked the fantasy football site, you might try the rest of AOL. Although you don't have to use other AOL services to use the league manager.

I e-mailed fanball last July to ask why I should pay $60 when AOL was free. I was told that there were new and better features at fanball. I asked what they were and was told they would be announced closer to the season. I never heard anything, nor did I notice anything different when comparing the websites.

One other thing - AOL gives you for free all the fanball "owner's edge" crap that I believe costs extra with fanball. So, another benefit of AOL.

I don't work for AOL, nor do I use AOL's web browser, I'm just happy with their fantasy sports offerings.

 

[Franknbeans]

fanstar.com, still

 

[snogger]

I know ESPN gets a bad rap. But I have to say this year was the best experience we have had over there and we've been there since 1996.

I have 4 leagues over there and the live drafts went smoothly and never ahd any problems accessing the site or having waivers run on time.

Kind of amazing to me that the year they offer free Fantasy Football is the year they get it right.

 

[veto87]

I have been using Maverick software which you can find at www.synsport.com for the last few years. Their service is second to none (as in responding to your question on their chat board within minutes) and the base software has all kinds of unique goodies. I'll write more about it later.

Looks like it's a good site. I'm looking at starting a dynasty league, our redraft league can only be modified so many times before you're begging for more ( redraft , to 1 keeper, to rule change to add PPR).I am looking for a good site to manage this ( was using Rotoworld for redraft).I'll post my dynasty question in another forum ( transitioning a league to something more than redraft)

 

[Gordon44]

I have been using Maverick software which you can find at www.synsport.com for the last few years. Their service is second to none (as in responding to your question on their chat board within minutes) and the base software has all kinds of unique goodies. I'll write more about it later.

Looks like it's a good site. I'm looking at starting a dynasty league, our redraft league can only be modified so many times before you're begging for more ( redraft , to 1 keeper, to rule change to add PPR).I am looking for a good site to manage this ( was using Rotoworld for redraft).I'll post my dynasty question in another forum ( transitioning a league to something more than redraft)

One of the best parts of the Maverick software is it's flexibility. I would suspect it can handle any kinds of rules that you can come up with. Many times the core developers have worked on solving an issue with a customer in their chat forums until everything is spot-on for their specific league.The reports you can generate are fantastic and many are sortable over seasons dating back to '97. My league has stats on it that go back to 2000. Having a Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame for six full seasons is pretty cool.

 

[Maelstrom]

I have been using Maverick software which you can find at www.synsport.com for the last few years. Their service is second to none (as in responding to your question on their chat board within minutes) and the base software has all kinds of unique goodies. I'll write more about it later.

Looks like it's a good site. I'm looking at starting a dynasty league, our redraft league can only be modified so many times before you're begging for more ( redraft , to 1 keeper, to rule change to add PPR).I am looking for a good site to manage this ( was using Rotoworld for redraft).I'll post my dynasty question in another forum ( transitioning a league to something more than redraft)

One of the best parts of the Maverick software is it's flexibility. I would suspect it can handle any kinds of rules that you can come up with. Many times the core developers have worked on solving an issue with a customer in their chat forums until everything is spot-on for their specific league.The reports you can generate are fantastic and many are sortable over seasons dating back to '97. My league has stats on it that go back to 2000. Having a Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame for six full seasons is pretty cool.

I spent a little time checking this out, but didn't see this covered - Can you load records from previous years when the league was not with the Maverick software so that your league records are correct from the start of your league?

 

[Sweeper]

I have had good luck with aol for free leagues and this year, for the first time I ended up in a few leagues on MFL which I also liked.

More importantly, I think that setting up a rules to deal with every situation and having a good comish should really be more beneficial then what any site (in itself) should do.