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[HawkeyeChief]

I have seen a lot of posts like this which always seem to point to myfantasyleague. We need a new site (formally homegrown) and need pros and cons to submit to our league owners. Leading canidates are MFL, ESPN, and YAHOO. can anyone provide pros and cons of these? Thanks.

 

[socrates]

We use RTSports.com for my Dynasty League, and it has met all of our needs. I believe that most sites offer you an opportunity to view a sample league online.

 

[adrenaline]

MFL is my favorite pay site, lots of options & customization available, easy to navigate. Yahoo is decent for a free site, very easy to navigate + they added auction leagues this year. Seems to be a minor glitch opening the draft/mock draft rooms so far this year for me & others, I have to open the room in several tabs/windows before one loads. Hopefully they get that worked out. I don't have a lot of experience with ESPN never ran a league there, did join a league there last season & didn't care for the sorting players options.

 

[massraider]

If you don't mind, answer some questions:

What kind of league is it:

Size?

IDP?

Draft or Auction?

Keeper/Dynasty?

Do you have a simple league, or do you have 'unusual' set up? If so, what are the differences?

Yahoo and ESPN are both free, and are fine for what they offer. If you use IDP, you need to think twice about ESPN. They use some crazy position designations.

 

[karmarooster]

ESPN is really the way to go if you have a simple league... by that I mean non-IDP and not a keeper/dynasty. IMO ESPN is better than yahoo - I have used both. Both will keep record for your league year to year and give virtual trophies. It's hard to beat free.

For paid sites, MFL and RTSports are MUCH better than CBS (for the price). Both are around $50-60 while CBS is something crazy like $150. MFL allows you to customize virtually everything, I think down to the HTML and allows for any possible scenario/setup you could ever dream up. However it can be a bit overwhelming and the default graphic interface is pretty lame. RTSports on the other hand is less customizeable, but a bit more polished. It's sort of a middle ground, but still allows for all kinds of setups.

 

[Chargers86]

I use ESPN for my dynasty IDP league. Works just fine.

 

[mrip541]

As an obsessed FF fan, MFL is my favorite. However, last year I used it for a casual league with my real life friends. They thought it was overly confusing and not user friendly. Just my experience.

 

[GoBears84]

I have seen a lot of posts like this which always seem to point to myfantasyleague. We need a new site (formally homegrown) and need pros and cons to submit to our league owners. Leading canidates are MFL, ESPN, and YAHOO. can anyone provide pros and cons of these? Thanks.

We switched over from FanBall to MFL. This comes up every year and MFL is always ranked as the best. Do a search in the Shark Pool....

 

[pinequick]

I tried to reactivate my ESPN league this morning, but couldn't get it to work yet. Are they just not up-and-running yet for 2010? Just curious--thanks...

 

[Hooper31]

I've been in the game since 93 and have been exposed to every site. MFL in a landslide for me. Lowest price. Best customer service.

 

[mikel2014]

I tried to reactivate my ESPN league this morning, but couldn't get it to work yet. Are they just not up-and-running yet for 2010? Just curious--thanks...

Yes, ESPN has been up for about a month now. I was able to reactivate my dynasty league no problem.

 

[Mohawk]

MFL for me.

Interface takes some getting used to, but worth the effort.

Great for keeper or re-draft leagues.

Easy and versatile draft room interface.

 

[HawkeyeChief]

If you don't mind, answer some questions:

What kind of league is it:

Size?

12 Teams

IDP?

No

Draft or Auction?

Offline Draft

Keeper/Dynasty?

Dynasty

Do you have a simple league, or do you have 'unusual' set up? If so, what are the differences?

Simple

Yahoo and ESPN are both free, and are fine for what they offer. If you use IDP, you need to think twice about ESPN. They use some crazy position designations.

 

[Pack43]

I've only done MFL, but this year the commish in one of my leagues is planning to move over to CBS because MFL does not support a live auction. I've seen others mention ESPN & Yahoo as sites that support live auctions, but haven't heard much about CBS. Anyone have any experience with CBS and how it compares to ESPN & Yahoo for auctions?

 

[massraider]

If you don't mind, answer some questions:

What kind of league is it:

Size?

12 Teams

IDP?

No

Draft or Auction?

Offline Draft

Keeper/Dynasty?

Dynasty

Do you have a simple league, or do you have 'unusual' set up? If so, what are the differences?

Simple

Yahoo and ESPN are both free, and are fine for what they offer. If you use IDP, you need to think twice about ESPN. They use some crazy position designations.

Then I would do ESPN. It's free, and the site looks fine. Their live scoring is the best, every score flashes across the web page when it happens, as the players scores update. And with dynasty, you can just move over the teams rosters from year to year. I don't think it holds league history, meaning you can't go and check back further than one year, but I might be wrong about that.

There are some bells and whistles that MFL has that you probably won't need for your league, so why pay for it? And really don't bother paying the price for CBS.

 

[browns99]

I have seen a lot of posts like this which always seem to point to myfantasyleague. We need a new site (formally homegrown) and need pros and cons to submit to our league owners. Leading canidates are MFL, ESPN, and YAHOO. can anyone provide pros and cons of these? Thanks.

RTSports is the best, IMHO. Great interface, real customer support, tons of reports, easy to use and handles all of our league's needs.

 

[Wheezer34]

Our league was with CBS for 5 years and made the switch last year to MFL mainly because of the price. As a commish I was very happy with it - Draft Room worked flawlessly, setup worked fine, no annoying ad banners, full customization even though our league had fairly simple rules. But the other league members just did not like the interface and voted to go back to CBS (even though it's more than double the price). Everyone said for $12/team it was worth it. Everyone but me, that is!

 

[MockJock]

RTSports has been the best since we moved over from MFL over 5 yrs ago.

The interface is more intuitive and customer support is awesome!

 

[34=Sweetness]

Always used Yahoo, never had a problem with it.

My dynasty moved to Flea Flicker this year so we could move up to 30 players, since Yahoo maxes at 25. Yahoo's interface is much better IMO.

 

[dynomitejd]

You can pretty much do everything on ESPN that you can do in MFL except change skins, templates and what modules show up on league / owner screens...even have keeper and IDP options. Not sure about auction drafts on espn ..but for ZERO dollars we use ESPN now instead of MFL (we've used in the past) because thats more monies for the prizes, winners etc. Also keeps a history of your league stats if you need it.

I like the interface of ESPN over MFL, MFL's default look is so outdated and hard to navigate for basic actions.

 

[stook44]

Do any sites allow you to import league histories from other sites (Fanball specifically)?

 

[brownhelmets]

I would agree that MFL would be the best for the hardcore members and those who have given the site a chance. I find that anyone who is used to another site don't like MFL the first year they try the league.

 

[GregR_2]

Our league was with CBS for 5 years and made the switch last year to MFL mainly because of the price. As a commish I was very happy with it - Draft Room worked flawlessly, setup worked fine, no annoying ad banners, full customization even though our league had fairly simple rules. But the other league members just did not like the interface and voted to go back to CBS (even though it's more than double the price). Everyone said for $12/team it was worth it. Everyone but me, that is!

I'd stay on MFL and use that year's price difference between MFL and CBS to go to one of the sites that does MFL customization work and pay them to make it look how you want. Then in future years the customization would continue to be there and you would only have to pay the lower cost MFL price.

 

[Marked]

I used Yahoo, ESPN & NFL.com last year.

I prefer Yahoo by far, it's just much easier to navigate around/use. I do not care for ESPN's layout/navigation at all.

I admit I've used Yahoo longer, but if your looking for a free site, I think they will be the way to go.

 

[Godsbrother]

We use CBS but have taken long looks at MFL and RTSports because they are much cheaper. I've proposed changing several times but everyone is happy with CBS and think that saving a few bucks per team is not worth switching.

If I were starting a new league I would probably use ESPN. It is pretty darn good and FREE.

 

[Warhogs]

As an obsessed FF fan, MFL is my favorite. However, last year I used it for a casual league with my real life friends. They thought it was overly confusing and not user friendly. Just my experience.

Good posting here. The league I run locally with a bunch of friends is currently on yahoo and has been for several years. Everyone seems to be happy with it and I think it is a solid choice for a freebie site and is pretty user friendly. Some of our league members have looked at the mfl stuff and thought it was too confusing for them so we keep it simple and have been happy with yahoo.

 

[Ultima Thule]

Do any sites allow you to import league histories from other sites (Fanball specifically)?

Yes, Fanball all is one of the sites that apparently has easy import of league history into MFL.

 

[Agent575]

I think CBS is ridiculously over-priced and it stun me how many continue to use it simply because "change" is either too much work or too scary...LOL

Yahoo and ESPN are both boring to me as I am a fan of graphics and individuality but they are free so they crush CBS.

RTS I used once, didnt really care for it (feel you mine as well use Yahoo or ESPN and go free)

Fanball is garbage from what I hear.

Heard Fleaflicker is cool but have never had a chance to tinker with it.

I love MFL through and through. Only thing they are currently missing IMO is a live auction draft capability (our league used ESPN and manually entered rosters) but the price is reasonable as opposed to CBS and the ability to do whatever you want to make it your league (appearance as well as the features) which for me personally is necessary. My two leagues are extremely active with owners on every day and I know if we were using boring looking sites like ESPN and Yahoo and such that wouldn't be the case.

As someone above mentioned, those using CBS could switch over, bring their entire league history, pay someone else to do their site for them, and still be in the same price range, let alone that all those graphics and such stay with the league and thus every additional year would be drastically cheaper.

Good luck to all this year. (the above is just my opinion)

If you are interested in site work with MFL, see my sig below......maybe we can help.

 

[the turnip]

ESPN = great for free leagues.

MFL = awesome but can be a bit intimidating.

Yahoo = I must be the only one who doesn't like their interface. It just didn't do it for me.

Fanball = If you're looking for a site with glitches every year for the 1st six or seven weeks and offers ZERO customer support, then Fanball is the site for you. We dumped them a year ago and the league has never been happier. What an abyss that place is since Charch sold it.

 

[TheAssassin]

My 2 cents

CBS (used for 7 yrs) - Best pay site especially stat features w/Excel exports and for those that want a "plug and play" graphics

MFL (used for 1 yr) - Best value especially for customization and service (need to work a bit to get layout right)

Yahoo (used for 7 yrs) - Best free site (IMO) now that Statracker is free,, online drafts work very well

ESPN (used for 5 yrs) - Not bad but don't like site navigation, ability to export player rosters to Excel but not bad

 

[Mentos]

MFL = awesome but can be a bit intimidating.

I first learned of that site's existence five or six years ago, but couldn't convince anyone to give it a shot.Last year I considered moving my dynasty league from Yahoo to MFL. Once again, could not convince people. It was too overwhelming for them. One guy even complained that the site looks archaic, like something you'd see back in the early 1990s. We stayed at Yahoo. The league was disbanded, by the way.

I was able to get a few people to join me in a midseason trial run at MFL. You can check the league here-

http://football19.myfantasyleague.com/2009/home/68097#0

One look at the standings and you'll see I was fiddling around with the settings. Try as I might, I could not figure out how to set up the playoffs. I'd love to start a league there, but it is not easy to figure everything out over there.