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chinx0r

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I'm not too sure if this belongs in the sharkpool so I'll apologize off the bat if it isn't and please feel free to move it to the proper forum.

So I'm finally going to move away from the free sites (ESPN, yahoo, etc.) and go to a site that is more customizable. After reading a bunch of posts from the past and doing a little bit of digging myself, I narrowed it down to the two following sites to move my league to:

www.myfantasyleague.com

and

www.rtsports.com

From what I've read from past posts, you can't go wrong with either. I just want to know the advantages one site would have over the other.

To give more info, my league is a 12 team league, we have very specific scoring guidelines we want to implement and might add various bonuses in the future. It's a typical draft and for the first season we want to try out our new scoring in a redraft league and then make tweaks if necessary, then advance the whole thing into a dynasty league.

For the members who have experienced both sites, can you give me a run down of the pros and cons of running a league like this on either site or if there are alternative site that I don't know about that you suggest that would be great too. Let me know if you need me to give you more details about my leagues.

Thanks in advance

 
Hi chinx0r,

I recommend MFL, been commishing a league there going on 4 years now. If you do happen to go with MFL, please use League # 22428 as your referral (saves me $20 on my 2011 website fee :goodposting: ). As a FootballGuys.com Subscriber, you can get $10 off your own MFL league fee with the link below.

Use the link on this page to save $10: http://subscribers.footballguys.com/2008/page2.php

The MFL sites are very customizable as far as layout and graphics, so no 2 leagues will look the same. There are templates, and modules Commish can use to arrange the website. Each owner can also customize their own personal view, if they don't want to use the view the Commish sets.

Here's our 2010 league site. There should be links back to our 2009/2008/2007 MFL sites (toolbar > My Leagues > 2009 League Home etc.).

http://www13.myfantasyleague.com/2010/home/22428#0

http://football13.myfantasyleague.com/2009/home/31943#0 (2009 site)

Everyone is friends from school spread out all over the country, so the flexible online draft is a real hit. We also have a keeper(s) but vary it, and its optional. For example, keep a player or dont and get a "2nd round" draft pick. There's automated ways to set the Fantasy schedule (17 options last I checked)--double headers, divisional play, etc. There's free live scoring of course, it can even text the score to your phone. My friends like the stand-alone GameDay scoring program/software, I just like getting the score texted!

The scoring rules are highly customizable, you can set all kinds of parameters. Or just go with standard scoring/waiver settings too. Some people might say otherwise, but MFL Tech Support has been supremely helpful the handful of times I've had a problem figuring something with the MFL site.

The Survivor Pool on your MFL league is a popular feature--weekly pick 'em, and you can only use each team once,, pick a loser and you're out. In our league, the winner of Survivor gets like 3% of the pot.

That's pretty wordy, but hope that gives you an idea of what MFL can offer.

 
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Haven't played with RTS so don't know how they do during the season but i do remember why i didn't go with them. They didn't have a a IDP scoring option at the time ( this was in 2006 so they may have it now ) we used. Nothing to wild basic stuff like tackles assists ( maybe that was it ) int, sacks, pass defended, safety.

 
Play with both but prefer MFL. I like them both a lot though. MFL has more customizable options,and league chat which puts them above RT imo

 
From about 2001 through 2009, we've used RTSports for the 2-person keeper league in which I'm the commish.

In 2006, I joined a dynasty start-up league that has used MFL from the beginning.

This year, I've moved our 2-person keeper league over to MFL. Additionally, I'm the commissioner of a new dynasty start-up league and we will be using MFL as well.

Overall, I like MFL better but a big reason is that I'll have all 3 leagues handy at one site plus the ability to use FBG's MFL import application. However, I will say I like RTSports' waiver wire functionality much better than MFL.

 
Have been in both for 5 years.. If you want a simple more uniform approach that is clean and easy go with RTS. If you want more detailed info with better graphic options, more customized features for each owner, and simply more of everything go with MFL. Both are good, just depends on what you want, if you are going a graphics package, i would go MFL. If you are not into that, I would go with RTS.

 
Looking to possibly move ours from CBS to MFL next year.

One thing our league likes about CBS is the mobile site. Is there a decent iPhone app/mobile site for MFL?

/hijack

 
Used both last year and had tons of issues with RTS; scoring was out of wack and not updating and FA were never processed. By week 4 we switched the entire league to MFL (manually) and never had problems.

 
So far it looks like it's overwhelming support for MFL.com

A question I have is page customization. I have a hellish enough time commishing the league I'm in already, how difficult is it to make your own page and not make it look like crap or that it's made of stick figures. I don't think we'll be up to paying someone to make a page for us, but I think we all agree that we want a classic look that's clean.

Thanks for all the advice once again and in advance.

 
We're looking to ditch Fanball so as commish I, too, am interested in feedback ....

Not a huge fan of the look & feel of either. They reek of early 21st century Web. Yuck. But functionality seems good.

My question is:

How do they stack up from a mobile POV? Our league is pretty iPhone-heavy so having a good mobile solution is key.

Also, I'm assuming neither is really Flash-based? As a recent iPad owner, I find myself using it 95% of the time for Web-stuff and likely will want to manage my team from it during the season, so having any critical sections running flash would stink.

 
chinx0r said:
So far it looks like it's overwhelming support for MFL.comA question I have is page customization. I have a hellish enough time commishing the league I'm in already, how difficult is it to make your own page and not make it look like crap or that it's made of stick figures. I don't think we'll be up to paying someone to make a page for us, but I think we all agree that we want a classic look that's clean.Thanks for all the advice once again and in advance.
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the mfl help forums are great. you can learn enough there to put a nice site together. granted it won't be like the big time pro sites done but you can have something that is clean and easy to nav.
 
tombonneau said:
We're looking to ditch Fanball so as commish I, too, am interested in feedback ....Not a huge fan of the look & feel of either. They reek of early 21st century Web. Yuck. But functionality seems good.My question is:How do they stack up from a mobile POV? Our league is pretty iPhone-heavy so having a good mobile solution is key.Also, I'm assuming neither is really Flash-based? As a recent iPad owner, I find myself using it 95% of the time for Web-stuff and likely will want to manage my team from it during the season, so having any critical sections running flash would stink.
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i don't believe there is flash tom and as far as the look and feel, you can pretty much design the site to your liking. there are very little limitations on layout.
 
chinx0r said:
So far it looks like it's overwhelming support for MFL.comA question I have is page customization. I have a hellish enough time commishing the league I'm in already, how difficult is it to make your own page and not make it look like crap or that it's made of stick figures. I don't think we'll be up to paying someone to make a page for us, but I think we all agree that we want a classic look that's clean.Thanks for all the advice once again and in advance.
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As someone else mentioned, the MFL Community Forums offer a lot of help in customization. However, you do not HAVE to customize your site if you don't want. You can go in, select a 'skin' for your site, decide what you want showing up where, and call it good. If you want to add some extras later on, it's easy enough to do.It's free to play with until the season starts (although you get discounts the earlier you pay) - just set up a league and decide if it works for you. I think RTS is free also until the season starts, so you can give it a try also.
 
For those with thoughts and questions on mobile, MFL destroys RTS when it comes to mobile capabilities. I'm in leagues on both and MFL mobile site is outstanding. I have a BlackBerry and u can use all functions on the MFL mobile as if u were on the actual website. Transactions, lineups, polls, all communications, rosters u name it its on MFL mobile site. By comparison, the only things u can do on RTS mobile is view ur roster, set ur lineup, see NFL scores and ur game u are playing that week. U can't do any roster moves at all, no trading, WW, message posting, nothing. I'm probably on MFL mobile site doing 95% of my activity, I'm hardly ever on the actual website.

 
My biggest beef with RTS is that their waiver wire system is ###-backwards and counter intuitive. Their focus is on dropping rostered players rather than picking up FAs. In addition, their set up requires many more clicks when prioritizing your drop list, making it more likely to make an error.

There is a long history of complaints on the WCOFF boards about the functionality of RTS waiver wire process, for further reference.

 
I mainly use RTS, but that's mainly because MFL is much harder to customize properly.

IF.. you ever figure out how to customize the look *properly* then MFL is the way to go.

The basic setup though just feels way too cheap me and I've failed many times on actually getting it to look the way I liked.

I'm not talking rules or anything, but just the look of it all.

However, the absolute most customization and features are with MFL.

If you're not into all that coding or buying a pre-made one then RTS is very good.

 
One thing I really like about MFL is that you can download their Gameday App for freee and have all of your MFL-run leagues live scoring in one place....flip between leagues instantly and see plenty of stats...very cool.

As others have said, you can use pre-made skins, use the MFL community forums for help or seek out others who can help who (shameless plug, click link in my sig) but no matter what road you take, it is YOUR league and that is why I made the switch after one lowly season on RTS and others I had tried before finding MFL....I personally want my league to be different from every other one out there.

MFL customer service has been flawless in my experience also.

Best of luck to all in 2010!!!! Unless you are playing me, then the hell with ya. :P

 
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Used both last year and had tons of issues with RTS; scoring was out of wack and not updating and FA were never processed. By week 4 we switched the entire league to MFL (manually) and never had problems.
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Really? When did this happen? I have been using RTSports for years and rarely have they been down, had scoring issues, slowness and not once was there an issue with our waiver wire. It sounds to me like there are some people paid by MFL to post here....
 
browns99 said:
CA_7 said:
Used both last year and had tons of issues with RTS; scoring was out of wack and not updating and FA were never processed. By week 4 we switched the entire league to MFL (manually) and never had problems.
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Really? When did this happen? I have been using RTSports for years and rarely have they been down, had scoring issues, slowness and not once was there an issue with our waiver wire. It sounds to me like there are some people paid by MFL to post here....
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I agree. I switched from MFL to RTS about 5 years ago and REALLY preferred RTS at the time. Sounds like MFL has gotten better, but at the time the navigation and site structure was terrible.
 
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