My Fantasy League vs CBS Sports Commissioner (1 Viewer)

[dagman]

I have my league on MFL and I absolutely love the site and most of the owners, once they get used to it, fall in love with it as much as I do. I am in 2 CBS Sportsline Public Leagues and I hate them, although I have won a Platinum there two years running.

I was so excited when MFL talked about providing public leagues there at the end of last year and enthusiastically responded favorably to a poll they had on the subject, but alas it didn't come to fruition.

CBS frankly sucks. Last year we had a situation where an owner quit his team and his lineup had a bunch of byes in it one week. I wrote and suggested that to make things fair that all teams should be awarded a one week forfeit over that team, their answer was a lame packaged response that didn't even address the issue. After pressing the issue two more times, they wrote they had addressed the issue, that it was dead and no further responses would be issued.

 

[tomarken]

RE: Lineup Dominator: Yes, it interfaces with MFL. It gives me a rated list of my players AND a rated list of available free agents. From the thoughtful replies I have seen here, it is apparently unique. THAT was one thing I was trying to find out when I began this thread. If I will lose that, then I don't want to move to CBS or anywhere else.RE: Your rolled eyes. Are you a fifteen year old girl? I've been playing this game since the days when I had to go get a copy of USA Today at the news stand and use the statistics published there to manually calculate fantasy points. You seem to have accepted every other improvement to the game since then so what makes the one I'm asking for so outrageous? YOU could do the game without CBS.YOU could do the game without the info you glean from footballguys.com. YOU could do the game without without trolling these forums and rolling your eyes at what other people are discussing.So, who made you the ultimate arbiter of what a fantasy player should/should not want from a fantasy host?Go roll your eyes at your daddy...but don't be surprised if he takes your cell phone away for a week.

I answered your question, guy. No website is going to "warn" you that your players are on bye. You could definitely customize MFL to do it if you wanted to expend the effort, but it doesn't sound like you do. Otherwise I think you're stuck using one of the other zillion ways to get the info.As for the rest of that brilliant reply, save it for someone who respects your opinion enough to be insulted.

You didn't answer my question. My question had to do with MFL and Lineup Dominator. In a side thread I commented that I had asked the MFL to add waiver warnings as an enhancement. I did not ask anyone if they thought my request was a good one or if they thought this hobby might be too taxing for me. All you did was satisfy your selfish urge to try to make yourself appear superior. You contributed nothing. Dumbells like you are a dime-a-dozen. Go find a dog to kick.

 

[One]

Thinking about moving our Keeper from MFL to CBS.

Does anyone know if all teams and features are available year round? Are there any glaring things missing from CBS for a keeper league (i.e.. trading future draft picks, contracts..?

 

[TheCommish]

My league has used MFL since 2004 (switched over from FFLM), and we love it. As the league commissioner, I have taken a lot of time to use the Home Page Messages to customize many aspects of our web site, including adding a plaque to honor past champions, a weekly fantasy schedule (with icons for each team) that doubles as a live scorer, a weekly NFL schedule (with icons for each team) that also doubles as a live scorer, a draft countdown timer, and a weekly starting line-up deadline countdown timer. There are so many ways to customize your web site, and if you know how to code web sites, you can do much, much more than I have done. There seems to be no limit to the incredible web designs that are possible.

Personally, I thought even MFL was a little pricey, but hearing that CBS is about double the cost of MFL makes me much more confident in my decision to stick with them.

But if the issue is notifying owners when they have players on BYE, then I think the owners need to take more responsibility for their teams. On the "Submit Lineup" page on MFL, it has a bright red, bold "Bye" next to the player name. That's more than enough for the owners in my league. Seems to me that the only owners that would want an e-mail notification are owners that aren't very active and leave their lineups the same from week to week. And that's not the kind of owner I want in my league, anyway.

 

[belljr]

Thinking about moving our Keeper from MFL to CBS.Does anyone know if all teams and features are available year round? Are there any glaring things missing from CBS for a keeper league (i.e.. trading future draft picks, contracts..?

We have used MFL for my one dynasty league the last couple years.Not sure about contracts but draft picks are available

 

[packseasontix]

So a few things here:

MLF is by far the most customized FF experience out there, if its too clunky then either update it yourself with CSS or pay someone to do it for you as a 1 time fee.

As far as byes, do you want another email just about byes? or a widget on MFL just about byes? or do you not want to see the bye week guys? I guess I don't exactly get it as you need to set your-lineup each week anyways right?

If you have auto-set lineups where the line-up for next week is auto-set from the previous week you will get an email with that lineup and see someone with a bye in a starting position.

For the Jets Season ticket holder, I am a Packers season ticket holder, drive 3+ hours to the games, we truely tailgate and I still can set my lineups to 5 leagues with no problem. At the same time ask your commish to put a rule in place where trade comments count as lineup changes.

What do I mean, in your trade of Rodgers for Manning you put in the comments section "if the trade is accepted starting QB will be Bradford." The commish can then switch your lineup at any point on Sunday/Monday to get the correct lineup in place. While its not automatic neither is CBS, what if I trade a QB away but dont want to start the QB I traded for? Does it take into account who I would want to start in this case? In most instances the comments section to set lineup upon trade is the best way to go.

 

[the next level]

How important to you is your league history? MFL just added a report this year that shows all-time matchup records for every team in your league versus every other team. And there's a whole slew of other historical data that might get lost if you do the transfer.

Second, have you looked carefully at the various scoring/player options at CBS? MFL has a very long list of selectable scoring choices. I don't personally know if CBS has the same stuff but if that matters to you then you should check it out. And are you using any of the 'exotic' stuff at MFL such as Head Coach position or even punter that CBS might not have?

 

[steeler6]

Thinking about moving our Keeper from MFL to CBS.Does anyone know if all teams and features are available year round? Are there any glaring things missing from CBS for a keeper league (i.e.. trading future draft picks, contracts..?

We have used MFL for my one dynasty league the last couple years.Not sure about contracts but draft picks are available

I was reading through this thread and was thinking the same thing. If you can't be bothered to go to your line-up page or even your team page to see if a player is on a bye, I wouldn't want someone like that in a league I play in.

 

[fosho]

Currently I run a league on CBS and a friend of mines uses MFL for his league. The look and feel of CBS is far better than MFL. When I would show my buddy stuff on CBS vs MFL, he said he liked what CBS does.

The downside of CBS is the cost to use it, when I started out with them, a site cost $100 and they would give promotions for a free site for the following year. Now its $150 if you catch it early then it jumps up to $180. I've tried to get the league to move to NFL which is free, and a few owners who used NFL said CBS was better.

I havent had any issue with their support. I would submit an email and by the next day there is a response. Setting up the scoring system is not that hard on CBS.

There was a lineup dominator the past few years for CBS but they just redesigned their website and not sure they kept that feature.

One word of caution but I think its rare that this issue happens: If a player changes position during the season (lets say QB Webb from Minnesota moves to WR) CBS won't make the adjustment they will keep him at the QB position