YAHOO Fantasy Football is UP for 2006... (1 Viewer)

[posty]

From the FFA...

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1

 

[RAPTURE]

and....

 

[posty]

and....

Just figured if people are getting anxious...

 

[slayer666]

 

[(HULK)]

I'd join a league today if someone wants to be commishioner.

We can draft right here on the board.

ETA: I'm creating a league right now

 

[hustedj]

Sweet, Thanks!!!

 

[(HULK)]

I've set up the league.

Pertinent thread is over in the free for all.

Here

 

[Mooks77]

[QUOTE=']From the FFA...

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1
[/QUOTE]Thanks for the notice!

 

[Varmint]

oh joy, I'll let my son know.

Him and his little buddies keep their league there....

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

 

[(HULK)]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

Free is good.

 

[Frank Black]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this in-game free agent pickup feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that free agent pickups must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

Edited to change waiver wire to free agent pickups (sorry I wasn't more clear earlier).

 

[(HULK)]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this waiver wire feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that waivers must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

You could be like me and pay the $5 to be able to do this over your cell phone.Well worth it in my opinion.

 

[(HULK)]

I've set up the league.

Pertinent thread is over in the free for all.

Here

Please post in this thread and then monitor it if you join.I'm hoping to get 14 today so I can set the draft order and time today.

Draft will probably start Monday, and it will go quicker if people are around to make their picks.

 

[Mystery Achiever]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this waiver wire feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that waivers must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

You could be like me and pay the $5 to be able to do this over your cell phone.Well worth it in my opinion.

I'm not a basher, but that is a good point about the waivers. Cell phone doesn't help if you're not at the game of the player who went down or if you needed to :gasp: do something that took you away from a tv with a ticker. I also don't like their longer waiver period, but that can be adjusted in a private league, I believe.

 

[Brakiss]

I've set up the league.

Pertinent thread is over in the free for all.

Here

Please post in this thread and then monitor it if you join.I'm hoping to get 14 today so I can set the draft order and time today.

Draft will probably start Monday, and it will go quicker if people are around to make their picks.

 

[(HULK)]

I've set up the league.

Pertinent thread is over in the free for all.

Here

Please post in this thread and then monitor it if you join.I'm hoping to get 14 today so I can set the draft order and time today.

Draft will probably start Monday, and it will go quicker if people are around to make their picks.

Not this thread but the one I linked.You can get the info for league ID and password in the other thread in the FFA.

 

[Ozymandias]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this waiver wire feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that waivers must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

You could be like me and pay the $5 to be able to do this over your cell phone.Well worth it in my opinion.

I'm not a basher, but that is a good point about the waivers. Cell phone doesn't help if you're not at the game of the player who went down or if you needed to :gasp: do something that took you away from a tv with a ticker. I also don't like their longer waiver period, but that can be adjusted in a private league, I believe.

You guys sure aren't up to date. When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers. The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

your commish has been screwing ya frank

 

[Mooks77]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this waiver wire feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that waivers must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

You could be like me and pay the $5 to be able to do this over your cell phone.Well worth it in my opinion.

I'm not a basher, but that is a good point about the waivers. Cell phone doesn't help if you're not at the game of the player who went down or if you needed to :gasp: do something that took you away from a tv with a ticker. I also don't like their longer waiver period, but that can be adjusted in a private league, I believe.

You guys sure aren't up to date. When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers. The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

I don't think he is referring to dropped players. He is referring to all players going on waivers from say Saturday at midnight thru Tuesday. Then if something happens during a game, everyone in the league has a couple days to put in their waiver selections. You need Yahoo! Plus for this feature.

 

[gang-wars]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this waiver wire feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that waivers must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

You could be like me and pay the $5 to be able to do this over your cell phone.Well worth it in my opinion.

I'm not a basher, but that is a good point about the waivers. Cell phone doesn't help if you're not at the game of the player who went down or if you needed to :gasp: do something that took you away from a tv with a ticker. I also don't like their longer waiver period, but that can be adjusted in a private league, I believe.

You guys sure aren't up to date. When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers. The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

Um, no. Re-read the post.He's talking about, KJ blows his knee out in the 1st qrter, you can log into yahoo and grab the backup of the WW. So unless you're sitting at your comp on sundays, you miss out on the best WW pickups.

 

[Ozymandias]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this waiver wire feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that waivers must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

You could be like me and pay the $5 to be able to do this over your cell phone.Well worth it in my opinion.

I'm not a basher, but that is a good point about the waivers. Cell phone doesn't help if you're not at the game of the player who went down or if you needed to :gasp: do something that took you away from a tv with a ticker. I also don't like their longer waiver period, but that can be adjusted in a private league, I believe.

You guys sure aren't up to date. When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers. The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

Um, no. Re-read the post.He's talking about, KJ blows his knee out in the 1st qrter, you can log into yahoo and grab the backup of the WW. So unless you're sitting at your comp on sundays, you miss out on the best WW pickups.

Let's take it again: 2 plus 2 is 4, right?When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers. The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

 

[joffer]

When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers. The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

isn't that just on guys that are dropped?

 

[RenegadeGM]

Can't the Commish just lock everyone's rosters from Saturday night or whatever until Monday or Tuesday?

If this isn't possible, the Commish can setup a waiver deadline run on the honor system (i.e.,no pickups after noon ET Sunday), and use Commish powers to overturn any moves made by anxious owners.

Definitely would be more work for the Commish, but you get what you (don't) pay for. Other than the waiver issues Yahoo really isn't bad- it all about the fellow owners in your league to determine whether a Yahoo league is a "good" one or not.

 

[Ozymandias]

When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers.  The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

isn't that just on guys that are dropped?

My mistake. You are right. FA's can be picked up anytime.

 

[boss hogg]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this waiver wire feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that waivers must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

You could be like me and pay the $5 to be able to do this over your cell phone.Well worth it in my opinion.

I'm not a basher, but that is a good point about the waivers. Cell phone doesn't help if you're not at the game of the player who went down or if you needed to :gasp: do something that took you away from a tv with a ticker. I also don't like their longer waiver period, but that can be adjusted in a private league, I believe.

You guys sure aren't up to date. When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers. The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

Um, no. Re-read the post.He's talking about, KJ blows his knee out in the 1st qrter, you can log into yahoo and grab the backup of the WW. So unless you're sitting at your comp on sundays, you miss out on the best WW pickups.

1 PM-ish Sunday : Comissioner Tools -> Lock Managers -> Check Add/Drop. Tuesday Morning: Comissioner Tools -> Lock Managers -> UnCheck Add/Drop.

Problem solved.... A little more work from the commish is worth the extra cash in the pot come January...

 

[Frank Black]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this waiver wire feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that waivers must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

You could be like me and pay the $5 to be able to do this over your cell phone.Well worth it in my opinion.

I'm not a basher, but that is a good point about the waivers. Cell phone doesn't help if you're not at the game of the player who went down or if you needed to :gasp: do something that took you away from a tv with a ticker. I also don't like their longer waiver period, but that can be adjusted in a private league, I believe.

You guys sure aren't up to date. When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers. The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

Um, no. Re-read the post.He's talking about, KJ blows his knee out in the 1st qrter, you can log into yahoo and grab the backup of the WW. So unless you're sitting at your comp on sundays, you miss out on the best WW pickups.

Let's take it again: 2 plus 2 is 4, right?When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers. The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

That's not what I was talking about.

 

[Frank Black]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this waiver wire feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that waivers must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

You could be like me and pay the $5 to be able to do this over your cell phone.Well worth it in my opinion.

I'm not a basher, but that is a good point about the waivers. Cell phone doesn't help if you're not at the game of the player who went down or if you needed to :gasp: do something that took you away from a tv with a ticker. I also don't like their longer waiver period, but that can be adjusted in a private league, I believe.

You guys sure aren't up to date. When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers. The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

Um, no. Re-read the post.He's talking about, KJ blows his knee out in the 1st qrter, you can log into yahoo and grab the backup of the WW. So unless you're sitting at your comp on sundays, you miss out on the best WW pickups.

This is what I'm talking about. Technically, we're walking about free agents. With Yahoo, regardless of the WW settings, you can pick up a free agent during a game. To my understanding, a Commish cannot change this.

 

[RenegadeGM]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this waiver wire feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that waivers must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

You could be like me and pay the $5 to be able to do this over your cell phone.Well worth it in my opinion.

I'm not a basher, but that is a good point about the waivers. Cell phone doesn't help if you're not at the game of the player who went down or if you needed to :gasp: do something that took you away from a tv with a ticker. I also don't like their longer waiver period, but that can be adjusted in a private league, I believe.

You guys sure aren't up to date. When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers. The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

Um, no. Re-read the post.He's talking about, KJ blows his knee out in the 1st qrter, you can log into yahoo and grab the backup of the WW. So unless you're sitting at your comp on sundays, you miss out on the best WW pickups.

1 PM-ish Sunday : Comissioner Tools -> Lock Managers -> Check Add/Drop. Tuesday Morning: Comissioner Tools -> Lock Managers -> UnCheck Add/Drop.

Problem solved.... A little more work from the commish is worth the extra cash in the pot come January...

we've done this before and it works.

 

[nelly29]

If you set up a private league just tell people the rules (ex no picks up until Tuesday) If they don't follow them commish can add/drop and lock any roster in the league. It is great for private leagues but the public leagues are weak! We like keeping all our money in the pot ( 100% payout baby! ) Used it ever since nfl.com switched to pay site.... no problems with it the last few years....

 

[Frank Black]

If you set up a private league just tell people the rules (ex no picks up until Tuesday) If they don't follow them commish can add/drop and lock any roster in the league. It is great for private leagues but the public leagues are weak! We like keeping all our money in the pot ( 100% payout baby! ) Used it ever since nfl.com switched to pay site.... no problems with it the last few years....

Excellent suggestion. The time/date stamp on the FA pickups will help everyone enforce such a rule.

 

[bigfalconsfan]

I just set up a league and there's an option for Sun-Tue waivers, which puts all free agents on waivers at 12:55 pm on Sunday and releases them on Tuesday. Does this solve the problem or is it still different than what is desired?

--Nevermind, that's for plus leagues only

 

[gang-wars]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this waiver wire feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that waivers must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

You could be like me and pay the $5 to be able to do this over your cell phone.Well worth it in my opinion.

I'm not a basher, but that is a good point about the waivers. Cell phone doesn't help if you're not at the game of the player who went down or if you needed to :gasp: do something that took you away from a tv with a ticker. I also don't like their longer waiver period, but that can be adjusted in a private league, I believe.

You guys sure aren't up to date. When a Yahoo league is set up, there is an option for a two day wait on waivers. The Commish can then award the player to the lowest ranking team. That option has been there for at least 2 years.

Um, no. Re-read the post.He's talking about, KJ blows his knee out in the 1st qrter, you can log into yahoo and grab the backup of the WW. So unless you're sitting at your comp on sundays, you miss out on the best WW pickups.

1 PM-ish Sunday : Comissioner Tools -> Lock Managers -> Check Add/Drop. Tuesday Morning: Comissioner Tools -> Lock Managers -> UnCheck Add/Drop.

Problem solved.... A little more work from the commish is worth the extra cash in the pot come January...

Problem solved?What if the commish unlocks it late? Early? Whoever happens to be on will be able to instantly grab the player. So how I have to set my clock to 7am on Tuesday when the commish turns back on the WW? What if he turns it on when someone is at work?

It's hardly a solution. Then you'd have to have an e-mail waiver system, the commish moves players around, then turns on the WW.

The more little fixes you add in, you realize you should probably move your money league off Yahoo.

Yahoo is great for a casual league, but anyone running a money league with the free Yahoo is crazy. (plus the fact people usually buy stat tracker, and you could have just used that money for a better site)

 

[Titans_fan]

Sweet Dreams is in....any way we could extend the hours of the draft a little? I can try and get in during lunches, but no internet access from work...just a thought.

 

[Sinrman]

Thinking of joining this one, too, if room...

I also started another one, if anyone is interested:

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index...howtopic=244561

 

[Construction Man Jim]

Get everybody to chip in an extra $10 and upgrade to a plus league. Set up Sun-Tues waivers. What is the problem?

 

[G3-175SE]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

Free is good.

Free is boring!

 

[G3-175SE]

Get everybody to chip in an extra $10 and upgrade to a plus league. Set up Sun-Tues waivers. What is the problem?

If you want to upgrade it would be better to change to a site that doesn't charge so much. RTSports, MFL and others are more cost effective then Yahoo Plus.If you are going to pay that kind of money go to CBS. I won't, cost to much and customer service is bad.

Spend $50 - $80 at those site I mentioned above and get want Yahoo Plus gives you for less money.

Yahoo is ok for free but not for pay.

 

[Sinrman]

Get everybody to chip in an extra $10 and upgrade to a plus league. Set up Sun-Tues waivers. What is the problem?

If you want to upgrade it would be better to change to a site that doesn't charge so much. RTSports, MFL and others are more cost effective then Yahoo Plus.If you are going to pay that kind of money go to CBS. I won't, cost to much and customer service is bad.

Spend $50 - $80 at those site I mentioned above and get want Yahoo Plus gives you for less money.

Yahoo is ok for free but not for pay.

I play in all sorts of leagues on all sorts of sites. And I definitely agree -- if you're gonna pay $$ for "stat tracking" and that sort of thing, stick with MFL and such. Yahoo is ok with that, but it's not worth some $9.95 to track your stats in that type of league (unless you use it for some reason for your $$ leagues). I've always been impressed with MFL though, and if you have everyone pitch in a few bucks, it'll save you a ton of time and it looks a lot nicer than Yahoo...

 

[Footballhead]

They're good for live drafts.

 

[tonydead]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this in-game free agent pickup feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that free agent pickups must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

Edited to change waiver wire to free agent pickups (sorry I wasn't more clear earlier).

Duh, what is the whole point of FF? If everyone has to wait until Tuesday morning at 7:00, read the daily news, then try to pick of WW where is the advantage? If you don't know what is going on, on Sunday because you are at the pub, oh well. I've got all the games on and gaining all the advantage. Isn' that what it is all about?

 

[Brakiss]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this in-game free agent pickup feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that free agent pickups must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

Edited to change waiver wire to free agent pickups (sorry I wasn't more clear earlier).

If you don't know what is going on, on Sunday because you are at the pub, oh well. I've got all the games on and gaining all the advantage. Isn' that what it is all about?

 

[Frank Black]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this in-game free agent pickup feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that free agent pickups must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

Edited to change waiver wire to free agent pickups (sorry I wasn't more clear earlier).

Duh, what is the whole point of FF? If everyone has to wait until Tuesday morning at 7:00, read the daily news, then try to pick of WW where is the advantage? If you don't know what is going on, on Sunday because you are at the pub, oh well. I've got all the games on and gaining all the advantage. Isn' that what it is all about?

 

[paul0]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this in-game free agent pickup feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that free agent pickups must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

Edited to change waiver wire to free agent pickups (sorry I wasn't more clear earlier).

Duh, what is the whole point of FF? If everyone has to wait until Tuesday morning at 7:00, read the daily news, then try to pick of WW where is the advantage? If you don't know what is going on, on Sunday because you are at the pub, oh well. I've got all the games on and gaining all the advantage. Isn' that what it is all about?

NO !!

 

[Mystery Achiever]

[if you don't know what is going on, on Sunday because you are at the pub, oh well.  I've got all the games on and gaining all the advantage.  Isn' that what it is all about?

NO !!

all who responded eta: it is about being part of my life..not all of it.

 

[G3-175SE]

Never understood the whole bash yahoo league shtick.

This will be the 1st year in 7 years that I don't participate in Yahoo. The primary problem IMO is that the waiver system allows you to add drop during the game itself, as long as you are not dropping a player who is in your starting lineup. The effect is that the system may unduly award the FF owner who hovers around his computer during the games. The FF owner who goes to the sports bar, or God forbid the game itself, is penalized because he can't get to the computer in time to pickup a backup RB when a starter goes down.In Yahoo, many leagues are won or lost because of this in-game free agent pickup feature, and to my understanding, the Commish has no control to require, for example, that free agent pickups must wait until at least Tuesday.

Other than that, I have no complaints about Yahoo.

Edited to change waiver wire to free agent pickups (sorry I wasn't more clear earlier).

Duh, what is the whole point of FF? If everyone has to wait until Tuesday morning at 7:00, read the daily news, then try to pick of WW where is the advantage? If you don't know what is going on, on Sunday because you are at the pub, oh well. I've got all the games on and gaining all the advantage. Isn' that what it is all about?

No, the idea is to be able to enjoy the games on Sunday and pick up Free Agents after the games are over.

 

[DazYam48]

This is my first year running my league with Premium Yahoo. The reason we moved to Primium is because we added a 10th owner and wanted two divisions of five. Figuring Yahoo would throw together a schedule where you play each owner in your division twice and each owner in the other division once. That makes 13 games which is our regular season length. However, Yahoo has given us a schedule where eight owners only play seven division games and six non division games. You'd think paying $120 would give me the power to adjust the schedule, but I don't have that ability.

If there is anyone out there who has experienced this and knows how to manipulate the schedule (maybe with the order that the owners are put into the league) please let me know. I've already tried putting each owner in in different ways, but the schedule formula stays the same.

 

[G3-175SE]

This is my first year running my league with Premium Yahoo. The reason we moved to Primium is because we added a 10th owner and wanted two divisions of five. Figuring Yahoo would throw together a schedule where you play each owner in your division twice and each owner in the other division once. That makes 13 games which is our regular season length. However, Yahoo has given us a schedule where eight owners only play seven division games and six non division games. You'd think paying $120 would give me the power to adjust the schedule, but I don't have that ability.

If there is anyone out there who has experienced this and knows how to manipulate the schedule (maybe with the order that the owners are put into the league) please let me know. I've already tried putting each owner in in different ways, but the schedule formula stays the same.

Switch to RTSports (www.rtsports.com) and you can do that or more for less money. First year paid by Aug 15 will only cost you about $81 (10% discount). Returning leagues get 20% discount (about $73). RTS will allow you to first select the decision to schedule more division vs non-divisions games then you can change the schedule. Whether you use RTSports or some other site, don't use Yahoo Premium. Cost to much. There are better sites for less money.

If you are going to spend that much you should go to CBS. I don't like them due to cost and poor customer service but if you are spending $120 you would do better with CBS. RTS, MFL and others will give you what Yahoo Premium and CBS give you for less money.

 

[DazYam48]

This is my first year running my league with Premium Yahoo. The reason we moved to Primium is because we added a 10th owner and wanted two divisions of five. Figuring Yahoo would throw together a schedule where you play each owner in your division twice and each owner in the other division once. That makes 13 games which is our regular season length. However, Yahoo has given us a schedule where eight owners only play seven division games and six non division games. You'd think paying $120 would give me the power to adjust the schedule, but I don't have that ability.

If there is anyone out there who has experienced this and knows how to manipulate the schedule (maybe with the order that the owners are put into the league) please let me know. I've already tried putting each owner in in different ways, but the schedule formula stays the same.

Switch to RTSports (www.rtsports.com) and you can do that or more for less money. First year paid by Aug 15 will only cost you about $81 (10% discount). Returning leagues get 20% discount (about $73). RTS will allow you to first select the decision to schedule more division vs non-divisions games then you can change the schedule. Whether you use RTSports or some other site, don't use Yahoo Premium. Cost to much. There are better sites for less money.

If you are going to spend that much you should go to CBS. I don't like them due to cost and poor customer service but if you are spending $120 you would do better with CBS. RTS, MFL and others will give you what Yahoo Premium and CBS give you for less money.

I'm stuck now because Yahoo does not allow refunds...otherwise I wouldn't be trying to figure out their schedule formula

 

[G3-175SE]

This is my first year running my league with Premium Yahoo.  The reason we moved to Primium is because we added a 10th owner and wanted two divisions of five.  Figuring Yahoo would throw together a schedule where you play each owner in your division twice and each owner in the other division once.  That makes 13 games which is our regular season length.  However, Yahoo has given us a schedule where eight owners only play seven division games and six non division games.     You'd think paying $120 would give me the power to adjust the schedule, but I don't have that ability. 

If there is anyone out there who has experienced this and knows how to manipulate the schedule (maybe with the order that the owners are put into the league) please let me know.  I've already tried putting each owner in in different ways, but the schedule formula stays the same.

           

Switch to RTSports (www.rtsports.com) and you can do that or more for less money. First year paid by Aug 15 will only cost you about $81 (10% discount). Returning leagues get 20% discount (about $73). RTS will allow you to first select the decision to schedule more division vs non-divisions games then you can change the schedule. Whether you use RTSports or some other site, don't use Yahoo Premium. Cost to much. There are better sites for less money.

If you are going to spend that much you should go to CBS. I don't like them due to cost and poor customer service but if you are spending $120 you would do better with CBS. RTS, MFL and others will give you what Yahoo Premium and CBS give you for less money.

I'm stuck now because Yahoo does not allow refunds...otherwise I wouldn't be trying to figure out their schedule formula

That sucks!. Did not know that. Another reason not to upgrade your league to premium. RTSports will refund you money before the season starts.