Choice of Fantasy Venue

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Choice of Fantasy Venue

Postposted on Thu Dec 27, 2012 2:12 pm

Open question to all:

We've been on Yahoo since day 1. Do better platforms exist and, if so, should we move to them?
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Re: Choice of Fantasy Venue

Postposted on Thu Dec 27, 2012 2:36 pm

I'm in the Football Keeper league here (yahoo) and a league with my friends (ESPN). They're both pretty similar. I know the people that usually play in the fantasy leagues here like Yahoo. I'm indifferent. I tend to frequent ESPN more for news and such, but I don't know what others do.
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Re: Choice of Fantasy Venue

Postposted on Thu Dec 27, 2012 4:30 pm

Despite it's quirks, I like the Yahoo fantasy sports the best.. (and they've got the best mobile app interface as far I as I can tell)
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Re: Choice of Fantasy Venue

Postposted on Thu Dec 27, 2012 4:55 pm

Unless there's something compelling about one of the alternatives (the baseball league here is the only one I've tried, other than helping my nephew get set up in an NBA league on ESPN, so I have no opinions) I'm happy to stick with Yahoo.
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Re: Choice of Fantasy Venue

Postposted on Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:58 pm

I've used several, and other than CBS Sportsline (which sucks) they're all relatively similar
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Re: Choice of Fantasy Venue

Postposted on Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:10 pm

If you made me choose, I'd probably vote for ESPN.
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Re: Choice of Fantasy Venue

Postposted on Fri May 31, 2013 9:02 am

I would prefer to stick with Yahoo myself, just personal preference.
But if the majority wants to try something else - that's OK too.
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Re: Choice of Fantasy Venue

Postposted on Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:41 am

I use Yahoo and ESPN. I prefer Yahoo.
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Re: Choice of Fantasy Venue

Postposted on Sat Jun 01, 2013 9:16 am

Very much prefer ESPN. Better tools, less cluttered stats and presentation, and much, much higher reliability and speed for game-day stats updates, especially for the mobile apps.

Yahoo show scores to the hundredths of a point. Such clutter for no benefit. Hard to read.

Yahoo can't stay up on game day. Should not be this hard, year in and year out.

Didn't think I'd prefer ESPN until I tried it, but man, big difference, in my view.
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Re: Choice of Fantasy Venue

Postposted on Sat Jun 01, 2013 6:24 pm

It's interesting that fantasy football's popularity has waned enough that Yahoo! put up a video explaining what it is and how to play:
http://sports.yahoo.com/video/join-leag ... 11356.html


I like the fractional point scoring rather than integer point scoring. It's a selectable option when you set up the league.
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Re: Choice of Fantasy Venue

Postposted on Mon Jun 03, 2013 12:48 pm

I prefer Yahoo to ESPN's interface.. Unless it's changed since last year, I find that I do better in Yahoo leagues over ESPN (at least for football).
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