Which Fantasy Football Provider Do You Use?

[obryant13]

Just thought Id start a conversation and let commisioners share with each other which website they use to run thier league and why?

I have used Yahoo every year the main reason being because i have several people in my league who arent very computer literate and yahoo has a simple layout and is easy to use.

[logan]

i use yahoo as well. mainly because it's easy to use ,even if it isn't optimal to some of the settings i would prefer to use. mainly a waiver priority system the same as fanballs.

the two you will mainly see here is yahoo and sportsline although i know some use yahoo ( i have one league i'm involved in here that's on there) a few fanballs and others.

[The Balanced Man]

I love CBSsportsline. They have the best set up by far in my opinion.

For a free site however, I've been using yahoo!. This year I want something with more customization though.

[dream_017]

AOL has the best customization for a free site. I have been on it for 2 years now and have not had any problems. There is also free live scoring I can't stand yahoo

For pay sites, the leagues that I am in are run on fanball and cbssportsline

[onnestabe]

Most of my leagues are yahoo leagues, and I think they have a stable and easy-to-use setup for a free site. I usually have multiple leagues here, so I don't mind paying the $10 for live scoring since it extends to all of your leagues. (I just wish I could have more than 4 teams per screenname)

I have also used nfl.com (same as sportsline), espn, foxsports, sporting news, and fleaflicker.

nfl/sportsline - decent setup and lots of cool extras like uploadable team icons and automatic linking to research and news, but I had some difficulty adjusting to the nuts and bolts of it since I am used to yahoo leagues. nfl.com is the free version with free live scoring.

espn - it was an ok site, but they make you pay for the ability to do detailed research on players. Live scoring is not free.

foxsports - was so bad in '05 that I swore to never use it again. They had free live scoring, but it did not update very quickly if it worked at all, and they would routinely roll out a site update that would erase transactions. It may be better now, since '05 was their first year, but I don't care to find out.

sporting news - switched to them mid-season because of the inadequacies of foxsports. It was a very good site, but I would expect that out of a pay site. I liked it more than nfl.com/sportsline, so if I were going to pay a fee for a league management site, I would probably choose them over sportsline.

fleaflicker - I think it is fairly customizable, and I thought it was good for a free site with free live scoring, but it was difficult to use it for player research as their wasn't very much useful information. The draft room was good, too, but I would suggest using another site for news and player research if you decide to use it for a league.

[joelamosobadiah]

Here is the breakdown of the sites I have used.

NFL.com--Nice sight, but I wasn't the commish, so I don't know about customizability. Love the news, and free scoring.

ESPN-- Bad layout, pay live scoring, pay for player news/info. Sucked all around.

fleaflicker-- IMO, this was one of the best free sites out there. Has free scoring (pretty slow, but still good) is very customizable, is getting totally revamped with new features in the offseason. Great site and I may be putting another league there. Bad forums.

[steelerfan513]

The vast majority of my leagues were yahoo, and that was much better than the only other site I used, which was ESPN.

[awwchrist]

http://www.myfantasyleague.com

I changed from CBS.Sportsline.com about three seasons ago. All my owners love it.

If you're paying for a league and haven't demo'd it, you're doing your leaguemates a disservice.

[GreatestShowOnEarth]

I like fanball a lot. fairly cheap ($60) but it has all of the same features that more expensive sites have. Fanball has a great draft room and good player research. Far and away my favorite provider but most of my leagues are on yahoo which is fine besides the absense live scoring.

[NittanyLions]

I have a message board on proboards to take care of all the information. Then we use Yahoo for the actual seasons and such, works out very well