Coming Down The Home Stretch In Fantasy Football
by David Fucillo on Nov 30, 2010 1:18 PM PST
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The NFL is entering week 13 and the playoff race still fairly murky. Five of the eight divisions have two teams tied for first place. Furthermore, every division has at least two teams in realistic contention for a division title. Given how close the division races are, that makes the wildcard picture even murkier and likely to come down to the final week of the season. Even our beloved 49ers are somehow in the playoff race, sitting one game back of the division-leading Rams and Seahawks.
In fantasy football however, the time for positioning is almost up. Virtually any league that allows for six or more playoff teams is entering their final week of the regular season (we won't discuss those crazy folks who use Week 17 for their championship game). I myself am in three leagues, two of which have a six-team playoff and the other of which has a four-team playoff. The four team league has two more weeks of regular season action given the shortened playoff.
I don't want to be "that guy" talking about his fantasy football leagues because that guy can sometimes be annoying. Of course, I often ended up talking about them anyways, but that's life I suppose. Rather, I was curious what sites people use to play fantasy football and how they like them?
CBSSports.com is the "official" fantasy site for SB Nation, but I have to agree with John Morgan over at Field Gulls that the setup of their fantasy site is less than stellar. For my non-SB Nation leagues I use Yahoo! and FanBall.com. The Yahoo! league was set up by a friend of mine while I chose FanBall for my own league.
I chose FanBall for my league because when I started up the league five years ago, they offered some elements related to keepers that I couldn't find elsewhere. The big one was that teams could keep three players but they didn't just occupy some nebulous non-draft pick status. Rather, they occupied a certain level of draft pick based on when they were originally drafted. Yahoo! has since added that to their game but I'm quite pleased with FanBall and thus haven't switched over to Yahoo!
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I use Yahoo to play, I think it’s more user friendly, but I think their advice is too general. CBS sports has great tools for researching.
My fav is being able to pick a Defense, and sort how they’ve defended by position. Rather than just looking at overall stats, they break it down pretty good.
Oh and I think rotoworld has good up to date news.
by LADubbz45 on Nov 30, 2010 1:53 PM PST via mobile reply actions
MFL is probably the best FF league site
with the least amount of excess crap but also the most expensive. The site is showing its age a bit but still providing good content while not cheaping out on the statistics.
by asmithisaverage on Nov 30, 2010 3:25 PM PST reply actions
i voted Other.
i have a Yahoo! team as well, but i also have a team in a Fleaflicker.com league. i fell in love with it last year while playing in one of the Niners Nation leagues.
We don't need 8 in the box. We have 52 in the box.
I’m on NFL.com. Wouldn’t do it again because the ad on the “matchup” page pretty consistently crashes my internet browser. Otherwise, it’s ok, I guess.
So… Gore was on my team. I’m desperately hoping I win the waiver claim for Westbrook, but there are no guarantees. What should I do? (not that it matters, I’m pretty effed in that league at the moment).
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Nov 30, 2010 5:55 PM PST reply actions
ESPN and never again
Worst advices and predictions are always off. for me at least. im 8-4, when i should 11-1.
NEVER bother with predictions
I love ESPN because of the way you can easily interact with your team.
All other leagues take a long time just to switch two players.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Dec 1, 2010 6:15 PM PST up reply actions
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