Fantasy League Help

SonicMcMahon · Post #1 » by **SonicMcMahon** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:51 pm

Hello fellow fantasy basketballers,
I'm looking for advice on finding a private customizable fantasy basketball league this season. Last year a group of 8 of us tried nba.com, and we found that it was pretty customizable, but incredibly glitchy. Now we've begun searching again and tried CBSsportsline.com, but you have to pay for a good league there, and ESPN.com which seemed like it was pretty good but we ran into problems there too.

Ultimately we are looking for a free and totally customizable league that runs smoothly, and we're looking for advice. Ideally this league features a 17 man roster, 10 starters, 5 bench, 2 injured reserves. It is a weekly head to head, most categories won, league. The categories are as follows points, rebounds, assists, blocks, steals, fg%, ft%, 3pts made, and TO/game, (where fewest turnovers/games played wins this category). It is important to us that we can weight our categories. That is, points, rebounds and assists should be worth twice as much as other categories.

NBA.com allowed us to do all of these things but was terrible in a lot of other ways. If anyone knows of a league that is fully customizable in this way, and that isn't glitchy or full of complications, please let me know.

Thanks alot.

Post #2 » by **Stanford** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:11 pm

Most of us here use Yahoo! I personally refuse to use anything else. Fits the qualifications you're looking for, no question.

SonicMcMahon · Post #3 » by **SonicMcMahon** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:24 pm

Thanks a lot. I have heard it is good and will probably make this my fantasy home.

ZenBaller · Post #4 » by **ZenBaller** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:07 pm

The story with Yahoo is kind of weird. It's by far the worst in customization compared to other 3 (nba.com, ESPN, CBS) but it's the most reliable and has very few ads. It's simple and steady. I haven't played in ESPN yet. It looks really great and I think I prefer it over all the others this season. I only have 3 concerns:

1) I can't import my yahoo fantasy history there.
2) Until last year you had to pay to play it, and I don't trust them 100%.. they'll maybe bring the cost back.
3) It has many ads and it's complicated compared to Yahoo but of course much more sophisticated.

I'm in a serious dilemma because I run a 4 year 20-team league and we're really thinking of moving there.

Btw all those comparisons are with last year's yahoo fantasy. It hasn't opened yet for this season and hopefully they'll bring some new features, otherwise they're going to fall way back in the competition. I'm still waiting for yahoo to open to make a move.