My team fell off this weekend while I was away from internet service. :madman: We were supposed to have wifi, but it didn't work. Oh well, got me closer to being on the right pace as far as games played are concerned.

Yahoo sucks. And it sucks bad.

What are your issues with it? Here is why I prefer Yahoo to ESPN:

 

- Layout is better.

- They do a MUCH better job with games played projections.

- Ease of finding things (I play baseball on both ever year).

- They have a FREAKING iPhone app.

- It's easier to navigate from your phone.

- Yahoo's stats are easy to convert to Excel. I do various personal projections and calculations 3 or 4 times a week.

 

I know there are more, but since I don't have the two to compare side-by-side I can't think of anymore.

My team fell off this weekend while I was away from internet service. :madman: We were supposed to have wifi, but it didn't work. Oh well, got me closer to being on the right pace as far as games played are concerned.

No 3G?

Yep, I know it's early but a lot of you are well over your projected pace for games played.

 

I'm learning a lot about this style of league. So far I've learned that I never want to do it again. :lol:

No 3G?

 

I did, but I've found it near impossible to navigate ESPN fantasy sports from my phone. Why they don't have apps is beyond me.

I'm learning a lot about this style of league. So far I've learned that I never want to do it again. :lol:

:lol: :lol:

 

What are your issues with it? Had you never played roto before? I should note, that espousing h2h over roto will cost many, many points in nerd standings.

I'm learning a lot about this style of league. So far I've learned that I never want to do it again. :lol:

 

:thumb: :lol:

I love roto. I don't however enjoy ESPN. I think their fantasy leagues are a step below everyone else. JMO.

I just like the excitement of playing someone new every week. My experiences with Roto have been bad in the past. Always more than half the people quit paying attention about half way through the season.

:lol: :lol:

 

What are your issues with it? Had you never played roto before? I should note, that espousing h2h over roto will cost many, many points in nerd standings.

 

:lol: Given the nature of the competition itself, it's inherently more difficult than h2h. Under normal circumstances, that's the sort of thing I'd find interesting, but the combination of that and the positional limits means I actually have to pay attention to what I'm doing and I hate spending more than 10 minutes per week on fantasy sports. Any time spent clicking around on ESPN (where it's impossible to find any information I want to begin with) is time not spent doing other things.

 

If I have to take some time trying to figure out if I've played too many guys at shooting guard this week, I'm not spending that time on other sports nerd endeavors, like researching adjusted wins against replacement analysis on upcoming Baseball Hall of Fame ballots. ...and I can't even begin to get started on non-sports projects... so little time, so much to do...

:lol: Given the nature of the competition itself, it's inherently more difficult than h2h. Under normal circumstances, that's the sort of thing I'd find interesting, but the combination of that and the positional limits means I actually have to pay attention to what I'm doing and I hate spending more than 10 minutes per week on fantasy sports. Any time spent clicking around on ESPN (where it's impossible to find any information I want to begin with) is time not spent doing other things.

 

If I have to take some time trying to figure out if I've played too many guys at shooting guard this week, I'm not spending that time on other sports nerd endeavors, like researching adjusted wins against replacement analysis on upcoming Baseball Hall of Fame ballots. ...and I can't even begin to get started on non-sports projects... so little time, so much to do...

I think you may be making way too much out of positional limits. You have 66 games for each position to use the entire year, so unless a guy is rested then your starters (barring injury) will max out their limits anyways. Not really that much to it at all. If you didn't have positional limits then you'd run into the problem of the guy who sits on the free agency list and just wins by virtue of having an infinite amount of free time to fill a full roster each day.

 

It's the weekly leagues where people will try and find guys who have 6 starts that week versus a 3 starter or in baseball 2 start pitchers and all that "tricking the system" garbage.

I just like the excitement of playing someone new every week. My experiences with Roto have been bad in the past. Always more than half the people quit paying attention about half way through the season.

I can understand that, but to me I'd rather have a "truer" method for picking the winner of the league.

 

I will agree, that if half the people quit paying attention it will much less entertaining. Though I'm hoping since everyone is an NBA fan and pretty active on BGP we shouldn't run into that.

 

In all fairness, I have been playing fantasy sports since the days of mailing in your starters and checking USA Today for scores and I have seen those type of things happen just as much in h2h leagues as well. The big football league I used to be a part of and one that many of my big baseball league are members of has this problem every year. In fact, some of the guys who are in both have done this in football but never baseball. This is the main reason I now only play with trusted "fantasy friends" and am hesitant to join my buddie's new office leagues, the IT department's league, my girlfriend's sister's boyfriend's league, etc.

 

One other way to prevent people from giving up is to add a keeper element, and even better give some reward to NOT tank. In my keeper baseball league we pay the top three spots. Then 4th place gets the 1st pick, 5th gets the 2nd, and so on until the 8th pick which goes to the team who finished 3rd. This way you are rewarded to keep trying throughout the year.

And you might have some dumb people who think that (+17) means that you have 17 additional games at that position and you need to play someone there. Haha...oops. Going to have to adjust strategy a little.

What are your issues with it? Here is why I prefer Yahoo to ESPN:

 

- Layout is better.

- They do a MUCH better job with games played projections.

- Ease of finding things (I play baseball on both ever year).

- They have a FREAKING iPhone app.

- It's easier to navigate from your phone.

- Yahoo's stats are easy to convert to Excel. I do various personal projections and calculations 3 or 4 times a week.

 

I know there are more, but since I don't have the two to compare side-by-side I can't think of anymore.

 

I hate the entire yahoo website. Everything about it. I am never on there so I always have to create a new user ID and password just to get on there. I started playing fantasy games on ESPN in 2000. It's all about familiarity. There is nothing I can't find on the ESPN website.

I did, but I've found it near impossible to navigate ESPN fantasy sports from my phone. Why they don't have apps is beyond me.

 

This is the first time they haven't had an app for a fantasy sport. I blame the lockout. I used football, baseball and basketball apps for ESPN this past year. As I said earlier I like the full site version on Safari better.