Yahoo Fantasy: Football & more Reviews

YahooFantasy overall is great. They are always updating and adding new features. Current problem I have been having in multiple leagues which has caused me to have to contact multiple managers along with the commissioners to fix is the trading. If trades are accepted while a manager has enough roster spots to take a 2 for 1 trade it will allow the trade to go through. If that same manager picks someone up in the following 2 days before the trade is processed, that trade basically becomes vetoed/unsuccessful because now they would have needed to drop someone and that wasn’t in the original trade. Because of this, on game days I am having to scramble with managers and commissioners to go back thru and have them push the trades through. These teams basically can have buyers remorse and do this PURPOSELY to void trades they no longer agree with. This NEEDS to be fixed by app developers as it has caused many headaches throughout the year. Again, this is one of the best fantasy apps minus this loop hole for buyers remorse. Make it so the person getting two players has chances or options to have someone dropped before the entire trade ends up in the toilet and managers with buyers remorse don’t get a chance to back out of deals unfairly.

At long last, Yahoo opened fantasy baseball last month (well behind schedule and other platforms), but our league has no way to view our rosters from the previous year on YahooFantasy . We have setup the keeper league management and everything, but for some reason you can only see your players on the desktop version via web browser. Therefore, YahooFantasy is basically useless for me when it comes to checking updates on my players until the season starts.

RECOMMENDATIONS: Make previous year’s final roster viewable predraft on YahooFantasy for keeper leagues. Side note: please make the auction draft values for each player available on both the team and picks tabs, given that there’s no benefit to knowing the order of nomination in an auction league. The draft value is the most important item. I can’t view it via YahooFantasy yet since we haven’t drafted so kudos if you’ve already fixed it.

Ok I do not like YahooFantasy.. I mean I’d play if it was the only app to play but seriously ESPN Fantasy and NFL fantasy are a lot better. One this one is really big but I prefer the white mode instead of dark mode and on ESPN and nfl it’s optional this it’s automatically dark. That isn’t really a big thing though here are some of my biggest pet peeves. 1. The graphics. The graphics are so glitchy. I’ll be drafting and it’ll just kick me off the draft nfl fantasy and ESPN fantasy don’t do that. 2. The money betting. In yahoo you have to actually get money to get money do your technically losing money if you lose. In ESPN And nfl fantasy there are options where you can bet but also ones where you can get free money from YahooFantasy if you win. 3. The scoring glitches. When I’m playing a team I lost one game because the scores glitches. A player on my team got a certain amount of receptions and a certain amount of receiving yards, but the thing said the guy had two less receptions than he actually did and 24 less receiving yards. So these are the reasons why I don’t recommend YahooFantasy and why I don’t like it. Like I said if it was the only app I’d probably play but no way when there’s nfl and ESPN fantasy which are way better.

First year playing fantasy football and the yahoo app has held up well. It’s easy to navigate through YahooFantasy and I like how updates and anything that happens in your league is displayed. However there are 2 things that definitely need to be changed for it to be near perfect.
1) the discussion section for players needs to be permanent. It’s a great resource for players across all leagues to ask questions and have conversations about players they share. Idk if it’s only present during pre-season or if they took it off. Regardless it needs to be permanent.
2) Team photos need to be bigger. The guys in my fantasy league pride our selves with coming up with hilarious team names and use photoshop to make hilarious photos for our teams. But the circle for photos is so small it’s too hard to see them. They need to enlarge the size of the circle for team photos.
With these two changes YahooFantasy would go from amazing to near perfect in my opinion. And I feel like these are easy changes so hopefully the developers see this review!

King of it All is the league I’m in - I’m seeing BS happening and it’s being over looked. I’m playing 3 times champ - his starting QB was Rogers - I’m winning right - then the switch happened. Wilson is in the line up now. Lockett is my WR every time he gets point there was no Wilson scores - Because Rogers was in lineup - every time Lockett scores Wilson should have - I have proof but nothing happened. It was over looked. This should not be happening - this is BS - some above should monitor these changes - to avoid situations like this/dishonest people - King of it all cheats - Commisoner shouldn’t have power - yahoo should help with changes. Please look into this league. Commisoner activities needs to be posted so everyone see the changes. Please King of it all the football league I’m in - starting line up has Rogers in abs when he didn’t produce points - somehow Wilson took his place. The commissioner of King of it all his activities needs to be looked at or into - also his activities and changes needs to be posted - so everyone can see - I got locked out of my league because I spotted the shady behavior-King of it all - is not running a fair or honest league. Yahoo needs to look into this - thank you for your time / I know your s busy network o something to change this please.

The yahoo “experts advice” couldn’t be further from the truth. I mean it isn’t even close. I’ve only been doing this for 4 years or so. But the only thing consistent in yahoo football is injuries, completely inaccurate predictions (not even close) and then my pet peeve - the miscalculation of points - so bad that you reward the wrong person a victory before you even do all your math/ factoring for points- beyond idiotic. You reward someone a victory- send them your stupid confetti victory reward and then after they think they’ve won - u finally get your crap together and correct your mistakes taking the victory away from the person you just rewarded it to. PATHETIC AND RIDICULOUS.

2 years ago my Dad went undefeated in his league just slaughtering people - you guys wrote him to ask him his opinion hinting that it was YOU that led Him to this flawless season- which is an absolute joke because he said you rated him 2nd to last in the draft. The only consistency is that your inaccurate and inconsistent. I would be floored if anyone at yahoo fantasy makes a paycheck or gets paid for this incompetence you display week in and week out.

Yahoo Basketball is horrible when it comes to basketball eligibility. I wonder who’s making these decisions and if their watching any basketball games. They haven’t updated their eligibility list since the beginning of the season. For example, They have Paul George listed as a SF, PF and he has started every game as the SG. DeMar DeRozan has stared PF the entire season yet they have fail to give him PF status. Those are just a few. You would think they would stay on top of these things considering we’re in a pandemic and games are being canceled. At least allow players to play other positions that they qualify for. I look at ESPN fantasy basketball eligibility and I notice their up to date with their eligibility list. Last year playing Yahoo!!!!!!

Who designed the new look for the yahoo fantasy app? Not good. Not at all. Unless you’re a child that likes to look at gimmicky imagery. Or maybe you’re going for a nostalgic late 90’s/early 2000’s look? You know, like when the NBA teams thought it was super cool to have their team logos be campy cartoons. Remember that? The Raptors and Grizzlies and Pistons and Bucks and Hornets and Mavs and so many others?
Anyways. If you’re intent for the new app facelift was to remind everyone of that annoying “Do you Yahoo?” commercial with the yokel who sang the “YA-HOOOoooOOO” ditty at the end of every painful commercial during the google/yahoo wars, then mission accomplished.
I don’t know why exactly but it upsets me. In all of my years of having the internet going back to like 1994, I have taken the time to write maybe four or five reviews. I’m not quite sure how many exactly but I bet you I won’t be YA-HOOOoooOOOing any time soon to look up which ones.
I didn’t even mean to tap the icon to give this one star. There’s just no negative zero star I could tap to indicate my sincere displeasure for the new app look. Please just change it. The one before it looked fine.

I love the yahoo fantasy app, and have been in multiple leagues. I have recently started a late fantasy basketball league and have had more problems in two days than I have had in like 4 years.
Problem 1: setting up the draft, I tried to set up the draft order. I tried to select something in the settings to do so and YahooFantasy showed it but didn’t show up “blue” to let me click it. I just told the guys that we’d randomize it and apologized. Who knows, maybe you can’t do so 24 hours before the draft.
Problem 2: after the draft, I set my roster and decided to look at my matchup for the week. It just showed me against me, and didn’t show any other matchups. Nobody else in the league had this issue. I deleted YahooFantasy , restarted my phone, updated all my apps, and re downloaded YahooFantasy . When I re-downloaded YahooFantasy , I clicked back on and I was at the home screen. Once I clicked on the “basketball” icon YahooFantasy would go to a black screen and glitch out. I could try NFL MLB and NHL and it wouldn’t do it. Only basketball.. please help me!!

Yahoo’s fantasy app does a much better job than ESPN’s. I’ve been a Yahoo user for years, and appreciate most of what YahooFantasy has to offer. However, with the amount of competition we are finally seeing in the fantasy app world, Yahoo seems to be dropping the ball a little. YahooFantasy is incredible slow to react, and often times, it’ll time out. My whole league has this issue, and I’ve seen it mentioned on social media. This needs to be fixed ASAP. Yahoo doesn’t focus on customization so much, and loses the battle between Fantrax by a wide margin. My league is starting to wonder wether Fantrax will be the direction to take in the next year or two unless Yahoo focuses more on their fantasy hockey customization as well as app connection and fluidity. Coworkers and friends of mine have begun to switch to Fantrax, Sleeper, etc. I’ll give Yahoo one to two more seasons before switching unless they catch up and add a couple more features/customized tools.

YahooFantasy itself works well most of the time, it’s reliable, I use it for 90% of my fantasy transactions throughout the season. The biggest problem I’ve encountered is that the message board on YahooFantasy and the message board on the browser are two entirely different forums for some reason. This definitely creates headaches, since it’s very confusing when half of the league is using one or the other. Kinda seems like they should be one and the same to cut out the possibility of being left in the dark on important announcements or just general league updates, trade requests etc. Speaking of which, it’d be really useful to have the trade block function operating on YahooFantasy as well as the browser. My other primary complaint is pretty superficial, but I really miss the black background. Maybe you guys could add the option of night time mode? Seems easy enough. Otherwise YahooFantasy gets 5 Stars.

Honestly I would give you a 5 star review because Yahoo is vastly superior to any other fantasy sports app (yes, I’ve tried them all) But the functionality of the chat app lately is really frustrating. Why would you wait until just before Fantasy Football starts ramping up to start going through all these chat app changes? And why not just wait until it is completely ready to launch instead of these incremental fixes? Can’t post my own gifs or pictures, still can’t post videos which is the one change we’ve all been requesting for awhile now. Please get this knocked out before the season starts!! The chat app trash talk is an integral piece of the Fantasy season! And without aptly timed gifs and embarrassing pictures it just isn’t the same man!!!

Update: Football starts in less than a week and the chat portion of YahooFantasy is still not fully operational!! Please get this fixed.

I have been a customer with yahoo fantasy since 2002 or 2003. Wow that’s almost 20 years at this point. I enjoyed all of your new features that you have introduced to your platform on a yearly basis. I was hoping that you could do one more feature that would help you compete with newer platforms such as sleeper or underdog etc. that have this feature. The feature that I have been looking for for years now is the ability to set up a league where each week is with two wins. One win for the head to head and one win for those above the median score. I think this could be a trend in the industry as we have all been on the side of scoring the second most points but lost to the highest score or vice versa.

I’ve been playing FF since 1997, back when we typed all the stats on an Excel spreadsheet and winners were determined on Tuesday at lunchtime.
We started using the Yahoo fantasy game in 1999. I missed 2020 because of game restrictions from COVID-19; I voluntarily sat out the season.
Today, there are many more tools available to determine your lineup. Just remember, the Yahoo predictions are correct, so don’t be afraid of benching a star for a backup.

As far as the usability is concerned, it’s buried in YahooFantasy so much so that it’s actually hard to find. There is a maze of sport betting and money sites that the FREE to Play people have to navigate, which I could dock a star for, but I didn’t.

Love the details on each players weekly performance, love the updates they give and layout of YahooFantasy . I play both fantasy football and baseball on here and I really like fantasy baseball the most. The setup of mostly everything is great and the comments on the players is awesome! Please don’t take those away. For football, it’s extremely cool that they have the Sunday night games on YahooFantasy . Big cheers to that Yahoo

A couple things they could fix...

Baseball: show probable starters and players for a few days in advance. On the waiver it would be cool if I could change the date two days ahead and see what matchups the waiver players have in the days ahead. Also a way to see what category I increased on the day and the proof of that in my season stats. They league I play in is not head to head and each teams stats make up their score. So it’s constantly changing, I’d like to see how much each category went up.

Football: really need to get a better live play-by-play visual. Or just one in general. I go to others applications to watch the play-by-by. they have the cool football field animation and it’s easy to follow.

I like the YAHOO Sports app with the easy to use UI, ability to create a custom league with custom scoring/settings, the daily fantasy news articles (without having to pay), and the end of season trophies but wish it had some features that some other fantasy sites/apps have.

First, whatever happened to the mock draft ratings report card? I know it probably wasn’t an accurate grading due to it didn’t tell how the drafted player was rated or give a description on the players pros/cons in the given role but was fun getting a rough idea on who to draft or avoid for real without having to ‘rate your player’ on a different site.

I also wish you could view a calendar with the player’s (weekly/monthly) schedule before adding\dropping so I don’t add another player who doesn’t fit in my active roster again for that week (assuming I didn’t do my research beforehand), like that is available on ESP_.

The Yahoo fantasy Sports website UI, etc is messed up though. I like drafting on the pc so can see 2 monitors but I don’t like the “Draft” button is so small where the player’s info panel is so large.

We’ve been using Yahoo’s fantasy app for years. No issues with how to set lineups, view matchups, info, etc. all great.
What the h*ck happened to the messaging portion. No pictures, no gifs from outside their gif search.... I don’t understand it. It is the biggest complaint we have, nobody wants to use the chat for anything. A huge part of the fun of Fantasy sports is talking crap and sending our own pictures, gifs, etc, and that has been removed from YahooFantasy , for reasons unknown. I’m in two leagues through Yahoo, and both have minimal chat presence as a direct result of this. Essentially, YahooFantasy just seems bland now. It’s just as lame as the ESPN one. We’re pretty much forced to use Facebook messenger or something else.
Please fix or reimplement the messaging as it once was, not this watered down, childish chat.

I like the layout and it has a nice user interface, but what I really don’t like are two things:
1) No poll feature- for some reason Yahoo decided to get rid of their poll feature, which made me upset. My buddies and I have been using yahoo for 15 years for our fantasy league, so each year we usually need to vote on a rule change. It would be really nice if yahoo brought that feature back
2- No League Pickem feature- why is there not a way to pick the fantasy matchup winner on YahooFantasy ? The browser has this option, but YahooFantasy this is nowhere to be found. My league mates and I like to pick the matchups, and it ruins our fantasy experience when we have to go to the browser every time for that

Other than those two things, that app is really good

YahooFantasy makes it easy for the commissioner to scam people. Kyle Rocky Cunlip is the commissioner for the PrimeRealEstate league. He has scammed multiple people out of money by selling the same teams to multiple people. He removes the original owner of a top scoring team from the league and replace them and their already established team with a new person who also paid money to join the league. He recruits people from Facebook telling them he has a vacant team with a strong record available for anyone that wants to take over the team. He lies and tell them that the original owner was removed from the league due to not paying the entry fee. Kyle has multiple leagues that he is the commissioner over and he has done this in all of his leagues. There are multiple complaints against him on Facebook. YahooFantasy needs to do more to eliminate fraud on your platform. I have reported this incident to FTC for fraud.

My experience with Yahoo fantasy football has been very good except for the handling of Deebo Samuel’s eligibility this year. When the question was raised about his position expanding to RB and WR like Patterson has, the response was basically that there are no set eligibility rules/criterion and Yahoo would make a decision that they thought was best. I understand that this decision might be debatable,but the response was puzzling. Fantasy baseball has very specific rules that are followed and although sometimes it seems strange that players have multiple positions, there’s a set of rules that guides the process. A similar set of guidelines should exist in football. It would take away the guesswork and make it easier for both managers and Yahoo staff.

I’m not sure if you guys are done with the new update but the chat, the most important part of a leagues dynamic, is absolutely terrible. TERRIBLE. I can’t stress how backwards Yahoo has gone with whatever they’re doing. This 7-8 day gap where my league has not been able to and refuses to use the chat available has ruined this years fantasy baseball for all of us. If this continues I will be moving all of my leagues to a different App other than Yahoo Fantasy and I’ve been with Yahoo since 2011. I’m extremely disappointed.

*Updated*

4 weeks ago I posted the above comment. Still no update with the Chat. Yahoo please update your comments while downloading YahooFantasy to 60 Day IL not 10 day. That’s false advertising. It’s insane how long it is taking you to roll out a new chat platform. I’m so mad I’m not mad. You are going to lose a lot of people over what you’re doing.

I’ve been playing on Yahoo Fantasy since 2010, and I’ve found it fun. I play the pro league from $20-$100 a league, win or lose I’m not sour about it. This year on one of my basketball league, there was a cheater, I’m guessing one guy has 2 accounts in the same league. This guy basically is swapping his average player from one team to another. Here are actual examples: (trade 1: Demar derozan, Rob Covington for Al Horford, TJ Warren) I vetoed, but Yahoo approved the trade. At the time of trade, Derozan and Covington were top 30 players, Al horford is ranked 49, Warren was ranked 140. Trade 2, Will Barton for Isaiah Thomas. Trade 3, Joe ingles for Colin Sexton. The most outrageous trade is Paul George, Jokim Noah for D’Angelo russel and Collin Sexton.
Anyone who plays Fantasy Basketball for money knows these trades are lopsided, and should not be making decisions on trades even when other players Vetoed. Yahoo Fantasy just lost a loyal customer due to their inadequate staff.

For a free app, this works very well most of the time. Lots of sorting options, clean interface, and the Fearless Forecasts are a nice touch. Unfortunately, this season YahooFantasy will often become unresponsive on certain screens. You then have to select a whole different category to get YahooFantasy to wake back up. Not a HUGE deal, but really strange since this was never an issue in past seasons. Also, while the Fearless Forecasts are nice, you usually see a 10-15 second ad before each one. While that’s not a huge issue, it’s annoying when you sit through it... then don’t get an actual forecast. Just some stat animation that shows the same projection you already knew. Decent overall for Fantasy Football, but could be perfect with a few more tweaks.

Its been 8 hours and i cant use YahooFantasy because it freezes immediately when i open with a pop up in a grey IOS/apple style icon that says ,” APPLY TO BECOME A BETA TESTER”
Then it gives 2 answers to choose from,” apply and ok”? What the hell is this? A virus, malware bate? What? Im not going to answer cuz i dont wanna lose my bank account or any other data!!!
I contacted Apple after i uninstalled app immediately, backed up my Iphone 8 plus , wiped, reinstalled my back up data, then reinstalled YahooFantasy. Opened it, and what do you know, theres the pop up again. Took me 2 hours and a third hour on the phone w/apple.
Then i went to my ipad snd opened YahooFantasy and YahooFantasy freezes with the same pop uP, “APPLY TO BECOME A BETA TESTER” “Ok/APPLY”
Then i contacted yahoo. Lets see how long this takes to fix with football season around the corner, i commish 3 leagues snd in the middle of baseball season.. JOKE!!!

I really really enjoy YahooFantasy . I’ve been using it since i started fantasy football and will not play on any other website or application as this one is the most fun and user friendly and the graphics are near perfect. I do really miss the black background and was not sure why you guys got rid of it not the first place. If there anyway you can make a night time mode or just change it the background back to black it would be perfect. And last thing would be the uploading of pictures is still not available and that has been a part part of the league as we upload pictures of winners and loses using funny memes. Thank you. Other than that YahooFantasy is five stars

Been a huge fan of yahoo fantasy sports for years now… But this new update is absolutely atrocious. I love you guys but please fix it, soon.

Edit : First off thank you for responding.

The chat - I can’t post my own pics or gifs, you can’t tell if someone reads your post, I get no notifications if a player is sitting out that day, and yesterday YahooFantasy wouldn’t load for me to change someone out (I happened to see it myself bc of course YahooFantasy didn’t say). The “my team” page loaded at first. I went to check another fantasy team I have, came back or the original one I needed to change out and it kept giving me a error. Before you guys ask, yes I have my notifications on. Yes I tried to restart my phone, yes I closed out of YahooFantasy completely to try and substitute my player. Yes to all of that.

Hey guys whatever you do umm make sure that you don't update YahooFantasy during your regular season of baseball or any other sports games of any other sports or your app looks like a bad whitening toothpaste and it's not a good idea for the use of it all when you have the best records in one of those leagues. Fix fix fix YahooFantasy asap please and ty. Please don't let this update make it worse than it would make it better if you can stop all updates till the end of the season and then this white out will be done and then you can keep up with the best records in fantasy baseball leagues as well ty. It was fixed and then 72 hours later it all of a sudden it froze again please stop saying that you are updating it for game experiences with YahooFantasy.