MyTeams by NBC Sports Reviews

by RockTheRed83

I was excited about MyTeams when I first heard about it. I am a blind iPhone user, and use the built-in screen reader called voice over. When I opened MyTeams , the only thing that I was able to successfully do was select all of my teams. After that, I was not able to do anything. Voiceover says something to the effect that my teams are behind a button and to press and hold the button and then release it, but when I perform those commands nothing happens. I would appreciate it if MyTeams could be made accessible so that people like myself can use it, because right now we are not able to, and I am a huge capitals fan and was looking forward to trying this out.

by Siiickname

first off, half of these reviews are left by absolute imbeciles who give MyTeams a 5 star rating and proceed to rip it a new one in the review they write. for gods sake open your eyes and look at what youre doing lol MyTeams should have 1.5 star rating. second, MyTeams has a really bad layout. counterintuitive even. also, what do you benefit from not allowing users to lock their device and still hear the game. really, whats the point? youre incentivizing people to just stream the game online for free illegally lol if you want that to end, you have to win people over! and you can start by letting us lock our phones ans listen to the game! not complicated :)

by GordyWinkerbean

Sometimes I can stream the local teams, other times it says my provider isn’t authorized. This is literally the main feature for MyTeams so it’s insanely frustrating that it’s so buggy. The UI is nicer than the old app, though there are some really bizarre elements. Get rid of the “hockey puck” selection button. There are much better ways to implement menu selection than having a static button on what is otherwise a nice looking design. Also, the picture in picture window is pointless. It’s too small to see any kind of game action. And the transition is awkward. Seems like it would just make more sense to lock the regular video window to the UI when scrolling through content.

EDIT 4/22:

Does any of the developers actually use MyTeams? Can we finally get a fix for non-16:9 tablets (ipads) when viewing full screen video? The sides get cut off, which cuts off the scorebug.

by Ibleedbayareasports

I really wish as a die hard warriors fan that there were some way for me too stream the games easier than what’s currently available. Due too blackouts I’m hesitant too drop $75 on a app or tv service I may use once in a while just too find out warriors games are blacked out. I only need too stream once every 3-4 games otherwise I’m home where I can watch it. But it’s just so frustrating missing a game and having tv providers lure you in with the thought of being able too watch your home town team than game time comes and your blacked out. So please if anyone knows of any option out there I’ve missed please inform me

by Deenie170

Every time we go to watch the Flyers games on either our iPad or phone we end up having to delete MyTeams then reinstalling it. And every single time the same message pops up “this program is not available in your region due to rights restrictions.” Last season it worked fine. The iPad is a little over a year old and the phone is a few months old and we are ALWAYS connected to WiFi so I know it’s not on our end. We have complicated circumstances where this is the only way a family member can watch as he is in an assisted living facility. But it’s sad that every time we go in to see if he was able to get it started, he feels like HE did something wrong. “Nope, doesn’t work on my phone either buddy ...sit tight while we fix it again.”😢🤦🏼‍♀️

by Djs8686

Compared to other apps this one is severely lacking. For starters MyTeams itself is not intuitive. How do you add teams to your teams after the fact? I do not see anything in settings or an account section of MyTeams . There must be a way to do it though. Also, MyTeams supports minimizing the stream into a picture in picture viewing experience but only within MyTeams itself. The stream goes away the minute you try to go back home whereas other streaming apps let you multitask. Forcing you to stay in-app to view the stream along with an unintuitive user interface is why I give MyTeams 1 star. It's by far the worst live sports streaming app I've used.

by SayonaraML

Okay, content is more than enough and should be enough to make this a 4-5 star app. So why only two? App mechanics are garbage. Video is what there are pushing so even if it’s not what you want, it’s pushed on you, even when video is not working right and yes, that’s another issue. And why is it impossible to change screen orientation?

Folks, it’s 2020 and blows my mind that this is a ‘finished’ product.

Update: I’m removing a star thanks to the invasive video feed. I’m watching the game on the television and trying to read articles but the video restarts every time I swipe on the page. I keep on turning it off but it won’t stay off. Disappointing that this is the case, wonder why there is no quality check.

by Leddy60

I have been using MyTeams for a couple years. In May 2021 MyTeams decided to log me out of my tv provider and I tried to log in again. I tap on my provider to log in but nothing ever happens. It doesn’t take me to the log in screen like it’s supposed to, it stays on the same screen. I’ve deleted MyTeams and downloaded it again, I’ve waited for updates, and I’ve contacted this app NBC but none of these methods work and I’ve received no response from NBC. It’s very frustrating that I can’t watch the teams that I pay for to watch and it’s unbelievable that the problem hasn’t been fixed for over half a year now.

by Trader Jean

I would rather have the older version for watching games on my iPad. This version works sometimes and then it does not for whatever reason saying that I am not authorized to watch???? No controls other than pause when watching a live feed, so no jump forward back or scroll controls. The User interface needs a home screen to that you can toggle to the team you want to follow. You cannot reorder the teams without deleting the application and starting over as with all of the controls. There are no controls. If you need to log into your cable provider, there is no indicator for that or even a way to check if you are already logged in.

Great idea, just missing the tools that an application like this needs so that the user can navigate it. Where is a settings menu or something. Why should I have to scroll thru the 49ers stuff when they are out of season. I should not have to scroll to see team, just select their icon from a home screen....please.

by Gem517

Ditto Trader Jean! She makes excellent points and took the words right out of my fingertips. 😜 I want my old app back, where I could pick my teams and not have to scroll through all the off-season stuff to get any current info on active teams.

Additionally, I want to pick individual teams, not the whole wad in the area! I want a series of articles that I can pick to read about my team(s) at my leisure. When I picked “Bay Area” on MyTeams, I got everything imaginable and get multiple daily reminders and news bits about teams I don’t want. It’s an all or nothing app.

The livestream of games often seems to get stuck; score doesn’t change for many minutes in a fast-paced game, and the film itself gets jerky like an old badly wound 16 mm. 😝 Pretty annoying when the real-life game and tv moves on. When I need my tablet or phone exclusively, it’s a second-(or third-)rate production.

Please let me pick two or three teams from anywhere and not get bombarded by ALL the teams from one whole geographic area.

BTW, when I open a preview, I don’t want to do this. I want to be taken directly to the news. Kinda sneaky way to get a review, but now aren’t you sorry you didn’t find a more honest way to ask?!

by MzParker#1

First MyTeams is advertised all over television. Then I downloaded MyTeams and things were cool on every phone I have ever had until I got iPhone. Now I’m passed because I used to be able to see the games on MyTeams no problem, but now MyTeams says that the video is not supported by my cable package. I never had that before and even sitting in my home where my cable is located I still get that same message. I was all for MyTeams but with no game footage to watch when I wanna watch it. I’m good. I’ll have to look elsewhere because this is a waste of space on my phone and time that I don’t have. Thanks but no thanks.

by MisterGSF

After a couple of years using MyTeams, I’m finally fed up enough to say how much I hate the poor user interface and navigation. There are enough reviews detailing this so I’m not even going to waste time doing it again.

The most glaring for me right now, which prompted me to finally write this, is why are there no scroll bars visible when reading an article? It’s a visual cue that helps you to know how long an article is and where you left off if you have to leave MyTeams and want to return to it later. The scroll bars don’t have to be present all the time. They can fade in and out as you scroll through.

Do the developers even look at the reviews?

by Tyler Creason

It’s basically searching for your team on a search engine. Last year we could watch all the games on mobile. Now, every game says not authorized and can’t watch anything. If you expect to see anything besides news, don’t get MyTeams. Used to be one of my favorite apps, but they bait and switched. They got us all to download and watch all the games now they don’t allow any games to be watched. Quite a shame.

Also, this is my first ever review written on MyTeams Store. That alone should tell you how I feel about this ‘new and improved’ app. Would give it one star if I didn’t feel bad about giving a bad review.

Fix MyTeams . Bring back the ability to watch games and this review goes to a 5.

by Taylor Hively

UI is a little confusing so much that there is a pop up to explain it. I don’t understand the need for this weird control to change cards.

Also my DirecTV authentication apparently expires and MyTeams doesn’t understand that so it just says this channel isn’t in my package. Finding the provider logout is a little hidden but the to log in I have ti go back to the live video and tap the link. Why did the provider authentication setting item disappear after logging out? Why not be there for someone looking to login?

It could use some usability improvements.

by SteveSobe

I use MyTeams very often to watch the Sixers using my tv subscription, but occasionally it logs me out of the connection. This previous time, when I went to log in, I accidentally selected Service Electric Cablevision(vs Service Electric Cable TV and Communications. Obviously I could not log in with my credentials. When I realized my mistake, I backtracked and selected the correct provider. When I logged in, it designated my having logged into Cablevision instead. Because I was logged into a non-existant account/connection, it would not approve me to stream the game. It was then I realized I could not find anywhere to log out of my provider connection through MyTeams . I ended up having to delete and reinstall MyTeams in order to be prompted again to sign into my provider. In hindsight, I perhaps could have logged out of my provider’s site if an actual connection had been made, but it would be great to have that ability in-app along with some sort of actual account/settings page.

Another issue is that on my Ipad, turning my game sideways for full screen cuts out the score every single time, so my only options are to watch it upright in a much smaller window or use Chromecast, which for me often disconnects.

MyTeams is handy but could use some improvement.

TLDR : Issues with provider connection and inability to change provider in-app or access much of an account/connections page, and wide screen viewing cuts off game score.

by Cj Benn

Has a habit of freezing during commercials and will not restart unless I completely close MyTeams and restart it. Will often not “go live” after clicking on the “go live” option. Again, requiring that MyTeams be completely closed and reopened in order to catch up with the live broadcast. Pretty annoying.
Also the screen truncates the left and right edges of the picture on my tablet so I can’t always see the scores or clock if the network puts that information on the edge. That only happens in landscape mode.

by SuperSteveT

The My Teams app has potential to be really good but it’s not good right now. Almost every time I use it to watch my teams it falls into a loop and repeats a sequence over and over until I force close MyTeams and restart. If it’s not doing the loop issue then it’s telling the content is not available in my area, because for whatever reason it’s apparently lost my valid account info for DirecTV. One time I was able to go into the settings and sign out and back in but tonight it wouldn’t let me sign back in. If MyTeams developers can make MyTeams user friendly and fix the bugs, it’ll be good. Until then, it’s 50/50 that I’ll get to watch my team. Either offer an app that works or remove it, but please stop wasting our time.

by InterstellarDust

There is some useful information available. I use the Schedule and division standings often. The active scoring part lags behind the game several minutes and it doesn’t really show you who is doing what. No batting order for example. It also lacks player statistics so you have to go elsewhere for that. It does have articles/video analysis but i tend to get that elsewhere lime during an actual broadcast.

by Ricardodada

For a lifelong Boston fan out in San Diego, where most of the four major sports teams from Boston area are seldom on national television during the regular season, this is a great resource for me. Right now I’m keeping up with the Celtics and the Bruins with articles, Game schedules and times, scores and highlights. Especially this time of year May 19, 2021 with both the Celtics and Bruins now in the playoffs, I can get the nationally televised game information for each of those teams from MyTeams.
And independent of MyTeams I get NFL news about my Patriots from I think it’s an NBC Sports app with not games so much is commentaries from the Talking Heads, as well as highlights.

by Nottindrr

MyTeams is a waste of time. It was advertised during a spring training game (many many times) as a way to watch my favorite teams when i am not in front of a tv.

Well, here i am, app is downloaded, game is available on my local nbc sport channel, but the game does not appear in MyTeams , there is a scoreboard near the top of my screen, but it isnt updating when the score changes, i am having more luck using the mlb at bat app to send me text messages whenever a run is scored. This is not even remotely functional for how it was advertised. Boo

by Ty211221

This has to be the worst sports app. Every time one problem gets fixed another pops up. I almost always have to force close MyTeams after reading an article in order to read the next article or watch the next video. Additionally, a pop up saying I can’t view a game or video because I’m not in the viewing area (which I certainly am). After talking to my cable company like three times, they say it’s MyTeams , and based on my experience with it that doesn’t surprise me. I also routinely get prompts to rate MyTeams even after clicking the “don’t ask again” or whatever the option is to stop receiving them. I reached out to technical support and they said they can’t do anything about it. I’m not talking like a prompt once or twice a week it usually happens at least once every day or so. I guess I just have to keep leaving one star reviews until someone figures it out 🤷‍♀️

by Brianbobcat

Just downloaded MyTeams when I opened the NBC CHI app and it told me to upgrade. Nothing seems to be loading or working, and MyTeams is confusing. I find myself swiping left and right just to see if something else will show up. As for loading, I went to schedule and it’s showing me games from April. The filter is set to Upcoming...and it’s August. Worse yet, none of the score from April are even populated. If I select regular season, those results are filled in, but then I need to manually go to August. What’s the point of giving an option and then it not remotely working? I don’t see any options to watch the local game. Looks like a badly developed app so far.

by NickMash2004

I look for sports info and updates. Since there are really no more shows on NBCSports Philly (whatever it’s called now - the channel that used to be CSN Philly) like Philly Sports the discussion show at 5pm that started as Daily News Live, I am disappointed in general that they now only have the respective team’s pre-and post game shows.
Don’t get me wrong, as a whole, I do feel THOSE shows are good, and I also applaud having the Mike Missanelli show simulcast.
I guess my point is I think the thought process here was to have MyTeams kind of fill in the blanks of what they no longer have available on TV, but I don’t think it does that very effectively.
I think, in general, MyTeams is more difficult to use than it needs to be, and it has become more of a chore finding the actual articles written and news, without having to search through the videos and fluff posts.
Overall I feel like this “My Teams” version of the same original app has gone significantly in the wrong direction; by adding “bells and whistles” but losing actual substance.

by Runner8884

Happy to see that the NBC Sports App has been totally replaced. This one seems so much better so far. Setup and picking my favorite teams was a breeze, and it's great that it opens up right away to The Cubs, who I put in the number one position.

Nice to have the ability to stream and the team buzz and news all in the same place. I look forward to being able to more easily stream the Bulls and Blackhawks games over the winter and the Cubs next summer.

by Baseballking52

Was good for a few months when I could actually stream my A’s but now it won’t let me watch anymore because of my cable package or something. I will change review to 5-stars when you bring the ability to watch your team back.

Edit: Thank you so much! Turns out that was the problem for all my devices, probably an Xfinity problem. Just added the final 2 stars to this review. This is a 5 star app once again!

by NEPatsGal4eva

There are many times during the week I’m wondering what’s going on with something, mostly in football. I can click on MyTeams . And get my answer, like who’s out on injury each day to see when players go on and come off, important stuff! Which is exactly what MyTeams said it was. I didn’t expect to watch games on it...so I wasn’t disappointed like someone mentioned in their rating. If I was expecting games I would expect to pay. It’s a great site, answers all those questions in between games....

by Big_Chuggy

As a stranger in a strange land, I’m always looking for ways to keep up with my Boston teams. You’d be surprised how hard it has been, but the this app app has been phenomenal. Great content, love the streaming functionality (mostly for my C’s and B’s!) and although the navigation took a little getting used to, I actually really like it. I spent quite a bit of time on it during the World Series and MyTeams has definitely earned a permanent spot in my sports folder.