CBS Sports Fantasy Reviews

by Kap2125

I’ve played fantasy baseball for 10 years. It’s something I look forward to when the spring rolls around. To prepare for the year, I listened the Fantasy Baseball Today’s podcast and really enjoyed the content. When our league was looking to switch platforms, I voted CBS over the other providers because it was premium and I wasn’t a fan of ESPN from a few years back. The desktop version isn’t bad, but CBSSportsFantasy is an epic failure. It’s one of the least user friendly designs I’ve ever used in ANY app. It’s very difficult to tell if your pitcher is going that day or the next. You can’t sort players by categories? Something had to go terribly wrong over there for this to be the final product. The only way to keep your users will be to FIX IT. If people have to use this all summer and it negatively impacts their experience, they won’t be back. Please feel free to reach out if suggestions are needed. I believe in you CBS.

by Dbone651

Where do I start? The CBS sports fantasy app is very frustrating for leagues that aren’t cookie-cutter. The worst thing is that you can not pick up a free agent and move a player to the IL or Minors. Instead, it can only be done with a computer or, most often, your phone’s browser. Another thing is that the trade screen is not helpful in that you can only view own/ start % and salary- cool story bro, might be better if you could view stats and rankings to compare players. Also, my league utilizes OPS instead of AVG or OBP. OPS is not listed on a player page, free agent list or anything except the live scoring tracker. The only way to view it is on the player page- view stats and you add up OBP + SLG to get an idea. Less than ideal huh? Displaying your league’s stats shouldn’t be a lot to ask. It would also be helpful to know how many Innings Pitched you’re on pace for as many owners become mindful of the league’s IP minimum. I generally like the layout and format of CBSSportsFantasy , but the negatives are enough that we’re considering alternatives for 2020.

by Ah1271

This is my first year playing in CBS leagues, and knowingly that it’s a pretty big, popular platform, I was genuinely shocked at how bad this product was.

CBS couldn’t perform the most basic functions of a fantasy platform. It’s a fantasy baseball league... I want to be able to see how my team did, cumulatively, yesterday? Why is that so hard? ESPN, Yahoo, literally every other platform will total up your players and tell you your pitchers had a 3.40 combined ERA yesterday or whatever. With CBS... you have to click through like 10 different steps to find that? And I was only ever about to do that on CBSSportsFantasy , not on desktop?

This platform also randomly lets you make illegal roster moves, like picking up players without dropping anyone, thus putting you over the legal roster limit? Why?? Who wants that??

Not to mention, there seems to be a bug today, the day after the season ended, so the final standings are not displaying correctly. That is LITERALLY the only thing that users want the day after the season ends! Come on!

Tl;dr: Just make your platform exactly like Yahoo. Take all the ideas that you guys think you have that are innovative or different and throw them in the trash. Just make your platform exactly. like. Yahoo. and throw the CBS logo on there. It’ll be fine.

by 5150hambone

CBS wants to charge $150 for you to use their fantasy football app. I have used all of the other FREE systems, which are all better by the way. They do offer a free fantasy league for 8-10 team, standard, snake draft systems, which is what I set up. Unknowingly, I was in the pay for league. I invited the teams, set up the draft etc. then after the draft I see “step 4, pay for your league” $150. Anybody who’s run a fantasy league knows what a pain it can be to organize a league and set it up. I knew at that point I just wasted a lot of everybody’s time. I did inquire the “help center” hoping it just default to s free league. After the first week of the season, it locked up CBSSportsFantasy for all the teams handcuffing us for the $150 which I refuse to pay. After 3 inquiries to the help center and no response, I am going to move us back to NFL fantasy. CBS is trying to be like typical modern business. Trick you into paying for something they claim is superior and not provide any support for it. Forcing you to ask for help through email systems they never intend to respond to. I expect more from a name like CBS. On top of it, CBSSportsFantasy sucked. I thought it was clumsy to navigate, there is absolutely nothing special about it. Run like hell and use ANY of the other good apps that are FREE! Don’t waste your time like I did. What a joke.

by Rockchalkfan1989

CBSSportsFantasy is so horrible I had to somehow figure out how to get the full site so I could get accurate scores/updates. CBSSportsFantasy would consistently give me illegal lineup messages when it was never illegal. Take points away when I set my lineup for the next day, the analysis of players always have statistic and grammar mistakes like they have a intern running it. Been using cbs for 14 years and it was so much better then, than it is now. CBSSportsFantasy will give you very little info, won’t even show you what that player has gotten on a weekly basis without you having to navigate and click 200 different links to search it when you immediately get it at the full site. I don’t see why it’s so complicated to have the same or roughly the same user interface than what you would get with the full site. It’s completely night and day if you were to compare the two. On top of that their mobile site is so difficult to find the full site (cause it’s trash too) it takes a blood sacrifice and my first borns social security number in order to find it. They have never heard the saying “if it’s not broke don’t fix it” because they constantly want to tinker with things and I can’t think of one thing they’ve done to better their service in 5-10 years. Whoever you have in charge of all this obviously has no idea what they’re doing. Just like I wouldn’t want a fry cook doing my open heart surgery.

by Shackthrow

This is absolutely the WORST fantasy site I’ve ever been a part of. I’ve used ESPN, NFL and probably one or two others in the past. CBS’ is completely user UN-friendly.
I tried to add a player. It said I had to drop someone because that would give me too many (other sites let you drop someone contingent on you getting the player you’re trying to add). So I dropped a player. I was outbid on the player I tried to add. Now it says I have an “illegal lineup” because I’m short one player ON MY BENCH. Not my starters. I have a full lineup of starters, but I’m short a player on my bench because of their stupid rules. It appears as though I will get zero points this week because of my “illegal lineup.”
Not only that, but it’s just inefficient and odd to use, the way it’s set up. Hard to find players. Not even simple to find your game for that week. Unwieldy. Awkward. Awful.
If my league uses this site again next year, I’m out.
Oh, and I gave it one star only because ZERO STARS is not an option.

by Pghbob2

ESPN is much better, easier to see and navigate. Just one example. Please research their app CBS. When my brother convinced us to switch our league here I thought it would be more customizable, have a better interface and be easier to use and navigate because you pay to have a fantasy league hosted on CBS.

I was wrong.

Not only does it cost 150 compared to free on ESPN, but it is lacking in every aspect, at best. It’s really a ripoff, as I can’t see what value is added for the money. Free apps are better.

If you want IR, anyone can pickup a healthy player and put immediately on IR. You have to police it which defeats the purpose of having an app.

Curious about the details of your matchup? Good luck. You have to tap multiple times during matchups to see your players stats. All you can see is their points. ESPN gives a quick overview on the matchup screen without having to leave. And it’s barely visible. Oh, and league scoreboard will display one score, but the individual matchup screen is a few points off. All game long.

Nothing is intuitive or organized as you’d think it would be. Info is everywhere and at times doesn’t make sense where something may be nested. So I don’t think they put the money towards UI/UX.

Oh, and even though you’ve paid to use the league, you are still served ads in app. Why? So, what did we pay for? Why is CBSSportsFantasy inferior to Free apps elsewhere?

by Shea Tunes

The only thing reliable about CBSSportsFantasy is how absolutely terrible it is. Compared to yahoo and ESPN it is a dinosaur. For example, the last version (even when updated) will constantly show lineup status on the wrong day, meaning you don’t exactly which day you’re setting your lineup for unless you navigate the day to the past and then reload it to the present day to clear the incorrect data.

The lineup page shows no stats unlike yahoo or ESPN. Same goes with roster trends or probable pitchers under “research.” With yahoo I can see how my players performed for the last period, 14 days, etc.; see add/drop trends. No dice with CBSSportsFantasy.

The probable pitchers data is almost always wrong. It will continually list injured, demoted, or simply pitchers who have been relegated to the bullpen in starting slots and you have to constantly check the MLB app to make sure the lineups are correct.

We’ve had a dynasty league for 16 years on CBS. The web browser API is far far superior but none of those features translate into an app. But we’re at the point where we’re ready to take our business elsewhere because in 2021 you need a functioning mobile app.

Believe every 1 star review you’ve read. The fact that CBS doesn’t care about this product is a joke when they were once a leader in the market. This is undoubtedly the worst, and until they care to update the API, they don’t deserve your money (or loyalty).

by Adam1372826382

Where to begin...Before my groups league was even formed there was a bug with joining the league. Our LM needed to call CBS in order to have us all manually added to the league...then, during the draft the application locked us out of the draft room and only the people that we drafted in the later rounds ended up on our teams and we needed to manually add the rest of the players to our teams...that was probably simple right? Wrong. In order to see who you draft you need to go to the actual draft board click on the one player to add them and do that process over again, one at a time...tedious is an understatement. Also...Want to just simply add your 2bman to a MI slot? You can’t...unless you physically change their position each time you want to slot them into a new spot in your lineup...it’s not user friendly and this cost money? There are better free apps out there. Look elsewhere...also I can’t have the same “nickname” as someone when writing a review?

by JayD.

In order to do anything useful you're forced to use the desktop version. For instance, in my fantasy baseball league trying to put a position player on the IL can't be done on CBSSportsFantasy . I literally have to go on my laptop and switch them over from there and then go back to what I was doing on CBSSportsFantasy . This leads into my second point. There's no continuity between the desktop and app versions. I can add a player with no problem on CBSSportsFantasy after putting someone on the IL, but if I put a player on the IL and try to add a player to replace the injured player on desktop it treats it as if I'm trying to make a trade after the trade deadline. This is not my first fantasy experience and it's confusing to me. Just imagine how it might be for someone trying it out for the first time. They'll definitely go elsewhere like espn where it's less confusing. I don't know why it would seem hard to have the same experience in both CBSSportsFantasy and desktop. Please fix this.

by Kcebttocs

It’s better than nothing, but it’s still a steaming pile of dog feces. The interface is just not good. When a player gets put on the IL and you add a player, you don’t really know for sure if you’re dropping the injured player or putting him on IL until submit the transaction because the interface is so confusing. You have to flip to a separate tab to view your pitchers for some reason. I don’t know why they can’t just put them under the batters like espn does. There are also only the league stats categories available. If you want to know how many times your players have walked, you have to click on each individual player.

But the biggest issue is the waiver wire. You can’t search for players based on stats categories, which is really the only way to actually find players. They have limited time periods to search (last 7 days, last 14 days, last 21 days, last 28 days). And there is no way to qualify players based on how much they play. If you’re looking for a guy who has a good era, you have to sift through 50 relievers before you can find a starter, and you can only find a starter based on your own pre existing knowledge or guessing by how many inning and strikeouts he has. It’s practically impossible to use CBSSportsFantasy to pick up pitchers.

It seems like they desperately want you to just follow their projections, even though most of the “experts” projecting aren’t very good at it.

by Johnny Come Latelys

CBSSportsFantasy has some cool features, but ultimately it’s a chore to use. Navigating from one screen to another results in an hour glass as the page loads. You have to change your players position when moving them from the flex spot back to the bench. That is, manually change the players position from flex back to TE/WR/RB. If you don’t change it back, you won’t generate points, which seems pointless. Simple things like viewing current week stats are not possible. The player stats date filter needs to be expanded to include more options other than last week, projected this week and YTD. If I want to know who the highest scoring players were of the week, I have to wait until next week. It is helpful to view/edit your roster for future weeks in other apps, you can’t do that with CBSSportsFantasy, making byes more difficult to plan for. Lastly, you’d think the writers would be more prescriptive but the player notes (which are almost never updated until Tuesday) are really not very helpful. They mostly just cover the stats the player made and show the next week’s opponent. No recommendations or analysis. I’m in a dynasty league through marriage so I’m learning to deal. But don’t come to CBSSportsFantasy expecting to be similar to yahoo.

by MurphysLaw247

Needs some updates and a bit of a new overhaul compared to some of the other apps, and fyi unlike Yahoo and other sites they don't give you your winnings till a month after when other sites fantasy games award you 7-10 days after the championship is over it could take longer they said because of how they work, so it's a bit of buyer beware for CBS pay leagues it's sad because I really enjoy CBS paired with Yahoo for some extra fun or a different style, look if you will it's 12 team league verse ten in some cases, but the outdated app where you can watch live scores only your players as it happens in CBSSportsFantasy , is unlike Yahoo and ESPN where you can stream live coverage of the game on your phone seeing real time stats as they occur, that lineup settings are a bit dull and have been the same for almost the last 5 years. So i give it a solid 3 stars still because it's still the next best to those 3 and you won't find another app like them other then going with the better To for home leagues which is Yahoo or Espn.

by One Thyme

I’ve been waiting years for just simple updates that would make CBSSportsFantasy so much better for Baseball. How come I can’t find an eligibility tab anywhere on CBSSportsFantasy. Either make a tab or add it to a players profile page please . Another daily occurrence which requires me to close CBSSportsFantasy open my Internet browser log into the website on the Internet browser to see what daily matchups are on my team page. I understand you could do it on CBSSportsFantasy by clicking on every individual player on your team that just takes forever is there a way to make a tab to show the pitching matchups for your entire team at one time like the website.

by HankM001

Many years ago, when first introduced to FF, we had a private league for many years. Players mostly worked together and we had live drafts. ( great way to start ) . We ( I ) decided that 18 players would be THE number to comprise a team; theoretically that could include 2 Q/B’s, 2 Kickers, 2 Defenses etc.
Hence, all or most decisions each week would mostly come from WITHIN the team ( once it’s built up to one’s satisfaction) .
Now, retired and joining public leagues, 15 is the number and that just doesn’t work for me. Unless this game is updated to be more user friendly, I most likely will not playing CBS FF next year.
Both Yahoo and NFL have better formats that include several injured reserve spots.
Please update the general game and increase the excitement factor….Thank you.

by Coachbulldog

If your league uses traditional roto scoring, CBSSportsFantasy is frustrating and irritating to use. The “Scores” screen shows the standings for the current period. In a roto league, this information is meaningless because weekly results are not relevant in the final results. It is the same with what is posted in the notification center. What is shown is not an accurate account of the actual league standings. Most of the owners in my league manage our teams on our phones and unless there is an update to make it more friendly for leagues that play by traditional rules, we will move to another service next season. This service and CBSSportsFantasy has been the gold standard of fantasy baseball for leagues for a long time. It is frustrating but also sad that it no longer is. Update 5/4/21. I’ve reached out to CBS Sports customer support and received the typical “we’re aware of the issue” response. Issue not fixed and my well deserve one star rating remains.

by BCAT & Dog

I like CBS fantasy football a lot, but I am looking to make a change toA league where there are one or two injured reserve slots. It was very frustrating to draft and trade to get an excellent team, only to have to drop good players in an attempt to get otherPlayers to make the playoffs. For example I had to drop Damien Harris because he was hurt for several weeks, only to have him get 38 points against me in the first playoff game when he was picked up by someone else. Would much rather have been able to put him on injured reserve without losing a spot. Had to drop Fournette as well, and also hold on to Elijah Mitchell while hurt for several weeks because I had no injured reserve spot. Especially with impact of Covid, anInjured reserve spot or two would really help!

by Dangerous Really???!!!

You changed your web site so we get an hour glass blocked by an employers firewall for roster trends, depth charts, etc. and for the draft. This is the first year. I work for a civil service agency that employs 45,000+ employees. We all generally use CBS Sports for our fantasy football because yours is the one not blocked by our employers firewall. Next year I foresee you losing tons of business as we all switch to the free NFL, Yahoo leagues, since the only reason we were going with you, and paying $160 to you bypassing the free leagues, was because we could access it at work. If that’s not the case any more, adieu . You have time for your programmers to correct the design problem. For right now, we can still set our starters (only) but who wants a 40% functional web site...?

by Frattypantd

Adding that to CBSSportsFantasy would be a HUGE upgrade. It’s too difficult to access the cbs site from the internet explorer of a smart phone. Help make CBSSportsFantasy better it hasn’t seen many upgrades in the past few years. Considering my league spends the $150+ twice a year for the commissioners leagues, and has done it for over a decade, I hope our plight is seriously considered!

Not to mention.... if we’re paying for a commissioners league, we should be allowed to access all these sportsline articles that we need to pay extra for. Just bonkers what we pay out for such a small amount of extra functionality.

by SaintsFan81

I’ve used ESPN for 12+ yrs. switched last season to MFL but it was a little complex for members of my league, but we used it for the customization qualities. This season we said let’s just go back to ESPN but when I started it and went to set some rules and details it was so basic and not very customizable. So I decided to finally use CBS ( never did bc it was to my advantage bc this is where I always got my info from).

This site will let you customize just about anything, and the information and links attached to CBSSportsFantasy and Full Site are second to none. CBS is easily the best fantasy site that I have ever used. Not to mention they have the most informative and entertaining Fanatay Podcast around. Adam , Dave , Jamey, Heath, Chris, Ben, Will, etc....!

by JenSanders

I try to access this from home Wifi and it's still SO glitchy and slow I give up before being able to access my team 70% of the time. I couldn't even make a last minute change to my lineup because it took almost 10 minutes to get into my team roster! This is the last year I am using CBS to do my fantasy league unless you take some of your multimillion dollar company and invest it on a decent app! Completely ridiculous to year after year be okay with a 1 Star rating, you obviously don't care about your customers! The website has enough issues as it is (released our waivers early and not in the bidding format we had) we had to finish our waiver wire in person by submitting bids on folded pieces of paper to see who won the waivers, yes seriously. I recommend using ESPN or Yahoo, we will be after the season is over.

by ConPerHol

Add/scout picture icons in player profiles are inconveniently small. There are too many options on the left-side menu. Also on the iPad app, 1. Numbers in live scoring are way too small and 2. it doesn’t appear there’s a way to minimize the other scores in the league so they don’t take up a third of the screen if I only want to monitor my game’s live scoring. Not related to CBSSportsFantasy but the website desperately needs an option other than drag/drop when trying to edit pre-draft player rankings. Drop-down menu, the ability to upload/paste a document, or even just allowing us to make type our own list without using one of your existing lists as the basis.

by AppleAppSnob

High quality analysis all at my finger tips. What more can you ask for?

Regulator question. A LM accidentally dropped Chris Carson for the Cowboys DST when he meant to drop the KC DST. It feels like it messes up the league balance to let it stand as is and have someone just pick up Carson for free via waivers. But it also doesn’t feel right to just reverse it. Any thoughts on an adequate ruling and/or punishment for his mistake that doesn’t adversely ruin the balance of the league?

12 team PPR. Waivers is reverse order of standings reset each week. Waivers already ran (obviously). The team positioned to claim Carson is arguably the worst team in the league if that matters.

by RMG In Indy

CBSSportsFantasy is good. Probably the best on the market. Unfortunately that means it is unlikely they will ever be Great. There is plenty of room for improvement in CBSSportsFantasy, but we’ll likely need to wait on a competitor to fill the gaps. My #1 gripe - This site is immensely profitable yet they don’t provide any customer service. You would think during the first few weeks they would provide extended hours of support. But no - as far as I can tell they offer NONE. I’ve used CBSSportsFantasy for probably 20 years. This year we finally had an issue that required assistance. I sent in my request. No response... NOTHING.

by BigJBar

CBS constantly suggests waiver pick ups that went by the 9th round of my 10 team draft. There are constant glitches with CBSSportsFantasy the sound works about 1/4 of the time on their fantasy analysis. There are more add pop ups than my 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 espn and yahoo leagues. The one thing I enjoy are the weekly game reviews. Richard is only slightly less competent than Eisenburg. Id not recommend learning the other dudes name. I’m a ff hall of famer. My league is fiercely competitive. There’s 2 morons in my league that refuse to switch to a better site because they want their 15 year old titles to stay in tact.