NFL Fantasy Football Reviews

by JohnMosesBrowning

NFLFantasyFootball is nearly unusable on an iPad. It doesn’t handle dynamic type sizes at all. If you’re over 40, as I am, and scale up the dynamic type setting, NFLFantasyFootball cuts off half the text. The new format wastes most of the screen. I can’t even see my active players on a single screen! I have to constantly scroll to see anything while most of the screen is blank space. At this rate, I’ll be moving my league to another platform next year.

Wow! You fixed the crash! How about fixing the awful new display. If apple let me paste a pic here, I’d show you how truly awful it is. Shows only 3 characters of a player’s name while wasting most of the screen in the team display on iPad.

You really should just fire your app designers and hire someone competent. Most of the iPad screen is wasted. Much of the names are cut off. It is really awful. You still don’t understand or deal with dynamic type sizes. At this rate, I’ll be moving my league to CBS next year.

by MattIsTheName6

I absolutely hate this new update, everything looks like a cartoon and way different than the past 3 years that everyone knows and loves. What I hate is that you have to scroll so far to see your players and can’t see your whole starting lineup on just one screen (have to scroll to see the other half), next is that when you’re looking at your roster your team name along with unnecessary options that take up so much space, why can’t we just have it with our team name at the top and the all players available to see without scrolling like how it has always been. I can’t even screenshot my team to show someone without taking 3 pics cuz of how big each players icon is and how much I scroll. Next is how difficult and different it is just to look at players on waivers and look at other teams in the league, it’s just so completely different with all these new options that are just plain unnecessary. We want the old version!!! I don’t care if you update the graphics or give it a new “look” but gosh please make it look like how it did before, this is just horrible and so bad. Or give us the option to have the old update.

by J-MAN389

NFLFantasyFootball is very difficult to use and the buttons leads you to places that make no sense. It’s difficult to compare players, look at future matchups, compare your league’s opponents with your own schedule, and the visuals of NFLFantasyFootball looks like either a first year coder put it together or the whoever gave them ideas on design works in the accounting department. Visual NFLFantasyFootball is confusing. On a personal note, for some reason (although you can change it) the default settings for match ups and play offs are as close to REAL life NFL rules and makes 0 sense. Considering that there are 32 teams in he NFL and on average 10 teams in fantasy football, STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE MAKES ABSOLUTELY 0 SENSE! I was in the playoffs then got taken out because the player who took my spot beat one team who was 6-7 and I beat a team that was 5-6. But I have about 200 pts more than he does on the year. Download another app, you will be happier.

by Mbecksd

I was trying to give NFLFantasyFootball the benefit of the doubt, being the official app of the NFL, but It is just awful.
The iPhone version is different from the iPad version. With that being said, they are both terrible in their own ways.
My biggest complaint is the layout and filtering system for the available players tab. It’s painful having to adjust the filter EVERY TIME I am trying to compare available players. In other fantasy apps you can just click the stat on the table and it auto sorts it. NFLFantasyFootball you have to go into the filter menu and adjust the filter by sorting through way too many options. I don’t need to see stats with a span from eight years ago. Even when you go through all the steps to set the filter, the results still don’t sort correctly. More specifically when you sort for fantasy points the results show the point leader half way down the list when he should obviously be at the top.
Our league of 10 has used NFLFantasyFootball for the last three years and it is a consensus, we all hate NFLFantasyFootball. This will be our last. We will be switching to one of the better options like Yahoo! or ESPN next season.

by DrewThompson116

NFLFantasyFootball is so inferior in every way to Yahoo. Yet I still advocated to keep using it. I have no badge icons when I get notifications, so unless I’m looking at my notification screen or am on my phone when a notification comes through I don’t know what’s going on. Secondly it’s so limited. Every other app has so much more in terms of tools. The projections here are a joke. And even things as little as being able to change your avatar through NFLFantasyFootball ; everyone else allows you to change them through NFLFantasyFootball . It baffles me that the official NFL app doesn’t even have up to date pictures of players. The other big thing is its limited standard rosters by having the flex limited to W/R. In a side league I changed it to W/R/T like I always do. But it changed it to W/T instead and they claim they can’t fix it. I wouldn’t have had that problem if they didn’t auto draft my league’s teams a day before the draft was scheduled. I went back to emails and sure enough it showed our draft scheduled for a Tuesday yet somehow your site did it on Monday. NFLFantasyFootball is just horrid. It boggles my mind that people even use NFLFantasyFootball. I’d almost rather pay for CBS if ESPN and Yahoo weren’t options.

by Zmo51689

Idk what the developers are doing but NFLFantasyFootball has done nothing but go downhill - it’s getting to the point where I’m going to move the 3 leagues I manage to Yahoo. My main complaint now is due to the “loading time”. Every time you click on a different page, or select a player to view his stats, or even go to settings, you have to wait for it to load while you watch that annoying spinner thing. It’s not due to the speed of my iPhone, or having too many apps open - it’s simply due to the quality of NFLFantasyFootball. I am also in a Yahoo league and their app doesn’t require me to wait every time I switch pages or view a players stats. I love the look and feel of NFLFantasyFootball, but the slowness and loading time is driving me absolutely crazy. Fix it or I’m moving my 3 leagues to Yahoo next season. Also, the Push Notifications fix that they claim has been corrected is not true. I still am unable to update my push notifications. Every time I turn them on and then save, I go back to confirm the changes and they’re all off. NFLFantasyFootball needs a lot of work.

by Facts By Don

So I’ve had NFLFantasyFootball for a few weeks now and beyond the fact that I think it has the worst interface and player ratings of the 3 major apps, it is now completely broken on me. For the first few weeks, my team loaded up fine on NFLFantasyFootball while I was logged in. Now, even though my account information is logged in and I’m in NFLFantasyFootball it does not allow me to look at my team or the league I’m in. I’ve been playing fantasy football for over 5 years now and this is the first and only time this has happened, next to no support is available on the issue as well besides the website giving you the run around to login on desktop, which defeats the purpose of NFLFantasyFootball .

Do yourself a favor, and use literally any other fantasy football besides this one.

by Monkeybusiness02

Last year was my first year playing fantasy and I absolutely loved NFLFantasyFootball. The new update this year is garbage and has made the start of the year extremely frustrating. I like the newer look and everything but NFLFantasyFootball just doesn’t work. The only thing with the new look is I liked it better when you could see your whole lineup without having to scroll so much. Other than that the new design isn’t horrible, but NFLFantasyFootball just isn’t as good as it was last year as a whole. The projections don’t update constantly like last year, and after the game is over it still doesn’t update the projections, so it’s hard to see if it’s still close or not. Also NFLFantasyFootball crashes almost every time I try to click on another team or scroll through the matchups. This update either needs a LOT of work or they need to just release and update where it goes back to the old one. Please.

by Gamerguy5656

This is hands down the worst fantasy app available. The new updates this season were worse than New Coke. I would rather use an abacus to figure out fantasy projections than subject myself to using NFLFantasyFootball ever again. Fortunately I only play in one league on NFL so I just set my lineups 3 weeks in advance since that is how long the load times are. NFLFantasyFootball is the Josh Gordon of fantasy apps. You’re never too sure when it’s going to end up back in rehab. You would think that the fantasy app OF THE LEAGUE YOU ARE PLAYING would be the best available. Unfortunately it seems that they allowed Roger Goodell to hire the developers for the updates. As he has done the rest of his tenure, he royally screwed this up. At this point I am praying that my entire team gets injured so that I can stop coming back to this trash app. Well done NFL, you have made it so that players can be frustrated with the performance of their team because they can never check the scores!

by _medulla_oblongata_

The biggest complaint I have is the slowness of NFLFantasyFootball that others have also pointed out on these reviews. Come Sunday around 12:45pm when you’re scrambling to lock in your 1:00pm games based on injuries and breaking inactive news, it’s very testing to wait 15 seconds after you tap on a button for the player’s information to load.

The interface for adding players and seeing/comparing important statistics quickly has always been problematic and irritating with NFLFantasyFootball (been using it since 2014-ish). Sorting by available players versus seeing all the top point scorers for a specific position often causes NFLFantasyFootball the default to showing players that either aren’t correct positionally or aren’t available to add. It doesn’t always fetch the correct data or refresh the lists as quick as you’d expect it to. Another subtlety that becomes annoying is how deep you have to dive in order to see who owns a specific player. I shouldn’t have to tap three different places on a player to figure out who in my league owns them.

Overall, a weak, slow, underperforming app that uses a minimal, “modern” design aesthetic to try distract users from it’s numerous flaws and failures.

by Moncruise

It was a great app before the update easily 5 stars picked over ESPN and other things, but the update ruined everything.

Then, communication with other league players was easier. Now, it is manageable but took me a while to figure out.

Then, players were easier to add. Now, NFLFantasyFootball made it even harder.

Then, research tools were easier to use. Now, it is harder to use as u have to find it inside ur league.

Then, it was easier just to look at the news. Now, you have to go inside your league and find it.

Then, logging out and joining leagues was easier. Now, it is harder to do those things.

There are also the glitches. I heard about an account that won't let the owner see the other proposed trades. For me, once, I couldn't see the rest of he matchups and the projections, however luckily the glitch wore off. There are also little things like being unable to veto trades or see other trades and see the rankings while making trades.

NFLFantasyFootball used to be great, but since the new update NFLFantasyFootball has become frustrating. Please erase the glitches, improve the little things, or go back to the old version or I might have to move platforms.

Updated Dec 19
Also what’s wrong with the waiver wire now it will only let me see players A-Z not by fantasy points super frustrating

by Manbearwarpig

At first glance, NFLFantasyFootball seems to have everything a fantasy football team/league owner could want. But that fades quickly once you dive into it. NFLFantasyFootball crashes or freezes on a regular interval. Many of the tools necessary for league creation are absent; only available on the full website(which is not very mobile friendly). Including the option/ability to delete an unwanted team or league. This option is paramount, yet missing from NFLFantasyFootball . Changing rosters from the standard setup is also only on the full website...ugh. Additionally, changes made to a league or team on the not-so-mobile-friendly website take time(unknown length) to reflect in NFLFantasyFootball , if at all. NFL Fantasy App developers, please keep basic functions like roster control and leave/delete options in NFLFantasyFootball .

by Jo-Teflon

Throughout the whole season you would have projected points for players on the injured reserve or injured inactive lists. It is really hard to estimate an actual roster when players that are out for the year have projected points. We shouldn’t have to open every player to see their individual status. During the draft which we couldn’t manually pick in my league I got a quarterback that was out before the season even started because of surgery. If their projections were accurate I wouldn’t have drafted a player that didn’t play the entire season either. Then after they start playing the projected points disappear so you can’t even gauge if the projections were even remotely accurate unless you took a picture of the projections prior to the games starting.

by Himishandsome

I’m legally blind I went blind about 3 to 4 years ago in 2017 which is caused me to have to learn how to be fine and you services like voiceover I still happen to like watching NFL football and playing fantasy football it was such a shock to be into a league and realize that my voiceover does not talk at all when I use NFLFantasyFootball it’s almost worthless to me when I try to tap into a half and read about a player it’s impossible to play this game with voiceover if it’s not going to read out everything on the screen please improve this it’s not fair to people who can’t see and went to enjoy football to I can’t understand why it read some screens but other screens it won’t read anything when you press the button it just says button that’s not cool this makes me look like I don’t know how to play the game when I really do

by Raf5043

Please remove or change some of the latest ‘improvements’ for iPhone.
Most notably: app restarts almost every time you return to it; projected points auto updating (I’d rather see how the player performed against the projection like last year); overall slowness of app when changing views from team to Game Center, to players lists, etc.; put the projected points back in the Game Center schedule view, so you don’t have to go into each matchup to see how others in the league are doing).
One last suggestion: I recognize what a popular/widely used app this is... trying to pack so much into an app that is used by so many likely leads to a bogged down, slow experience for us all... I believe just disabling the auto update of projections would cut down on the update time delay/responsiveness for all your users! Please consider this!!!

by Geniusredneck

I first downloaded the NFL Fantasy app for the 2018 season and enjoyed it but the new update significantly improves the flow of NFLFantasyFootball . I especially enjoy that, in the new update, videos like “Start ‘Em Sit ‘Em” and “Breaking News” are attached to the individual players and the increase in the amount of players covered. That being said, I do believe NFLFantasyFootball could benefit from a few improvements. First, there should be a shortcut to search players/stats/points like there used to be before the update. Secondly, I believe the predictive points should be adaptive like they used to be, giving a more accurate, real time prediction of point totals for both players and team. Like I said, the majority of the update is awesome, but please consider some of the changes I recommended as I believe they would really improve the quality and experience of NFL Fantasy.

by 567525626525262636

It’s a good app and I think it’s cool that if the kicker gets the field goal from 50 yards or out he gets five points instead of three and for mock drafts whenever threre is not a lot of people the CPU picks in order it’s annoying and unrealistic and esay cus you can Count out the players till you’re next turn and know who will be left three is a chat in it which would be great but the draft starts and then people focus on that and the notifications of you who picked who go in there so please make a separate chat where you can talk about football! Please please please please I want one please it’s all I want please 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺and then you can and friends so you can only talk to them if you want but don’t make it where you half to go to face bock 🤮or anything like that that’s all thanks for reading or scrolling down to the bottom and reading this section

by Kbrog

I don’t have a whole lot to say about NFLFantasyFootball, it’s the only fantasy football I’ve ever played and I’ve been extremely happy with it. The two things that hold it back from being perfect are that fantasy+ is overpriced in my opinion, 99 cents a month last season was much more fair. The second thing, which isn’t a huge deal but is very annoying, is constantly having to login again for the number picks pack and knockout. Please fix that! I choose keep me logged in but it doesn’t actually keep you logged in. If anyone reads these reviews to decide if they want to use this platform for fantasy, I wholeheartedly endorse and recommend it.

by Turnja

I have many friends and family members who have played fantasy football for years. I had no desire to waste my time with it when my brothers and friends suggested that I join a league. But this year I weakened and decided it was time to give it a shot to judge it for myself. I couldn’t have been more surprised at how much I have enjoyed playing, and how well I did. My record was 13-1 and I won my championship too! Not bad for a first timer who was reluctant to play. So, I will be back next season to see if I can repeat, lol. NFL fantasy football is fun, exciting, and an awesome product. Don’t miss out!

First time player and Champion

by Tyler Stevens YT

So I love NFLFantasyFootball and it is very helpful but I think that there shouldn’t be a maximum number of leagues you can be in, at least more then 6 which I know that was the max last year. I can’t find anything saying that number has been changed but I love having many leagues and hate having a max of 6. I know not many would want 6 or more but it’s a small detail that could be added. Also when I do the “draft now” option, when it is loading it doesn’t put me in the draft, I have to close and reopen NFLFantasyFootball , go to the league homepage, and hit enter draft which is annoying because it has auto picked for me before because I didn’t get in in time. Other then that I love NFLFantasyFootball .

by Sergeant_unc

Been using NFLFantasyFootball for a few years now and there are a few things that I think should be added. I think there should be an easier way to communicate to everyone in the league. Most people in my league check NFLFantasyFootball more then they check their email. If there was something that popped up when they opened NFLFantasyFootball to show them that there was a conversation, I think I could get everyone talking in my league instead of having to text them.

Also, I think that there should be a quick breakdown of how a player scored the points that they scored in a game. Just something that you can click on to see it. For example, a QB got 15 points from throwing 400 yards, 7 points for completed passes, 10 points from running x amount of yards, and 12 points from throwing 3 touchdowns.

Lastly, to go along with the easier league chat, I would like to see the league poll put into NFLFantasyFootball so people do not have to go onto the website. Most of my league only uses NFLFantasyFootball .

Thank you for NFLFantasyFootball and continuing to make updates and taking everyone’s feedback. I know you can not make everyone happy and you try to find that common ground, but NFLFantasyFootball just keeps getting better every year. Maybe next year I’ll be able to give it 5 stars!