Fab fantasy
Just use it for NFL but it is great. Just be prepared to lose all perspective on a Sunday night!
Ads cause it to crash
Typical. A multi-million dollar enterprise (owned by Disney, no less) looks for another stream of nickels. The solution? Market an app to fantasy football players and do NOTHING to improve their experience. Instead, focus on FORCING users to watch more ads. ESPN’s focus on advertising revenue through an otherwise usable app means you’re going to see force closes during or after your ad watching experience (you know, the whole reason you downloaded the app? To get a constant sales pitch for irrelevant crap?). The last “update” introduced a thirty second app on startup with NO ability to exit. SOME UPDATE. Greedy jerks. I can’t even view player updates without advertisements shutting the app down. Focus on the user, not ways to make a few more pennies at their expense. A good company can balance the trade-off between revenue and experience well. ESPN doesn’t even try and the force close, app failures only make me want to stop trying with them.
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Player search 👎
Set up basically the same as yahoo sports fantasy app but the search for this app is terrible. Can’t even search via rank of player. Pretty disappointing when trying to set your team up as you progress through the season
Disappointing Ads
I can say without a doubt that the only reason my friends and I choose ESPN for our fantasy leagues is because the mobile app is a little bit better than the competition (Yahoo, CBS, etc..). I’ve had to do a lot of convincing to get friends committed to running out leagues in here, and a major factor is the (relatively) seamless user experience. What does ESPN do halfway into the season? For the first time since before anyone can remember they throw frequent video advertisements into their fantasy platform. I’ve been okay with the countless banner ads on nearly every single page, but this just crossed a line and it seems as though next season many fantasy players will be taking their leagues elsewhere. Please stop making us watch frequent, not to mention, lengthy, video ads. An expectation was set for months and at a critical point in the season ESPN does what they do best and frustrate their users.
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Garbage
Been playing FF for 15 years and this app is pretty bad. It’s better on the website but this is America we use our phones dude. But that’s not really that much better. You can only set your lineup for the current week starting on Tuesday. Why is that a thing? I mean basically Espn decided you can’t go on an 8 day vacation and if it is a 7 day vacation make sure you come back by the 1pm games cause otherwise you just left all the injured and bye week players in. Kinda ridiculous. It’s not all that user friendly or aesthetically pleasing to the eye but you can get around all that if they let you set a lineup besides this week.
I do like that is doesn’t just volunteer “transaction trends” like the yahoo app does cause then you can make moves instead of others just being handed who to pick up, but that’s about the only thing it’s got better than yahoo. Yahoo shows stats of the opposing ranks and such. I like being able to use research and insight to decide who to get but I’m not gonna spend half my week researching cause you guys can’t just put rankings like the website has on the app.
Kinda wish i could give zero stars.
I do like that is doesn’t just volunteer “transaction trends” like the yahoo app does cause then you can make moves instead of others just being handed who to pick up, but that’s about the only thing it’s got better than yahoo. Yahoo shows stats of the opposing ranks and such. I like being able to use research and insight to decide who to get but I’m not gonna spend half my week researching cause you guys can’t just put rankings like the website has on the app.
Kinda wish i could give zero stars.
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Likes dislikes
The things I like better on other sites. To be optional. Where you can choose to use as commissioner.
Injury reserve option to save a bench spot. With the league getting more injury prone this is nice.
The decimal system that yahoo uses is nice so that there are no or very rarely tied games. Also you could have more/better tie breaking options if that is not possible.
Waiver rules are kinda basic and not really great.
I have 16 team family league, I can speak for all of us on these ideas. We are considering using a different service next year.
Positives
I think the layout and overall performance/functionality of the application is great. Easy to navigate and use regardless of your technical expertise. The drafting and connecting with remote players drafting from out of town is good. I use my iPad application primarily and have had no problem getting around and using it. This will be our 7th year using this product as far use and functionality no problems. Some of us are good will computers and some are not, all have been comfortable using it. Just a few more of the options I listed above would make the experience much better. Thanks for time and listening.
Thank
Ben K
Injury reserve option to save a bench spot. With the league getting more injury prone this is nice.
The decimal system that yahoo uses is nice so that there are no or very rarely tied games. Also you could have more/better tie breaking options if that is not possible.
Waiver rules are kinda basic and not really great.
I have 16 team family league, I can speak for all of us on these ideas. We are considering using a different service next year.
Positives
I think the layout and overall performance/functionality of the application is great. Easy to navigate and use regardless of your technical expertise. The drafting and connecting with remote players drafting from out of town is good. I use my iPad application primarily and have had no problem getting around and using it. This will be our 7th year using this product as far use and functionality no problems. Some of us are good will computers and some are not, all have been comfortable using it. Just a few more of the options I listed above would make the experience much better. Thanks for time and listening.
Thank
Ben K
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Add in update please
UPDATE! A total overall matchup statistic board should be able to be seen when you get put against another player at the start of the week 🙄 other than that awesome easy app!
Awesome app
It's so high quality and the way u draft players is so cool
Slow and Clunky
Have played ESPN Fantasy Sports for 10+ years, including Streak for the Cash, where I’ve made well over 5,000 picks. Love SFTC due to its ease of play, and fun concept. However, when ESPN decided to switch from its stand-alone app for SFTC to the ESPN Fantasy App, I have felt like quitting numerous times. It takes two to three times longer to play, the app crashes constantly for me, and it looks way worse. I’m still playing because I love the game, but each time the app crashes I love it a little less. My SFTC days are numbered, and that’s completely because of the new app. If you care about those that play (and I know you’ve heard countless number of people complain about the new app), then at least consider going back to the old app. Don’t be stubborn just to try and prove a point. Actually listen to your customers for once.
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Best yet
Tried and tested many fantasy league apps and this is easily the most user friendly and complete package.
