Yahoo – One of the the best pay fantasy football league options. Their free leagues are good too, but you can’t customize certain things in the free leagues. One of the big differences is the inability to change the waiver wire options which aren’t very good in the free format. In the free leagues, players can be added off the wire all day Sunday including during games. This enables someone who is sitting home watching the Giants (or any other team) see if someone gets injured, let’s say the starting running back. That person can go and grab the backup off the free agency list immediately (regardless of the wavier wire order), giving them a nice advantage over everyone else in the league. Most people don’t like this option, because they don’t want to spend every Sunday with their computer to be competitive. In my opinion, this is the best pay out there.
Fleaflicker – Probably the best free fantasy football website. This site only does fantasy football, and offers great options like Yahoo. It’s also free because they make their money from paid advertising on the site. They also offer a free tour, so check out the website if your interested.
Sportsline – Not my favorite. Sportsline has great fantasy write ups for each player, that are constantly updated. This is great for tracking player information, and good for fantasy advice when you are setting your line up. Sportsline doesn’t really have any problems, but it just isn’t as user friendly as yahoo. Sportsline fantasy football leagues also don’t track results year to year, which is kind of stupid.
ESPN – Decent fantasy football leagues, but not as good as the three sites listed above.
NFL – Decent fantasy football leagues, but probably the worst site listed on this page.
Now there are a lot of other sites that offer fantasy football leagues both for a cost and for free, but the 5 listed above are probably the most not worthy. I’ve played leagues in all 5 over the years, and I have to say the you can’t really go wrong with any of them, but Yahoo and Fleaflicker are probably the best.
