ESPN vs Yahoo fantasy basketball

[Geoff]

I see where ESPN finally made their fantasy basketball leagues free of charge. While I still plan to do most of my playing at Yahoo, I signed up for one league on ESPN. Anyone have any experience with it that can tell me about the differences/similarities vs. Yahoo's fbb?

 

[KiNgMyC]

I'm also curious on this, I've been a yahoo fantasy user for the past 5 years. I tried the sportingnews system before, quite different.

 

[Geoff]

I'll admit that i'm impressed by the ESPN leagues thus far...they have a lot more scouting info when you click on player names so you can make an informed choice easily without having to go dig up scores and reports...of course, it also makes it harder to unload stiffs via trades. Their trading system is pretty detailed, you can identify untouchable players, and give specific reasons why a trade won't work, as well as RATE the trade itself.

The default league size is a bit small though (10 vs 12 for Yahoo) and it still doesn't have the convenience of using your Yahoo ID vs. signing up for a specialist site. Still, the first report is that ESPN compares very well to Yahoo...I'll see what happens when the games actually begin.

 

[AusKing]

keep us up to date on your findings...i've also only played on yahoo, but i might give espn a go and see how it compares

 

[Geoff]

well, I don't know now if I will spend too much time in the ESPN league. Not because of the league setup itself, but because some joker in the league just dumped these guys: Artest, Jamison, TMac, J O'Neal, Kaman, Bibby, Bynum and Mayo, and picked up waiver fodder like Scola, Jialin and other scrubs. I've made moves to pick up as many of them as I can, but if I know for sure that one player is going to dog out the season like that, I won't waste much time on it.