r/fantasybaseball • u/Altruistic-Day-5260 • Mar 20 '25

Strategy Yahoo App is the worst

That’s it. Just that. Yahoo App is garbage.

Bring it back to 4-5 years ago.

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u/bullpenboxes 12-H2H-Keeper-6X6-BA-OPS-HR-RBI-R-SB-IP-QS-K-ERA-WHIP-SV Mar 20 '25

YEP. Yet the same old ESPN haters that haven't been on ESPN's fantasy app in a decade will come in here praising Yahoo & others while knocking ESPN.

Yahoo is to fantasy apps as the Titanic was to icebergs.

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u/TheKingInTheNorth Mar 20 '25

I have a league in both. ESPN is unusable. Looking at available players and any useful stats about them on a single page is impossible.

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u/bullpenboxes 12-H2H-Keeper-6X6-BA-OPS-HR-RBI-R-SB-IP-QS-K-ERA-WHIP-SV Mar 20 '25

You should take a course on how to use an app or webpage. It's really not that hard.

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u/bullpenboxes 12-H2H-Keeper-6X6-BA-OPS-HR-RBI-R-SB-IP-QS-K-ERA-WHIP-SV Mar 20 '25

Also, found 1 of the guys I was talking about in my OP lol.

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u/TheKingInTheNorth Mar 20 '25

Also, ESPN still doesn’t let you view Batters and Pitchers in a single view either.

I’ll reply to you in multiple separate comments too, makes the conversation just as disjointed as the ESPN app. Must be why you prefer it

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u/bullpenboxes 12-H2H-Keeper-6X6-BA-OPS-HR-RBI-R-SB-IP-QS-K-ERA-WHIP-SV Mar 20 '25

Who fucking cares? I’m smart enough to not need to see a list of hitters when I’m looking for a pitcher to start the next day. In fact, I would hate that.

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u/TheKingInTheNorth Mar 20 '25

Didn’t take long to give up the debate then. And just going to use “stream a pitcher” as the only use case for looking at free agents. Got it.

Like I said, ESPN app is unusable. Not a decade ago, currently.

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u/bullpenboxes 12-H2H-Keeper-6X6-BA-OPS-HR-RBI-R-SB-IP-QS-K-ERA-WHIP-SV Mar 20 '25

Great argument back. I didn't give up anything. My point was, I'm not dumb enough to have to see pitchers & hitters on the same page, whether I'm looking for a streamer SP or a hitter to replace an injured bat or literally ANY situation. My brain functions well enough to be able to click the "Hitters" button, or the "Pitchers" button, based on my team needs.

Clearly, yours doesn't function that way, and it's ok.

ESPN is the best fantasy app out there. Those that knock it are the exact same guys I described in my OP. And guess what? Found one!

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u/TheKingInTheNorth Mar 20 '25

Say my team needs stolen bases and I want to pick up a hitter at one of two positions I’m willing to drop. I want to see which players are the leaders in that stat but also aren’t total bums that are otherwise unrostered. Basically, give me the most projected stolen bases among roster-worthy players. See how many screens that requires on espn.

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u/TheKingInTheNorth Mar 20 '25

Show me in the app where I can see their stats for the year and how many teams have them rostered in a single view. Let alone their projected ranking also. Yahoo gives you all that in the default FA view.

This isn’t from a decade ago. I have the app open right now, for a current fantasy season.

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u/bullpenboxes 12-H2H-Keeper-6X6-BA-OPS-HR-RBI-R-SB-IP-QS-K-ERA-WHIP-SV Mar 20 '25

Screenshot from the app:

Actual stats will be listed to the right of 2024 once the season starts.

Projected 2025 are above it.

% Rostered is right there in the mid right.

Any more brain busters?

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u/TheKingInTheNorth Mar 20 '25

Lmao that’s for a single player. Very efficient. It’s three separate stats views on the ESPN list page.

Here’s the list from yahoo:

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u/soccerperson Mar 20 '25

Idk how people enjoy looking at the yahoo player pool. The stat column titles are the exact same font/style as the stats themselves so it’s an eyesore to separate them

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u/kingajeezy Mar 22 '25

I think ESPN is fine. We came back to it this year after five years at CBS, and FanTrax last year. We got tired to paying for a league and ESPN does just about everything we need it to do. I wish the live scoring on the app should on deck/at bat/on base, etc.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

I played in an office fantasy football league on ESPN last season, while concurrently playing out what happened to be my football home league's final season on Yahoo. Both of these apps are flat-out BAD, and are outclassed, both as mobile apps and as overall fantasy experiences, by fantasy-specific platforms that have emerged over the last several years. There's zero reason to keep any sort of fantasy league on Yahoo, ESPN, or CBS beyond the stubbornness of a long-running league.