Product Review: Foxsports Vs. Yahoo for Free Fantasy Football Leagues

If your fantasy football league is looking for a home, chances are yahoo.com and foxsports.com are two online destinations you and your league have thought about. What are the differences and which is better?

These are the answers I will try to give you, the reader, in this piece.

I have had free fantasy football teams on both Yahoo and Foxsports over the years, sometimes both in the same season. I know associated content is now owned by Yahoo, but that will not influence this article in any way.

Here are the main differences I see in Yahoo free fantasy football and Foxsports.

In the live drafts of the respective free fantasy football sites, Yahoo is easier to navigate to me. It's much easier to queue your desired players in preparing your next draft choice on Yahoo, then draft them, provided they still haven't been selected by another team.

Both sites could do better as far as featuring the bye weeks of players next to their name and NFL team name. Every place the players' name is listed, his bye week should be featured as well, in my opinion.

Why, you ask? Because, players' bye weeks are the weeks in which they will accumulate exactly ZERO points due to the fact that their team is off that week.

This is an important factor in deciding which player to draft as you are drafting your fantasy football team. Why, you novices may wonder. If you have more than one or two players off in any given week, you must bench the player or get no points for that player that week.

If you have to use very many backup players or forget to bench the bye week players in fantasy football, your chances of winning are about like that big zero the bye week player will score that week.

As far as the things separating Yahoo and Foxsports for free fantasy football leagues, the biggest difference is that Foxports' standard scoring system is 6 points for a passing touchdown.

Yahoo's standard scoring for passing touchdowns is only 4 points, which greatly devalues Quarterbacks in the draft. I personally do not like QBs getting only 4 points for passing TDs, unlike all the other players, who get 6.

After all, in the NFL, does a passing touchdown only tally 4 points? NO! I think the 4 points per passing TD leagues are "Mickey Mouse" and will not knowingly enter such a league.

If you customize your league's scoring to give 6 points per passing TD on Yahoo, you must form your own league and get everyone in your fantasy football league to comply. As any of you know who have had fantasy football teams for a few years, it is hard to get 10 or 12 people on the same page for much of anything.

Therefore, I recommend Foxsports over Yahoo for free fantasy football leagues in spite of Foxsports' draft site being a little harder to navigate. It's not so much harder that you cannot figure it out as you go through the draft.

Foxsports also has a better system for keeping up with your teams' statistics and point totals as the games progress after the season starts, with nothing to buy. That makes it a true FREE fantasy football league when you don't have to buy a stat tracker to keep up to speed with your team in real time.

I know I don't like to wait until Tuesday morning to learn if my fantasy teams have won or lost, do you?