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Fantasy Football Websites Features / Functionality

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The items listed below are the features that are offered by Fantasy Football Websites. These items should be evaluated thoroughly before selecting a site to join.

Feature Name
Feature Description
Advanced Commissioner Controls Allows the commissioner choice of point totals, or head to head play. They can also determine roster size, player positions, stat categories, point modifiers, and trade deadlines.
Enhanced Customer Service VIP, high priority customer support that provides answers quickly
Preferred Draft Times Choose the best draft time for your league
League Prizes Offers commissioners the option to award prizes for the league winners
Real-time Stats Provides real-time stats and scores for your league
Draft Info / Recommendations Provides comprehensive information regarding your league draft including pre-season stats, rankings, injury reports, and other draft related information
Scouting Reports Provides week to week information regarding team/player rankings, important news, injury updates, and other league related information
Wireless Access Check stats, scores and standings, and even make roster moves from any Web-enabled mobile phone (WAP).
League Communication Tools Use our Smack Talk feature to talk trash to your friends, send in-game email or post notes on the league message boards.
Fantasy Sports Profile & Historical Stats View the competitive history of all your fantasy leagues and other Yahoo! players.
Drag & Drop Rosters Allows users to easily and quickly make roster changes by dragging and dropping players in starting and/or bench positions. Eligible positions are highlighted when a player is selected.
Personalized Alerts Allows users to customize alerts regarding player injuries, line-up alerts when active players are starting for your team, and roster alerts when managers in other leagues are dropping your players
Co-Manager Allows users to manage their teams together with a friend and give full access to commissioner tools (or restrict access to certain functions).
Custom League URL Allows commissions to provide league members with a customized URL which could include the league name or anything the commission and/or league deems fit for the URL
Invite Friends Tools Allows the commissioner and the team managers to invite their friends to participate via email
Change Commissioner Tool Allows the league to transfer commissioner responsibilities to a different person in the league
Professional Recommendations Offers users and team managers professional recommendations, tips, and insight as to how to effectively draft and manage teams
User Recommendations Offers users and team managers user created recommendations, tips, and insight as to how to effectively draft and manage teams
Team & Player News Provides team and player news from various news sources for team managers to use
Max Players in League This is the maximum number of teams allowed in a specific league
FAQ FAQs (or Frequently Asked Questions) are lists of common questions/problems and answers that users have about a particular site. FAQ's are the most common form of customer help.
eMail/Online Form Support Allows users to email a website and get help on anything related to that website.
Help Tickets/Email Form Support Allow users to submit their questions/issues and get a support ticket which will later be answered by an customer service representative
Searchable Knowledgebase Support Knowledge base help is a searchable database of frequently asked questions and problems that provide users with help beyond the static FAQ pages. Knowledge base typically has
User Forums User forums relative to customer support allow users to ask questions and issues about a site and let other users or company representative respond just as they would in a normal forum environment.
Customer Support Blog A blog (web log) that is created by the customer support staff that allows users to post entries and comments pertaining to site issues, problems, and questions about the service.
Weekly Head-to-Head Games These games allow teams to match up head-to-head each week with the team with the most points of the two winning for the week. The league winner is determined by the team with the best week-to-week record.
Point Accumulation Games (Highest Points) These games allow players to create teams and each week, based on the teams performance points are awarded and the team with the most points at the end of the season wins (no weekly head-to-head) match-ups.




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