There absolutely needs to be the ability to create a totally customized playoff format. Our league went to 14 teams this year and it created several issues with playoffs, due to the limited options that yahoo allows. It shouldn't be very hard to allow commissioners total control for playoff brackets, allowing byes where an odd number of teams enter or continue in the playoffs. Other sites have these options and yahoo needs to keep up. I know we're not the only ones who are a bit salty about this. We want to come back next year, but you need to pick up your game and fix it Yahoo!!!

I Love Yahoo's custom scoring options, but would like a few more: #1- Enable Win, loss, and tie +or- for both QB's and team Defs. bonus points #2- Enable penalties committed/drawn +or- such as pass int. drawn for a receiver/QB, or a holding call against a player resulting in negative points, in increments of 5 yard, 10 yard, and 15 yard penalties, etc... #3- instead of only offer bonus points for 40+ yard efforts, offer bonus points for 20+ & 30+ & 40+ yard efforts at each position. #4- Offensive fumble recovery yards gained as well as def and Special teams fumble recovery yards gained for specific players. #5- Kickers field goals offering a per yard amount instead of a range, example: Field Goals 0-30 Yards= 3, each additional yard over 30= .10 (ex. 48 yard field goal = 4.8 points), also with a negative amount on misses. #6- team def points and yards given up equaling a per yard and a per point amount instead of the range. example is 0 points given up= 12 points, and each point given up = -.5 points, then 0's out at 24 points given up, and similar with yards given up on a per yard basis. #7 points for onside kick recovery for both players and team Def's. #8 for PPR, have a ability to differentiate the PPR amount between RB's, WR's, and TE's, example: Receptions RB= .5, Receptions WR= 1, Receptions TE= 1.5 #9- Junk Yards/points: If the team Def. Team is winning by 24+ points at any time in the 4th quarter, then from that point on, the value of all points and yards given up will be reduced... (–.5 points for every point given up instead of –1, and –.02 points for every yard given up (+ or –) instead of –.05... The same applies if the team is up by 17+ points with 5 min. or less left in the game, from that point on, all of the yards and points given up AFTER that point are reduced as the same above. However, if at any point thereafter, the opposing team gets within 10 points, then it all becomes nullified and the entire game scoring goes back to the regular scoring... #10- A player does NOT become “locked” in his roster position at game time... Instead, the player becomes “locked” when they enter into the game. The only exception is for team Def. And kickers, they become “locked” at game time, as long as the kicker is “active”. If the kicker is “inactive” then they will not lock in and you will be able to pull the kick at any time during the week until the week ends. #11- Any player cannot score less than 0 points... So I don't want any player, including team def. To score less than 0 points (no final negative points for any position) #12- be able to play more than 30 roster positions. #13- Team def. bonus points for kickoff touchbacks, kickoff's inside the 20, punts inside the 10 yard line.

As several other posts here have stated, Yahoo does have some great custom scoring options.

However, In the interest of creating better Equivalent Positional Value, I'd like to see the ability to add position specific scoring options. For instance: the ability to score QB/RB/WR/TE rushing, receiving, and passing yards separately or, more importantly, independent of each other. With such scoring a QB's rushing yards (or any other relevant stat) could be adjusted to be more/less than say the points earned by a RB.

The thought with having these options would be to create a more balanced scoring system, which would allow players to more accurately and effectively draft and choose players according to the idea of Best Available Player strategy.

For anyone interested in my inspiration and more in-depth info on this, see the link below. It is a bit dated, but I believe the data and ideas behind it hold up pretty well in today's FFB game. A very interesting read either way.

• http://thehuddle.com/classics/03phs.php -

Yahoo does not have enough options to accommodate live drafts. Did a live draft this year and it worked out great but I had to use Clickydraft instead of yahoo. The options that made us choose Clickydraft are:

1. Read only URL of live draftboard. This allows anybody to stream the draftboard where they have a web browser. We were able to put the draftboard up on a 70in tv for everyone to see at draft party.

2. Extend draft pick timer and pause timer. While hosting a live draft party with 10 close friends and a lot of drinking, it would be nice to have the ability to adjust the pick timer (even mid-draft) and allow the commissioner to pause draft for when there are significant interruptions and shenanigans happening.

3. Allow for managers to either pick from their own devices or the commissioner can make their picks for them. This allows for if one or more people can't make it, to be able to combine the live draft and online draft.

I don't have any affiliation with Clickydraft but you should check them out for how to run a draft. This would greatly improve the whole draft process and make Yahoo unique.