The first issue is that the current player cannot be bid on from every page in the draft room. In other words, if I’m looking at a player’s page, my roster, the results list, or the board, I can’t see or bid on the current player. I have to navigate back to the player list tab and bid. In the previous version, the current player and ability to bid were available while viewing all draft room tabs.

The second issue is that there’s no countdown bell/ding beginning at the final 3 seconds when bidding on a player. The old version had this, and it was perfect. When the bid countdown hits 3, a bell/ding occurs and dings every second through 3, 2, 1, and 0. It serves so many purposes, and really helps keep the drafter’s attention.

And related to that, there is no bell/ding when a new player is nominated. There is also no bell/ding at 10 seconds remaining when a nomination has not yet occurred, and no 3, 2, 1, 0 countdown during the nomination period. These audio cues were present in the old version.

Another issue is that on the roster and results list of drafted players, the amount the team paid for that player is not present. The only way to see what a team paid for a player is to go to the results tab, find the player and team him, go to the board tab, find that team, find the player, and see what he went for. This is very tedious and time consuming. Yes, it should be there on the board page. But it should also be on the results list for fastest reference. This is crucial, as this info is incredibly important when bidding to see what previous players went for for comparison. The old version had the amount on the results list, each team’s roster, and the board. The current version only has it on the board. Please remedy this!

Another issue is that there’s no way to see what the remaining budgets of the other teams in the league are. This is crucial for competitive and strategic reasons. On the previous version, there was a tab with all teams listed, their roster count (15/15 or whatever at that moment), their total remaining budget, and a tab to sort by their budget or max bid. The list of teams was in the same order as the nomination order. Teams who bid on the current player had the highest amount they’d bid beside their team name. The current nominating team had their team name highlighted, and the team with the current winning bid had their team name highlighted in a different way. Please bring this back!

The new auction draft room looks great, it did need a refresh, but it does need a few tweaks. Keep up the great work, I love Yahoo fantasy!