Rosters - Start Active Players
Feedback pertaining to the SAP for the week option being moved to a F+ subscription.
AdminB C
(Customer Support Agent, Yahoo)
shared this idea
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Kevin Young
commented
Putting the "start for entire week" button behind a paywall is ridiculous.
This will lead to frustration amongst managers as not starting lineups during bad seasons will be an issue.
It will be detrimental to the overall enjoyment of the product and will drive people away from your app
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Matthew Goforth
commented
I am taking my league elsewhere because I am not going to subscribe in order to set my roster for the week.
Thank you,
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anonymous
commented
UI suck, cannot change weekly lineup, useless plus option everywhere.
you gonna warn money from advertise, now you may face lose all your user to espn fantasy.
you had better think more carefully. that's all.
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Timothy Cibula
commented
Dear Yahoo! Sports,
It is inappropriate for you to create a subscription paywall in order to start players for the rest of the week in Fantasy Basketball, and even worse to activate it the first day of the season. Please remove this paywall and allow players to start their players for the week with the auto button. I have been a Football and Baseball Commissioner for over twenty years in Yahoo! and an active participant in Basketball as well. If you continue this practice in Fantasy Basketball, I will move my Football and Baseball leagues out of Yahoo! and encourage my Basketball commissioner to do the same. Thank you.
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Jeo Consunji
commented
**** yahoo! you guys are making the product unusable. start active players is essential to the game. putting it behind a paywall esp for international users is stupid. next year, no one is using your product.
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Charles Baron
commented
Allow the "start active players" for the week again; don't remove a feature after the league has drafted.
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Charles Baron
commented
Allow the "start active players" for the week again; don't remove a feature after the league has drafted.
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Minky T
commented
Removing this feature makes fantasy a pay-to-win, and removes the competitive side for this game.
Why is there a paywall to play your weekly fantasy team? What about the people who are not able to check in every day? As a commissioner, I work really hard to make our league fair and everybody gets a chance to win their matchups/the season. This is not it, I'm afraid this will scare people away from your platform. And specifically removing this feature right on the start of the season. What a scam! -
Noman Hamlani
commented
BRING BACK STARTING ACTIVE PLAYERS FOR THE WEEK FOR FREE. THIS IS RIDICULOUS. TRASH SERVICE.
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Jarrett Paterno
commented
I cannot believe the audacity of Yahoo Sports to try and charge people to set their line-ups after years of it being free. With the cost of living constantly rising, the choice to lock simple functionality behind a paywall is pathetic.
I have been a yahoo fantasy user for years but will migrate my leagues to a competitor next season if this is not rectified.
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Julian Manguinao
commented
Wouldn't it be great to have a single button to start your lineup for the whole week. Please bring back this feature unpaid it makes people's lives easier and better. Wouldn't it be great to make people's lives easier and better. Thanks!
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Trevor Pyka
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I am letting you know if you do not re-consider allowing set active rosters to be free by 2026, I will be taking 3 football pools, 2 hockey pools, 2 baseball pools and one basketball pool and will be moving to a competitor.
You have made it near impossible for my league members to enjoy themselves as a casual fan and have destroyed the joy and fun that these leagues used to be.
I doubt you will do anything about it, but I am very disappointed and you will lose my leagues.
Trevor Pyka
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Fabien Collard
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It's absolutely ridiculous to put this feature behind a paywall after running for multiple years now. It's just QoL and less friction, not by any mean something that either costs development maintenance, content production cost or any sort of insight to justify the cost.
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Matt Booth
commented
its actually pathetic that you're trying to charge to set your lineup for the week, wtf? This has been available for the last several years. Stop scamming people, pathetic
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Richard McCarthy
commented
I've been using Yahoo Fantasy sports since 1999 and always tell people it's the best service. However I was setting my lineup for the first time in fantasy basketball this year and it seems that the "Set lineup for remaining week" is locked behind a paywall. Taking away a function that has been a base feature for 10 years and locking it behind a paywall is an incredibly anti-consumer measure. If removing free features is the business strategy to entice more players to subscribe, it will backfire as I will no long continue to use Yahoo as my fantasy platform of choice if this is not reverted.
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Simon McNally
commented
Does your team at Yahoo even use your heads when making decisions??? What benefits would come from getting rid of setting your lineup for the week? You want people to pay for your app but it’s negative feature impacts all players even the ones who pay for your dumb service. Now when I play fantasy hockey I don’t see how many games my opponent has and won’t have the knowledge to make my moves based on games yet to be played. This will certainly lead to people even yahoo altogether instead of paying for your stupid *** subscription. ******* figure it out, every other app is improving but Yahoo. Half my leagues are already on espn now and you pull this ****. Absolutely deplorable. I swear none of your devs even use the app the way it’s set up.
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Mihkel Kaus
commented
a very small amount of users can afford that and without that feature, it's horrible to play fantasy basketball, especially for someone in a different timezone - trying to avoid spoilers all day at work, then watching my favorite team's game (from the late night or very early morning before) and only then going to fantasy bb page... and by that time, on some days, some other games have started and changing lineup is locked...
what a horrible decision/idea by you... if it stays behind a paywall, this will unfortunately be my final fantasy bb season...
- a loyal yahoo fantasy bb player for 15+ years
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Clark Bowser
commented
******** for putting a the weekly auto lineup behind a payroll. No one is paying for that **** and you just make yourselves look like ******* douchebags.
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German Sizow
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You have just KILLED MY WHOLE FANTASY LEAGUE because you have decided to paywall Start Weekly lineup
Thank you! I WILL BE switching sites 100% FU -
Douglas Eisman
commented
Hello - whoever decided to put the "starting active players" for the week under a premium/yahoo+ model has demonstrated among the worst customer experience mishaps I can recall across all consumer UX decisions since the birth of the internet and mobile application layer. I am guessing there is some sort of internal target to drive ARPU or engagement and this will do the EXACT opposite since, if not remedied, my league and several others will simply move to ESPN. The way to drive growth is by ADDING VALUE FOR THE CUSTOMER, NOT PUTTING IT BEHIND A PAYWALL. I am so offended by the notion of having to pay to SET MY ROSTER FOR THE WEEK that - even if amended - I would be surprised if I kept my league on your platform. I would LOVE an opportunity to chat with the PM of yahoo fantasy or the team to understand why they thought this was a good decision, explain to them why it is not, and jointly come up with methods to actually drive value vs attempt to extract consumer surplus that doesn't exist. You have my contact information and I look forward to hearing from you.