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Feedback pertaining to the SAP for the week option being moved to a F+ subscription.

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  • Matt Page commented  ·   ·  Report

    I get that you have to make money, but this decision is soul-crushing for casual players. It is literally the feature I use to sell them on joining the league. They are not going to pay for it, but they will complain to me, and I imagine I'll have a number of abandoned teams come mid-season. It is a bad business decision - fewer players logging in means fewer people seeing your ads or being tempted to try all of your gambling options. I mean, I imagine you guys crunched the numbers, but I think this is a poor decision for potential short-term gain (though I can't think of anyone that will pay up) versus leagues moving to new platforms or the player exodus because managing their roster becomes too cumbersome in a daily roster league.

    Please reconsider? For both of our sakes?

  • Shaun Polakow commented  ·   ·  Report

    I've been playing fantasy basketball on yahoo for years and this is the first time I've been asked to pay to set weekly lineups. You should be trying to incentivize more people to join, not charging the players you do have for a service that should be free. The people willing to pay for advantages in the game (like trade or lineup advice) are not likely to be the ones unable to set their lineups daily. I was also frustrated that I could not amend the time of my live draft yesterday after trying and failing for days to set a custom lineup. It's clear you prioritize fantasy football over basketball, but you do so to your own detriment. Our league is seriously considering moving to ESPN or FANTRAX next year, and we might as well move our fantasy football leagues as well. I seriously recommend adjusting your premium services if you want to retain members.

  • Patrick MacIntyre commented  ·   ·  Report

    Putting a paywall on the "start your players for the week" button AFTER the draft happened is unacceptable. And even if we were willing to pay, we can't, because we're in Canada. If this paywall isn't removed, I am using another platform next year.

  • Aaron Arm commented  ·   ·  Report

    I understand that Yahoo is looking for new ways to entice users to subscribe to Fantasy Plus, but the operative word here is "entice." There should be incentives on top of basic functionality that make the subscription appealing, and taking away a core function of the platform -- setting weekly lineups -- is going to drive people away far more than it's going to drive new subscribers.

    Setting weekly lineups is not, and should not, be a bonus feature. This is how most users set their lineups, especially when juggling multiple leagues and especially when they know they won't have access over the next day(s). By locking this behind a subscription, you are objectively making the platform worse for a majority of users, and when those users leave Yahoo for a more functional and user-friendly alternative, you are losing any chance of them subscribing. You are also losing the possibility of them spending money in other ways, such as daily fantasy contests.

    Check any fantasy-based online forum and you'll see an uproar over this change. Do not only the right thing, but the business savvy thing, and bring this core feature back--for everyone--before users start looking elsewhere.

  • John Lazar commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have used yahoo fantasy hockey for my league the last 14 years. I play with people who have a busy schedule and cannot update lines daily. This feature needs to be reinstated or this will be our last year with Yahoo fantasy ANYTHING.

    Just note that I have 2 fantasy football leagues and 1 hockey league. They will ALL be leaving if this is not reinstated before the end of the hockey season. And believe me, the only reason ANY of us use Yahoo is for the fantasy sports. Unfortunately for you, there are plenty of better options available.

  • Kirtis Powers commented  ·   ·  Report

    Removing the availability to set our lineup for the week is ****. Then making us pay a fee to allow us to do it kills the fun that we were having in winning something if we finish top three. I will not be a part of this come next year if this continues.

  • Steve Cini commented  ·   ·  Report

    Wont be using yahoo fantasy next season - good job

  • Alex McDonald commented  ·   ·  Report

    Recently yahoo made it so that if i want to set my lineup more than a day ahead it would require a subscription. We had this feature to set the lineup for a whole week prior to this recent change and it was an awesome feature.

    This change will not get money out of me and just makes me upset that yahoo is taking this stance to earn a few bucks. If it is not changed back by end of season, as commissioner I will be taking the league to a different site.

    I hope you consider changing it back.

    A disappointed long time fantasy user.

  • Jesse Lars commented  ·   ·  Report

    Your now charging for starting the right players for the rest of the week... previously this was a free feature which made this fantasy site actually usable.

    Now many users will have poor line ups on days with early games, wrecking the sportsmanship of the site and making the fantasy leagues way more effort then many guys want to put in for effort in a week.

    I would change this back immediately... this is a basic feature not an advanced one, I mean the free algorithm would bench connor mcdavid on weekends, that's functionally clearly a free feature

  • Samuel Wright commented  ·   ·  Report

    This was a useful and user-friendly feature taken away and put behind a paywall. My leagues will almost certainly be changing platforms now as Yahoo Fantasy is now a worse product than your competitors. Locking away previously-free features behind a paywall is such a blatant money grab.

  • Skyler Daniels commented  ·   ·  Report

    It’s truly astounding to me that you locked the option to start players for the rest of the week behind a paywall. You are going to kill Fantasy basketball which is already hard enough to get people to play. I’ve been a commissioner for over 20 years in yahoo leagues and if this isn’t changed, I’m going to have to move over to Sleeper. I’m willing to delete the league and take our draft there if it’s not unlocked this week. Really bad decision on your part.

  • Kellan Johnson commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm the commissioner of a fantasy hockey league and we use Yahoo. A heads up that it's been taken poorly by the entire league that two weeks into the season Yahoo requires a subscription to easily start active players. It's a full bait and switch. If this was known ahead of time I would've moved our league to another website. I fully plan on moving the league after the season, which is too bad to lose league history because you guys betrayed our trust.

    Change it back.

  • devin smith commented  ·   ·  Report

    This happens so often that commissioners forget to add a flex position or something they discussed but forget. How can we not add at minimum a flex position in first 1-2 weeks following the draft. Makes no sense.

  • Tom Wilson commented  ·   ·  Report

    We thought it was a glitch that you could only set for the day now, and not for remainder of current week. Turns out it was actually changed.. Most people I've talked to are ready to leave yahoo for fantasy sports now and this is a big reason..

  • Clif Watson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Your decision to paywall starting active players for the week is absurd. We've been using Yahoo for Fantasy Hockey for over 7 years. The fact you would start the first couple weeks and have it FREE and then instituted the paywall is absurd. My family of SIX will NOT be paying for Y+ and if you don't reverse this decision this will be the last year we use your platform if not quit before the season is even over. I certainly understand the desire to promote and provide a paid service as an add on for people but to change a fundamental element to try and FORCE subscriptions is truly a ****** move.

  • Jeff B commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have taken away my ability to set my lineup for the entire week with one click. I have four teams. That's 28 roster days. I'm NOT doing that manually, one day at a time, four teams one at a time. Deal breaker. I quit. You now have four inactive teams, which will make the game less fun for everyone else in my leagues that cares enough to slog through this horrible decision, which will mean a nice, large migration to ESPN next year. Put it back the way it was! I'm not playing fantasy football, baseball or basketball on your platform, so a season long subscription is of NO VALUE to me. I'm not paying. I'm also not playing.

  • Justin Hakanson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Wow, you really put setting a lineup for the week behind a paywall?? Yeah, this is probably the last time we use Yahoo for fantasy basketball. Ridiculous. We've had this functionality for years.

  • Eric C commented  ·   ·  Report

    Remove the roster setting button for the active players for the week from the paywall that you just added to it! Do you want to turn away leagues and players? Nobody is going to pay for this option, we will just leave Yahoo for other websites.

  • jason jozaites commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely ridiculous to try to charge to start active roster for the entire week. Disgraceful of your company to do something like that. Will not be using this app for my fantasy format moving forward.

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