Fantasy Plus will ruin your fantasy season
Optimal lineup recommendations were fine for basketball leagues but its terrible for baseball. Is Yahoo recommending and organizing my lineup it looks like based on preseason rankings instead of actual rankings? I dont understand the logic. ie It recommends starting Isaac Paredes (current rank as of this writing 514, preseason rank 149) and sits Lars Nootbar (STL, current rank 25, preseason rank 278). In the same league it will start Paredes at 3B OVER Austin Riley and will start Riley in the Util spot for the entire week. It will sit relief pitchers in favor of a starting pitcher who is only RP eligible who is not pitching that day.
In addition, the player add/drop recommendations make no sense for football and baseball. Yahoo suggests players to drop from your roster and recommends adding available free agents which are always terrible suggestions.
The ONLY value I've found in fantasy plus is for optiminal lineup suggestions for basketball (On average, i'm in 3-4 yahoo football leagues, 1 NBA league and 2-3 MLB leagues per season). I've found it detrimental using it in any other format or for any other use
Hi Aaron,
You can find info about the Start Active/Optimal Players feature at https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN28660.html.
If you do have issues with Fantasy Plus features, please contact us through the sports tab at help.yahoo.com, @YahooFantasyCC on X, or r/YahooFantasy on Reddit to provide more details.
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