ESPN has pulled their fantasy support down this morning to update

[UATahoe]

Exactly where I am man. Was hoping to make some pre draft moves but looks like that won't happen

[ArrylT]

On the bright side you/we/all ESPN users can tell the MFL only owners how easy they have it.

What? MFL was down for 3 days? Well sonny back in my day in 2018 ESPN was down for 10+ days!

[UATahoe]

Yahoo 2018 season has officially kicked off. Looks like mock drafts open up tomorrow. Come on ESPN!

[jordanzs]

How as ESPN & Yahoo avoided adding year-round dynasty support? It shouldn't be hard for their programs to enable the key features that us dynasty players need. They would keep the business & the ad-revenue in-house.

I would gladly run a dynasty league through yahoo if it had all the basic features like draft pick trading, rookie only drafts, etc. Until then, I need to settle for MFL.

[ArrylT]

How as ESPN & Yahoo avoided adding year-round dynasty support? It shouldn't be hard for their programs to enable the key features that us dynasty players need. They would keep the business & the ad-revenue in-house.

I would gladly run a dynasty league through yahoo if it had all the basic features like draft pick trading, rookie only drafts, etc. Until then, I need to settle for MFL.

Yahoo definitely has draft pick trading - although it needs to be 1 for 1 - so usually if you get a 1st you have to send like a 20th round back.

[jordanzs]

Oh I meant future draft pick trading. Can I trade a player right now for a 2019 2nd round pick?

[ArrylT]

I cannot recall off the top of my head - I'll let you know once a couple of the leagues I am in are actually up and running.

[Phaded]

ESPN is built for redraft leagues because that is what the majority of fantasy football players play.

Keeper and dynasty is a very small niche area of it.

If it ever becomes more popular than redraft, I'm sure they'll introduce it - but right now they have no need to.

...I would love if they did, but I cannot see it happening.

[turcorox911]

Does ESPN's engine allow you to account for PDs on defense?

[Phaded]

Yes it does.

[Monkey]

Oh I meant future draft pick trading. Can I trade a player right now for a 2019 2nd round pick?

iirc, no, I'm pretty sure you can only trade the current year. I'm asking my commish to activate our league so I can try looking.

[turcorox911]

Yes it does.

Thanks. Ima ask my league to move back to ESPN.

[turcorox911]

ESPN is built for redraft leagues because that is what the majority of fantasy football players play.

Keeper and dynasty is a very small niche area of it.

If it ever becomes more popular than redraft, I'm sure they'll introduce it - but right now they have no need to.

...I would love if they did, but I cannot see it happening.

Agreed. MFL is where dynasty should be.

[Ruggenater]

It seems like ESPN is half-back up. I was able to click to re-activate my league for the new year, but when I left the app and came back, it gave me the maintenance error again.

[pierson242]

Yes it does.

Thanks. Ima ask my league to move back to ESPN.

For dynasty terrible idea