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    My friends and I are looking to start a keeper league next season and I was just curious which site is the best to use.

    I have only used ESPN and Yahoo for one year leagues. I like ESPN the best just because of the design of the website and how efficient is compared to Yahoo. But I'd rather have a site that has better settings than be visually appealing to help me run a successful league.

    Thanks for any input!
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    G (1) A (1) +/- (.25) PIM (.05) SOG (.05) PPP (.5) HIT (.05) BLK (.05) FOW (.01)
    W (1.75) GA (-1) SV (.1) SO (3)

    C: Seguin, Kuznetsov, Trocheck, Johansen, Kostin
    LW: Benn, Lindblom, Dickinson, Kubalik
    RW: Tuch, Fabbri, Bjorkstrand, Terry
    D: Klingberg, Chabot, Girard, Spurgeon, C Miller, Theodore, Marino
    G: Hellebuyck, Berdin

    C: Elvenes, Vorobyev, Spacek, Jones, Eyssimont, Daviddson, Shvyrev
    LW: Dorofyev, Koivula, Shalagin, Dugan, Cates, Ranta
    RW: Volkov, Fortier, Evans, Blichfeld, Legare, Tieksola
    D: Laaksonen, Gilbert, Pilut
    G: Samsonov, Sorokin, Knight, Zagidulin


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    CBS Sportsline has the best site, imo. It is highly configurable. They will modify their site settings to meet any specific requirements you have for the site. The only downside is that it costs around $150 US a year to host your league on their site. It is worth it, imo, if your league is very complex.
    12 team, H2H, salary cap
    1 pt/G or A, 2 pts/W, 1 pt/OTL, 1 pt/SO

    Forward: B. Point, M. Necas, A. Debrincat, T. Zegras, J. Bratt, L. Raymond
    Defense: J. Morrissey, A. DeAngelo, S. Gostisbehere, D. Doughty
    Goalie: T. Demko, E. Merzlikins
    Bench: M. Rossi, C. Glass, M. Maccelli, M. Dumba, K. Shattenkirk, F. Andersen
    Prospects of Note: L. Stankoven, J. Lekkerimaki, D. Yurov, B. Clarke

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    We use Hockey Draft and we like it. Simple to use and it's only $20 per season.
    H2H Daily 12 Team League, 7 Keepers
    Start 3C, 3 LW, 3 RW, 4D, 2G
    G, A, +/-, SOG, PPP, PIM, HIT, BLK, W, L, GAA, SV%, SHO

    2014-15 Champion

    C- Tavares, Krejci, Trocheck
    LW- Hall, Lee, Guentzel (C), Lucic, Skinner, Marchessault (C)
    RW- Lindholm (C), Radulov, Nylander (C), Arvidsson,
    D- Weber, Provorov, Klingberg, Hamilton
    G- Bishop, Lehner, Mrazek

    Farm: Zacha, Bjork

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    Dear Yahoo!: add farm teams already, it's really not that hard! smh
    10 team, head-to-head, multi-cat, keep-12 keeper league. CATS: G,A,+/-,PPP,PIM,SOG,HITS BS,SHP, W,SV,SV%,GAA,SO Daily rosters of 6F, 4D, 2 Flex, 2G

    F: Crosby, Hall, Pacioretty, Hartnell, Neal, Nugent-Hopkins, Callahan, Dubinsky, Hossa, Huberdeau, Abdelkader, Bjugstad (IR)
    D: Karlsson, Hedman, Muzzin, Savard, Streit (IR)
    G: Lundqvist, Quick, Condon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shiva Blaster View Post
    Dear Yahoo!: add farm teams already, it's really not that hard! smh
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    We use PoolExpert, and it's pretty good.

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    12-team Keeper pool, straight points for forwards & dmen. Goalies get: 2 points per win, 3 per shutout, 1 point per assist & 1 point per shootout loss.

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    Forwards: Panarin, Ovechkin, Kopitar, Stamkos, Tuch, Rust, Marchessault, Pavelski, Miller, Bertuzzi, Stone, Kakko, Brown, Stankoven, Kovalenko
    Defence: Hedman, Fox, Matheson, Thrun, Jiricek
    Goalies: Kochetkov, Talbot, Vasilevskiy, Campbell, Schmid


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    I used Yahoo, CBS and Fantrax. Fantrax is the best site to have your league on and to me it isnt even close. I will only go in keeper leagues that are on Fantrax, I will not use the other ones anymore.
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    Starters: 12 Forwards, 6 Defense, 2 Goalies

    F - Marchand, Marner, Marchessault, Stamkos, Tuch, Comtois, Farabee, Bennett, McCann, W. Nylander, Nugent-Hopkins, Kapanen
    D - Barrie, Oleksiak, Suter, Gudbranson, Savard, Lyubushkin, Ferraro
    G - Saros, Rittich

    Bench - Mittelstadt, Reimer, Roslovic, Keller, Reaves, Toews
    Prospects - Byfield, Mercer, Veleno, Chmelevski, Tippett, Comrie, Tomasino, Valimaki, Gustavsson, Wolf

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    Glen Hoos did an excellent series on this a while back, you should find most of your answers here: http://forums.dobbersports.com/entry...s-by-Glen-Hoos
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    CBS is great, but it costs..........

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    Fantrax is the best site IMO, and it is not even close.
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    G, A, P, PPP, SHP, +/-, PIM, SOG, FOW, FOL, Hit, TK, BLK, GWG, GA, SV, SHO, W

    C: Barkov, MacKinnon, Zegras, Hughes, Matthews
    LW: Pavelski,Teravainen, Nichushkin,
    RW: Rantanen, Laine, Terry
    F: Kakko, Rakell, Granlund
    D: Jones, Hamilton, Karlsson, Dahlin, Burns, Thrun,
    G: Gibson, F. Andersen, Saros, Hart
    Farm: L. Carlsson, Moore, Miroshnichenko, Mintyukov, Zellweger, Askarov, Fedotov, Clang

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    Quote Originally Posted by DerekReese View Post
    I used Yahoo, CBS and Fantrax. Fantrax is the best site to have your league on and to me it isnt even close. I will only go in keeper leagues that are on Fantrax, I will not use the other ones anymore.
    Fantrax is the best for keeper leagues. Not close. I've had a dozen pool managers over the years. Tell them Dobber sent ya
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    G - Kahkonen, Vejmelka, L. Thompson, Levi, Comrie
    D - Hronek, Morrissey, Lundkvist, Girard, Brannstrom, Rathbone, Hanifin, Severson, Durzi

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    Thank you everyone for the help! Looks like Fantrax is the way to go
    24 Team H2H Pts Cap Dyn
    4C 4LW 4RW 6D 1G 4B 27M

    G (1) A (1) +/- (.25) PIM (.05) SOG (.05) PPP (.5) HIT (.05) BLK (.05) FOW (.01)
    W (1.75) GA (-1) SV (.1) SO (3)

    C: Seguin, Kuznetsov, Trocheck, Johansen, Kostin
    LW: Benn, Lindblom, Dickinson, Kubalik
    RW: Tuch, Fabbri, Bjorkstrand, Terry
    D: Klingberg, Chabot, Girard, Spurgeon, C Miller, Theodore, Marino
    G: Hellebuyck, Berdin

    C: Elvenes, Vorobyev, Spacek, Jones, Eyssimont, Daviddson, Shvyrev
    LW: Dorofyev, Koivula, Shalagin, Dugan, Cates, Ranta
    RW: Volkov, Fortier, Evans, Blichfeld, Legare, Tieksola
    D: Laaksonen, Gilbert, Pilut
    G: Samsonov, Sorokin, Knight, Zagidulin


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    Quote Originally Posted by Shiva Blaster View Post
    Dear Yahoo!: add farm teams already, it's really not that hard! smh
    Do you really want them to do that though? I can only imagine that they'd butcher it beyond usability much like they do to everything else. You probably wouldn't even be able to add half of the guys you drafted.
    Fantrax - Salary cap dynasty - cap hit - H2H each category
    Start: 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 2UTIL, 2G, 6 Bench, 4IR
    Cats: G, A, +/-, PIM, STG, STA, SOG, FOW, GWG, Hits, BLK, W, GAA, Saves, SV%, SO

    C: Getzlaf, Turris, Eakin, ____
    LW: Kunitz, MacArthur, Pacioretty, ____
    RW: Little (C), Tarasenko, Eriksson (LW)
    D: Pietrangelo, JJ, Streit, Brodie, Benn, ____
    G: Lundqvist, Bishop, Holtby

    Farm: Grigorenko, H Lindholm, Faksa, Collberg, Grimaldi, Lee, K Hayes, G Carey, Schmaltz
    G: Grubauer, Gudlevskis


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    Ugh. This issue has been driving me nuts. I know that Fantrax is the best, as I took the site for a test drive this summer, yet everyone in my league is cheap and fear change, so I can't convince them to make the switch from yahoo. Some of the managers in my league are on the road a lot with work and like the convenience of the yahoo phone app as the primary method of managing their teams. It sucks for me as I'm the commish and being in Yahoo is just more work for me every year as farm systems grow and managers repeatedly add players that are already on other people's farm teams. It's too bad, as the level of customization in Fantrax is nothing short of amazing and would make my life as commish 500% easier.

    The one thing I am doing though, is encouraging fellow disgruntled Yahoo users (especially commissioners) to email Yahoo customer care, explain why not having something as simple as a way to designate farm team players is ridiculous, and put pressure on them to fix it in time for next season. I just finished writing them a long email myself, letting them know that if they did not add some form of farm team designation/management that I would be taking my league elsewhere. I've gotten replies to all my previous enquiries to customer care, so I know people are reading and responding to these things.....the more people that bring up this obvious and ridiculous short-coming, the greater chance there is that they actually do something about it, especially if people are threatening to leave Yahoo as a result.
    10 team, head-to-head, multi-cat, keep-12 keeper league. CATS: G,A,+/-,PPP,PIM,SOG,HITS BS,SHP, W,SV,SV%,GAA,SO Daily rosters of 6F, 4D, 2 Flex, 2G

    F: Crosby, Hall, Pacioretty, Hartnell, Neal, Nugent-Hopkins, Callahan, Dubinsky, Hossa, Huberdeau, Abdelkader, Bjugstad (IR)
    D: Karlsson, Hedman, Muzzin, Savard, Streit (IR)
    G: Lundqvist, Quick, Condon

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    fantrax lists pretty much all prospects so if you are in a deep keeper with large farms it really cant be beat.

    not sure how deep cbs / yahoo's prospect database is these days but in the past it wasnt even close to what fantrax had.

    yahoo/cbs have nicer looking websites but fantrax seems to be improving upon that as the years go by

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