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    Hi all,

    (First official post, but I've been reading for years.)

    Currently I have a 14 team keeper league that is hosted on CBS. Beyond the fact that the CBS news feed is useless for hockey, their App is beyond pathetic and now the prices of their commissioner leagues is just sky rocketing we were looking at moving our site to a new location.

    I've played on Yahoo before but they don't always have the deepest player pool, however if you've got pros/ cons I'd love to hear them.

    Only done football on ESPN but the App is good and as with Yahoo the price is right.

    I've never been on FanTrax but same as above, would love to hear what's good and bad.

    If you're on something beyond these please let me know, I am partial to a more graphic interface. Played a baseball league a few years ago that was more or less on a site that was an excel spreadsheet. Would like to avoid that. Thanks in advance guys, we're not against staying with CBS if it is the best option but we're shopping.

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    I only use Fantrax but it's great. Such deep player pools (if they're missing anyone, just make a request and they'll add him), and so many settings you can tweak to make the league exactly the way you want. And their farm and salary cap systems are great if you use those. The better features come with a price, though, but I think it's only $80 or something like that for a year which isn't bad when you split it between 14 GMs.

    Chat is probably the worst thing at Fantrax. A lot of people don't like it at all but to me it's fine since I've used it for years.

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    Fantrax has come a long way with its GUI lately, but it steel feels a bit like an online database.

    It does come with a wealth of options and customization functions, some at a cost though.

    It's more like a Utility Vehicle to Yahoo's Sports car.
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    IF you search you'll find several threads on this.

    In a nutshell
    Yahoo: Free. Is the most widely used platform, easy to navigate, solid app. Not great for deep leagues in terms of players, minors or speciality stats.
    ESPN: Free. Solid userface and platform, decent player updates. Same limitations: no minors, goes down annually for maintenance, poor minors etc.
    Fantrax: Has by far the most options. If you want to customize your league they will do everything for you. Top end leagues with full-customization do cost, app isn't great, new format to learn to navigate.
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    G, A, P, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG, Hits, W, SV%, GAA, SVs
    C: C. Keller, C. Mittelstadt, B. Nelson, R. Strome,
    LW: K. Connor, B. Tkachuk, J. Gaudreau, J. Marchessault, E. Rodrigues, A. Lafreniere
    RW: K. Fiala, J. Bratt, T. Jeannot V. Arvidsson
    D: R. Josi, J. Trouba, E. Gustafsson,
    G: L. Thompson, F. Gustavsson, V. Vanecek
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    Fantrax is such a great site once you get used to it. It is my 100% recommendation!

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    Fantrax I think is the one you have to use for a deep league, but you should set up another format for trade talks etc. the chat function is horrific imo

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    Fantrax if your league has prospects and draft pick trading, and you want the most customization and quick feedback. But it does look like shit (has improved) and their app sucks. I love the trading function on this one too.

    Yahoo if there are no prospects, you do stuff mainly over the app, and you want the best look. I do not understand why it vanishes in the summer for keeper leagues (maybe the commish in my one league just does it like that) and I hate their trade screen/functions. Their trash talk app is fun.

    CBS I left long ago as they really don't care about hockey pools.

    ESPN I used like once a while ago and for some reason never understood it haha. So no comment
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    LW: Guentzel, Svechnikov
    RW: Bratt, Pastrnak
    D: Hamilton, Weegar
    G: Merzlikins, Samsonov, Murray
    Rookies: Too many awesome prospects to list

    Yahoo - Keep 3, 12 team H2H.
    Stats: G, A, PTS, +/-, PPP, SHP, PIM, GWG, HIT, SOG, W, GAA, SV%, SV, SO
    Keepers: Zibanejed, Connor, Svechnikov

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    I can't list my 2nd main keeper as there are too many players, but it is a keep all H2H points-only league


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