Iphone App for Yahoo Fantasy Football is up!
I just downloaded my new favorite way to run down my Iphone Battery. The App is called Yahoo Fantasy Football ‘09 and it is slick. I went through all the functionality and wrote here what you can and can’t do on the App. This app has been a long time coming, especially considering Yahoo’s fantasy section works terribly in the mobile browser. As long as live scoring works well it looks like this app is going to be just what we needed.
What You Can Do:
Manage Lineups: On the first screen you login using your Yahoo ID and password. Then you’re taken right to your All Teams page. Click one to see your lineup for that team. You can click on any players name to get information on that player, such as his stats that week or for the season. Click the “Edit” button in the top right to manage your line-up. The player switch feature on the app is different from the drag and drop movement on the website. This app is actually easier, working like the “move player” feature on ESPN. You click a player and the available spaces he can be moved to appear (Bench, WR, WR/RB/TE). REMEMBER: After you make all your line up changes you must hit the little blue submit button in the top right. The first time I tried to edit my lineup I didn’t see that button and thought the changes were already made. After hitting the submit button I checked my lineup on my actual laptop’s browser and the change was reflected immediately, so don’t worry about lag.
Add/Drop Players: The player search functionality isn’t nearly as robust as the web version, but its good enough. You can only search for available players. You can filter by position, season stats, and projected stats. After filtering out your list click on a player and you can view stats or add him to your roster by dropping another. It’s all slick and easy to use.
Watch Yahoo Expert Videos: This is superfluous, but a nice addition. I’d like to see a link to the RotoArcade blog as well.
Get Live Scoring: I guarantee you I will deplete my iPhone battery with this feature at least four weeks this season.
What You Can’t Do:
Trade Players: Hopefully this will be included in the next update. There are no trade options and no ability to view trades you’ve offered or been offered.
View Other Teams’ Lineups: On the league page there is a box by each team that looks like it should be clicked to view more, but nothing happens when I click it. You can, however, view your current week’s opponent in the “Matchups” Tab.
View Your Schedule and Past Weeks’ Results – Another easy upgrade that should be available in future versions.
Props to Yahoo for getting this out. They’re doing enough to stay the market leader in this space even though the competition is coming on strong. If you can think of anything else this app needs please post it in the comments section below.
