I received an e-mail yesterday from ESPN regarding the renewal of our Fantasy Football League service (related posts).
Let me sum up our collective experience with ESPN last season: “crap”.
The previous season, based on the recommendations of Dan, we went with RT Sports. All in all, that went pretty well. Occassionally, their real-time scoring was a little slow, but other than that, they were very reliable. Before the start of the 2002/2003 season, I got an e-mail from ESPN announcing their new service. I thought about it for a while, and assumed that the application would be as tight as the rest of their site. And, I thought that all the data for the games would be coming out of the same source - instant scoring updates.
Oh how wrong I was.
The first few weeks were a disaster. Only a fraction of the promised Features were even finished, and the site went down more often than a Thai… well, you get the picture. I don’t want to harp on it, but it was the worst experience ever, and we weren’t alone. At one point, early in the season, we thought about scrapping the service and moving back to RT Sports. We asked for our money back, and were counter-offered with free access to all their Premium content. That sounded like a good enough idea, so we stuck it out. In hindsight, I wish we had just left.
So, this year, we’re moving back over to CBS.SportsLine. We used their service a few years ago, and it did the job. I know people in other leagues who have used CBS the last 2 seasons, and they love it. The price is comparable, and they’re even throwing in a wall-sized Draft Board.
Now I just have to decide on my Team Name and Logo…
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