Yahoo’s new fantasy sports app is for the true diehards

Yahoo is simply a elephantine successful the satellite of phantasy sports, but its app hasn’t gotten a meaningful update successful years. Ahead of the 2024 NFL season, though, the institution is rolling retired a wholly overhauled mentation of the Yahoo Fantasy Sports app that brings some a cleaner plan and a immense magnitude of caller contented for phantasy players.

The caller app is divided into 3 sections. The archetypal happening that appears erstwhile you unfastened the app is simply a database of each your phantasy teams crossed sports — shot is by acold the astir popular, but Yahoo besides offers phantasy baseball, basketball, and more, and portion of the team’s extremity with the caller app is to get you playing caller phantasy games. There’s besides a News tab with dedicated contented for phantasy players and a Scores tab that shows each the scores you and your phantasy teams attraction about. Before, each that contented lived separately successful the Yahoo Sports app, but present it’s close adjacent to your phantasy games.

As for the nuts and bolts of playing fantasy, not overmuch has changed. Yahoo cleaned up the app’s plan truthful you tin spot your full squad connected the surface astatine erstwhile and much easy power betwixt teams. With caller logos and icons, you tin besides customize your team, but the app should consciousness acquainted to anyone who’s utilized it before. Old arsenic the app is, Yahoo Sports president Ryan Spoon says it’s inactive a immense success. This was not intended to beryllium a afloat reboot, conscionable an improvement.

The wide thought down the caller app, Spoon tells me, is to marque it a much implicit acquisition for fans. “When I aftermath up connected Sunday,” helium says, “give maine the news. Let maine alteration my team. And during the game, fto maine ticker my squad oregon ticker the container score.” Previously, that process required 2 oregon 3 antithetic apps; Yahoo present hopes you’ll bash it each successful 1 place.

One bully happening astir gathering a phantasy shot app, Spoon says, is that you benignant of cognize precisely however radical are going to usage it. “Tuesday greeting is, ‘tell maine what happened successful the week, and acceptable up the waiver wire,’” Spoon says. “Wednesday is waiver wire.” Thursday nighttime done Monday night, it’s each lineup tinkering and a cardinal check-ins a time to spot however your squad is doing. Rinse and repeat, 14 oregon truthful weeks a year. 

Yahoo is chipping distant astatine improving each portion of that process, including an eventual redesign of the desktop web app, but Spoon says mobile is the halfway of the experience. “85 percent of our users utilized the mobile app past year,” helium says, “and implicit two-thirds of them utilized it each day. The usage is truly high.” 

Since Spoon joined Yahoo from ESPN astir a twelvemonth ago, he’s been adding caller contented and features to the full Yahoo Sports platform. As shot kicks disconnected this year, there’ll beryllium much fantasy-related news, much fantasy-related shows, and much fantasy-related everything. Through each of its galore ups and downs arsenic a company, Yahoo has someway remained 1 of the astir important phantasy platforms — and that seems to beryllium the centerpiece of everything Yahoo wants to bash next.