PhenomsFF.comReviews of phenomsff.com

The whole dynasty background is a great idea & experience. But this league/site have differences from other leagues that are negatives in my opinion. These negatives are: 1) The waivers don't occur until Wednesday at 10:00PM. They DO NOT occur on time. Leagues with automated waivers seem to be much better for people who actually pay attention to the waiver processes. Also, once a player is dropped, they can NOT be picked up until the following week. A normal league would have dropped players being able to be picked up the same week. 2) The uses victory points to decide league standings. A solid reason could not be made as to why using victory points vs. straight up record or total points (other than obviously it's the commish's preference). It's fantasy football, luck plays a part in the game. If you score high and lose, it's fantasy. 3) A ppr league that doesn't have a ppr for RB's along with TE's and WR's isn't really a full ppr league. 4) The Defenses lose points for yards against. Who cares how many yards a defense gives up if the offense doesn't score! 5) You have 4 IR spots but you can not use them unless your player is designated "IR". The player cannot be "out", like all other leagues. So if your player has 6 week injury, you do NOT get to use an IR spot. SOME of this was stated prior to joining the league, but you don't know that subtle changes that make a big difference from the traditional fantasy football leagues until you start playing. Live and learn. Right now I'm glad you only had to pre-pay for two years.

Very difficult to maneuver, poor software.

This is my first year with phenomsFF, and i find myself more confused with the interface everday. The menu options and submenus are very confusing compared to ESPN and others. Trying to find stats are difficult. Im sure once your used to it, it is ok, but overall i prefer the others for their ease of use.

Don't like the design of the site. Not a fan of the my fantasy league set up. Planning on sticking with my normal site in the future.

I MUST HAVE BEEN DRUNK WHEN I SIGNED UP. SITE IS HARD TO USE . NEEDS A MAJOR OVERHAUL.

Mike allowed his software vendor to advertise week by week to go to their gambling site, it was just a bad year.......MIKE is a good guy, but surly doesn't have a crystall ball. Lastly, I hope Mike made some $$ directly or in-directly from Draft Street and if he didn't he might want to learn other things about running a business. DS was a BIG turn off for me. Fantasy Football is not even close to a "skill level" as poker playing and those sites all got shut down..Now you are going to tell me the Fantasy Football is more of a skill than poker playing? Come on now...........It's ALL a form of gambling, NO? Second, I have been in Mike's leagues for seven years and this was the first year Mike dropped the ball. All in all, nobody is perfect and Mike has always been hands on and is worthy of one bad year out of seven. Mike, nobody has a Crystall ball and you might want to re-think the trading policies in the leagues. Heck, Marvin Jones scored 5 TD's one week and Josh McNown out scored Peyton Manning the last week he played. For you to single handed decide trade values and allow or dis-allow a trade really is no different than starting a player that gets hurt in the first quarter of a game and the owners get's a zero and loses just because of it. AGAIN, their is no crystall ball for anybody, period. I had a guy trade Cobb and the same week Randall get's knocked out for the season. Owner's should be able to trade anybody in the first 7-8 weeks as they have skin in the game. After that, you should consider records to not allow dumping of players as we ALL have freinds and family in most all leagues. Kind of like the REF throwing a flag in the end zone with one minutes to play, giving NE 35 yards and a first and goal and a gift win over the Browns? Their really is no science or crystall ball, its fun, and sure a skill of match ups, BUT in the end its a gamble. If I buy into a trading league then I should be able to trade, keeping in mind it takes two to make a trade. Otherwise, owners should join non trading leagues. Lastly, I feel you had to many blind bidding leagues rather than WTF leagues. It was just a bad year as I said BUT you are a good hearted hands on owner. PEACE to you and good luck in the future..................

Mike knows some of the deep concerns I have with the trading system and how it needs to be revamped. Another big problem with Phenoms is the regular season is to long. By the time week 16 comes around several teams have lost interest. When a team does not set a line-up due to not being in the chase for the playoffs/points lead they stop setting line-ups. This has an overall impact to the league and future seeding for the playoffs. In turn effecting how things finish and who wins or loses money. The more optimal way to do things would be making the season points chase 14 weeks and the playoffs starting in week 15. Another big issue is the waiver wire system....its very difficult to navigate and get set every week. That solution needs to be reworked through programing and the owner. At this present time I will not be returning to Phenoms next year. My 12 leagues will be moving to a better run site. *edit* I would also like to address a very confusing situation of collusion that happened in our $500 TAU400. I'm a pretty understanding owner overall, but when there is clear obvious collusion in a league of this stature and the parties involved in the collusion admit to wrong doing, I personally think some type of compensation is owed to the other customers. I would have liked to have seen Mike step up a little and own him being on the road and not being able to oversee the issue in a timely manor. Him waiving his fees for the league, or something would have been a nice small gesture to say I'm sorry. As for the owners involved I also think they should have been either punished with wins taken away or some type of restriction. Good luck Mike...you have a lot of work to do in my opinion. I do want to add one more thing to this review that I feel is fair. I do trust Mike. I think he has the best intention for his customers. I may give Phenoms another chance in the future provided some things change. Well, as we both know we are a long ways from telling the whole story. Trading Jordan Read straight across for Robert woods was not a fair trade. After Read blows up for 28.4 the week before. In fact the guy getting Woods in the trade had 6 WRs who were better and Heath Miller only for TE. We can't forget to add these two trading were Uncle and Nephew. This was the first "player dump" these two teams had made this year either, it was more like the 3rd or 4th. The part you don't see from this side of the fence is the part where the team who got Jordan Read made a huge blockbuster type deal with another owner 6 minutes after acquiring Jordan. Closing any possible trades that could have been made. I was currently in negotiations with the other team involved when all of this happened. We were talking a lot throughout the day. So don't just sit there and say it has no affect on the league because it does. Am i bitter about it......yeah a little.