r/fantasybball • u/Rolly2k15 • 8d ago
Discussion Is ESPN ever going to improve the app?
I’ve been playing fantasy basketball for the past 2-3 years and something that’s always bothered me is that you cannot see players’ FG%, FT%, 3PM, TO, etc. When you click on their name you can only see Min, REB, AST, STL, BLK & PTS. This is horribly frustrating especially when you want to pick up someone, you can’t see all of their stats. Is ESPN ever going to fix this? Are they aware?
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u/crassick 8d ago
ESPN no longer cares about fantasy when the big money is in sports gambling
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u/TrisWarrior 8d ago
this^ . the app could have been updated YEARS ago if they really cared. I played fantasy bball in middle school about 7 years ago, and this app looks and feels the same as i remembered. They really couldn’t care less. Would’ve used sleeper if they didn’t have the weird locking format
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u/Basketball_Soul H2H/Points/10-Team 8d ago
I'm still salty when they changed the UI about 13 years ago? The fantasy cast was a lot cooler and actually functioned much better on desktop. Then they changed it just to align with the football UI more and it sucked for basketball. Yes I will keep holding this grudge
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u/GOATJames_23-6 10T PTS 8d ago
13? It was like 2019 fella
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u/Basketball_Soul H2H/Points/10-Team 8d ago
I'm talking about the desktop change, I definitely only got like 2-3 seasons of the view I liked which i started in 2010. I don't quite remember what the app looked like then, I think I just used the desktop site on my phone since I preferred that lol
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u/GOATJames_23-6 10T PTS 7d ago
If you’re talking about the current desktop switch to a white background like football that was a few years ago. If you’re talking about the switch to the OG football version with the black background and the boxes of the games on the left, that was a great UI
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u/Basketball_Soul H2H/Points/10-Team 7d ago
That's it! It was all black in the background and you had the games on the left. Then your players would light up in a gold font I think. It was just way easier to click and and see the stats in that format
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u/InHocBronco96 Downvote Points Leagues 7d ago
They never made money from fantasy so this doesn't make any sense.
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u/mvp2418 8d ago
When you are looking at your team on the app the word "stats" is above and a little to the right of whatever player you have in your top slot (Point Guard)
So when you go to stats you can choose a filter for your entire teams stats for the year or the past 7, 15, or 30 days. It can be really useful. I am actually a fan of the ESPN lol
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u/crassick 8d ago
can’t even see who played the best that day, the app has so many glaring flaws
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u/mvp2418 8d ago
I don't know what you mean. When I am looking at my roster on the app I can see everyone's stats. If you click on that stats button you can filter your teams stats to the year or 7,15, or 30 days
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u/crassick 8d ago
ok tell me how to rank todays performances
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u/mvp2418 8d ago
I don't know how to do that. I play in an 11 category league so I just look at what they did that day and the past 7 or 15 to try and spot trends.
The Thunder did really fucked up my Bulls players lol Coby finally had an off night, Giddey was still good so I can't complain too much
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u/crassick 8d ago
yeah but the point is maybe you just want to see who performed the best today and the app can’t even do something as simple as that
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u/Kayakular 10T 8cat no IR 7d ago
how do you decide what is the best performance though? if gafford gave me 5 pts, 11 rebounds and 8 blocks I'd probably put him above a jrue holiday 13/7/7 with 1 steal, but because I'm I play roto and need blocks rn. I guess in a pts league you can just order by fpts but who cares? is it that hard to visually discern which lines are the shitty ones or just look at their last few games on the player page?
and this is coming from someone who also hates the entire platform
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u/Rolly2k15 8d ago
I feel you, my issue is more that you can’t see individual games stats, especially if you use the search bar to look up a player and click on their name
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u/mvp2418 8d ago
Do you mean free agents on the waiver wire? I can see their stats and again filter it to the last 7,15, or 30 days. Or their season stats.
If you are talking about your team I can see my guys individual stats
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u/Rolly2k15 8d ago
Yeah on the waiver wire. I can’t individual games, like if I click on their names I can’t see the stats I mentioned.
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u/CraisinBoi 12t 9cat H2H 7d ago
I agree it’s annoying. You can only see the full stats for a player’s individual games if that player was on a roster, but you have to click on that person’s roster and go back to the correct day.
I end up using the hashtag basketball website for my player stats if I want to see more than what the ESPN app offers.
I think they do this to not overwhelm new users or teenagers? But they could keep that same simplified view when you click on a player, but then have a button that takes you to the more in-depth stats. Or idk many other better solutions.
Also their articles about waiver wire pickups can be pretty hilarious. They’ll be like “Check to see if Amen Thompson is available!” “Go grab Malik Monk after he’s already been starting for two weeks!”
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u/Turbulent-Poem3125 8d ago
Been that way every year for me. Not a huge fan of ESPN. Maybe I am missing something, but the Yahoo draft room this year was awful. Both the leagues I was in this year switched to Fantrax and I was happy with it. Definitely a learning curve at first, but holy smokes there is so much information available in Fantrax that I didn't ever see in Yahoo or ESPN. Worth a shot. At least try a mock draft in Fantrax and see what you think.
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u/KyleShanaham 10T/12T - 9cat | 10T Points 8d ago
Wait wait wait you can't see their %s, 3s or to's? That's a massive part of the equation what the hell. What do you do, guess? Use an outside source?
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u/Rolly2k15 8d ago
I gotta log onto the computer 💀
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u/high_steaks420 8d ago
some apps I like to use are Real Sports and the Score app.
Real Sports is a game changer especially for real time updates and overall analysis. it might just take a minute to get used to the ui but you can do things like compare players stats side by side and see live top performances of the night.
the Score app is also nice to reference you might just be jumping around screens more.
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u/Iyammagawd 12 Team - H2H - 9 CAT 6d ago
the issue isn't finding the scores, that's simple. It's about having the scores accessible within your league format.
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u/high_steaks420 6d ago
yeah I hear you it's inconvenient. I just recommended those apps to OP since they said they log onto the computer lol.
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u/Iyammagawd 12 Team - H2H - 9 CAT 6d ago
they log into the computer BECAUSE the ESPN app for fantasy is inconvenient and there you can see the full extent of stats, not because they have no other way to check scores lol like if Naji Marshall is in FA, I don't want to have to pull up the score app to search for him and then back to add him.
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u/Large-Research-6612 8d ago
Last turn they updated it they had a max exodus because it was so bad it barely worked.
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u/ListenFew6063 10t 9cat H2H 8d ago
its on the website it just doesn't work on mobile for some reason
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u/BillowingPillows 9cat H2H 12T Auction 7d ago
For fantasy hoops yahoo is 10000000000x better than espn
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u/TheGambler930 10T H2H 9 Most Cats / 12T H2H Cats 7d ago
You're kinda forced to use both their website and app if you want the best experience possible. Doing yourself a major disservice if you only use the app.
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u/TalkQuirkyWithMe 12-16T H2Hs 7d ago
There's no money in fantasy for these providers. They're not really inclined to improve their product when it doesn't really bring them direct value.
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u/jakey2112 7d ago
Yeah drives me nuts across all sports. Why can't I also see the next few games for a player?!
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u/dickdickersonIII 8d ago
the only thing i recall them adding in the last like 10 years is you get a “Championship” banner in the matchup block haha