MSN FOXSports Fantasy Football Sucks

We’re using FOXSports powered by MSN to host our Fantasy Football league at work and man is it terrible!

The NFL season began on Thursday night so naturally people needed to log in and make their final lineup changes for the weekend. Thursday afternoon, the site was down. Said they were experiencing technical difficulties and should be back up soon. It wasn’t up by kickoff.

Luckily I logged in early Thursday morning to move Antonio Gates out of my starting lineup since he wasn’t playing this weekend. I stuck Heath Miller in and was stoked when he scored a touchdown on Sunday. I was out of town all weekend and didn’t log into my account until Sunday night. When I did, there was Antonio Gates still sitting in my starting lineup.

Not only that, but the scoring was all fucked up too. Some teams had waaaay to many points, some had zero.

This morning the lineup problem was fixed - Heath and his points were in, Gates was on the bench. The scoring seemed right as well, but now it’s screwed up again. The “Live Score” page, which automatically reloads scores (ajax baby!) and *could* be a cool feature, hasn’t worked right for more than an hour at a time.

Given, this is a free league, but I mean come on! You would think such big names and such a big site wouldn’t be having this many problems. Talk about pushing crap out the door…

By the way, I’m in another league that uses Yahoo! and it works absolutely great.