With the NFL season kicking off last week, it is imperative that Fantasy Football fanatics download their favorite Fantasy Football app on iPhone, iPad, or Android immediately. The 3 major Fantasy Football applications for the iPhone, iPad, and Android include Yahoo! Fantasy Football, NFL.com Fantasy Football, and ESPN Fantasy Football 2012. Each of these applications provide the user with a competitive advantage over his or her competition, but how do you know which one to use?  All of these apps basically provide the same features and come down to a matter of format and design.  Here is a break down of the 3 best Fantasy Football apps to help you choose the right one for you.

Yahoo Fantasy Football App

Fantasy Football is more than just an interactive game that allows users to draft real players from the NFL and use their live statistics as a way to reward their teams with points. Fantasy Football is a religion and a tradition football fans anxiously look forward to annually. Yahoo! Fantasy Football app allows you to test your skills against intense competition, keep track of your private and custom leagues with your friends, and includes many more features.  The Yahoo Fantasy Football app is a bit more basic than the NFL and ESPN Fantasy Football apps, which is a good thing.  Yahoo Fantasy Football provides all the features you need for an easy draft and and user experience once you are in a league.  It doesn’t dwell on all the unnecessary glitz and glamour and extras featured in the ESPN and NFL apps.  The Yahoo Fantasy Football app is fast, intuitive, seamless and probably the best Fantasy Football app out there.  Only thing is that it doesn’t show your matchup score from the home page, you have to go to the matchup tab.  Although Yahoo Fantasy Football app may be missing a few features, it is nice, simple, and has improved greatly over the years.

Features of Yahoo! Fantasy Football App:

• Live Scoring: Follow your team during games in real time.

 

• Roster Management: Last minute your starting running back is injured. You can start your back-up using Yahoo! Fantasy Football app.

 

• Matchup Schedules: confused about who you’re playing in Week 2 of the season? Use Yahoo! Fantasy Football to check who you’re up against.

 

• Player News

ESPN Fantasy Football 12

If you are away from computer on Sundays then stay connected to all of your leagues and teams than through the ESPN Fantasy Football 12 app for your iPhone, iPad, or Android.  One of the best features that the ESPN Fantasy Football 12 app offers is advice ESPN’s many experts.  However, the ESPN Fantasy Football app is known to frequently crash, have an ugly layout, and not be very user friendly.  It does have all the features you need in a FFL app though.

Features of ESPN Fantasy Football 12 App:

• Team Management: choose which players to start or bench, add/drop/trade players

 

• FantasyCast Live Scoring and Stats: Real-time scoring and detailed information for all your matchups

 

• Receive personalized push notifications for injuries, substitutions, and Tweets from ESPN’s analysts

NFL.com Fantasy Football App

NFL.com Fantasy Football app allows users with an account to keep track of live scoring, line-ups, transactions/trades, and recently updated player news. Other than that, the NFL.com Fantasy Football App is the worst out of the whole bunch.  The app is hard to navigate, and so slow that if feels like a link on your browser.  Basically, NFL should still to football.

Features of NFL.com Fantasy Football App:

• Live scoring

 

• Setting your line-up

 

• Transactions (adds/drops/trades)

 

• Player News

 

• Manage Multiple Teams: access and control all of your NFL teams and leagues

 
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