Bilal Sattar

IL rule change goes live TONIGHT. This is a massive quality of life improvement. Thank you! @YahooFantasy What's new: • "Out" tags stick until nightly transactions run, even if status changes postgame • Out 3+ games or Out For Season = IL-eligible until they return

My thoughts on the recent changes to Yahoo Fantasy Basketball: Users tend to resist change, especially when it comes to the apps they’re used to. When Yahoo last redesigned its fantasy app, the backlash was intense. Now that there’s a new redesign, a lot of people want the previous version back. Not because the old one was necessarily better, but because it was familiar. The latest updates to the Yahoo Fantasy app are actually pretty nice and much more visually appealing. That said, it’s not a perfect app. It often feels like the team is more engaged with fantasy football than basketball. Trying to apply football concepts to basketball doesn’t always work well. Remember when they switched basketball rankings to “positional rankings”? That makes sense for football but makes zero sense for basketball. Another example of them not being fully in tune with basketball is how the IL currently works. You can put players with Out status on there, but once a player goes from Out back to Questionable, they have to be removed before you can add another player. This seems like something a true fantasy basketball player would catch on the product team. Yahoo Fantasy users would benefit a lot from having hardcore fantasy basketball players on the product decision-making team. @YahooFantasy