# Where to hold my fantasy baseball draft
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-hold-my-fantasy-baseball-draft/715603
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [March 21, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-hold-my-fantasy-baseball-draft/715603 "2015-03-21T14:50:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-hold-my-fantasy-baseball-draft/715603/1 "2015-03-21T14:50:06Z")
Hi,
I am running a fantasy baseball league. We are running the league on ESPN, but it is supposed to be a keeper league and ESPN’s keeper settings for a snake draft blow. We need to find a new place to hold the actual draft, but since we are scattered across several states we need an online arena where we can draft. Anyone have a suggestion?
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-hold-my-fantasy-baseball-draft/715603/2 "2015-03-21T16:54:24Z")
You could do it on Yahoo and import the results. Yahoo’s keeper abilities are really good these days.
Note: you’ll want to inform everyone that there may be some discrepancies between players’ position eligibility, since Yahoo uses a 5 games started or 15 games played to qualify.
(Or you could just use Yahoo, since the UI is (IMO) much better.
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### Author:  [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-hold-my-fantasy-baseball-draft/715603/3 "2015-03-21T17:01:43Z")
We use group chats in Skype\* for our ESPN (football) keeper leagues… If you’re good at data entry, you could conceivably refresh ESPN’s website in real time; otherwise, just make a shared Google document\* and type/paste in picks that way. (Hopefully, your players can keep track of what positions they need; if not, what Munch said makes a lot of sense.)
\*There are plenty of other services that’d work as well. Those are just the ones we use.
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### Author:  [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-hold-my-fantasy-baseball-draft/715603/4 "2015-03-21T18:23:07Z")
> [@Munch](#):
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> You could do it on Yahoo and import the results. Yahoo’s keeper abilities are really good these days.
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> Note: you’ll want to inform everyone that there may be some discrepancies between players’ position eligibility, since Yahoo uses a 5 games started or 15 games played to qualify.
>
> (Or you could just use Yahoo, since the UI is (IMO) much better.
Has yahoo’s phone app improved? We went with espn when the league started because it had a better phone app which was important to some members.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-hold-my-fantasy-baseball-draft/715603/5 "2015-03-21T23:01:30Z")
> [@NAF1138](#):
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> Has yahoo’s phone app improved? We went with espn when the league started because it had a better phone app which was important to some members.
I don’t know how the app compares to ESPN’s, but I know that they’ve made a lot of improvements. I was very easily able to do my NCAA bracket on the app. I think they have mock drafts available via the app - you might see if the people who need better mobile access are happy with the UI on that.
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### Author:  [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-hold-my-fantasy-baseball-draft/715603/6 "2015-04-05T20:15:56Z")
I have a similar related question about fantasy baseball sites, so I’ll ask here rather than start a new thread:
Are there any websites where I can pay an entry fee (say $20 to $30) to join a public league with the top to or three teams get prize money at the end of the season (playoffs in head to head leagues)? In the past, I did this on Yahoo! (last time was in 2012), but now all of the public leagues seem to be free on Yahoo! offer. I and two friends want to manage teams in the same league for small $$$, but we do not have enough people among us (three is not enough for a league) for creating a custom/private league.