Y! Fan puts your fantasy team to your fingertips, making it much easier to keep up with the highs and lows of your fantasy fortunes. The app displays all your team and league information in a convenient, easy-to-read interface. You can check your roster, current stats, standings and recent transactions all with a swipe of your finger.
Besides the $4 Professional Edition, ES Group Mobile also offers a . The free version lets you check current scores and stats, but you can't make changes to your roster or lineup; that's a feature of premium edition. Both paid and free versions of Y! Fan support Yahoo's free and premium fantasy baseball, football, basketball and hockey leagues.
The Professional version of Y! Fan lets you adjust your lineup, add or drop players, and propose trades with ease. You can also write on your league's message board or view the league Web site in the app's built-in Web browser. Y! Fan even retains Yahoo's player notes function, a welcome feature for any manager looking to monitor breaking news about his team. On Yahoo's fantasy sports site, player notes appear as yellow sticky notes which expand when you click on them. Y! Fan replicates this feature with a player notes screen that displays the latest news on your players with the most recent news at the top of a list.
Modifying your roster in Y! Fan is also easy. If you want to add a new player to your roster, you can scroll through the list of top-ranked free agents by swiping your finger down the screen in the same way that you swipe in other iPhone applications. If you want to change your lineup, you simply tap a player's current position and choose a new position from the scroll wheel which appears.
While changing a daily lineup is easy, doing so for a weekly lineup is slightly more difficult. In most weekly fantasy baseball leagues, your lineup locks on Monday morning, meaning you must set your lineup on Sunday. When adjusting your lineup in Y! Fan, you have to go to the next Sunday--or roster deadline day--manually. It would be easier if Y! Fan allowed you to set the type of league (weekly or daily) and automatically take you to the next roster deadline day based on those settings.