I've been running a football keeper league for over 20 years. This league started on pen & paper and stats were kept using MS excel. Eventually we migrated to cbssports and we've had our league there for the last 15 years (or longer).

Two problems have us wanting to ditch that site.

1. The FAAB for waivers stinks. Our league has a 1-time player free-agent lock each week. You can't pick up a free-agent once his game starts and have to wait until Tuesday evening to bid on him. Otherwise, you can pick up any free-agent whenever you want. First come, first served. No restrictions. CBS can't figure it out. Or we can't figure it out and CBS has horrible customer service & can't guide us in the right direction.

2. CBS charges us something like $150/year. For that amount they should be able to nail our settings (all of them) to a "T". And they don't.

Anyhow, I've played on a few different sites in other leagues & frankly I'm thinking Yahoo might be the best fit. But I've never been a commissioner of any league except for the one which is currently on CBS & I'm a little nervous about switching.

Our league has a 25 man roster. 2 QB, 3 RB, 1 TE, 5 WR/TE, 14 bench spots. Additionally, future NFL players (current college players) can have a bench spot but can't be in a starting lineup so it would be helpful if we could customize names for our rosters (CBS lets us) but this isn't a deal-breaker.

Scoring is completely conventional and any online site will be just fine.

We keep standings for both head to head and total points for the year. I think if I do the head to head setting on Yahoo we can still just figure out who has the most total points, so probably not a big deal.

Our tie-breaker rules regarding who playoff seeding are unconventional & I'm not going to find a site that will perfectly match what we use, so I'll need a way to have the commissioner override the playoff schedule. Will Yahoo allow this? I'm not certain.

I'm hoping someone here will be able to point me in the right direction. If one of the free sites is a good match then we're golden. The $150/year at CBS really isn't a huge deal, but the fact that they're customer service is so atrocious and that they can't make our waiver process work is a real issue.

Thanks for your help, guys.

sup bolt - I have been a commish for a bunch of yahoo leagues (all season long though) so can give some insight despite never having needed to do some of the stuff you are looking for:

waivers/FAAB are very customizable and "continuous" is an option which sounds like what you are looking for.

yahoo is free obv

you can customize the roster size/positions as much as you want but afaik there is no way to create custom names / players on your roster

yahoo automatically tracks total points even in h2h leagues as it is the default/only tie breaker for playoff spots. There is an option for commish override for playoff seeding though.

I've never been a commish on another site but from playing on others I believe yahoo has the best product + the phone app is super solid. happy to answer any other questions if you have em.

thanks for the response, dizzy! maybe I should have posted in POG?

can I edit and override schedule, lineups, and scoring after the fact on Yahoo in commish mode?

yes to all. this shows most of the commish tools you have:

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN7834.html

I've commished and particpated on several sites and found ESPN the easiest to use for all involved. Yahoo has tons of bells and whistles, but a lot is unnecessary.

You can edit schedules and adjust things manually. FAAB has options to allow free agency after waivers are run.

But let me get this straight. You want players unlocked while they're playing?. As a commish, I think players should lock at kickoff.

Create a league on ESPN and tinker. You can always delete it.