Daily Site Review: Fanday

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Each edition of this series will highlight a different daily fantasy football site. Towards the end of the season, we will do more of a comparative analysis between the sites, giving a comprehensive overview of the daily fantasy football landscape.   For starters, though, we will focus on each highlighted site individually and give general impressions in order to give the reader an idea of exactly what the site has to offer.

Our previously site reviews can be found here:

Sports Tradex
Draftster
Victiv
Reverse Fantasy Football
StatKings

 

Website and URL: Fanday, https://www.fanday.com/

 

First Impressions: The first thing I noticed when pulling up Fanday’s website is that it looks like the front page of a news site. That isn’t necessarily a negative; it just doesn’t look like what I’m used to seeing from a daily fantasy sports site. The front page consists of several modules, much like a magazine page layout. It’s easy to navigate, but it is a different look than you are probably used to seeing.

 

Mobile Options: The mobile site is identical to the desktop version. It’s functional, but it isn’t anything great. I could not find an app in the iOS store, but one would be a big help for setting lineups on the go.

 

Types of Contests

 

Tournaments – These are similar to the GPPs you’ll find on most other sites. The big difference is that all of the options I found were single entry and rather small fields. The biggest one available was 114 entries. Some of them were winner-takes-all, as well.

 

Cash Games – These are basically user created head-to-head games with buy-ins ranging from $.25 to $100.

 

Multis – This is where you are going to find your 50/50s, triple ups and small field winner-takes-all games. Buy-ins range from $.25 to $25.

 

Free – This section contains user created games with no entry fee. This is a great way to practice before risking your money.

 

Lineup Format: QB-RB-RB-WR-WR-WR-TE -K-DEF

 

This is one of the standard lineup constructions that you’ll see on many daily sites.

 

Scoring Format: .5 PPR, passing touchdowns = 4 points, all other touchdowns = six points, one point per 10 yards rushing/receiving and per 25 yards passing, interceptions throw = -1 point, fumbles lost = – 2 points

 

This is the standard daily site scoring system. Pay special attention to the half PPR scoring and difference in scoring between fumbles lost and interceptions.

 

Creating Lineups: On thing that is different from all of the daily sites I play on is that you create your lineups separately from games, much like DraftKings. You create lineups, and then select that lineup in a drop down menu when choosing where to play. Actually creating lineups was interesting. Most quarterbacks are extremely expensive, with 16 quarterbacks costing 15% or more of the cap. Elite quarterbacks cost roughly 20% of the cap. There are many areas where one can take advantage of pricing. Elite running backs are extremely expensive, but with some digging, there are great values at the running back, wide receiver and tight end positions. That is both a benefit and a problem, depending on your point of view. The erratic pricing isn’t something I like. I spent a few minutes going through each position and was able to put together several lineups consisting of high end players with great matchups. It was too easy and made the cap ignorable. That will need to be updated before I play again.

 

The best thing about the site is that new users receive $10 when signing up as long as you use the code “FANDAY.” Depending on your budgeting, you could go weeks playing low cost, low risk games. The option to play free games is also a plus.

 

Overall, I wasn’t a big fan of Fanday. The player costs were a huge turn off. While creating lineups outside of games was different for me, it’s something I could get used to. Visually, the site has a look that separates itself from other daily sites, but that isn’t enough to keep me returning every week. It’s worth trying out, but make sure to look through the player costs thoroughly before finalizing a lineup.

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