Indian Premier League (IPL) is in full swing, and you might be looking for the best fantasy app to enjoy this moment. Unfortunately, after Parliament passed the Online Gaming Act, Dream11 removed its paid contests, MPL followed suit, and My11Circle switched to vouchers.

So now you are here, trying different alternatives to dream11 and other apps, and somehow you found Yahoo Fantasy Sports. But is Yahoo fantasy sports as good as the premier fantasy apps? You will find this answer in this article where you will learn – what Yahoo Fantasy actually is, what sports it covers and whether you should use this app or not.

What Is Yahoo Fantasy Sports

Yahoo Fantasy Sports is a free platform where you can build a virtual team with professional athletes and earn points based on players’ performance in real matches. The stats from the actual games feed directly into your fantasy score. The good part is that you are not betting on outcomes.

In simple terms, you are managing a roster of real players and competing against other people’s rosters based on real-world performance.

Yahoo was launched in 1999 and it was genuinely disruptive at the time because every other fantasy platform charged users money to play. Yahoo made it free from day one and ran it on ad revenue which made it the most popular fantasy sports platform on the internet.

One thing worth stating is that Yahoo Fantasy does not operate in India the way Dream11 did. It does not offer cricket leagues. It is built around American and North American sports.

If you have ever been curious about American football, basketball, baseball, or hockey and want to experience what season-long fantasy actually feels like without risking a rupee, Yahoo is one of the best free options for fantasy sports in the world.

How Yahoo Fantasy Sports Works

The operation of Yahoo Fantasy is simple: You join a league, either private with people you know or public with strangers. Then everyone holds a draft, taking turns picking real players from whichever sport you are playing.

• Once the season begins, your players earn points based on their real stats in real games. A basketball player who scores 30 points and grabs 10 rebounds earns more than one who goes 2-for-12 from the floor.
• Each week you set a lineup, decide which of your players are active and which sit on your bench. Injuries happen and bad stretches are common issues that happen in the selected team as every fantasy app.

According to Yahoo’s official help documentation, there are multiple scoring formats to choose from. Head-to-Head means you face a different manager each week and the person with the most weekly wins at season’s end is champion.

Guillotine is the most brutal feature of yahoo fantasy; the lowest-scoring team each week gets eliminated and their players back into the pool until only one team is left standing.

What Sports Are Covered in Yahoo Fantasy Sports

The four main season-long fantasy sports on Yahoo are NFL (American football), MLB (baseball), NBA (basketball), and NHL (hockey). Yahoo’s own app download page confirms exactly this: you can “play in season-long fantasy leagues for football, basketball, hockey, and baseball.”

Outside of those four, the platform also offers Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) for shorter, one-match style contests. Then there is Best Ball for football, Men’s and Women’s Bracket Mayhem for college basketball tournament picks, Survival Football, College Football Pick’em, and Pro Football Pick’em.

Remember, cricket is not on this list. It never has been. Yahoo is a North American-first platform, and its sports coverage reflects that.

Is It Worth Trying As Cricket Fan?

If your only goal is to recreate the Dream11 IPL experience on a different platform, Yahoo won’t give you that. The sport is different, the players are different, and the season structure is completely unlike anything in cricket.

But if you have ever wanted to understand why your American colleagues lose their minds over NFL Sundays or why NBA fantasy is taken so seriously in the US, playing even one season of Yahoo Fantasy Football or Basketball will teach you more about those sports than years of casually watching highlights. It costs nothing to try.