Every season it happens to one of the major fantasy sites, and unfortuantely, it was ESPN’s turn this season. Shortly after kickoff yesterday, Mashable! reported that ESPN Fantasy Football is Down. According to complaints about the service on Mashable! and Twitter, fantasy players were unable to log in to make roster adjustments and last minute waiver moves on Sunday. It is unclear if this issue has been resolved for Week 5.
What is really odd about this loss of service is that it happened in the fourth week of the season. Generally, when fantasy products fail it is in the first week or two of the fantasy season, since the game engines, with all of their new features, have not been tested by the masses. But, by now, system bugs are usually worked out of the system.
This is not the first time ESPN has had an early season failure, but it the first since its fantasy baseball game fabulously crashed at the start of the 2007. Every fantasy site has its issues (fantasy software on a large scale is actually really complicated problem), so this is not shocking, but just an unfortunate turn of events and just an unfortunate consequence of doing business.
I have requested comment from ESPN’s Matthew Berry, and will update this story once I receive a comment.
Let’s see if the downtime gets brought up during Christopher Harris’ 11:00am chat or Matthew Berry’s 3:00pm chat.
3 Comments, Comment or Ping
Tiffany Davies
I was unable to log into my account. Maybe they just had too many people trying to log in at once or something.
Oct 5th, 2009
LestersLegends
Yahoo has seem to have a few hiccups as well. I’ve had to navigate a bit just to get to my leagues.
Oct 6th, 2009
oops
isn’t fanball down every week?
Oct 7th, 2009
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