ESPN Fantasy Football, the number one most popular fantasy football game, has made the 2021 season even more fun and enjoyable to play for new players and hardcore veterans alike. With more enhanced game play and expanded content for every fan, ESPN Fantasy Football is available on both the ESPN Fantasy App and ESPN.com, with exclusive, premium content for ESPN+ subscribers and the fantasy sports industry’s most comprehensive collection of expert analysis, news, statistical data, and tools across app, web, television, and audio to help all fans be more competitive in their leagues.
- The ESPN Fantasy App, the top fantasy app on iOS and Android devices, makes playing ESPN Fantasy Football easy, fun and fast, providing more information and insight for fans than any other fantasy football game.
- Fans on the Fantasy App can sign up, create or join a league, customize their league and draft, make trades, add players, follow matchups with real-time scoring, and see expert analysis and video.
- This includes the ability to stream all of ESPN’s Fantasy shows along with live events directly in the Fantasy app.
- The Fantasy App also allows fans to play the entire suite of ESPN Fantasy games, including fantasy sports like Fantasy Baseball, Basketball and Hockey, and free-to-play prediction games like Streak, UFC Pick’em, Pigskin Pick’em, and special contests for major sports events.
New and updated features for the 2021 season of ESPN Fantasy Football:
- A new picture-in-picture function that allows fans to stream ESPN and ESPN+ content, both live and on-demand, in the ESPN Fantasy App, while they manage their team or follow a matchup.
- A new and improved content experience, allowing ESPN Fantasy Football content to be presented in new ways that deliver the most important, relevant and insightful stories to fans as they happen.
- New data on player pages, including a player’s actual and projected “targets” on a game-by-game basis to help fans make more insightful lineup decisions each week.
- A new trade feature that lets fans designate the trade availability of players on their roster and notify other managers in their league. For example, fans can make it known they are looking to trade Tom Brady, or they can tell everyone in their league that he is off limits.
- Improved public league game play that now matches fans with others of similar experience levels and more efficiently fills leagues to ensure each league starts their drafts on time.
- More updates and enhancements will continue to be introduced throughout the season.
ESPN+ Fantasy Leagues – $250,000 Grand Prize, 18 Weekly Prizes:
- New for the 2021 season, ESPN+ Fantasy Football Leagues will give ESPN+ subscribers the chance to put their fantasy football skills to the test against other subscribers.
- Fans who join ESPN+ leagues will be automatically entered in a random drawing to win a $250,000 grand prize and one of 18 weekly prizes, which will give winners an opportunity to submit a fantasy football question and have it answered on The Fantasy Show with Matthew Berry.
- Each ESPN+ Fantasy Football League will use standard ESPN Fantasy Football league settings, including 10 teams, a snake-style draft and one point per reception.
Draft Tools, Data and Expert Advice – Premium Content for ESPN+ Subscribers:
- Fantasy football content on ESPN.com provides multiple resources to ensure an easy, fun and successful draft, including the 2021 ESPN Fantasy Football Draft Kit, a collection of links to cheat sheets, mock drafts, projections, and more.
- This year’s Draft Kit has the latest edition of Matthew Berry’s Draft Day Manifesto; Cheat Sheet Central, which includes Mike Clay’s team-by-team projection guide, and composite rankings for every position in the draft.
- For ESPN+ subscribers, the Draft Kit offers even more vital information and analysis from the ESPN Fantasy staff, including an array of tools and information to help fans win.
- Clay’s Fantasy Football Playbook outlines everything any fan needs to know in order to play like an expert; Sleepers, Busts and Breakouts provides a summary of the overlooked, underperforming and ready-to-rise players this season; and the Custom Dollar Generator, which now includes individual defensive player and offensive player options for superflex leagues, runs ESPN.com’s Fantasy projections through Rotowire.com’s dollar value formula, creating personalized rankings and dollar values for salary cap drafts.
- ESPN+ subscribers will also have access to:
- Eric Karabell’s highly popular “Do Not Draft” and “Do Draft” lists as well as his tiered rankings of running backs and wide receivers
- Berry’s 100 Facts and Fantasy Football Marathon Cheat Sheet
- Clay’s Ultimate Draft Board
- Tristan H. Cockcroft’s Deep Sleepers and his best picks by draft slot column
- Field Yates’ “My Guys” list
- Matt Bowen’s favorite draft-day targets
- Adam Schefter’s Friends and Family Cheat Sheet