Rotoworld Review

It's crazy to think that people fork over good money to Rotoworld when you actually look at what they provide. Their pricing and packages are confusing and fragmented. When you purchase their product only to find out later that things like DFS come at an additional (and hefty) price increase, it's easy to feel duped.

Fantasy Football
It'll cost you $19.99 to get a Season Pass that provides you with customizable projections, rankings from "multiple experts" (code for multiple Rotoworld employees), and statistical reports that you can get for free with a simple Google search. If you want the DFS optimizer tool, be prepared to fork over an additional $99.99 which means that to get a barely equivalent experience compared to their competitors, you'll be paying them $119.98.

Fantasy Basketball
Rotoworld fractures their pricing even more in NBA. Their NBA Draft Guide is $19.99 - just for your draft. The Season Pass will cost you another $19.99. Want to add DFS to that? That'll cost you another $79.99.

To get all of their fantasy basketball content, you'll need to fork over $119.97!

The revamped Rotoworld website increases their usability considerably. Consider that their previous website was not mobile friendly. The fact that it took them nearly 10 years to catch up to the rest of the world demonstrates how slowly this company moves. If "good things come to those who wait" then count yourself fortunate that you waited. The current site is actually pretty good from a usability perspective.

The Player News section on Rotoworld is fantastic - always up to date and very comprehensive.

Their Depth Charts are seriously questionable as to how often it gets updated. It looks like they only update them during the preseason. For example, during the 2019 season, they've kept Eli Manning on top of the depth chart all year despite Manning losing the starting job to Daniel Jones in Week 3.



Their Season Pass for NFL provides a fairly standard set of features:
* Weekly Rankings
* Weekly Projections
* IDP Rankings
* Rest of Season Rankings
* Expert Rankings
* Trade Analyzer
* Start/Sit
* Dynasty Rankings

Their Season Pass for the NBA also provides a fairly standard set of features:
* Top 200 9-Cat Rankings
* Weekly Positional Rankings & Tiers
* Projections
* Custom Scoring
* Player Tracker
* Frontcourt Report
* Backcourt Report
* Statistics
* Trade Analyzer

Their basketball product is pretty decent offering a trade analyzer and a lineup analyzer.

One tip for their NBA Trade Analyzer is to definitively say who's getting the better end of a trade deal. The breakdown of categories is great, but please make the call as to who is getting the better side of the deal. It's as if they hire people who don't actually play fantasy sports.

If I want to analyze a trade, tell me if I should do it! This is the kind of attention to detail that Rotoworld just doesn't have.



Interestingly, they advertise IDP rankings for their NBA product. Given that IDP stands for Individual Defensive Player, again - it's as if they hire people who don't understand fantasy sports...



Overall, there isn't much differentiation between the tools that Rotoworld offers and the tools from their competitors.

Let's be serious here. For the price that Rotoworld charges, there should be many, many more tools and interactivity for us users. There is absolutely no value here - they are incredibly overpriced for what you get.

For the price of 1 season of Rotoworld, I could have had a full year of Fantasy Pros or 5 years of Fantasy Football Nerd - both sites that provide a ton more tools.

I've sent several customer service requests into Rotoworld. None was returned the same day. Whether emailing them to let them know that their data was out of date or to request that they please do not auto-renew my package, it takes them a while to respond...if they even respond at all.

When I sent in a message letting them know that their depth charts haven't been updated in weeks, I got a response from "Destin" that read:

Umm, ok? That's not at all what I emailed about.

There are other examples but this has been a fairly common experience for me.