Choosing the right fantasy football league management service can make the difference between having an enjoyable or frustrating fantasy experience. The decision impacts the types of leagues you can set up, the ease with which you receive live stat updates, the league communication options available, and the degree to which you can personalize the entire experience to your interests. Not to mention, as fantasy owners you depend upon the reliability of the league platform to process your requests without any interruption or errors. Therefore, it goes without saying that selecting a reliable hosting service is a big decision that requires some thought to ensure your needs will be met.

With so many league management options available, it can be a major challenge to weed through all of the information on the web to find the best fit for your league. At FantasyPros, we want to make the decision making process easier for our readers. That’s why we’ve created a side by side comparison highlighting the features and benefits of nine of the leading fantasy football hosting options.  We hope this chart will be useful for those looking for a high level snapshot of what each league management option offers.

We’re also launching a League Management Reviews section to our site. It is specifically dedicated to collecting opinions from the people that matter most when it comes to deciding what a good service is: YOU! Our aim is that this section of community reviews will serve as a valuable resource for fantasy football owners who are looking for unbiased opinions to help them select a league hosting service.

To get started, we’ve set up review pages with star rating functionality for the nine hosting options listed in the chart above. If you’ve played in leagues using any of these sites then please feel free to share your thoughts.  We’d love to hear your opinions regarding what you liked and what drove you nuts during your experiences.  For example, perhaps there are customization features you couldn’t do without when it comes to certain services.  Or maybe you feel there are services that are overpriced for what they offer.  Whatever your thoughts are we’re interested to hear them and so are the rest of our readers!

In short, selecting a league management service is a tough decision that every fantasy football league must make.  With your help, we think we can build a good community resource that is centered on fantasy owners sharing and rating the experiences they’ve had with league management platforms. The result should be a source of information that helps fantasy owners choose the right service for their leagues.

Feel free to contact us if you’d like to see any services added to our League Management Reviews.  In the meantime, best of luck choosing a league management service for 2010 and we look forward to reading your reviews!