I’m continually disappointed at the usability of the online fantasy football and related sports sites. How can these sites be so bad? Aren’t there thousands of people willing to work on this stuff? How do I get a job as the product manager for any football related site? Talk about a dream come true!

Of course, I am in a few different College and NFL pick’em pools. All you have to do is pick who will win this week’s game — pretty simple. Now, in every pool there are several people who just forgot to do their picks for a given week. Yes, these guys need to adjust their priorities and make their picks but forgetting picks is pretty common.

It would be so simple for the site to let you set a default rule that says: if I forget to do my picks, then pick all the home teams. You could even make it configurable and let the user select their own rule such as take all home teams, all favorites, all underdogs, etc. The point is why not make it easy to get your picks in.

Same goes for Fantasy Football. The system should never let me start a player on a bye week. It should automatically select the player that is actually playing.

Simple, simple, stuff! Again, I am available for free consultation to help improve this stuff. Yahoo are you listening!!! Google do you need some help starting a side project for this?