The Best Fantasy Football Chrome Extensions
We won’t get into technical debates about the internet and what browsers you’re using on a daily basis. We’re here to tell you about some really cool fantasy football chrome extensions that we’ve found!
When it comes to playing fantasy football with your friends, family, co-workers or total randoms, you want to win. Period.
With that desire to always win, comes the drive to always have better information than everyone you’re competing with.
We know you’re already listening to the Let’s Talk Fantasy Football podcast during the season (along with other fantasy football podcasts and websites), which is why we’ve pulled together a few chrome extensions that can help give you the edge you need.
For anyone that’s confused, you need to be using the Chrome web browser from Google for these to work for you. If you’re using something else, keep an eye out for some other fantasy football extension articles.
Without further ado, here are some of the best fantasy football extensions (that we could find) for Chrome.
*Full disclosure: We haven’t tested all of these yet. It’s the fantasy football offseason, so we’ll do an update once we can.
Ranking Slash — Fantasy Football Chrome Extension
It’s a custom plugin that applies to users of FootballGuys.com and FFToday players who us MyFantasyLeague.com.
We know it’s a bit more limited than some of the other Chrome extensions, but it’s a great fit for those of you that this applies to.
The author of the plugin provided a quick blurb on the Google Chrome Extension page so you could get a feel for the fantasy football extension from their eyes.
About the extension:
Ranking Slash customizes the FootballGuys.com and FFToday.com player rankings to show who is available in each of your MyFantasyLeague.com leagues.
Install the chrome extension, and then visit FootballGuys or FFToday’s Ranking Pages:
- http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/viewrankings.php?viewpos=td&type=redraft&howrecent=7
- http://www.fftoday.com/rankings/playerrank.php?o=1&PosID=30&LeagueID=1
Players available in your league will become bolded while players on current rosters will be Crossed Out.
The main photo under the heading above will show you what the app does for you come fantasy football season.
Here are some reviews of the Ranking Slash Fantasy Football Extension. We know that these reviews are dated, but don’t let that discourage you. The app was updated for the 2016 season and seemed to be working seamlessly. These users were thrilled with the fantasy football extension for past seasons.
Fantasy Targets — Fantasy Football Extension
The Fantasy Targets Chrome extension works for those playing fantasy football on ESPN. It’s a simple Chrome extension that pulls readily available information together from the site and makes it easy for you to review.
The extension compiles player numbers (think average rank among other guys) and receiver targets (which is important to know).
The author of the Fantasy Targets fantasy football extension explained how it works in his own words on the Google page below:
About the extension:
It enhances the ESPN fantasy football website with additional information, such as player numbers and receiver targets.
Fantasy Targets puts more information about players right in your ESPN Fantasy Football league pages.
When viewing information on a player, the following data is added to the week-by-week statistics:
- Player number
- Receiving Targets
Here are some reviews from users of the fantasy football Chrome extension in 2016. There were more than 3, but we chose the most recent 3 available. Overall, people were happy and John Jones seemed to have an isolated issue in the 2016 season based on what we saw.
Fantasy Plus — Fantasy Football Chrome Extension
About this fantasy football extension:
This extension adds weekly projected points, rankings, standard deviations, depth charts, and injury-adjusted averages from FantasyPros and FantasySharks (for D/ST and IDP) to the default projections. The numbers are customized for your league settings (so PPR, as an example, is automatically added in).
** Currently supports ESPN, Yahoo, and FleaFlicker **
Some reviews of this fantasy football extension:
Fantasy Finder — Fantay Football Chrome Extension
About this fantasy chrome extension:
Did you miss out on Riley Cooper, Cordarelle Patterson or Montee Ball last season because you didn’t make it to the waiver wire in time? Don’t let that happen to you again this year. Fantasy Finder makes it easy for you check what players are available in your league without ever having to visit your league page.
Here is how we are going to help you win this year.
- We find players in the articles you read and show you their availability in your fantasy leagues.
- We make it easy to quickly search for a player and check if you can pick him up.
- We also make it easy to quickly get to a player’s ESPN profile so you can make sure that player is worthy of your team.
We now proudly support ESPN & Yahoo! leagues, so feel free to install and enjoy winning your league.
Choosing the Best Fantasy Football Chrome Extensions
To be honest, there are a ton of great fantasy football chrome extensions that can help you win in the 2017 fantasy season. We can’t crown a winner just yet, because we haven’t been able to test them all.
Our recommendation to you is this, install Google Chrome (if you haven’t already). Then add all of these fantasy football extensions (if they are compatible with your league site) and see how you like them.
The beauty of all of these options is that everyone likes something different. That means you can never go wrong.
So what are you waiting for? Go find the perfect fantasy football chrome extension for the 2017 fantasy season.