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This is immensely frustrating, not only as an avid fantasy basketball fan, but as an avid WNBA fan, too. I think it’s just a bit sketchy that ESPN – an official broadcasting partner of the WNBA and a self-proclaimed champion of women’s sports – has still not found a way to include the WNBA in its massive fantasy basketball platform.

For the average fantasy basketball player who takes things kind of seriously but not that seriously, more options would be awesome. This is a good thing!ĭFS isn’t for everyone, though. Both have actually been marquee jersey sponsors of the New York Liberty – DraftKings from 2015 through 2018 and FanDuel from 2020 onward – and the WNBA itself has been partnered with FanDuel for several years now. There are also daily fantasy (DFS) platforms DraftKings and FanDuel, which have been open for WNBA action since 2017. Now, fantasy basketball already exists for the WNBA in some capacity! Austin Kent recently integrated the WNBA into his fantasy basketball platform at Sports.WS (as pictured above), and it’s probably as close to a traditional WNBA fantasy basketball league as you can get right now, including drafts, trades, custom scoring and roster sizes, and head-to-head matchups between users.

The discussion and analysis fantasy basketball encourages – no matter how trite, boring, or tiresome it might be to some– are good for the NBA.įantasy basketball would be good for the WNBA, too. Fantasy basketball itself is good for the NBA. Here’s the thing, though: fantasy basketball nerds are good for the NBA. I’m fully aware the last thing a fan wants to hear from their friend after a heartbreaking last-second loss is “So-and-so got me 48.70 fantasy points, though!” I know how annoying fantasy basketball nerds can be, and yes, I admit to being one myself. Stop me if you’ve ever had a conversation about hoops veer in a direction like that. “So I was watching the Knicks last night and – no, of course I don’t like them, but I have Julius Randle on my fantasy team, and…” WNBA fantasy basketball leagues would not only be fun for fans – they’d be good for the league as well.