What are fantasy football communities?

Communities for fantasy football players looking for expert picks, DFS strategy, and waiver wire advice. Paid Discord communities and dedicated sites serve both season-long leagues and daily fantasy players with analysis, rankings, and strategy discussion.

Where do most fantasy football communities live?

Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (18% of 17 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

71% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.

How big is a typical fantasy football community?

Among listings with public size data, the average is 276K members and the median is 37K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.

What do these communities usually include?

Forum is the most common (71%). Others that show up often include live chat, paid community, and newsletter.

How does Hive Index collect this data?

Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.

Where can I see the full list?

The full directory is on Hive Index's Fantasy Football topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

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Executive Summary

We analyzed 17 fantasy football communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.

The big picture: fantasy football communities are broad and fragmented, with many small groups and a few very large outliers.

Source: Hive Index community database · Updated 2023-10-16

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Communities: 17
Platforms: 6
Avg members: 276K
Median members: 37K

Where Fantasy Football Communities Are Hosted

Independent Platforms
3(18%)
Discord
3(18%)
Reddit
3(18%)
X / Twitter
3(18%)
Facebook
3(18%)
LinkedIn
1(6%)

Format mix

Forum / feed-based
9(53%)
Other platforms
5(29%)
Chat communities
3(18%)

Forum / feed-based is most common (53%), but other platforms is also well represented (29%).

Independent Platforms leads, but Discord and Reddit also represent meaningful shares.

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
0(0%)
Small
20-100 members
0(0%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
1(6%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
4(24%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
6(35%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
4(24%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
1(6%)

1 community has unknown member counts.

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (276K vs 37K), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.

How Fantasy Football Differs From Other Categories

Fantasy Football is less free-to-join, larger, and more paid or gated, compared with typical Hive Index topics.

Metric	Fantasy Football	Hive Index average
Free to join	71%	85%
Median members	37K	24K
Average members	276K	652K
Paid or apply-to-join	29%	15%
Live chat	35%	40%
Discord share	18%	16%

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Forum
71%
Live Chat
35%
Paid Community
29%
Newsletter
18%

Niche Features

Member Perks
6%
Online/Offline Events
6%

Forum appears on 71% of listings.

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 11

Most-clicked features

Live Chat
11(100%)
Paid Community
10(91%)

Clicks by access model

Paid or apply-to-join
10(91%)
Free to join
1(9%)

Top-clicked listings

4for4
10(91%)
Fantasy Football Chat
1(9%)

Groups with live chat picked up 100% of tracked clicks.

Methodology & FAQ

Methodology

This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Fantasy Football. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.

•This is a smaller slice of Hive Index's database, so read trends as directional.
•Last updated 2023-10-16

FAQ

: Communities for fantasy football players looking for expert picks, DFS strategy, and waiver wire advice. Paid Discord communities and dedicated sites serve both season-long leagues and daily fantasy players with analysis, rankings, and strategy discussion.
: Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (18% of 17 listings).
: 71% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 276K members and the median is 37K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Forum is the most common (71%). Others that show up often include live chat, paid community, and newsletter.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.
: The full directory is on Hive Index's Fantasy Football topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

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