Yahoo Fantasy Sports: NFL, MLB
78
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Yahoo Fantasy Sports: NFL, MLB is an iOS app from Yahoo in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 868,422 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities app, that means healthy traction. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$600K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$635K – $978K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$759K – $1410K
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
1 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
868,422 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$600K
Snapshots tracked
1
since Aug 2026
🤖Also on Android
$281/mo · 368K ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (311 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $7.5M – $12.5M · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~133× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
173.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
34.5M
Daily active
6.9M
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$591K – $800K
12 months
$635K – $978K
24 months
$759K – $1.4M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 60/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.3
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 868,422 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $10.8M-$19.2M.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (868,422 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (30 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v12.8.1
Bug fixes & optimizations
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Yahoo Fantasy Sports: NFL, MLB
- Developer
- Yahoo
- Bundle ID
- com.yahoo.ffootball2009
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- sports.yahoo.com
- Tagline
- Yahoo Sports: News, Scores, Video, Fantasy Games, Schedules & More - Yahoo Sports
- Description
- Sports News, Scores, Fantasy Games
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $600K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇨🇦#13 /100 🇺🇸#18 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/YahooSports · instagram instagram.com/yahoosports · tiktok tiktok.com/@yahoosports · twitter twitter.com/YahooSports · youtube youtube.com/@YahooSports
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- sports.yahoo.com/fantasy/article/the-…
- About page
- sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/winners-…
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇨🇦CA#13 /100
🇺🇸US#18 /100
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
Experience every moment of summer sports season with Yahoo Fantasy Sports! See why millions of fans choose our platform to play Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Hockey, Daily Fantasy (DFS), and join our bracket contest. Whether you're drafting your diamond dynasty or managing your tournament brackets, we provide the tools you need to play and win.
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App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 311 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v12.8.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 HR, CS, DA, NL, EN +25📂 Utilities💰 Free
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.6811★ | 2,540 | 4.6811★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.95556★ | 45 | 4.95556★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.65774★ | 79,606 | 4.65774★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.75362★ | 828 | 4.75362★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.76403★ | 356 | 4.76403★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.80141★ | 1,420 | 4.80141★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.79136★ | 905,959 | 4.79136★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Yahoo Fantasy Sports: NFL, MLB: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 868,422 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Yahoo Fantasy Sports make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Yahoo Fantasy Sports earns approximately $600K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Yahoo Fantasy Sports profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $75K and monthly revenue $600K, Yahoo Fantasy Sports looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Yahoo Fantasy Sports have?▴
Estimated audience: ~173.5M lifetime downloads, ~34.5M monthly active users, and ~6.9M daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Yahoo Fantasy Sports?▴
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How much would Yahoo Fantasy Sports sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10.0M (marketplace range $7.5M – $12.5M). Calculated as 16× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
Who makes Yahoo Fantasy Sports?▴
Yahoo Fantasy Sports is published by Yahoo on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Yahoo Fantasy Sports's BU Score?▴
Yahoo Fantasy Sports has a BU Score of 78/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.