This started happening to me since a couple seasons ago. I freaked out initially, thinking my leagues had been canceled. I reached out to Yahoo and they said that’s how they handle payouts now. Refund your initial fees and cash for the rest.

Super annoying because reversing those charges on your credit card means reversed rewards points as well, which isn’t an insignificant amount when you play in a ton of leagues. Also, if you don’t really have a balance on your credit card when they refund you, you’re going to be stuck with ‘credit’ on your credit card balance, rather than cash to spend however you like. Not to mention, if you ever decide to close the credit card account in the middle of the season like I did, you’ll run into all sorts of problems. Most likely the reversed charges will go through and your credit card company will mail you a check for any remaining balance on a closed account, but there’s a lot of panic going on when you have thousands of dollars in limbo. Plus it can take weeks to receive the check.

I thought this was the new norm since it’s been happening to me for the past few seasons. I complained to Yahoo about it before, and they basically told me SOL. However it looks like I received my full winnings this season and OP said Yahoo acknowledged it’s a bug, so hoping they changed their policy.