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2026 Rosters

Every rostered player, all 10 teams.

9 Balls
Cranky CommishTom
Skull RaidersDan
Terrelle's PriorsEric
Team PokeherPat
Hoof HeartedKevin
10 Balls
Team BaymaxChris
PPR RulezRob
OU Drinking TeamAdam
$140 East Palestine SexMark
I Like BoobsRich

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Full League Roster โ€” Cheat Sheet

Selections marked reported are now โ€” all tags are final.

2026 Team Outlooks

Post-draft, post-RFA, rosters locked. Position grades, what went right, what went wrong, and how the night actually played out โ€” ranked by projected points.

Position grades reflect the full post-draft roster, weighted for both projected production and contract length. A one-year rental at a premium position grades lower than the same player on a multi-year deal.
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Cranky Commish Tom

"Three Quarterbacks, One Lineup Spot" ยท 2,867 proj ยท 28y committed
QB
A+
Daniels, Stafford, Mahomes โ€” all top 12
RB
A
Walker, Hall, Achane, five deep
WR
A
Chase, London, Egbuka, Harrison
TE
C
Warren alone at 1y

Strengths

The most projected points in the league and the deepest backfield anyone has. Walker, Hall, and Achane all project inside the top 55, and the receiver room behind Chase and London is genuinely stacked. Three of Dan's future first-rounders sitting in the back pocket.

Weaknesses

Twenty-eight years committed with two available. Everything outside Mahomes, London, and Egbuka expires this season, which means a brutal round of decisions next August. Tight end is one Tyler Warren injury away from a hole.

How RFA Went

Retained Emeka Egbuka at three years after Pat forced the price up. Franchise tag on Tyler Warren. Neither cost more than it should have โ€” a rare clean night on the RFA board.

Draft Haul

Traded out of picks 2 and 8, collected Dan's 2027, 2028, and 2029 firsts, then still landed Kenneth Walker at five and Breece Hall at eleven. Added Devon Achane from Mark. Seven picks used, all of them productive.

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Skull Raiders Dan

"Won the Lottery, Then Won the Night" ยท 2,814 proj ยท 20y committed
QB
A
Lawrence, Dart, Willis
RB
A
Jeanty, Kyren, Love โ€” six deep
WR
B
Collins, Watson, Samuel
TE
B+
McBride at 1y

Strengths

Twenty years committed is the second-lowest in the league and he's still projecting third overall. Lawrence, Love, and McBride in round one, Kyren Williams acquired from Mark, and Christian Watson taken off Eric in the only RFA that actually moved. Twelve picks made.

Weaknesses

The receiver room is thin behind Nico Collins, and Watson at zero years is already back on the block next season. Everything hinges on Jeanty being the real thing in year one.

How RFA Went

Bid on Bowers at five, Maye at seven, and Judkins at four. Lost all three. Then took Watson from Eric for two and dropped to waiver ten as the price. Made three owners overpay without spending a dime on any of them.

Draft Haul

Traded up to own picks 1 and 2, sent his own 2027, 2028, and 2029 firsts to Tom to do it. Trevor Lawrence, Jeremiyah Love, Trey McBride, then Jaylen Warren and Jordan Mason later. The most aggressive night anyone had.

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Hoof Hearted Kevin

"Still the Champ Until Someone Says Otherwise" ยท 2,763 proj ยท 27y committed
QB
A
Hurts, Purdy, Daniel Jones
RB
A-
Bijan, Jacobs, Irving, seven deep
WR
A+
Nabers, Lamb, Nacua, Rice
TE
C+
Kraft at 2y

Strengths

The best receiving corps in the league and it isn't close. Nabers at seven years, Lamb at three, Nacua at two, Rice at two โ€” all locked in, all producing. Bijan and Bucky Irving give him a real backfield. Hurts is the safest quarterback contract on any roster.

Weaknesses

Twenty-seven years committed with three available means the flexibility is gone. Seven running backs on one-year deals is depth that evaporates every August. Tight end is Tucker Kraft and hope.

How RFA Went

Retained Rashee Rice at two years, which was the bargain of the night given how everything else went. Bid on Dart at four and Loveland at five and walked away from both โ€” correct calls on both counts.

Draft Haul

Bucky Irving at ten was solid value. Jonathon Brooks at thirteen is a health bet. Picked up Tucker Kraft from Mark to plug the tight end hole. Seven picks, no reaches.

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Team Pokeher Pat

"Two Tight Ends and a Dream" ยท 2,697 proj ยท 25y committed
QB
B+
Mayfield, Murray, Mendoza
RB
B+
McCaffrey at 2y, Etienne, Swift
WR
A-
Higgins, G. Wilson, Metcalf, Sutton
TE
A-
Loveland 5y + Kelce

Strengths

Christian McCaffrey at two years is the single best value contract in the league. The receiver room got deep in a hurry with Metcalf, Sutton, and Pierce joining Higgins and Garrett Wilson. Loveland at five locks down tight end for half a decade.

Weaknesses

Twenty-five committed with five available is workable but not comfortable. Mayfield and Murray are both fine, neither is a difference-maker. Drafting Travis Kelce in round eight when Loveland is already locked in for five years is either genius or the kind of pick that follows you around.

How RFA Went

Kept Colston Loveland at five after Kevin came calling. Expensive, but tight end is a position you pay for or you don't play at. Made a three-year run at Egbuka and forced Tom to match.

Draft Haul

Fernando Mendoza at nineteen was the swing pick. DK Metcalf in round five and Courtland Sutton in round six were both good value. Eight picks, mostly sensible.

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PPR Rulez Rob

"Fewest Picks, Fewest Mistakes" ยท 2,662 proj ยท 25y committed
QB
A-
Herbert, Stroud at 4y
RB
A
Gibbs 4y, Taylor, Henderson, Skattebo
WR
B
Olave, Smith, Waddle, McConkey
TE
B
Kittle at 1y

Strengths

Gibbs at four years and Jonathan Taylor together is a top-two backfield in this league. Stroud at four gives him quarterback stability nobody else has. Cameron Skattebo at fifteen was the value pick of round two, and George Kittle in round five is theft if he's healthy.

Weaknesses

Fifteen players is the thinnest roster in the league. One running back injury and the whole strength collapses. The receiver room is fine but nobody in it scares anyone.

How RFA Went

Retained DeVonta Smith at two years after Chris tested the price. No drama, reasonable number, moved on.

Draft Haul

Thirteen picks, fewest in the league, and he mostly hit. Skattebo, Kittle, and Aaron Jones in round eight all look like value. Nothing wasted.

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OU Drinking Team Adam

"Great Starters, No Room Left" ยท 2,641 proj ยท 28y committed
QB
A
Lamar, Burrow 8y, Ward
RB
B+
Saquon, Dowdle, Hubbard
WR
B+
St. Brown, Flowers, Evans, Thomas
TE
B
LaPorta at 2y

Strengths

Saquon Barkley at three overall was the correct pick and nobody's arguing. Lamar and Burrow both project inside the top six. Brian Thomas at four years and St. Brown at two are the long-term pieces. Rico Dowdle in round five was the steal of the middle rounds.

Weaknesses

Twenty-eight years committed with two available, and Burrow eats eight of those by himself. Thirteen picks was the fewest tied in the league. The starting lineup is strong, the bench is nothing, and there's no cap room to fix it.

How RFA Went

Retained Mike Evans at one year after Chris made a token bid. Cheapest retention of the night โ€” cost him almost nothing and bought another season.

Draft Haul

Saquon at three, then nothing until round five. Dowdle, Godwin, and Gainwell filled out the backfield. Five picks used on actual players.

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I Like Boobs Rich

"Seven Years Is a Long Time" ยท 2,591 proj ยท 28y committed
QB
A-
Prescott, Maye 7y, C. Williams
RB
C+
Javonte, Hampton 3y
WR
B
Jefferson 3y, JSN, four rookies
TE
D
Sadiq at 1y

Strengths

Justin Jefferson at three years is the one contract that unambiguously works. Jaxon Smith-Njigba is a legitimate WR1. Omarion Hampton at three years has real upside. Seventeen players is the deepest roster in the league by count.

Weaknesses

Seven years on Drake Maye. Dan put a gun to his head and Rich pulled the trigger. That's the largest single commitment made all offseason on a quarterback with one good season. Tight end is Kenyon Sadiq, who projects 343rd overall.

How RFA Went

Retained Drake Maye at seven years. Seven. It will get brought up every August until it either pays off or becomes a cautionary tale.

Draft Haul

No first-round pick after trading it to Tom. Started in round two with Jordyn Tyson, then took Makai Lemon, KC Concepcion, and Denzel Boston. Four rookie receivers is a lot of lottery tickets.

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Terrelle's Priors Eric

"Most Flexibility, Least Urgency" ยท 2,564 proj ยท 19y committed
QB
B+
Love, Goff, McCarthy 3y
RB
B+
C. Brown, Cook, Montgomery
WR
B+
A.J. Brown, Pickens, McMillan
TE
C
Pitts at 1y

Strengths

Nineteen years committed is the lowest in the league by a full three years. That's eleven available years and real freedom next offseason. Jordan Love and Jared Goff both project top fifteen. Chase Brown and James Cook is a solid backfield.

Weaknesses

The only owner who actually lost a player. Nothing on the roster is elite โ€” it's a collection of good-not-great pieces with no ceiling-raiser. Kyle Pitts at tight end is a bet he's made before with mixed results.

How RFA Went

Lost Christian Watson to Dan for two years. The only RFA in the league that changed hands, and it was his. Not a franchise-altering loss, but being the one guy who couldn't hold serve is a look.

Draft Haul

Fourteen picks, most in the league. Jordan Love at six and George Pickens at nine gave him two immediate starters. Carnell Tate and Rhamondre Stevenson in the middle rounds were reasonable.

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Team Baymax Chris

"Allen, Bowers, and a Lot of Question Marks" ยท 2,449 proj ยท 27y committed
QB
A
Allen 7y, Darnold
RB
C+
Henry, Pollard, seven bodies
WR
C
McLaurin, Adams, Johnston
TE
A
Bowers at 5y

Strengths

Josh Allen at seven years is the best contract in the league, full stop. Brock Bowers at five is the second best. Those two alone are worth building around for the next half decade.

Weaknesses

After Allen and Bowers it gets bleak fast. Derrick Henry is 32 on a one-year deal, Davante Adams is 34, and Terry McLaurin is the WR1 by default. Seven running backs, none of whom project inside the top 100. Lowest projected total of any team with playoff hopes.

How RFA Went

Retained Brock Bowers at five years after Dan forced the issue. Painful price, correct call. Then bid on DeVonta Smith and Mike Evans and lost both โ€” swung twice, missed twice.

Draft Haul

Derrick Henry at four is fine for 2026 and a problem after. Terry McLaurin at twelve and Davante Adams at twenty-one are both solid and both aging. Six picks used.

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$140 East Palestine Sex Mark

"New Name, Same Problems" ยท 2,081 proj ยท 22y committed
QB
B
Nix 3y, Shough
RB
B-
Judkins 4y, Harvey, Corum
WR
C
Burden 2y, Downs, J. Williams
TE
C+
Fannin, Likely

Strengths

Quinshon Judkins at four years is a genuine building block and the one thing that went right. Twenty-two years committed with eight available is real flexibility. Twelve picks made, more volume than almost anyone.

Weaknesses

Traded away Kyren Williams, Tucker Kraft, Devon Achane, and Marvin Harrison โ€” four contributors โ€” for picks that don't help this season. A projected total of 2,081 is nearly 400 points behind ninth place. That's not a gap, that's a different tier.

How RFA Went

Retained Quinshon Judkins at four years after Dan bid. Made a two-year run at Rashee Rice and lost. The Judkins retention is the only unambiguously good decision of the offseason.

Draft Haul

Twelve picks used mostly on running back volume: RJ Harvey, Blake Corum, Zach Charbonnet, Keaton Mitchell. Four backs who might matter. Harold Fannin at twenty-seven was decent value.

2026 Draft Grades

Nine of ten RFAs got matched. One player changed teams all night. Dan spent the evening bidding on everyone else's guys, losing every time, and somehow still walked away with the best haul in the league. Here's how it shook out.

9/10RFAs Retained
1Player Moved
27Trade Pieces
160Picks Made

The RFA Bloodbath That Wasn't

Ten players hit restricted free agency. Nine came back. The only casualty was Christian Watson, who Dan pried away from Eric for two years โ€” the single roster change in an evening that generated a lot of noise and almost no movement.

The real story was Dan bidding aggressively on Brock Bowers (5y), Drake Maye (7y), and Quinshon Judkins (4y), losing all three, and forcing Chris, Rich, and Mark to pay significantly more than they wanted to. Rich now has seven years committed to a quarterback. That's on Dan.

PlayerOwnerHigh BidBidderResult
Brock BowersChris5yDanRetained
Emeka EgbukaTom3yPatRetained
DeVonta SmithRob2yChrisRetained
Mike EvansAdam1yChrisRetained
Jaxson DartDan4yKevinRetained
Drake MayeRich7yDanRetained
Colston LovelandPat5yKevinRetained
Rashee RiceKevin2yMarkRetained
Quinshon JudkinsMark4yDanRetained
Christian WatsonEric2yDanReleased

Team Grades

Two takes on every team โ€” the commissioner's, and a second opinion. They do not always agree.

Team Baymax
Chris
Cranky Commish
CConfusing

Chris has had Derrick Henry on his roster for years. What did he do when he had the 4th overall pick available? Picked him again. Chris might be going for a roster as old as he is (not possible) by adding McLaurin, Adams, and Pollard. He did also add a rookie RB in round 2. As the owner of his first-round picks going forward, I'm hoping these picks don't pan out.

Claude
C

Josh Allen at seven years and Bowers at five are the two best contracts in the league, and everything else on this roster is filler. Henry at 32, Adams at 34, McLaurin as the WR1 by default. Retained Bowers at a painful five after Dan forced the issue, then swung at DeVonta Smith and Mike Evans and missed on both. Lowest projected total of any team with playoff hopes โ€” though a 121.6 Week 1 projection says superflex may be kinder to him than the season math suggests.

Cranky Commish
Tom
Cranky Commish
TTrades

The commish was involved in a flurry of trades in the first round. He picked up two future firsts from Dan to move out of #2. He then moved back up with Rich to #5 overall to take Walker. After saying no to a deal at #7 with Mark, he watched Achane go off the board. He held the 8th pick, put it up for sale, and Dan bit. He then got envious of the Achane pick, went back and traded a future first for him, before taking Breece Hall. He finished the second round by taking Stafford as QB insurance, then filled out the rest of his roster in the late rounds.

Claude
Aโˆ’

Highest projected total in the league and a quarterback room that borders on hoarding โ€” Daniels, Stafford, and Mahomes all inside the top twelve, only one of whom can start. Walker, Hall, and Achane is the deepest backfield here. The bill comes due later: thirty years committed, nothing available, and almost everything expiring at once. Collecting three of Dan's future firsts is the hedge, and it's a good one.

PPR Rulez
Rob
Cranky Commish
AAbsent

I'm not sure I remember Rob even making a pick. According to the draft board he got Cam Skattebo and a few other spare parts. The real team building happened last year at the trade deadline.

Claude
B

Thirteen picks, fewest in the league, and he mostly hit. Skattebo at fifteen was the best value of round two and Kittle in round five is theft if he stays upright. Gibbs and Taylor is a top-two backfield. The problem isn't the draft, it's the roster size โ€” fifteen players is the thinnest in the league and one running back injury turns the strength into a scramble.

OU Drinking Team
Adam
Cranky Commish
IIncomplete

Adam showed up (on time!) and picked Saquon at #3 overall. He put a three-year deal on him as well. Apparently age is just a number to Adam. He didn't pick again until the 5th round, where he made some inspiring selections like Dowdle, Godwin, Gainwell, and Ward before finishing with a kicker. An uninspiring draft, but honestly with the team he already had rostered, it really didn't matter.

Claude
Bโˆ’

Saquon at three was correct and nobody's arguing. Dowdle in round five was the value play of the middle rounds. Retaining Mike Evans at one year cost nothing. But three years on a 29-year-old back pushed him to thirty committed with zero available, and Burrow eats eight of those by himself. Great starting lineup, no bench, no room to fix it.

Skull Raiders
Dan
Cranky Commish
AAll In

Dan may have retired from work, but he certainly worked on draft night. Dan has a reputation for being a little conservative and not overly aggressive in the trade market. That all went out the window on Sunday. It may have started with him winning the lottery and moving up from 5th to #1. He picked Trevor Lawrence right away to give him a legit QB to set and forget in his lineup. Then he traded back up to #2 overall, because he LOVEd the RB from Arizona. If you thought he was done, he wasn't. He traded back into the first round at #8 to take Trey McBride, giving up yet another future first to do it. Dan put all his chips in on this draft. We'll see how it pays off.

Claude
A

Three of the first eight picks, and the smartest thing he did all night was lose. Bid five on Bowers, seven on Maye, four on Judkins, won none of them, and made Chris, Rich, and Mark all overpay to keep their own guys. Then took Christian Watson off Eric in the only RFA that actually moved. Twenty-two committed with real flexibility left. This is what a rebuild looks like when it's working.

Terrelle's Priors
Eric
Cranky Commish
SSteals

Looking at the draft board long ago, I thought Jordan Love was going #1 overall. He fell to Eric at 6, who couldn't be more thrilled โ€” he already has Michigan alum McCarthy on his team. He also got Pickens later than expected, arguably the best rookie WR on the board in the mid-second, Stevenson and Pitts at good spots, and Jordan Addison in the 7th. All great values.

Claude
C+

Fourteen picks, most in the league, and the value was real โ€” Love at six and Pickens at nine were both bargains. Nineteen years committed is the most cap room anyone has by a wide margin. The knock is that he was the only owner who actually lost a player, and nothing on this roster raises a ceiling. Good pieces, no centerpiece.

$140 East Palestine Sex
Mark
Cranky Commish
WDWithdraw

I'm mad at Mark. Some of this is because he really turned the screws on me in the Achane deal. But mostly it's because he decided to punt on this season. He took over a playoff team, and some might see that as a green light to go all in this year. He did the opposite. He took the approach of sitting back, collecting picks, getting a sense for this league, and starting a rebuild. He collected a ton of draft capital to do it next year. Patience is a tough thing to practice in this league, but Mark is doing it.

Claude
D+

Traded away Kyren Williams, Tucker Kraft, Devon Achane, and Marvin Harrison for picks that don't help this season. Retaining Judkins at four was the one clean decision. Twelve picks spent mostly on running back volume โ€” Harvey, Corum, Charbonnet, Mitchell โ€” which is four backs who might matter and probably won't. A projected total 400 points behind ninth place isn't a gap, it's a different tier. The commish calls it patience; the standings will call it something else for a while.

I Like Boobs
Rich
Cranky Commish
WRWide Receivers

Rich traded out of 5 and got a good deal there. Then he did what he always does โ€” he drafted FIVE rookie wide receivers. This is on a roster that already had Justin Jefferson and JSN. He'll go into the season with just three running backs and two healthy receivers who have ever started an NFL game.

Claude
C+

Seven years on Drake Maye. Dan put a gun to his head with that bid and Rich pulled the trigger anyway โ€” the largest single commitment made all offseason, on a quarterback with one good season. The five rookie receivers are the running joke, but the real cost is thirty years committed with two available and a tight end who projects 343rd overall. Jefferson at three is the one contract that unambiguously works.

Team Pokeher
Pat
Cranky Commish
MMeh

Pat didn't draft until 19 overall and was able to snag Mendoza there. It'll be interesting to see how many years he puts on him and how he develops. He then drafted two questionable WRs โ€” Alec Pierce appears to be on the mend, and DK Metcalf appears to be on the decline. He reached for a kicker (what a shock) before taking another aging WR and closing out with an aging TE. Age is apparently just a number to Pat as well.

Claude
B+

More than meh, respectfully. McCaffrey at two years is the best value contract on any roster in this league. The receiver room got genuinely deep with Metcalf, Sutton, and Pierce joining Higgins and Garrett Wilson. Loveland at five is expensive but locks down tight end for half a decade. Drafting Kelce in round eight when Loveland is already signed through 2031 is either brilliant or the pick that follows him around forever.

Hoof Hearted
Kevin
Cranky Commish
RReach

Kevin has spent the past two years telling Tom how awful Bucky Irving is โ€” and then drafted him with his first pick. He went heavy after running backs, most of them looking like lottery tickets. It only takes one winner to turn things around. His RB room looks a little different than his championship roster. We'll see if he can repeat.

Claude
B+

The champ came in with a plan and executed it quietly. Nabers, Lamb, Nacua, and Rice is the best receiving corps in the league and it isn't close. Bid on Dart at four and Loveland at five and walked away from both, which were the correct calls. Retained Rice at two years, the bargain of the night. The Irving pick is funny, but it was also good value at ten.

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Post-Draft Power Rankings

The draft is done, the RFAs are settled, and the rosters are locked. This is who wins today โ€” based on projected point totals, roster depth, and how much room each team has to keep building. Movement compares to the pre-draft rankings.

Projected totals are the sum of every rostered player's season projection. It's a blunt instrument โ€” it doesn't account for lineup constraints, bye weeks, or the fact that three quarterbacks in the top twenty only helps if you can start all three. Use it as a starting point, not gospel.
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Cranky Commish Tom ▲ 3 spots (was 4th)

Highest projected total in the league at 2,867 and it isn't close at the top. Daniels, Stafford, and Mahomes is an absurd amount of quarterback to have on one roster. Walker, Hall, and Achane give him the deepest backfield in the league. The only problem is 28 years committed and almost no flexibility โ€” this is a win-now roster whether he wants it to be or not.

Playoff Odds78%
2
Skull Raiders Dan ▲ 6 spots (was 8th)

The biggest jump in the league and it's fully earned. Lawrence, Love, and McBride in round one, Kyren Williams via trade, Christian Watson pried away in the only RFA that mattered. Twenty years committed is the second-lowest in the league. He's good now and he's set up for later, which is a combination almost nobody else here can claim.

Playoff Odds71%
3
Hoof Hearted Kevin ▼ 1 spot (was 2nd)

The champ didn't get worse, everyone above him just got better. Nabers, Lamb, Nacua, and Rice is still the best receiving corps in the league, and Hurts plus Purdy plus Daniel Jones is more quarterback than anyone needs. Bijan and Bucky give him a real backfield. Title defense is entirely live.

Playoff Odds75%
4
Team Pokeher Pat ▲ 2 spots (was 6th)

McCaffrey at two years is the best value contract on any roster. Mayfield and Murray both project inside the top twenty-five. The receiver room got deep in a hurry with Metcalf, Sutton, and Pierce, and Loveland at five years is expensive but locks down tight end for the foreseeable future. Balanced everywhere, elite nowhere.

Playoff Odds62%
5
PPR Rulez Rob ▼ 2 spots (was 3rd)

Gibbs and Taylor is a top-two backfield, and Herbert plus Stroud covers quarterback for years. Skattebo was the best value pick of round two. The issue is depth โ€” fifteen players is the thinnest roster in the league, and one injury at running back turns a strength into a scramble.

Playoff Odds58%
6
OU Drinking Team Adam ▼ 5 spots (was 1st)

Still enormous talent at the top โ€” Lamar, Burrow, Saquon, St. Brown. But 28 years committed with Burrow eating eight of them by himself means there's nowhere to go from here. Thirteen picks was the fewest in the league and the depth shows it. Great starting lineup, no margin for error.

Playoff Odds55%
7
I Like Boobs Rich ▼ 2 spots (was 5th)

Seven years for Drake Maye is the defining move of the offseason and it will be relitigated every August until it either pays off or doesn't. Jefferson and Smith-Njigba are legitimate, Hampton has upside, but the rest of the receiver room is four rookies and a prayer. Twenty-eight years committed with a lot of it on unproven talent.

Playoff Odds48%
8
Terrelle's Priors Eric ▲ 1 spot (was 9th)

Lost the only RFA that changed hands, which is a bad look, but the roster underneath is more solid than the reputation. Love and Goff both project inside the top fifteen. Chase Brown and James Cook is a real backfield. Nineteen years committed is the most flexibility in the league by a wide margin โ€” the question has always been whether he uses it.

Playoff Odds42%
9
Team Baymax Chris ▼ 2 spots (was 7th)

Josh Allen at seven years is the single best contract in the league and Bowers at five is the second. After that it's Derrick Henry at 32, Davante Adams at 34, and Terry McLaurin on a one-year deal. Lowest projected total of any team with playoff aspirations. The foundation is real, the supporting cast is not.

Playoff Odds35%
10
$140 East Palestine Sex Mark ▬ no change (was 10th)

Traded away Kyren Williams, Tucker Kraft, Devon Achane, and Marvin Harrison and got back picks that don't help this year. Projected total of 2,081 is nearly 400 points behind ninth place โ€” that's not a gap, that's a different league. Judkins at four years is the one asset worth building around. Everything else is depth chart filler.

Playoff Odds12%

Rankings Over Time

Every ranking published this season. Rank 1 sits at the top โ€” a line climbing means that team is falling. Tap an owner to hide their line.

2026 Schedule

Fourteen-week regular season. Each team plays every opponent at least once, division rivals twice. Playoffs begin Week 15.

9 Balls 10 Balls · Away team listed first.
Week 1Wed Sep 9 โ€“ Wed Sep 16
Team BaymaxChris@Skull RaidersDan
PPR RulezRob@Terrelle's PriorsEric
OU Drinking TeamAdam@Cranky CommishTom
I Like BoobsRich@Team PokeherPat
$140 East Palestine SexMark@Hoof HeartedKevin
Week 2Thu Sep 17 โ€“ Wed Sep 23
Skull RaidersDan@Cranky CommishTom
Team BaymaxChris@Team PokeherPat
Hoof HeartedKevin@Terrelle's PriorsEric
PPR RulezRob@OU Drinking TeamAdam
I Like BoobsRich@$140 East Palestine SexMark
Week 3Thu Sep 24 โ€“ Wed Sep 30
Team PokeherPat@Cranky CommishTom
OU Drinking TeamAdam@Hoof HeartedKevin
I Like BoobsRich@PPR RulezRob
$140 East Palestine SexMark@Team BaymaxChris
Terrelle's PriorsEric@Skull RaidersDan
Week 4Thu Oct 1 โ€“ Wed Oct 7
Team BaymaxChris@Cranky CommishTom
Hoof HeartedKevin@Skull RaidersDan
PPR RulezRob@Team PokeherPat
I Like BoobsRich@OU Drinking TeamAdam
$140 East Palestine SexMark@Terrelle's PriorsEric
Week 5Thu Oct 8 โ€“ Wed Oct 14
Team PokeherPat@Skull RaidersDan
Cranky CommishTom@OU Drinking TeamAdam
Hoof HeartedKevin@Terrelle's PriorsEric
I Like BoobsRich@Team BaymaxChris
$140 East Palestine SexMark@PPR RulezRob
Week 6Thu Oct 15 โ€“ Wed Oct 21
Team BaymaxChris@Skull RaidersDan
Hoof HeartedKevin@Cranky CommishTom
PPR RulezRob@Terrelle's PriorsEric
I Like BoobsRich@Team PokeherPat
$140 East Palestine SexMark@OU Drinking TeamAdam
Week 7Thu Oct 22 โ€“ Wed Oct 28
Team PokeherPat@Terrelle's PriorsEric
PPR RulezRob@Cranky CommishTom
OU Drinking TeamAdam@Skull RaidersDan
I Like BoobsRich@Hoof HeartedKevin
$140 East Palestine SexMark@Team BaymaxChris
Week 8Thu Oct 29 โ€“ Wed Nov 4
Hoof HeartedKevin@Cranky CommishTom
PPR RulezRob@Skull RaidersDan
OU Drinking TeamAdam@Team BaymaxChris
I Like BoobsRich@Terrelle's PriorsEric
$140 East Palestine SexMark@Team PokeherPat
Week 9Thu Nov 5 โ€“ Wed Nov 11
Team BaymaxChris@Terrelle's PriorsEric
Hoof HeartedKevin@Team PokeherPat
PPR RulezRob@OU Drinking TeamAdam
I Like BoobsRich@Cranky CommishTom
$140 East Palestine SexMark@Skull RaidersDan
Week 10Thu Nov 12 โ€“ Wed Nov 18
Team BaymaxChris@Hoof HeartedKevin
OU Drinking TeamAdam@Team PokeherPat
I Like BoobsRich@Skull RaidersDan
$140 East Palestine SexMark@PPR RulezRob
Terrelle's PriorsEric@Cranky CommishTom
Week 11Thu Nov 19 โ€“ Tue Nov 24
Team PokeherPat@Hoof HeartedKevin
Cranky CommishTom@Skull RaidersDan
PPR RulezRob@Team BaymaxChris
OU Drinking TeamAdam@Terrelle's PriorsEric
I Like BoobsRich@$140 East Palestine SexMark
Week 12Wed Nov 25 โ€“ Wed Dec 2
Team PokeherPat@Cranky CommishTom
OU Drinking TeamAdam@Team BaymaxChris
I Like BoobsRich@PPR RulezRob
$140 East Palestine SexMark@Hoof HeartedKevin
Terrelle's PriorsEric@Skull RaidersDan
Week 13Thu Dec 3 โ€“ Wed Dec 9
Team PokeherPat@Terrelle's PriorsEric
Hoof HeartedKevin@Skull RaidersDan
PPR RulezRob@Team BaymaxChris
I Like BoobsRich@OU Drinking TeamAdam
$140 East Palestine SexMark@Cranky CommishTom
Week 14Thu Dec 10 โ€“ Wed Dec 16
Team PokeherPat@Skull RaidersDan
PPR RulezRob@Hoof HeartedKevin
I Like BoobsRich@Team BaymaxChris
$140 East Palestine SexMark@OU Drinking TeamAdam
Terrelle's PriorsEric@Cranky CommishTom

2026 Standings

Live standings once Week 1 kicks off. Four playoff spots โ€” one automatic bid per division, two wild cards open to the field.

๐Ÿˆ
Season starts Wednesday, September 9
Standings sync from Fantrax every hour once games are played.

Basics & Payouts

The foundational rules of the league โ€” roster shape, dues, and what you're actually playing for.

Roster Construction

Starters

1 QB ยท 2 RB ยท 2 WR ยท 1 TE
1 RB/WR/TE Flex ยท 1 OP (Offensive Flex)
1 D/ST ยท 1 K

Bench

6 bench spots, plus IR slots for players designated Out (see Contracts tab).

Scoring

Head-to-head points league. Full scoring rules live on the Platform Rules tab. Decimal (fractional) scoring was added by vote at the 2021 draft.

The RB/WR flex became RB/WR/TE by vote at the 2020 draft.

Governance

  • Commissioner: Tom O'Malley.
  • The master contract & roster spreadsheet is viewable by everyone; edit access is limited to the Commissioner.
  • Any rule change requires a 7-of-10 vote to pass.
  • All rules are kept available online for any owner to reference at any time.

Historical Spreadsheet

Open on OneDrive โ†’

Dues & Payouts

League dues are $100 per team, going straight into the payout pool. The Fantrax platform fee is covered separately by the 9th and 10th place finishers under "Buy the Bye" (see The Draft tab).

1st Place
$600
+ the Leg Lamp
2nd Place
$300
3rd Place
$100

The Neal Huelsman Initiative Unanimous ยท 2018

Named for the man who inspired it: if you finish "in the money" (1st, 2nd, or 3rd) but are not present at the draft โ€” even if you sent a proxy to draft on your behalf โ€” half of your winnings roll into next year's pot instead of being paid out.

Divisions & Schedule

Two five-team divisions, a locked-in rivalry structure, and a schedule that bends around the NFL's own bye week.

Standard Schedule (14-week season)

Built around a single NFL bye week (currently week 14):

  • Play your own division twice, and the other division once.
  • One extra crossover game against the team in the other division that finished in the same standings position the year before (10-ball's 5th plays 9-ball's 5th, 4th plays 4th, and so on).
  • Division winners auto-qualify for the playoffs, joined by the next 2 best records league-wide.

Why the Playoffs Start in Week 15

The NFL currently places its own bye week in week 14, which is why our playoffs kick off in week 15. The goal is to avoid playing a championship in week 18 โ€” by then, plenty of NFL teams are resting starters with playoff seeding locked, and we don't want a title decided by a bunch of backups. So the bracket runs a one-week opening round (week 15) followed by a two-week championship round (weeks 16โ€“17).

If a future NFL schedule allows a full two-week/two-week bracket without pushing into week 18, the league defaults back to that format instead. See Playoffs & the Toilet Bowl for the full bracket.

How Wild Cards Are Determined

The four-team championship bracket is filled by the 2 division winners plus 2 wild cards โ€” the next-best overall records league-wide, regardless of division. Standings ties (including wild card ties) are broken in this order:

  1. Most wins, full season
  2. Most fantasy points, full season
  3. Best division record
  4. Head-to-head record vs. all teams tied with

Divisions

Current division alignment, effective 2025:

10 Balls
  1. I Have Two Nuts โ€” Mark
  2. I Like Boobs โ€” Rich
  3. OU Drinking Team โ€” Adam
  4. PPR Rulez โ€” Rob
  5. Team Baymax โ€” Chris
9 Balls
  1. Cranky Commish โ€” Tom
  2. Hoof Hearted โ€” Kevin
  3. Skull Raiders โ€” Dan
  4. Team Pokeher โ€” Pat
  5. Terrelle's Priors โ€” Eric
Carb Loading (Eric) has been rebranded to Terrelle's Priors.

Contracts & Tags

Every roster runs on a 30-year contract-year ledger. This is where most of the league's actual strategy โ€” and most of its arguments โ€” live.

The Basics

  • Owners have 7 days after the draft to assign contract years to drafted players. No submission means an automatic 1-year deal.
  • Every roster has a hard cap of 30 contract years total, distributed however the owner likes โ€” a 15-year kicker and fifteen 1-year deals is entirely legal.
  • After each season ends, every player's contract loses one year automatically.

Franchise Tag

Once a year, you may designate one expiring player your Franchise Player, granting him a one-year contract extension so he doesn't hit the draft pool. Franchise tags are due 1 week prior to the draft date.

  • A given player can only ever be franchised once. If you franchise a player heading into a draft (say, 2026), that extension covers him for that season only โ€” he won't automatically be on your roster the following year (2027) and returns to the draft pool unless you re-draft him.
  • You're still free to cut a franchised player mid-season just like any other one-year player.

Restricted Free Agent (RFA) Tag

Also once a year, due the same 1 week prior to the draft deadline, you may designate one player a Restricted Free Agent, opening him to bidding from the rest of the league. Adam runs the process, held via blind bidding immediately prior to the draft.

  • Bidding currency is contract years. Ties are broken by draft order โ€” whichever team picks first gets first dibs.
  • The team that placed the tag can match the winning bid, and may match with any number of years they choose, not just the years bid (e.g. two years are bid on a player; his own team can match and place four years instead).
  • If an RFA gets no bids at all, the tagging team may sign him to any number of years but must place at least one.
  • You can only restrict a given player one time.
You cannot Franchise a player and then RFA him the following year. The reverse is fine โ€” RFA a player, then Franchise him once that contract is set to expire.
Franchise and RFA tags travel with a player in any trade. Trade for an already-franchised player and you inherit that restriction โ€” you can't tag him again.

The "Mahomes Rule"

No release-and-resign for multi-year deals: if you drop a player, he must clear waivers before your own team can place a multi-year bid on him again. This closes the loophole of dropping a player right before his RFA year to reset his contract clock. The same principle covers RFA signings directly:

  • Any player you win in RFA bidding cannot be dropped before the draft that same year.
  • If an RFA signing runs 5 or more years, he cannot be dropped or amnestied during year one of that contract.

Injured Reserve, Retired & Suspended Players

Players listed as Out can be placed on IR, which frees the roster spot without needing to cut them. Each player on IR grants a +1 contract-year credit above the 30-year cap, so two IR players raise your effective cap to 32. The league carries a maximum of 3 IR slots per roster.

  • Retired: if a multi-year player formally retires from the NFL mid-contract (not merely goes unsigned), you can drop him with no penalty.
  • Suspended: suspended players keep counting on your roster and cannot go on IR. Dropping one carries the standard dead-weight penalty.

Dropping Players & Amnesty

  • A player with exactly one year left on his contract can be dropped in-season with no penalty.
  • A player with multiple years remaining can still be dropped, but those years stay on your cap as dead weight until they would have expired.
  • Amnesty clears a player's remaining years with no penalty โ€” but it's limited to once every 3 seasons, counted by league season (not calendar date), and you must declare the amnesty to the commissioner before the drop.
  • A moratorium blocks amnesty (and drops generally) from the start of RFA bidding through the point add/drop reopens after the draft โ€” all cuts and amnesty declarations must happen before RFA bidding begins.

Waivers

A blind-bid wire where the currency isn't cash โ€” it's the contract years you're willing to spend.

  • Waiver "dollars" are actually contract years: $1 bid = 1 contract year offered for the player.
  • Ties go to whichever team sits lower in the standings (the platform's own tiebreaker settles same-record ties).
  • There's no limit on the number of adds or drops.
  • A player with one year left on his contract can be freely added and dropped in-season with no penalty.
  • Waivers clear overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning.

The Thursdayโ€“Sunday Free Agent Window

Once waivers clear, any player not claimed (i.e. all remaining free agents) can be freely swapped in for any one-year player on your roster from Thursday through Sunday, with no contract penalty โ€” though these pickups can't immediately be signed to multi-year deals. They remain eligible to be tagged Franchise or RFA later.

If you want to place more years on a waiver claim than the default, you must state it before 8PM the day you're awarded the player.

Trades

Contract years travel with the player. No renegotiating on arrival, and the league gets a say before any deal is final.

Trade Window

Trades are permitted through the Thursday of the week 10 game โ€” roughly two-thirds of the regular season. No trades are allowed from that point through the end of the playoffs.

What Can Be Traded

  • Future draft picks, by either or both sides.
  • All trades โ€” including any pick-involving trade โ€” must be proposed, voted on, and finalized directly in the Fantrax app.
  • A traded player keeps his exact assigned contract years โ€” there is no renegotiation period. A trade also can't push your roster over the 30-year cap; you may need to cut a player to make room.

Veto Process

Every trade has a 24-hour veto window. If 5 other owners vote to veto within that window, the trade is reversed.

Offseason Trades

  • Offseason trades are allowed and go through the same Fantrax process as in-season deals.
  • Deals from the end of the playoffs through July carry a 1-week waiting period for veto votes; starting August 1st, that drops to the standard 2-day window.
  • Players can't be traded while carrying a 1-year contract if the roster hasn't yet had its post-season contract-year adjustment applied โ€” since they'd otherwise be traded as pre-draft roster spots.

Trading Draft Picks

  • Traded-for late-round picks your roster size doesn't need become "dead picks" and are simply skipped โ€” the original owner does not reclaim them.
  • The rights to those picks can themselves be traded again, right up until the draft-pick lock one week before the draft.
  • If a traded pick isn't available at the promised slot, it slots to the receiving team's next-best available pick, or rolls forward to the same round next year if no pick is available at all.

Playoffs & the Toilet Bowl

The top four chase the Leg Lamp. The bottom four chase the exit from the Toilet Bowl.

Championship Bracket (Seeds 1โ€“4)

  • Standard format is a two-week/two-week bracket: 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3, winners advance to the Leg Lamp Championship, losers play for 3rd.
  • The #1 seed picks its own opponent for the opening round.
  • The bracket runs a one-week opening round followed by a two-week championship round in seasons where the NFL's own bye week requires it โ€” see Divisions & Schedule for the full rationale.
  • Two division winners plus two wild cards (next-best overall records) fill out the bracket โ€” see Divisions & Schedule for how wild cards and standings ties are determined.

Toilet Bowl (Seeds 5โ€“10)

Seeds 5 and 6 are essentially playing out the string once the top of the standings is set โ€” no more add/drops once their season is decided (roughly after week 12). The bottom four (7โ€“10) play into the Toilet Bowl:

  • Round 1: 7 vs 10 and 8 vs 9 โ€” losers fall to the Toilet Bowl proper.
  • Roster moves are allowed as long as you're still playing for something, but stop entirely once you've "won" a Toilet Bowl series.

Full Losers Bracket (Places 5โ€“10)

WeekMatchups
Week 155 vs 6 ยท 7 vs 8 ยท seeds 9 & 10 get a bye ("buy the bye" โ€” see The Draft tab)
Week 16Winner of 5v6 plays the 9 seed ยท winner of 7v8 plays the 10 seed ยท losers of 5v6 and 7v8 play each other (two-week matchup, winner takes 5th place overall, loser takes 6th)
Week 17Week-16 winners play for 1st/2nd in the losers bracket ยท week-16 losers play for 3rd/4th

Offseason Calendar

The full year, start to finish โ€” from the final whistle of the championship to the reopening of the wire.

The Annual Cycle

  1. Championship ends โ†’ the "offseason" begins immediately, and a new league year starts. Every player's contract drops one year (timing on the spreadsheet depends on the commissioner's schedule).
  2. No new adds are permitted during the offseason itself โ€” the wire is closed.
  3. Franchise & RFA tags due 7 days prior to the draft.
  4. RFA bidding is conducted blind, immediately prior to the draft. Right after each player's bidding closes, his current owner decides on the spot whether to match (or raise) or let him walk to the high bidder.
  5. The Draft โ€” date set by the league. Draft order and traded picks lock one week prior.
  6. Contract years due one week after the draft.
  7. Add/drop reopens the day after contract years are submitted.
You can no longer drop a player with only one year left on his contract, penalty-free, during the offseason itself. This closes the loophole where a team sits on a two-year contract until it ticks down to one year in the offseason, purely to dump him without cost right before the draft.

The Draft

A reverse-standings, non-snaking draft for everyone not protected by a kept contract or a franchise/RFA tag.

Who's Available

Teams keep any player still under contract โ€” including players currently under a Franchise or RFA tag. Draft-eligible players are anyone whose contract has expired or been terminated, plus any currently un-rostered free agent.

Draft Order

  • Order is set by the prior year's finish. Non-playoff teams draft in reverse standings order.
  • Playoff finishers are seeded at the top of the draft: 1st place drafts 10th, 2nd place drafts 9th, 3rd place drafts 8th, 4th place drafts 7th.
  • You are not required to use every one of your draft picks โ€” it's a live draft, so passing is simple.
  • Draft picks lock in one week before the draft; any traded-for pick your roster can't use at that point becomes a "dead pick."

The #1 Overall Pick Lottery

Only the very first pick of the draft is decided by a weighted lottery, held virtually in the offseason. Ball counts come from two sources:

Regular Season FinishBallsLosers Bracket FinishBalls
10th place
6
1st (bracket)
6
9th place
5
2nd
5
8th place
4
3rd
4
7th place
3
4th
3
6th place
2
5th
2
5th place
1
6th
1
The lottery only reorders pick #1 of round 1. Picks 2 through 6 default to end-of-regular-season standings order regardless of the lottery result, and round 2 onward reverts entirely to regular-season standings.

How Picks 2โ€“6 Shift

Below assumes the 10th-place regular season finisher wins the lottery โ€” the order bumps back depending on who actually wins it:

  • 5th place will draft 6th
  • 6th place will draft 5th
  • 7th place will draft 4th
  • 8th place will draft 3rd
  • 9th place will draft 2nd
  • 10th place will draft at worst #2

Draft-Day Trades & Makeup Picks

  • Trades made during the draft are allowed and subject to an instant vote under the same 5-veto rule as in-season trades.
  • Trade a player during the draft without taking one back, and you receive a 16th-round makeup pick to fill your roster (a 16th and 15th for two players traded away, and so on).
  • If a traded-for late-round pick can't be used because of your roster size, it becomes a dead pick at the one-week lock โ€” the original owner does not get it back.

"Buy the Bye" Ratified

The 9th and 10th place finishers who draw a bye in the losers bracket cover the league's Fantrax platform fee, split 50/50 between them โ€” $130 total, $65 each. See Playoffs & the Toilet Bowl for how those seeds are determined.

Platform Rules

The official league settings as configured on Fantrax for the 2026โ€“27 season. Some of this repeats what's covered elsewhere in plainer language โ€” this tab is the source of truth for exact platform mechanics and scoring.

This may not be fully up to date โ€” check the live Fantrax league settings page to confirm anything time-sensitive.

General

  • League Name: Cleveland Contract League  ยท  League ID: 0nu20xhhmrgiyxx4
  • Scoring System: Head-to-Head Points  ยท  Max Teams: 10
  • Keeper League Type: Dynasty

Schedule & Playoffs

  • Stats accumulate Wed Sep 9, 2026 โ€“ Wed Jan 6, 2027.
  • Playoffs begin Scoring Period 15 (Dec 17โ€“23, 2026) and run 2 periods; matchups are entered manually.

Roster Limits

PositionMin ActiveMax ActiveTotal Max
Quarterback (QB)013
Running Back (RB)0216
Wide Receiver (WR)0216
Tight End (TE)0116
RB/WR/TE Flex (RWT)01โ€”
Superflex โ€” QB/RB/WR/TE (SFX)01โ€”
Kicker (K)0116
Defense/Special Teams (DST)0116
Max 10 active players ยท Max 6 reserve (bench) ยท Max 3 Injured Reserve slots ยท Max 16 total players. Any transaction that would make a roster illegal is always blocked.

Scoring

Offense

  • Passing TD: +6  ยท  Interception thrown: โˆ’3  ยท  Fumble lost: โˆ’2  ยท  Fumble recovered for TD: +6
  • Passing yards: 0.04/yd, +5 bonus at 300+, +3 more at 400+ (per game)
  • Rushing / Receiving TD: +6 each
  • Rushing / Receiving yards: 0.1/yd, +5 bonus at 100+, +3 more at 200+ (per period)
  • 2-pt passes: +2  ยท  2-pt rushes/receptions: +2

Kicking

  • Extra point made: +1
  • Field goal 1โ€“39 yds: +3
  • Field goal 40โ€“49 yds: +4
  • Field goal 50+ yds: +5

Defense / Special Teams

  • Sack: +2  ยท  Safety: +2  ยท  Blocked kick: +2  ยท  Blocked punt: +2  ยท  Takeaway: +2  ยท  TD: +6  ยท  XP/2pt attempt returned: +2
  • Points allowed (per period): 0 pts โ†’ +10  ยท  1โ€“6 โ†’ +7  ยท  7โ€“13 โ†’ +4  ยท  14โ€“21 โ†’ +1  ยท  22โ€“27 โ†’ โˆ’1  ยท  28โ€“34 โ†’ โˆ’3  ยท  35โ€“45 โ†’ โˆ’7  ยท  45+ โ†’ โˆ’10
  • Total yards allowed (per period): negative or 0โ€“99 yards โ†’ +10

Flex positions score by the players' actual positions: No. 0โ€“0 scores count as wins/losses/ties. Stat corrections apply up to the default freeze time of 8PM ET Wednesday; anything after that doesn't affect league scoring.

Transactions

Lineups

Managers enter their own changes daily. Lineups lock at the scheduled start time of each game.

Trades

Managers propose their own trades, unlimited per team, all year until the Fri Nov 13, 2026, 11:59PM ET deadline. Managers vote; 1 day to vote, 5 objections required to veto. Draft picks are tradeable up to 5 future years / 20 rounds out. Claim budget and salary cap space are not tradeable.

Claims & Drops

Managers perform their own claims and drops, unlimited per week. No claims/drops before the draft; drops are allowed during the draft. Pending claims are visible only to your own team; failed claims are visible to everyone.

Waiver Wire

Bidding system, budget $30 per player claim, $1 minimum bid and increment, ties broken by rolling list. Processed Thursdays and Saturdays at 2:00AM ET, with a guaranteed 23+ hour waiver window. Free agents not on waivers are first-come, first-served.

Contract Values & Draft

  • Platform contract length options run 0โ€“11 years per player (1 year is the default). A player's contract resets to 1 year when he becomes a free agent, hits waivers, or is freshly drafted โ€” the league's actual 30-year team cap and multi-year deal tracking is maintained on the master spreadsheet, not natively by Fantrax.
  • Draft: Sun Aug 30, 2026, 7:00 PM ET. Live Online, Standard, 16 rounds, 15 minutes per pick, fixed non-snake order set manually by the commissioner. Undrafted players go to the waiver wire.
  • Draft order (pre-trades): Team Baymax, Cranky Commish, PPR Rulez, OU Drinking Team, Skull Raiders, Terrelle's Priors, I Have Two Nuts, I Like Boobs, Team Pokeher, Hoof Hearted.

Tie-Breakers

Standings

  1. Most wins, full season
  2. Most fantasy points, full season
  3. Best division record
  4. Head-to-head vs. all tied teams

Matchup & Playoffs

Best reserve/bench players.

Fees & Prizes

All platform-level transaction fees (free agent claims, waiver claims, drops, IR moves, trades, illegal rosters) are set to $0.00 โ€” the league's cost is $100 dues per team (see Basics & Payouts), with the Fantrax platform fee covered separately by the 9th and 10th place finishers under "Buy the Bye" (see The Draft tab). Prize payouts rank by playoff winners: 1st $600, 2nd $300, 3rd $100, tracked over the Sep 9, 2026 โ€“ Jan 6, 2027 period.

Amendment History

Every rule on the books started as a proposal and a vote. Here's the record, draft by draft.

2018Draft Day
Neal Huelsman Initiative: absentee finishers in the money have half their winnings roll forward.
Unanimous (sans Neal)
Confirmed in writing (and made retroactive to league start) that Franchise/RFA tags follow a player through any trade.
Unanimous
Owners get 7 days post-draft to assign contract years, reaffirmed by vote.
Reaffirmed
2019Draft Day
New league schedule proposed and adopted.
9โ€“0
RFA matching amended: the original team may match a winning bid and add as many years as they choose, not just match the bid years.
9โ€“0
RFA process revamped to a blind bid run by Adam immediately prior to the draft.
7โ€“2
#1 seed given the right to pick its own playoff opponent.
Adopted
2020Draft Day โ€” April 15, 2020
#1 seed picks its opponent; 7 seed also gets to pick its own Toilet Bowl opponent.
Unanimous
IR spots expanded to 5 for the COVID season, stepping down to 4 the following year.
4 this year, 3 planned next
COVID-shortened season: 10 games = a full season, champion by total points if needed, half the pot paid out / half rolled forward.
Approved
Emergency 13-week, two-5-team-division schedule for the shortened season; divisions drawn from a hat, revisit in 5 years.
Adopted
RFA rule: a player signed to 5+ years via RFA cannot be dropped or amnestied in year one of that contract.
8โ€“2
RB/WR flex position becomes RB/WR/TE.
Adopted
"Mahomes Rule" adopted: dropped players must clear waivers before their original team can re-sign them multi-year.
Adopted
Anti-tanking proposal (weighted lottery, steeper 10th-place penalty) raised for discussion.
Proposed โ€” carried to 2021
2021Draft Day
Amnesty/drop moratorium: no amnesty or drops from the start of RFA bidding until add/drop reopens post-draft.
Yes
"Mahomes Rule" (no release-and-resign for multi-year deals) reaffirmed.
Yes
Switch to full PPR scoring.
No
Decimal (fractional) point scoring adopted.
Yes
Schedule changes: bye week in week 14 forces a one-week opening playoff round; extra crossover game vs. same-place team in the other division; trade deadline pushed back a week.
Yes, all
IR held at 4 spots given ongoing COVID uncertainty (rather than reverting to 3).
Yes
Removing the #1 seed's right to pick its opponent.
No โ€” right retained
No amnesty or drops may be declared during the draft itself โ€” must be declared beforehand.
Yes
Anti-tanking / post-season tournament lottery structure adopted per Kevin's proposal.
Yes
"Buy the Bye" penalties ($75/$75) retained, tied to the anti-tanking proposal above.
Yes
Commit to holding the draft on a Saturday going forward.
Yes
2022Vote Feb 15, 2022 & Draft Discussion
Owners are not required to use every draft pick.
Passed 2/15/22
Require a full legal 16-man roster at all times.
Not enough votes
Require every starting slot to be filled (byes/IR aside) rather than left open.
Not enough votes
Waiver structure moves toward a FAB-style bid, with same-day (8PM) notice required to place extra years on a claim.
Modified & adopted
Restrict playoff-period waiver claims to only the top 4 teams.
4 no votes
Use the lottery balls to set every round of the draft, not just pick #1.
No
Most RecentFranchise/RFA deadline & current cycle
Franchise and RFA tag deadline formally moved to 7 days prior to the draft.
Adopted
Open items carried to a January meeting: an economy for buying extra amnesty, a schedule for increasing the contract-year cap over time, and a mechanism for buying additional contract years.
Tabled โ€” under discussion

2026 Draft Order (pre-trades)

  1. Team Baymax
  2. Cranky Commish
  3. PPR Rulez
  4. OU Drinking Team
  5. Skull Raiders
  6. Terrelle's Priors
  7. I Have Two Nuts
  8. I Like Boobs
  9. Team Pokeher
  10. Hoof Hearted
RFA tags for the current cycle will be added once finalized.

The 2026 Offseason

Lottery, tags, RFA bidding, and a draft that ran until midnight. Everything that happened between the 2025 trophy ceremony and Week 1.

9/10RFAs Retained
1Player Moved
27Trade Pieces
160Picks Made

The Lottery โ€” Aug 16

Dan jumped from the fifth slot to the first overall pick. He would spend the next two weeks turning that into the best draft haul in the league.

Tag Declarations โ€” Aug 23

TeamOwnerRFA TagFranchise Tag
Team BaymaxChrisBrock BowersSam Darnold
Cranky CommishTomEmeka EgbukaTyler Warren
PPR RulezRobDeVonta SmithTreVeyon Henderson
OU Drinking TeamAdamMike EvansZay Flowers
Skull RaidersDanJaxson DartNico Collins
Terrelle's PriorsEricChristian WatsonDavid Montgomery
$140 East Palestine SexMarkQuinshon JudkinsKyren Williams
I Like BoobsRichDrake MayeJavonte Williams
Team PokeherPatColston LovelandKyler Murray
Hoof HeartedKevinRashee RiceJalen Hurts

RFA Bidding โ€” Aug 30, 6:00 PM

Ten players up, nine matched. Dan bid on three players he never won and made three owners overpay to keep them. The only player who actually changed teams was Christian Watson, which cost Dan the tenth waiver slot.

#PlayerOwnerHigh BidHigh BidderResultFinal
1Brock BowersChris5yDanRetained5y
2Emeka EgbukaTom3yPatRetained3y
3DeVonta SmithRob2yChrisRetained2y
4Mike EvansAdam1yChrisRetained1y
5Jaxson DartDan4yKevinRetained4y
6Drake MayeRich7yDanRetained7y
7Colston LovelandPat5yKevinRetained5y
8Rashee RiceKevin2yMarkRetained2y
9Quinshon JudkinsMark4yDanRetained4y
10Christian WatsonEric2yDanReleased2y

Round One โ€” Aug 30, 7:00 PM

PickPlayerPosNFLTeam
1Trevor LawrenceQBJAXSkull Raiders
2Jeremiyah LoveRBARISkull Raiders
3Saquon BarkleyRBPHIOU Drinking Team
4Derrick HenryRBBALTeam Baymax
5Kenneth Walker IIIRBKCCranky Commish
6Jordan LoveQBGBTerrelle's Priors
7RJ HarveyRBDEN$140 East Palestine Sex
8Trey McBrideTEARISkull Raiders
9George PickensWRDALTerrelle's Priors
10Bucky IrvingRBTBHoof Hearted

Dan owned three of the first eight picks after trading Tom his 2027, 2028, and 2029 first-rounders.

Where It Left Everyone

Tom finished with the highest projected total and the least flexibility. Dan finished with the second-highest total and the most. Eric kept the most cap room and lost the only player. Mark sold four contributors and ended nearly 400 points behind ninth place.

Full breakdowns live in Draft Grades and Team Outlooks under 2026 Season.

League Archive

Sixteen years of rosters, trades, RFA bids, and receipts, all living in a couple of increasingly enormous spreadsheets. Here's the download, plus a few things worth digging up.

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The Full Archive
.xlsx · every roster, draft, and RFA bid on record back to 2009.
Download โ†’
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Trade History (2022โ€“2025)
.xlsx · every logged trade, straight from the platform export.
Download โ†’
This section is a work in progress โ€” more stories and stats get pulled out of the archive over time.

The Record Book

RecordHolder
Highest score211 — Dan, 2018 Week 6
Lowest score42 — Chris, 2010 Week 8
Highest score in a loss183 — Tom, 2018 Week 4
Lowest score in a win70 — Matt W, 2012 Week 8
Biggest margin of victory111 — Adam, 2014 Week 8
Highest single-season PPG148.5 — Kevin, 2018
Lowest single-season PPG81.2 — Chris, 2009 (the league's first year โ€” everybody has to start somewhere)
Highest single-season total points2264.12 — Kevin (Hoof Hearted), 2025
Most championshipsTom (5)
Most playoff appearancesKevin (10)
Longest active playoff streakKevin & Chris (7 straight years)
Fewest playoff appearancesCarbs, Matt/Rob, Rich (2 each)
The weekly/season records above are still only current through 2021 for anything not called out above โ€” nobody's dug through 2022–2025 box scores for new highs and lows yet. The 2264.12 total is the one that's been confirmed since.

All-Time Win %

Regular-season record for every owner who's ever fielded a team in this league, current through the 2025 season.

OwnerRecordWin %
Kevin137-80.631
Pat134-83.618
Chris112-103-1.521
Eric15-14.517
Tom111-106.512
Adam110-106.509
Dan110-106-1.509
Rob48-48.500
Carbs86-102.457
Rich96-121.442
Neal93-124.429
Matt W37-84.306
Kevin's .631 is still the best mark in league history, though Pat closed the gap significantly over the last four years. Carbs, Neal, and Matt W's franchises have since changed hands โ€” their totals are frozen where they left off. Rob picked up Matt W's old franchise back in 2019 (folded into Rob's own row above, since that's already reflected). Eric took over Carbs' franchise starting 2024 (his own row above). Mark just took over I Have Two Nuts for 2026 following Neal's passing โ€” his row will start once he's actually played a game.

Blockbuster Trades

Pulled from the trade history export, 2022โ€“2025. Filtered down to actual two-way trades โ€” the export also logs things like RFA transfers and draft-day roster shuffles as one-sided "trades" with nothing coming back, which aren't real trades and got left out.

  • Team Baymax โ†’ PPR Rulez, Oct 2025: Team Baymax sold high, sending out Jahmyr Gibbs and Justin Herbert for Isiah Pacheco, Justin Fields, and six draft picks โ€” including two future 1sts. A pure buy-low-sell-high, stockpile-the-picks swap.
  • Three-team blockbuster, Oct 2025: Hoof Hearted landed Brock Purdy, Bijan Robinson, Jalen Hurts, CeeDee Lamb, and Devon Achane in one trade touching Hoof Hearted, PPR Rulez, and Skull Raiders โ€” PPR Rulez came away with a pile of future picks, Skull Raiders got Ashton Jeanty and Jaxson Dart.
  • Five-team trade, Oct 2024: Cranky Commish came away with Jayden Daniels, Sam LaPorta, and three future 1st-round picks; Team Baymax landed Lamar Jackson, Jahmyr Gibbs, and Brock Bowers in the same deal.
  • OU Drinking Team โ† Team Baymax, Oct 2025: OU picked up Derrick Henry, Zay Flowers, and Lamar Jackson โ€” who'd been dealt to Team Baymax in that same Oct 2024 blockbuster a year earlier. He's been traded twice in twelve months.
  • Four-team trade, Nov 2022: I Like Boobs landed Derek Carr, Kyle Pitts, and three future 1st-round picks; Cranky Commish came away with Lamar Jackson, Mark Andrews, and Miles Sanders; Carb Loading got Drake London.
  • Four-team trade, Oct 2022: I Have Two Nuts picked up Brian Robinson Jr., Russell Wilson, and four picks โ€” including two 2023 1sts; OU Drinking Team got Jimmy Garoppolo and Cooper Kupp; PPR Rulez landed Davante Adams outright for a single pick.
  • I Like Boobs โ† OU Drinking Team, Nov 2022: OU sent out Joe Burrow for Jimmy Garoppolo plus five picks, including two future 1sts. A true change-of-QB-philosophy trade.
  • Four-team trade, Sep 2024: Cranky Commish landed Tee Higgins, Jahmyr Gibbs, and Deshaun Watson; Team Pokeher came away with Davante Adams and Garrett Wilson in the same deal.
There are dozens more in the full trade history download above, going back to 2022.

All-Time RFA Contracts

The RFA process occasionally produces an outright absurd contract โ€” a blind bid nobody wanted to top, or an original team matching at a number nobody saw coming. Sorted by years, top of the market on down.

PlayerYearsDetail
Josh Allen102022 · Kevin's bid, Chris matched โ€” top-of-market outcome
Joe Burrow10QB1 / alpha-WR bracket
Patrick Mahomes92022 · Tom matched his own tag โ€” top-of-market outcome
Jordan Love9QB1 / alpha-WR bracket
C.J. Stroud8QB1 / alpha-WR bracket
Malik Nabers8QB1 / alpha-WR bracket
Jahmyr Gibbs~6Elite skill-position bracket
CeeDee Lamb~62023 · Kevin's bid, Rob matched
Garrett Wilson~62023 · Kevin's bid โ€” Pat didn't match, Kevin won him outright
Jaylen Waddle52023 · Dan's bid, Kevin matched
Amon-Ra St. Brown52023 · Dan's bid, Adam matched
Jared Goff42023 · Neal's bid, Carbs matched
Losing an RFA player outright is rare โ€” teams match the vast majority of the time. Garrett Wilson (2023) is one of the few real exceptions; Tua Tagovailoa's 2023 RFA (4 years, won by Rob, not matched by Neal) is another. This table is meant to grow โ€” more of these live in the full archive download above.

Season Awards

Every year's recap and awards presentation โ€” the roasts, the records, and the lottery draws that decided draft order. The 2025 presentation is a full interactive experience on its own page; older years are the original PowerPoint decks.

2025 Season Awards

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2025 Season Awards
Interactive slide deck with reveal animations, meme backgrounds, and the lottery draw โ€” built for this site.
Launch โ†’

Past Seasons

The original PowerPoint presentations from prior years โ€” download and flip through them locally.

2024
2024 Recap & Awards โ€” power rankings countdown, team recaps, key moves, and the offseason outlook for all 10 teams.
Download .pptx โ†’
2023
2023 Recap & Awards โ€” Leg Lamp Champions history, season awards, and the 2024 lottery.
Download .pptx โ†’
2022
2022 Recap & Awards โ€” season awards, draft lottery, and the 2023 offseason preview. Rob's PPR Rulez won the Leg Lamp this year.
Download .pptx โ†’
2021
2021 Awards & Lottery โ€” Carbs' only championship season. Also features an Ivan Reitman tribute (1949โ€“2022).
Download .pptx โ†’
Earlier years' presentations either don't exist as files or haven't been dug up yet. If you've got one, send it over.

Leg Lamp Legends

Every winner of the Neal Huelsman Leg Lamp Trophy, since the league's founding in 2009.

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Now the Neal Huelsman Leg Lamp Trophy
Renamed in memory of Neal Huelsman, a founding member of this league.
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Reigning Champion ยท 2025
Kevin
Hoof Hearted

Champions by Year

2025
KevinHoof Hearted
2024
ChrisTeam Baymax
2023
AdamOU Drinking Team
2022
RobPPR Rulez
2021
CarbsCarb Loading
2020
TomCranky Commish
4-Peat
2019
TomCranky Commish
4-Peat
2018
TomCranky Commish
4-Peat
2017
TomCranky Commish
4-Peat
2016
ChrisTeam Baymax
2015
PatTeam Pokeher
2014
MattTeam Weigand
2013
KevinMy Left Nut
2012
PatTeam Pokeher
2011
TomCleveland Curse
2010
PatTeam Pokeher
2009
KevinBad News Bears

All-Time Wins

1
Tom
5
2
Kevin
3
2
Pat
3
4
Chris
2
5
Matt
1
5
Carbs
1
5
Rob
1
5
Adam
1
17 championships awarded since 2009.

Neal: The Real Legend

A founding member of this league, and the namesake of the Leg Lamp Trophy going forward โ€” never a champion, but a legend all the same.

Neal Huelsman
In Memory
Neal Huelsman

Neal was part of this league from the very beginning. We don't need to recap all of his history here โ€” everyone who was around already knows it.

Neal never won the Leg Lamp. He was never particularly close, either. He was legendary โ€” some might say infamous โ€” for just not being very good at this game. Somehow, that only made things more fun.

He was just as well known for how he traded โ€” with whoever he wanted, not necessarily whoever offered the best return. There was the time someone offered him a 2nd-round pick for Nick Chubb, and he turned it down for a 3rd-rounder from someone else instead, just because. It's also why Josh Allen has spent his whole career on Chris's roster โ€” Kevin reportedly offered more, but Neal wanted to deal with Chris, so Chris is who got the call.

Then there was the RFA deadline he missed entirely, which cost him a running back whose name has mostly faded from memory (Chris Johnson, maybe?). He missed the draft too, so Rob sat in for him โ€” under strict instructions to draft Mahomes. Rob drafted Johnson instead. Tom moved up and grabbed Mahomes, and four championships later, it's still one of the most infamous "what if" moments in league history. Neal could have had both, if he'd just kept Johnson at the deadline.

Neal was also a legend in the league group chat. He had strong opinions on just about everything โ€” most of them aren't fit for a public website. When words weren't enough, he had a signature move: a particular Bill Cosby reaction gif that showed up whenever he wanted the last word.

We're going to miss him immensely. Which is why, from here on, this trophy carries his name: the Neal Huelsman Leg Lamp Trophy.

We miss you, friend. Cheers. ๐Ÿ†

Amnesty Tracker

Who's used their amnesty, on who, and when it resets.

The Rule

Amnesty clears a player's remaining contract years with no dead-cap penalty โ€” but it's limited to once every 3 seasons per owner, and must be declared to the commissioner before the drop. Full rule, including the RFA-bidding moratorium window, lives on Contracts & Tags.

10 Balls

TeamOwnerStatusYear UsedPlayerNext Available
I Have Two NutsMarkNot Available · opens 20282025Jordan Love2028
I Like BoobsRichAvailable2022Le'Veon Bell2025
OU Drinking TeamAdamAvailable
PPR RulezRobAvailable
Team BaymaxChrisAvailable

9 Balls

TeamOwnerStatusYear UsedPlayerNext Available
Cranky CommishTomNot Available · opens 20272024Deshaun Watson2027
Hoof HeartedKevinAvailable2022Zeke2025
Skull RaidersDanNot Available · opens 20282025C.J. Stroud2028
Team PokeherPatAvailable
Terrelle's PriorsEricAvailable
Year Used, Player, and Next Available are hidden on narrow screens to keep this table from scrolling โ€” Status already tells you what you need at a glance. View on desktop for the full breakdown.
Struck-through entries are cleared history โ€” the cooldown already passed, so the amnesty is Available again, but the record stays visible for "did they already use it on so-and-so" questions. Rich (Le'Veon Bell, 2022) and Kevin (Zeke, 2022) are both examples.

Penalty Years

Dead-weight contract years still sitting on a team's cap from a player cut before his contract naturally ran out.

The Rule

Drop a multi-year player outside of amnesty and his remaining years don't just vanish โ€” they stay attached to your cap as dead weight until the point they would've expired anyway, still counting against your 30-year contract-year cap the whole time. It's the tradeoff for cutting bait early instead of riding the contract out or burning an amnesty on him. Full drop rules live on Contracts & Tags.

10 Balls

TeamOwnerStatusYears On CapFormer PlayerClears
I Have Two NutsMarkNone on cap
I Like BoobsRichNone on cap
OU Drinking TeamAdamNone on cap
PPR RulezRobNone on cap
Team BaymaxChrisNone on cap

9 Balls

TeamOwnerStatusYears On CapFormer PlayerClears
Cranky CommishTomNone on cap
Hoof HeartedKevinNone on cap
Skull RaidersDanNone on cap
Team PokeherPatNone on cap
Terrelle's PriorsEricNone on cap
Years On Cap, Former Player, and Clears are hidden on narrow screens to keep this table from scrolling โ€” Status already tells you what you need at a glance. View on desktop for the full breakdown.
Clean league-wide right now โ€” nobody's currently carrying dead weight from an early cut. This page exists so it's tracked the moment someone does; it'll fill in the same way the Amnesty Tracker does, with a "Clears" year showing when the penalty rolls off the cap for good.