🏆 Champion
IAN
Runner-up: Joe
2021 Season
League
- New league name. After 9 years, we finally changed the league name to reflect how competitive the league has become.
- New platform. Moved to Sleeper after 9 years on Yahoo.
- New rules. Weekly payouts, best ball lineups, Vickrey refunds, can't drop a player once played, continuous waivers, waivers processing at 10 pm PT, after-game waivers on Wednesdays, $200 FAAB.
- Overcame a botched draft. Autodrafting wasn't working and there were a few no-shows, so we had to reschedule the draft 3 days later. (John had to drop out because of reschedule conflicts; fortunately, Matt joined on short notice to take his place.)
- New trophy. The league winner received a framed video print that they get to keep.
Managers
- Joe’s draft strategy. Joe executed a QB hoarding draft strategy, leaving the draft with 10 QBs. Although the strategy was suboptimal, he managed to convince 2 managers to trade away great players, and unloaded 6 QBs by week 2. The strategy worked, and entered the playoffs as the 1st seed, finishing in 2nd place.
- Reinier's comeback. Reinier began the season with the lowest scoring team of week 1. In two weeks, he became the highest scoring team. This foreshadowed his season, as he finished the season in 3rd place, ultimately tying Ian for the most weekly high scores in the season.
- RJ's squander. RJ had the easiest matchup schedule, autodrafted a monster team, and kept the season's #1 RB all season. But he made 3 bad trades, giving up Ceedee Lamb (to David) and Darren Waller, Joe Mixon, and Darrell Henderson (to Joe). He just missed the playoffs, finishing in 7th place.
- Raymond's bad luck. Raymond had the hardest matchup schedule, and suffered multiple early RB injuries (Gus Edwards in preseason, then Raheem Mostert in week 1, and worst of all Christian McCaffrey in week 3), leading to an 0-8 start through the first 4 weeks. He clawed his way out of bottom-2 penalties, finishing the season in 12th place.
- Only 3 managers were minimally active: Jessie, Matt & Gabe. Fortunately, best ball lineups kept these teams competitive. Jessie even managed to get 2 wins when he had no quarterback for half the season (weeks 9 to 14). Despite only making 5 transactions, defending champion Gabe still made the playoffs as the 3rd seed and finished in 6th place, once again leading the league in points scored from drafted players.
League records
Awards & records
🐣 Baluser
Jessie
Runner-up: Matt
🫡 Comeback Manager of the Year
Reinier
Started the season in last place as the lowest scoring team in week 1, then two weeks later he was the highest scoring team for two weeks in a row with a 6-win streak, ending up tied for the most weekly payouts and the highest weekly score.
🌊 Most points scored in the season
Ian
Led the league with 2,520.42 points. Second was Joe with 2,483.94 points. Third was Gabe with 2,378.88 points.
💦 Fewest points scored in the season
Jessie
Came in with 1,962.76 points. Next lowest was Matt with 2,125.90 points.
💰 Most weekly payouts
Ian & Reinier
Both had 3 weeks with the highest score. David & Joe each had 2 weeks.
💸 Most weekly penalties
Jessie
4 weeks with the lowest score. Jeff was next with 3 lowest scores.
🤩 Highest weekly score
Ian
Scored 252.96 points (21.08 points per starter) in the week 17 championship game, just barely edging out Reinier's 252.58 points in week 4.
🥺 Lowest weekly score
Jeff
Only scored 93.88 points in week 9. (Less than 8 points per starter.) Jessie was close behind with 95.26 points in week 4.
🚀 Highest-scoring player in a game
RJ
Jonathan Taylor gave him 56.9 points in week 11. Second was Ja'Marr Chase giving Ian 51.6 points in the championship game. Then Derrick Henry giving Michael 49.2 points in week 2. All three were drafted by their managers.
🏰 Highest-scoring defense in a game
Gabe & Reinier
Each had 30-point performances from their DSTs. Gabe got 30 points from the Patriots, helping him beat RJ by 12.5 points in week 11. Reinier's came from the Bills, though he still lost to Brendan by 4.52 points in week 2.
🔥 Hottest streak
Michael
13 wins in a row between weeks 4 and 10. Next best streak was Ian with 10 wins in a row from weeks 4through 9.
🥶 Coldest streak
Jessie
11 losses in a row between weeks 2 and 7. Next worst streak was Raymond, who opened the season with 8 losses in a row.
🍀 Easiest schedule
RJ
Scored the 6th most points but had the easiest schedule. Joe's schedule was nearly as easy, with only 4.6 more points against.
🤕 Hardest schedule
Raymond
Scored the 7th most points, but had the hardest schedule by far, with 81.2 more points against than Jesse 's 2nd hardest schedule, finishing the season in 12th place.
🤼 Most matchup wins
Joe & Ian
Tied with 11 matchup wins each. David & Gabe were next with 9 matchup wins each.
💀 Fewest matchup wins
Jessie
Only 3 matchup wins. Jesse & Raymond tied with 4 matchup wins, each.
😌 Largest matchup margin of victory
Gabe
Dominated Jessie by 89.84 points (185.10 to 95.26) in Week 4.
😅 Smallest matchup margin of victory
Jessie
Edged out RJ by 0.78 point in week 12, despite having no quarterbacks.
🏟 Most median wins
Joe
11 median wins. Tied for second with 9 median wins each were Gabe & Ian.
☠️ Fewest median wins
Jessie
Only 2 median wins. Second fewest was Matt with 4 median wins.
😌 Largest median margin of victory
Michael
Comfortably got a median win as the 7th highest-scoring team in week 8, with a 13-point gap from Mary.
😅 Smallest median margin of victory
Jeff
Edged out Jesse for a median win by 0.1 point. Next closest median win was week 14 when Jessie edged out Matt by 0.26 point.
😰 Most matchup sweats
Mary
Had 7 matchups decided by single-digit points, winning only 1 of them. Reinier had 6 sweats, while Jessie, Matt & RJ each had 5.
😰 Most median sweats
Jeff & Jesse
Both had 5 median wins decided by single-digit points. Jesse won 4 of his; Jeff won 3.
📈 Best FAAB move
Joe
Spent only 11% FAAB to acquire Cordarrelle Patterson before week 2, which gave him 138.5 points until he traded to RJ before week 10. Runner up is Raymond, who spent 78% FAAB to get Elijah Mitchell after week 1, giving him 128.6 points for the rest of the season.
📉 Worst FAAB move
Ian
Spent 60.5% FAAB to acquire Taysom Hill, only to find out that Trevor Siemian was that week's starter. This led Ian to send Taysom Hill, TJ Hockenson, Tua Tagovailoa, and Laviska Shenault to Jeff for Kyler Murray and Christian Kirk.
🎯 Best trade
Joe
Gave up Devin Singletary, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Zack Moss to Jesse for Chris Godwin, Tyler Conklin, and Darrel Williams.
🗑 Worst trade
RJ
Gave up CeeDee Lamb to David for Andy Dalton, Chris Conley, and 7.5% FAAB.
🤝 Dealmaker
Reinier
Most trades completed with 18. Ian was second with 17 trades. Then RJ with 13.
🙅 Dealbreaker
Jessie & Raymond
Both completed zero trades.
🎱 Best drafter
Gabe
Highest seasonal average from drafted players.
🤓 Best waiver manager
Reinier
Highest seasonal average from post-draft acquisitions.
🤠 Most active
Reinier
Led the league with 219 transactions. Second most transactions was Jesse with 110.
😴 Least active
Matt
His only transaction was 1 trade, but Jessie was right there with only 2 waivers.
😬 Never the worst
Brendan, Gabe, Joe, Jesse, Mary, Michael & Raymond
Never had the lowest weekly score.
🥴 Never the best
Brendan, Jesse, Jessie, Mary, Matt & Raymond
Never had the highest weekly score.