Keeper Champions- Official Fantasy Thread

[Chris Lyle]

Originally Posted by Hollywood42

Respectfully Chris, you are always working up until the last minute I frankly do not want to have to process a bunch of trades by hand anymore as ESPN already makes me do enough manually. The deadline has to be somewhere so my strong opinion is to leave it and live with it

I'm not the only one that has complained about the time of the deadline. I see across leagues that we are always trying to find ways to keep them fresh, etc. and I've always found in the 25 years of playing that little things like what we are talking about promote that.

Respectfully it's obvious that a change or adjustment here is not something you are even willing to discuss, because with something like what I proposed you wouldn't have a bunch of trades to process.

But with that I will let it die.

[jstasyk1121]

Originally Posted by crossdog

Hi All,

This is my first attempt at a write up, so be gentle and excuse any offenses.
*Standings are as of the end of week 15.
*Notable wins and losses have been noted.


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Position: 9 of 12

Team: No. 1 Gunnar! 5 - 9 - 1; Playoff 9%

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up to 35% odds at playoffs now!!! LOL

[jstasyk1121]

Originally Posted by jstasyk1121

up to 35% odds at playoffs now!!! LOL

keeping it going with the update you are all wanting...another win has me at 58% odds of playoffs...play the #1 team this week though...so that might be tough to keep the win streak going!

[Hollywood42]

And let's get a full standings update here as well. Down to 3 more regular season matchups, and only 2 playoff slots have been claimed. Still 7 teams still in the running for the final 4!

Clinched:
1. Crossdog 15-4
2. Viking 14-5

In the hunt:
3. Chitty 12-7
4. Jac 11-8
5. Hollywood 10-9
6. JST 9-9-1
7. Chris 9-10
8. Poonchka 9-10
9. Corner 8-10-1

Eliminated:
10. Seanbros 6-13
11. Eck 5-14
12. Ray 5-14

[Hollywood42]

Is having 16 points and being down 200 points at the end of the day Wednesday good? Asking for a friend

[Hollywood42]

Easy one in this league as the playoff picture is all set:

Clinched:
1. Crossdog 16-5
2. Viking 16-5
3. Chitty 14-7
4. Jac 13-8
5. JST 11-9-1
6. Hollywood 11-11

Eliminated:
7. Poonchka 10-11
8. Corner 9-11-1
9. Chris 9-12
10. Seanbros 6-15
11. Eck 5-16
12. Ray 5-16

Not much left to play out for seeding here either. Crossdog and Viking will end up as 1/2 in either order. Chitty and Jac are head to head this week but will enter the playoffs as the 3 and 4 seeds in either order. Jac can force a second tiebreaker with a win. JST is locked into the 5 seed I believe, and I can't catch JST so I will be the 6th seed

[jstasyk1121]

9% thru week 15 to locked up a spot with 1 week to go...gotta love fantasy baseball!!

[Hollywood42]

A whopping 6 SP starts yesterday and only one of them put up more than 10 points. And two put up -13 each! Yikes

[7jacfire]

Originally Posted by Hollywood42

A whopping 6 SP starts yesterday and only one of them put up more than 10 points. And two put up -13 each! Yikes

Joe Ryan is here to save the day!

[Hollywood42]

I was thinking heading into the day that I was not nearly as stoked about Strider being my final start of the week as I'd historically feel like I should be, but he ended up getting bumped back. Looks like I'll take home the narrow victory and stay alive in the bracket. And yes, I am thanking Joe Ryan for one of his final acts as a Twin

[7jacfire]

Welp, that was the 2nd time in the past 3 years where my team was a top 2 point scorer throughout the year, yet bad luck led to me not having a record good enough for a BYE week and I was then promptly eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

In most other recent years in this league, I have ended up being a seller at the deadline because my team sucks. I think I prefer that over these results, but better luck next year .

And good luck to those still in the running!

[crossdog]

I am getting blown out in the ship, sux.

[Viking6]

Tough to have your worst week in the big match. Sometimes the scheduling and pitching lineups just don't work in your favor.

[Viking6]

Congrats Chitty


Tough break crossdog. Tough to win with most of your star pitchers laying eggs in the Finals.

[Hollywood42]

Season wrap-up:

Playoff final standings
1. Chittychitty844
2. Crossdog
3. Viking6
4. Hollywood42
5. 7jacfire
6. Jstasyk1121

Consolation bracket final standings
7. Poonchka
8. Seanbros
9. Chris Lyle
10. Cornerstore
11. Ray27Ray52
12. Eckstein197

The draft order for 2026 will be the same order as the consolation bracket final standings for picks 1-6, then picks 7-12 will be the reverse order of the playoff final standings. I'll get this put into the draft spreadsheet at some point this offseason

Our winners for 2025:

1st: $300 - Chittychitty844
2nd: $150 - Crossdog
3rd: $100 - Viking6
4th: $50 - Hollywood42

Winnings have been assigned in LeagueSafe and should be available for the winners now. We were $50 short in the prize pool because of the Ksmith situation and I was going to cover the entry fee for Chris since he didn't going to draft, but I think I never submitted that in LeagueSafe. But since that $50 would have come back to me as the 4th place finisher this year, that worked out nicely and we are all square. Just in case anyone noticed that

Lastly, just housekeeping: Free agency adds have been locked for the offseason. Trades are fair game again now, but will not be able to be processed through ESPN until they update for 2026, so let me know if/when trades start coming in. Finally, as you think about 2026 keepers, remember that we now have escalating keeper costs: Any players not kept last season will cost +1 draft pick rounds. Players kept for their second consecutive year will be +2 rounds, and players kept for their third or more consecutive year in a row will be +3 rounds

Thanks all for another good season