A scoring error on a Dolphins extra-point return credited Ryan with 280 extra points in Week 13 last season. His raw score read 393.84, the highest number ever shown on a league scoreboard. The league corrected it to 113.84. Ryan would have won the game at either number, and he later claimed the sixth playoff seed.
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Drake took over Greg's 6-2 roster in Week 9 last season, went 3-3 the rest of the way, then won both playoff games and the title. The league credited half a championship to each of them. His full career is six regular-season games. This fall he runs his first auction and builds a roster from scratch, without an inherited 6-2 start. The league will learn a lot about him by Thanksgiving.
David M and Mikayel each have three championships. David M leads in lifetime power, 50.80 to 47.99, and owns the two highest single games ever recorded. Mikayel won back-to-back titles in 2023 and 2024 after starting his career with a last-place finish in 2017. A fourth ring for either one would be the most in league history.
Caleb enters his tenth season with no championships, no runner-up finishes, one bronze from 2024, and a 44 percent career playoff rate. He has lost seven straight to Mikayel, including last season's consolation final. His last win in that series came in Week 6 of 2020.
Sobi has missed the playoffs three years running, the longest active drought in the league, and finished last in 2025. His career playoff rate is 25 percent. An audit of the record also removed two wins the sheet had mistakenly added to his 2025 total. The 2022 runner-up finish remains the only podium on his résumé.
Stephan has finished second twice and third twice without winning a title. Four podiums is more than any other ringless manager has managed. His 2025 included an 11-game losing streak, tied for second-longest in league history, and a 2-1 consolation run after it ended. An audit restored two postseason wins the sheet never credited him. The record is clean now.
Ryan enters his tenth season without a podium finish. The file includes a 13-game losing streak across 2020 and 2021, the longest ever, a last-place finish in 2023, and the 2025 scoring correction that turned a 393.84 into a 113.84. He has rostered James Conner for 71 weeks, the longest manager-player run in league history, and drafted him four times.
Austin, the 2025 runner-up, has two championships. The record lists the 2022 title as 'Austin*', the only annotated championship in league history, the result of a disputed midseason trade with Greg. He leads the David M series 8-4 and has won six of their last seven meetings. A third title would tie David M and Mikayel for the most ever. It would also be his first without a footnote since 2018.
Alex has made the playoffs in 80 percent of his seasons, the best rate of any manager past his first season. He carried a 10-game winning streak across 2024 and 2025, tied for the longest ever, and scored 2,024.70 points last season, the second-most in league history. He has one bronze to show for all of it.
Curtis and Kappy have combined for 15 seasons and one podium, Kappy's 2023 bronze. Curtis owns two of the three largest margins of victory in the Yahoo era, including a 192.12-point game in 2020, and has never finished top three. Kappy has made the playoffs in four of six seasons. Neither has reached a final.
Frank has missed the playoffs in both of his seasons. His lifetime power value is 1.95, last in the league, and his 104.86 points per game trail every other active manager by more than ten. Year three starts with the same goal as year two: a postseason game.
Every championship in recorded league history belongs to five managers. David M has three, Mikayel three, Austin two, and Greg and Drake split 2025, with Greg also winning 2017 outright. Eight of the twelve active managers have never won it. That group includes Stephan, who has four podium finishes, Alex, who has the league's best playoff rate, and Sobi, who reached the final in 2022.
Greg retired this offseason as reigning co-champion. He leaves with one and a half championships, two runner-up finishes, and a league-record three last-place finishes. He also holds the lowest single game ever recorded, 26.60, and a 10-game win streak that Alex tied in 2025. He kept AJ Dillon rostered for 65 weeks across three separate drafts. The roster passed to Drake.
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Greg stepped away after Week 8 of the 2025 season with his roster at 6-2. Drake took over in Week 9, went 3-3 in the regular season and 2-0 in the playoffs, and won the championship. The league ruled it a split title, half a ring to each manager, the first shared championship in league history. Greg retired as reigning co-champion.
The league sheet recorded Stephan's 2022 playoff run as 0-2 while also crediting him with the bronze, which he won 137.42 to 63.22 over Alex in the third-place game. A bracket audit caught the contradiction, along with a missing 2025 consolation win. Both records now match the brackets. The full errata are published at /data-notes/.
Alex won 10 straight games from Week 12 of 2024 through Week 7 of 2025, tying Greg's 2023 run for the longest winning streak in league history. His is the only one to span two seasons. He finished 2025 with 2,024.70 points, the second-highest season total ever, and took the bronze, his first career podium.
The three longest manager-player runs in league history: James Conner with Ryan, 71 weeks and four separate drafts, a draft count matched only by Mikayel with CeeDee Lamb; Chris Godwin with Austin, 66 weeks; and AJ Dillon with Greg, 65 weeks across three drafts, most of them spent on the bench. Dillon's run ended only when Greg retired.
Austin won the 2022 championship. The official record lists it as 'Austin*', the only annotated title in league history, after a midseason trade with Greg drew league scrutiny. The season notes describe the trade justification as 'reliant on a jersey when it was in fact just a meme.' Sobi finished second that year. Greg, the other party to the trade, finished last.
David M set the league's three biggest scoring records in a single season: the highest game ever, 234.07 against Ryan in Week 5; the largest margin of victory, 157.88 over Alex in Week 11; and the most points-for in a season, 2,026.64. He won his third championship that year. All three records still stand.
Ryan lost 13 straight games from Week 3 of 2020 through Week 2 of 2021, the longest losing streak in league history and the only one to run across the league's move from Yahoo to Sleeper. His team names stayed Hype-branded the whole way.
One slate produced three entries in the record book. Greg scored 26.60, still the lowest game in league history. Max beat him by 153.94, the largest margin ever at the time, a record that held until 2021. In another matchup that week, Austin put up 196.47 against Austin N. It remains his career high.
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