Season recaps

Michael Fulton wins it, and Joe Hegarty wins the wrong bracket

Michael Fulton won the second YIFFLE, and he won it from the front. He took the one seed at 9-5, sat out the quarterfinal, put 166.1 on Harrison Dolgoff in the semifinal, and beat Justin Gomes 142.2 to 134.6 in the final. It was the tightest championship game the league has had, which is not saying much yet, but it was close all the way.

Christian McCaffrey carried him — 389.2 on the season, the most anyone got from a single player in 2025, and 32.6 and 28.1 in the two games that mattered. Chris Olave scored 36.8 in the semifinal and 25.9 in the final. Caleb Williams added 21.0 and 23.0. Fulton won a superflex title starting Jacoby Brissett in the championship game, which should not work and did.

Gomes is the improvement story. He went 5-9 in 2024 and finished twelfth while giving up the second-most points in the league. In 2025 he went 9-5, took the two seed, and made the final. Nothing about his 2024 suggested it. His semifinal is worth looking at: 173.6 points with nobody scoring more than 22.1 — eight starters between 17 and 23, the most evenly distributed big week the league has produced.

Harrison Dolgoff scored more than anyone across the whole season, 2,335.3, and finished 7-7. In the fourteen weeks that decided seeding he was second, 1,956.9 to Michael Fulton's 1,973.8 — seventeen points over three months. He got the six seed on points, beat Pierce O'Sullivan in the quarterfinal behind 24.5 from Josh Allen and 23.5 from Nico Collins, and then scored 81.9 in the semifinal. Eighty-one. Allen gave him 6.9 that week and Jaxson Dart zero. In a league where the average team clears 150 most weeks, on the week he needed it, he put up his worst score of the season by a distance.

But the season belongs to Joe Hegarty, who went 4-10 and was barely outscored doing it — 1,795.0 against 1,834.2, a regular-season differential of minus 39.2. Six teams were outscored by more than he was, and every single one of them won more games — including Drew Cakouros, who went 8-6 while being outscored by 121.9.

So he takes the wall of shame on the worst record in the league, and it is hard to argue he was the worst team in it.

He did win the consolation bracket, which is the closest thing to justice available to him — and posted the highest single week of the season doing it, 198.5 in week fifteen, beating Matt Koski by 103. That was two weeks after being eliminated from anything that mattered, and it counts for nothing: placings here are decided by the fourteen weeks everyone played, not by three games between teams already out.

Matthew Stockbridge went the other way, 5-9 and outscored by 249.9 across the regular season — the worst mark in the league by 128. He did win the closest game of the season, beating Ben Catudal by 0.24 in week ten.

One housekeeping note, because the standings look odd: Cameron Ford's team shows up as "Team 13" because he left partway through and Sleeper wiped the roster's owner and name. The record is his. Sean Feetham took the roster over for 2026.