The season is over, but there is still plenty of math to be done. First up, where did your 2024 season rank among the best? 306 seasons have been played in this league. If you cracked the top-75, you enjoyed greatness; either with a superior regular season, a title game run or a championship (although not all champions cracked the top-75). If you landed among the 76-150, you probably had a good year and made the playoffs. Maybe you were an average team who made a nice playoff run. If your season finished among 151-225, making the playoffs isn’t a guarantee, but you probably did a low seed. Anything between 226-306, then things didn’t go your way this year.
If you want to know the math, go to the bottom. The link to full ranking with every season is HERE.
#27 – RICH CALDERON – 352.4 POINTS
Calderon won 12, earned the top seed and finished second in points, averaging 1,508 points per game. He topped 1,500 six times and had three weekly high scores, while avoiding any game under 1,000 and any low scores. He went 4-2 against the top-six in the league. Unfortunately, a great season ended too early in the quarterfinals.
His 2024 campaign is the second highest ranked by a team that lost in the quarterfinals. Molly’s 2011 is the 25th best season. This is Rich’s fifth best season. His 2016 title run remains the best, currently #8. His 2019 squad is ranked #9 and is the highest rated season by a team that didn’t win the title.
#30 – ROBIO MURRAY – 348.4 POINTS
I finished 11-3, earning the two-seed, but I won the scoring crown, averaging 1,528 points per game. I produced a league high eight games over 1,500, which included a pair of weekly high scores. I never sniffed a weekly low and never dipped below 1,000. I went a solid 5-1 against the top-six this year. Unfortunately, like Calderon, my season came to a close in the quarterfinals.
My season was the third best by a team that lost in the quarterfinals. Based on the math, this is my seventh best season ever and 27 spots ahead of one of my titles (2012). This is the second team I’ve had that finished among the top-35, despite failing to escape the quarterfinals.
#45 JEFF GREENBLATT – 143.6 POINTS
Jeff went 8-6, finishing in fourth place and averaged 1,436 points per game, which was third best. He topped 1,500 seven times, including all three postseason games. He also added two weekly high scores. He got hit by one weekly low score, despite never dipping below 1,000. He landed among the top-45, because he advanced to the title game, losing to Michael, and scored over 1,500 in all three playoff games (scoring 4,929 points). The only minor hiccup was his record against the elite. He went just 2-6 for the season.
This year ends up as the third best for Greenblatt. His championship season in 2020 is the 15th best season (third best by a non-champion), but his best year was 2016. That proved to be the 14th best season, thanks to 11 wins and a run to the title game.
#47 MICHAEL EVANGELIST – 323.7 POINTS
The league champion failed to crack the top-three in the season rankings, but take stock in the fact that this is the highest rated team that failed to finish among the top-five in the standings.
Evangelist finished at .500 (7-7), earning the 7-seed, averaging 1,379 per game. However, he scored a stunning 5,584 points during his postseason run, which is the third most ever, including a record breaking 2,247 points in the finals. He played a league high 11 games against the top-six (two in the playoffs) and went a respectable 6-5. He had one weekly high score, but eight total games over 1,500, including three in the postseason. However, the reason why he failed to hop over the man he beat in the title game was because he ended the regular season with two games under 1,000 and three weekly low scores. That’s -15 points.
This 2024 championship season is Michael’s best, just two spots ahead of his 2023 campaign, where he reached the title game. In six seasons in this league, none of Michael’s seasons are currently sitting 200 or worse (his worst season was 2021, which is ranked #195). He’s the only person to not have a season sub-200 on the list. And before you go saying he’s only been in the league six years, he’s the only person in league history to not produce a sub-200 season in his first six years in the league.
#65 RICHARD BURRIER – 297.3 POINTS
Burrier cracks the top-70 for the third time in the last five seasons. He won nine games (second time in three years), averaging 1,402 points per game (7th time he has averaged over 1,400 per game for a season). He earned the three seed and finished fourth in points, behind five games over 1,500 and two weekly high scores. He had no games under 1,000 and no weekly low scores. He went a solid 5-3 against the elite (top-six).
This campaign proved to be Burrier’s third best ever, beaten out only by his 2003 title run, which is currently ranked #29 and his 2011 team that reached the finals and is now ranked #54. However, to prove his consistency issues, he has nine seasons among the top-100 and nine seasons among the bottom-100.
#99 BOB CASTRONE – 272.5 POINTS
4-time champion Bob returned to the postseason after a two-year absence. He finished 8-6 and earned the 5-seed, averaging 1,398 points per game. He topped 1,500 five times, including his postseason defeat to Jeff. He had just one weekly high score, but he avoided the weekly low and he never fell below 1,000. He did have a favorable schedule, facing the elites only six times, but he went just 2-4 against the top-six, including a quarterfinals defeat. Since losing in the 2017 title game, Castrone has just one playoff victory.
His 2024 campaign is his 11th best and 11th among the top-100. Officially, I have the most with 15, but Bob’s average season rank is 98.4, which is the best in the league, nearly nine spots ahead of Calderon and 16 spots ahead of me. His best season remains his 2024 championship squad. They produced the third best season ever.
#104 MATT NEATOCK – 269.4 POINTS
Neatock averaged 1,381 points per game and finished at 7-7, earning him the 6-seed. He topped 1,500 six times this year and delivered two weekly high scores. He reached the semifinals for a third straight season and averaged over 1,500 in those two contests combined. However, despite advancing one round further than Bob, Matt failed to skip past him in the season rankings, thanks to one game under 1,000 and two weekly low scores. Also going 2-4 against the elite didn’t help his cause.
This is Matt’s 10th best season for his career. His best was his 2009 championship squad that is currently ranked 4th all-time. His average season rank is 138.7. This is also the best team he’s produced that lost in the semifinals.
#163 COLBY HALL – 229.6 POINTS
We took a massive dip from Matt to Colby, as Hall finished 59 spots behind Neatock. He barely squeezed into the postseason with a 6-8 record, earning the 8-seed, averaging a not-too-tragic 1,307 points per game (8th best). This is the 8th best season by a team that finished as the 8-seed. Upsetting the top-seed helped a ton. He faced a top-six team nine times out of his 16 games, but went just 3-6. He topped 1,500 four times, including once in the playoffs. He had one weekly high score, but three weekly low scores, failing to hit 1,000 twice.
He failed to win a third straight title, but he did come within two victories of it. Overall, this season was his 13th best out of 21 total. In fact, this is his second worst playoff team. His 2020 squad also finished in 8th place, yet despite averaging more per game (1,307), that team failed to reach the semifinals and is ranked #182. Colby’s best team was his team last year that finished as the second best ever in this league’s history.
#222 ERIC VOZZOLA – 184 POINTS
The greatest final week collapse in league history lands Eric the 222nd best season ever. He is the first non-playoff team to appear on this list (his first season outside the playoffs in nearly a decade), thanks to a 6-8 season where he averaged 1,301 points per contest. Eric did top 1,500 three times and had one weekly low score, but he also failed to hit 1,000 three times and he had a league high four weekly low scores. That’s the most he’s ever had in a season. He also registered only one win against the top-six, going 1-7 on the season.
Of his 24 seasons in the league, this one is ranked 15th. It’s the 14th season he’s had that is currently ranked 200th or worse. His best season remains his 2022 team that won 12 and averaged 1,606 per game (second most ever). However, that team fell in the semifinals and is ranked 10th (second best non-championship team). His one championship team is ranked 76th, which is his fourth best season.
#227 ROB MASTERSON – 181.9 POINTS
Masterson only won four games all year and was pretty much eliminated from the postseason before the final week, but he finished only 2.1 points behind Eric, who was the 8-seed until week 14. Anyhow, Rob averaged 1,293 points per game. It’s the second most points per game by a team that finished with double-digit defeats. In fact, this is the second best season ever by a team with 10+ defeats. Jeff’s 2014 team went 3-10, but averaged 1,382 and that season is ranked #224. Rob topped 1,500 four times, but only won one of those games. He dipped below 1,000 once, but never had a weekly low score or a weekly high score. He went 2-5 against the elite.
After a solid nine year run between 2011-2019, Rob has produced a sub-200 season in four of his last five years, including three straight. He’s had just five seasons worse than this one, led by his 2010 team that won two, averaging 1,090 PPG and is ranked #296 all-time. Oddly enough, his following season was his best. His 2011 team won nine, averaged 1,530 per game, but only earned him the 40th best spot, after getting upset in the quarterfinals. Rob is the only team to not have a season among the top-39.
#254 GRIFF COOMER – 161.3 POINTS
After making it back to the playoffs last year with a season that is ranked 85th, Griff missed the show for the sixth time in seven years, winning just three games (tied for worst), averaging 1,269 points per game. Because of the not-tootragic points, this is actually the highest rated three-win team in league history. Good times!
Anyhow, he topped 1,500 twice this year, but had no weekly high scores. He did have one weekly low score, but he never fell below 1,000. However, he went a stunning 0-8 against the elites this year. That’s only happened to four people and a second time for Griff. His 2016 team also went 0-8 against the top-six. He’s the only person to go 0-8 against the elites twice in his career. This campaign ended up being the third worst for Griff’s career. In fact, his four worst seasons all have come since 2019.
#262 DON VOZZOLA – 155.3 POINTS
Thanks to three wins and averaging only 1,259 points per game, Don earns his fifth career last place (the most in league history). If it makes him feel any better, this was his best last place team, at least according to the math. Oddly enough, despite finishing last, he had no weekly low scores and never scored less than 1,000. He topped 1,500 once, but had no weekly high scores. He went 2-7 against the elites. HIs nine games against the top-six were tied for the most in the regular season with Michael.
Despite a bad year, Don has actually produced six worse seasons than this, including his 2003 team that is currently ranked #305 out of #308. It helps that he scored so much. In fact, his 1,259 points per game are the 10th most points he’s ever averaged in a season. His two championship seasons are the two lowest rated (2008 is ranked #105, 2006 is ranked #98), but his best season was his 2007 team (between the two titles). That squad won eight, earned the scoring crown and is currently the 71st rated season.
There is no opinion in these rankings. Instead, all math. Points and Standings are nearly equal and the two most important things. If you averaged 1,400 points this season, that’s 140 points. The scoring champ gets a bonus of 10 points. Next, let’s say your winning percentage is .571, that’s another 57.1 points. Next, the last place team gets 5 points. Each spot up gets 5 more points. The top seed gets the most with 60 points, plus a 10-point bonus for earning that top spot. In the playoffs, I don’t reward for wins, but instead I add your points. So if you score 1,500 a quarterfinals win and 1,300 in a semifinals defeat, that’s a total of 3,800 fantasy points, which becomes 38.0 added points to your total. On top of that, you get +3 bonuses for weekly high scores and any game over 1,500. If you top 1,500 in the postseason, it becomes a +5 bonus. However, if you produce the weekly low score or a game under 1,000, that’s -3 for each. Also, I reward for tougher schedules (but don’t punish for tougher schedules). This season, Calderon went 4-2 against the top-six. He gets a +4 bonus being +2 against the top-six. If he went 2-4, he would have gotten zero. And lastly, if you win the championship, you get a 30-point bonus (10 points for each playoff round you won).