At the top of my all-time rankings, there were always three names: Robio Murray, Bob Castrone, and Griff Coomer. As we all know, Coomer’s empire eventually crumbled, and Rich Calderon has since carved out his place on the Robioland Fantasy Football Mount Rushmore alongside Bob and yours truly.
Of course, Mount Rushmore has four faces—at least until Trump decides to add himself sometime around 2027.
The question has always been: Who deserves that fourth spot?
Neatock has a compelling case with six championship game appearances and four titles. Even Griff still warrants consideration. As rough as the past decade has been, his dominance from 1999-2015 is simply too overwhelming to erase.
But this series is about the last decade, not league history. And if we’re building a Mount Rushmore for the last ten years, that fourth face belongs to Jeff Greenblatt.
Calderon, Castrone, and I have continued to produce the league’s best overall resumes, but Jeff has quietly been right there with us. The numbers back it up—but first, a trip down memory lane…
Greenblatt began the decade nearly perfectly. He won 11 games to earn the No. 1 seed while averaging a career-best 1,499 points per game, good for second in the league. In the playoffs, he survived a slugfest in the quarterfinals, edging eight-seeded Burrier, 905-840, before dismantling me in the semifinals. His dream season ultimately ended one game short, falling to second-seeded Calderon in the championship.
He followed that breakthrough with another winning season and another playoff appearance, once again reaching the semifinals before losing to second-seeded Matt. Jeff then hit a brief rough patch, missing the postseason in both 2018 and 2019. Even then, he was hardly out of contention, finishing ninth in both seasons and narrowly missing the playoffs each time.
In 2020, Jeff burst out of the gate with four straight wins before cooling off and finishing 4-5 over the second half of the season. He ended the year fifth in scoring and secured the No. 5 seed, entering the playoffs flying under the radar.
Perhaps we should have paid more attention.
Jeff proceeded to author one of the most impressive postseason runs of the decade. He crushed fourth-seeded Bob, 1,889-1,322, then knocked off sixth-seeded Burrier, 1,725-1,559. Waiting in the championship was yours truly, the defending champion and a five-time league champion. None of that history mattered. Jeff captured his first title with a solid 1,554-1,455 victory.
Since that magical run, Jeff hasn’t added a second championship, but he has quietly become one of the league’s most consistently successful teams. Since 2020, he’s posted just one losing season, a three-win campaign in 2022. In the other five years, he’s finished in the top six in scoring every time while earning a No. 6 seed or better in each postseason.
More importantly, Jeff has remained an absolute menace once the playoffs begin. Since winning it all in 2020, he’s reached two more championship games, falling to Eric in 2021 and Michael in 2024.
Overall, Jeff owns a 73-62 regular-season record, the fourth-best mark of the decade, along with a stellar 12-6 postseason record. His .667 playoff winning percentage ranks second, while his 12 playoff victories are the most by any person over the last ten years. Combined, his overall record is 85-68 (.556), also fourth-best.
He’s reached the postseason seven times, tied for the sixth-most appearances, but that doesn’t fully capture his consistency. In reality, he’s had only one season over the past decade in which he was truly out of the playoff race. Every other year, he was firmly in the mix.
Jeff has averaged 1,403 points per game, the fourth-highest scoring average of the decade. Somehow, he gets even better when the stakes are highest, averaging 1,519 points per game in the postseason, which is the third-best playoff scoring average in the league.
His average finish in the standings is 6.30, while his average finish in points is 5.60. Both rank fourth-best over the decade. Even more impressive is the context: the 0.70 gap between his points finish and standings finish is the second-largest in the league, trailing only Colby Hall. Jeff’s opponents have averaged 1,382 points per game against him, which is the third-highest opponent scoring average anyone has faced. In other words, he’s spent the last decade winning despite drawing one of the toughest schedules in the league.
Again, though, what truly separates Jeff is what happens once the playoffs begin.
He’s a remarkable 7-0 in quarterfinal games, the only person in league to remain undefeated in that round. In fact, he’s the only person to go 7-0 in the quarterfinals during any 10-year stretch. He’s also a solid 4-3 in the semifinals and has reached four championship games over the past decade. This is more than anyone else.
The only blemish? He’s just 1-3 once he gets there.
Still, it’s hard to hold that against him too much. Getting to four title games in a ten-year span isn’t luck; it’s sustained excellence.
Jeff may not have accumulated the championships of Neatock or recent back-to-back titles like Colby or the gaudy regular-season numbers of Calderon, Castrone, or myself, but year after year, he has done exactly what every fantasy owner hopes to do: put himself in contention.
He’s been one of the league’s most consistent regular-season teams, one of its most dangerous playoff teams, and arguably its most reliable postseason survivor. If that’s not good enough for a Decade’s Mount Rushmore, I don’t know what is.