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2025 SEASON SUPERLATIVES

Twelve superlatives nobody voted for, handed out anyway. Petty, data-driven, and legally binding until next August. Every number is real 2025 league data.

01 Vs. The Projection

The Beat & The Bust

Every week, someone's fantasy points laugh in the projection's face — and someone else's quietly die there, alone, in a start-'em/sit-'em article nobody will ever revisit.

Best beat · Week 12

Jahmyr Gibbs · RB

rostered by Chris Toomey · blew past projection by

+34.31^pts

Worst bust · Week 8

Bijan Robinson · RB

rostered by Blythe Houtzer · missed projection by

−21.32^pts

02 Weekly Scoring

Peaks & Valleys

The single-week ceiling and floor for a starting lineup this season — one of these is a highlight reel, the other is a cry for help.

Season high · Week 7

Samantha Bright

put up a lineup worth

189.09^pts

Season low · Week 11

Ryan McAllister

scraped together only (more on him later)

64.97^pts

03 Draft Day, Revisited

The Heist & The Reach

Measured in ADP delta — how many picks a player fell past (or jumped ahead of) their expected draft slot. One of these owners has a gift. The other has a first-round pick they'd like to forget.

Biggest steal · Rd 12, Pick 137

Brandon Aubrey · K

Samantha Bright let him fall

+33^picks

Biggest reach · Rd 1, Pick 7

Malik Nabers · WR

Erik Bright jumped the field by (also more on him later)

143^picks

04 Heat Check

Most & Least "En Fuego"

The league's enfuego rating — a weekly heat index for lineups running hot — averaged across the season. Tuesday Paulson's bench should be issued a parka.

Jon Houtzer

0.449

Chris Toomey

0.424

Justin Baker

0.416

· · ·

Blythe Houtzer

0.237

Tuesday Paulson

0.190

05 Margins Of Victory

The Blowout & The Nail-Biter

Widest and narrowest single-week matchup margins of the season. One team never had a chance; the other two spent the entire fourth quarter refreshing the app in a cold sweat.

Blowout · Week 9

Blythe Houtzer def. Julian Fohrman

168.45 – 86.76

81.69^margin

Nail-biter · Week 7

Erik Bright def. Jon Houtzer

83.94 – 83.41

0.53^margin

06 Volatility Award

The Roller Coaster

Biggest swing between a team's best and worst power ranking at any point in the season. Somewhere in there, Shannon Toomey aged ten years.

9^spots

Shannon Toomey

Rode from #3 all the way down to #12 — a full nine-spot freefall, the widest range of anyone in 2025.

3rd

12th

07 Vibes Check

Metronome & Menace

Standard deviation of weekly score — a measure of how much you could trust each lineup to show up and do the same thing twice.

Most predictable

Erik Bright

week to week, within

±10.8^σ

Least predictable

Chris Toomey

week to week, within

±29.1^σ

08 Blessed vs. Cursed

Snakebit & Fortune's Favorite

Gap between where a team ranked in total points scored and where they ranked in the standings. A big positive gap means the fantasy gods owe you money.

Snakebit of the year

Chris Toomey

5th in points scored, 8th in the standings — a 6–8 record he did not deserve

+3^spots

Fortune's favorite

Erik Bright

11th in points scored, 2nd in the standings — nine wins on borrowed time

−9^spots

09 Wrong Sport

The "So Close, Yet So Irrelevant" Award

This is fantasy football, not fantasy scoring — a lesson Megan Toomey learned the hard way.

+144^pts

Megan Toomey · finished 5th, 0% playoff odds

Out-scored Ryan McAllister — the league's 2 seed — by 143.75 points over the season, and still spent the playoffs at home because he had two more wins.

10 Real Estate

Squatter's Rights

Weeks spent camped at the very top or very bottom of the power rankings, out of 14 total.

Rent-free at #1

Ryan McAllister

spent half the season on top, in

7^{of 14 wks}

Basement lease, signed

Julian Fohrman

stuck dead last at #12 for

6^{of 14 wks}

11 Draft Day, Graded

Draft Day Genius & Draft Day Disaster

Average ADP delta across an entire 12-pick draft — not one lucky sleeper, a whole season of decisions.

Best value, whole draft

Shannon Toomey

averaged a steal of

+4.5^picks

Worst value, whole draft

Erik Bright

averaged a reach of (and still made the playoffs — see Award 08)

−12.4^picks

12 Bully Report

Serial Stomper & Human Punching Bag

"Stomp rate" — how often a team's weekly margin qualified as a full-on blowout, one way or the other.

Serial stomper

Ryan McAllister

blew teams out at a rate of

73.9^%

Human punching bag

Julian Fohrman

absorbed blowouts at a rate of

21.6^%

That's A Wrap

See You In Week 1

01 Beat: Jahmyr Gibbs +34.31 · Bust: Bijan Robinson −21.32
02 High: Samantha Bright 189.09 · Low: Ryan McAllister 64.97
03 Steal: Brandon Aubrey +33 · Reach: Malik Nabers −143
04 Hottest: Jon Houtzer · Coldest: Tuesday Paulson
05 Blowout: Blythe Houtzer · Nail-biter: Erik Bright
06 Roller coaster: Shannon Toomey, #3→#12
07 Steadiest: Erik Bright · Wildest: Chris Toomey
08 Snakebit: Chris Toomey · Luckiest: Erik Bright
09 Missed it by that much: Megan Toomey
10 Rent-free at #1: Ryan McAllister · Basement: Julian Fohrman
11 Value king: Shannon Toomey · Worst value: Erik Bright
12 Stomper: Ryan McAllister · Punching bag: Julian Fohrman