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Ten players carry a K from the roster lock. Each one drops two more rounds.
| Player | Manager | Was | Now | Remaining |
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Rosters as they stood when they locked for the 2025–26 playoffs — the record that decides who is keepable.
Regular-season standings — the order that sets the draft, worst record picking first. Tyler and Chris both went 9–10 and Tyler holds the tiebreak on head-to-head. David had the best record and lost the final; Sean went 12–6–1 and won it. Eight of ten made the playoffs.
| # | Team | Manager | Record | Pct | Playoffs | FAB | Moves | 2026 pick |
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The trophy case, sixteen badges strong. Nothing here is handed out for what already happened: every badge starts unclaimed and goes to the first manager who earns it from now on. Some are won each season, some are held and passed along, and each one can carry a prize.
How every NBA team actually uses its players, night by night: how deep the bench goes, how many starters stay on the floor, who carries the load and which five-man units get the minutes. Read from the gameflows on popcornmachine, where every game links back to the picture.
Who the offense runs through: how much of each team’s possessions every player finishes, how he gets his shots and where on the floor they come from, and how his usage moves quarter by quarter. Read from the same gameflows on popcornmachine as the Rotations page.
Every matchup in the league, live: the week’s category totals added up from the box scores, tonight’s lines as they happen, who is on the floor, and the games cap for both sides. Open a game for its gameflow and box score.
Lineups from Yahoo Fantasy · box scores, play-by-play and projections from ESPN · the score is computed here from the stored lines and checked against Yahoo once a day.
The board as it happened, straight from Yahoo. Each column is a draft slot and the board snakes: odd rounds read left to right, even rounds right to left. Amber cells are keepers taking their round; the small line under each name is the overall pick and his NBA team. Next season's keeper costs come from this board — a player's cost is his round here, minus two.
Order is the reverse of last season's regular-season standings (ties broken head-to-head). Change it up top, log any pick swaps, and every keeper drops into the pick it costs — so you can see what's gone before anyone picks. Swapped picks show in blue with who they came from; every team still drafts twelve.
Each keeper takes that team's pick in the round shown. Everything else drafts normally.
| Team | Manager | Keepers | Picks left | Rounds gone |
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The full board from the 2025 draft, straight from Yahoo. Amber cells were keepers taking their round. This is what every 2026–27 keeper cost was calculated from.
Thirty player-games a week is the rule, but a week where the NBA barely plays isn't a fair thirty. The cap scales with how much the league actually plays — the calculation you've been doing by hand.
A week at 29 games is 42% short, so the cap lands near 17 and gets set at 15.
| Week | Dates | NBA games | vs normal | Scaled | Cap set | Locked | Note |
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Every cell is editable and remembered in this browser. Count NBA games pulls the season schedule and tallies regular-season games in each Monday–Sunday week, so next year is one click plus your corrections. Once Yahoo is connected the site counts each team's games used against these caps instead of anyone tallying them.
Two more seasons after this one.
Four managers tied at two. Nobody has three. Two still looking for their first.
Every recorded first, second and third since 2012. Early ESPN years only have the champion on file, so the podium count starts in earnest in 2017.
| Manager | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Podiums | Years |
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| Yr | Champion | Winning team | Runner-up | Third | League name |
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Pick a season. Final standings as Yahoo closed them, with the podium, and every draft pick that year. Amber cells were keepers where Yahoo recorded them; a manager picking twice in one round means picks were swapped.
Polls are for the ten managers. Sign in to vote, or claim your team if this is your first time here.
Paint the hours you could draft. Everyone's marks stack up into the grid below, and the best slots rise to the top. Times are shown in your own time zone.
Sign in to mark when you're free.
Click or drag across the hours you're free; it saves on its own. On a phone, tap each hour.
| When | Free | Missing |
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Pick the candidate dates and the hours to offer, in your time zone. Starting a new poll makes it the one everybody sees; the old poll and everyone's marks on it are kept, and you can switch back below.
Things the league still has to decide. Anyone can raise one; when it's ready, put it to a vote on the Polls page, and the commissioner records the outcome here.
Sign in to see the list and add to it.
Something on the site broken, wrong, or missing? Open an issue. Sean gets an email, replies here, and moves it from open to in progress to closed — and you get an email when he does.
Sign in to see what's been reported and add your own.
First time here? Tell us which team is yours, enter the league code Sean sent around, and pick a username and password. Each team can only be claimed once — if yours already says "claimed" and it wasn't you, tell Sean.
Only you see this page. The league code is what managers type to claim their team; change it any time and the old one stops working. Release a claim if someone grabbed the wrong team or lost their login.
| Team | Manager | Claimed by | Username |
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Read straight from Yahoo every time this page opens; nothing from it is saved anywhere. The sign-in asks for read-only access and stays in your own browser. Every member gets the same on their own team page: connect once there and it shows your roster, lineup, injuries, games played against the cap, record and this week’s matchup.
Polls that happened on WhatsApp can live in the Poll History too. One choice per line: the choice, the vote count, and who voted, separated by |.
Value is the sum of z-scores across our nine categories (FG%, FT%, 3PTM, PTS, REB, AST, ST, BLK, DD), per game, measured against the top 200 players by minutes — the Basketball Monster way. A player needs ten games (a fifth of the season early on) to be ranked. Switch Stats to Z-scores and every category column becomes that player's z-score against whoever is currently listed — filter to free agents, or one position, and the numbers re-centre on that group. FPTS is Yahoo's default points formula (PTS 1, REB 1.2, AST 1.5, STL 3, BLK 3, TO −1). Owner is whoever had him when rosters locked; K marks a flagged keeper. Salaries are this season's figure from Basketball-Reference (ESPN where they lack one); stats are ESPN's.
Every player is a dot, every stat is an axis. Group them into swarms, rank them, grade them, or roll them up into our ten fantasy teams — then copy the picture for the chat.
Everyone with at least one game this season is on the chart; the Min GP and Min MPG boxes cut the tail. Value is the sum of z-scores across our nine categories and FPTS is Yahoo's points formula — the same numbers as the Players page. The swarm packs bubbles so nothing overlaps, which is why a crowded group spreads wide. Fantasy-team charts roll each roster up (totals for counting stats, averages for rates and age). The list doubles as the table, so every number on the chart is readable without hovering. Stats from ESPN, salaries from Basketball-Reference.
Dues are between the ten managers and the commissioner. Sign in to see the amount, pick how you're paying, and mark it sent.
| Team | Manager | Method | Status |
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"Sent" means the manager marked it on this page. "Received" means Sean confirmed the money landed — that's the one that counts.
Managers see the amount, the due date and whichever payment handles you fill in. Keep the season label the same to edit this season; type a new label (say, 2026-27) to start the next season — the old one stays in the history below.
| Season | Dues | Paid | Still owed |
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One number follows a player for as long as anyone holds him. It gets two rounds more expensive every season, and when it would cost better than a first-round pick, he goes back in the pool.
Two rounds better than where he was drafted. A round 9 pick keeps at round 7. Waiver pickups start at round 11.
Hold him another season and the cost drops two more rounds. No cap on years — the ladder runs out on its own.
Once the next cost lands past a first-rounder he isn't keepable. That's why rounds 1 and 2 are locked the moment they're drafted.
Trade him or claim him off waivers and the cost comes along. Nobody resets a keeper clock by cycling a player.
Each keeper takes that round's pick, so keeping at round 3 costs you your third-rounder.
If both keepers would land on the same round, the second one moves one more round up: −2 and −3. Two waiver pickups come back as your 11th and 10th. Voted Feb 2025, 9–0.
The frozen roster decides eligibility. Drops during the playoffs don't cost you a keeper.
Keepers are declared to the commissioner one week before draft day so everyone can plan. Yahoo's own keeper date is only when its tool wants them typed in.
Rosters lock before the playoffs, and that frozen roster — not whatever the team looks like in April — is what keeper eligibility is judged from. Yahoo doesn't preserve it, which is why it currently lives as screenshots pasted into a spreadsheet.
All ten rosters exactly as they stand at the lock, bench and IL included.
Who each manager may keep. Moves after the lock add and remove nothing.
Playoff teams churn rosters chasing a title. Without the lock, chasing a ring would cost you keepers.
One button, one timestamp, all ten rosters kept forever and still readable years later.
| Setting | Value |
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| Scoring | Head-to-head, one win per week |
| Categories | FG%, FT%, 3PTM, PTS, REB, AST, ST, BLK, DD — nine (3PT% and A/T dropped for 2026–27) |
| Roster | G, G, F, F, C, Util, six bench, one IL |
| Draft | Offline, twelve rounds, snake · order is the reverse of the regular-season standings · day and time picked on the |
| Keeper eligibility | Decided by the pre-playoff roster lock, not a date in October |
| Yahoo keeper deadline | Mon Oct 19, 2026 — only when Yahoo's tool wants them entered |
| Waivers | FAB, continual rolling tiebreak, one-day waiver time |
| Acquisitions | Four per week, no season maximum |
| Trade deadline | March 4, 2027 · no trade review |
| Playoffs | Eight teams, weeks 19–21, ends Sunday Mar 28 |
| Weekly games cap | 30 — a league rule, not a Yahoo setting. Yahoo will not count or enforce it. Short weeks get their own number (see Games Cap). |
| Dues | Voted each preseason: $69 in 2024-25, $80 in 2025-26. This season's number and who has paid are on the . |
| Payout | 50% champion · 40% runner-up · 10% regular-season winner. Set by vote in 2023, paid that way in 2025 and 2026. |
Reverse order of the regular-season standings — the worst record picks first, the best record picks last — regardless of what happened in the playoffs. Ties go to the head-to-head result. Snake from there.
Caught the same day, the extra player comes out — your opponent picks which, or the commissioner pulls the best one. Not caught in time and it's an automatic loss; only Yahoo support can change the record after the fact.
The cap moves with the NBA schedule. NBA Cup weeks, election week and All-Star week get their own number, set by the commissioner and put to a vote when it's close.
Makes 100 free throws inside an hour, on one continuous video for the group. Voted Oct 2025.
The champion holds the championship belt for the year — first awarded for 2024-25 — and passes it on by mail or in person at the next draft.
Playoff teams can add and drop freely; keeper eligibility was frozen at the roster lock, so nothing you do in the playoffs costs you a keeper.
Rules change by a league vote before the season, not mid-year. Anything else waits for the offseason — put it on the list.