RealFF

RealFF is a fantasy football league founded prior to the 2012 NFL football season. The league has 12 teams split into three divisions: the North, South, and Central. The league is run on ESPN.com using its non-PPR standard scoring format, as the league has used since its inception. The league schedule currently consists of a 14 week regular season where each team plays divisional opponents twice and all other teams once. This is followed by a 3 week single-elimination playoff with six teams (3 division winners and 3 wild cards) after which the league's champion is crowned

## History

### Founding and 2012 Season

RealFF was founded in 2012 off of an idea by 5th graders Casey and Brett. They gathered ten of their friends for the inaugural draft which was held in Casey's basement. Pick placement was determined randomly and Brett's team Wildcats-Brett selected running back Ray Rice with the first overall pick. This was the first fantasy football draft for all of the managers.

The 2012 season was dominated by The Casinators and The Clippers, who were 11-2 and 12-1 respectively and faced off in the Championship. The Clippers won and their 14-1 season has yet to be topped. The season also saw the league's first ever trade take place on October 2, with John's Shirtless Potato Twins sending The Casinators Cam Newton in exchange for Jay Cutler.

### 2013

The 2013 season saw the addition of two managers, Jack F. and Nick, to bring the total teams in the league to 12. The league was also reorganized into its present North, South, Central division system.

The 2013 draft is perhaps most famous for Frozen Tundra's second round pick, where manager Aidan selected the Packers D/ST, which was PRK 23 that year, at 20th overall. The phrase "Packers D" has become a colloquial saying for a bad draft pick. The 2013 draft was also the first to include the offline sticker draft board, which has been a staple of league drafts since (barring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).

Jake's team Domination won the Championship in 2013, and certainly did dominate, possessing one of the most stacked lineups in league history. With Peyton Manning, Jamaal Charles, and Jimmy Graham, all PRK 1 in 2013, Domination cruised through the regular season and playoffs, including laying a 140-point bomb on Jack You Up in the Semis.

### 2014

The 13-14 offseason saw the migration of the league from NFL.com to ESPN .com fantasy services where the league remains to this day. The offseason also saw a divisional switch between Nick and Alex. As of 2021, this was the last movement of teams between divisions.

The 2014 draft was the last to use a random draw for pick order.

The Casinators dominated the regular season, going 11-2 and claiming the first seed in the playoffs. However, they lost to Nick's team in the Semifinals and the Championship was contested between Nick and his division rival Jack F.'s Jack You Up. Jack You Up won the Championship, beginning a long streak of domination for the team over Nick. Tate won the Central Division with a record of 6-6-1, which remains the worst record a team has been able to win a division with. Another Central Division team, Ryan's Hot Sauce went 0-13 in 2014 which holds the record for lowest amount of points scored in a season and is by far the considered the worst team in league history. Hot Sauce declined to return to the league in 2015.

### 2015

With Hot Sauce's exit, Jayson joined the league as a member of the Central Division and the league's 13 member overall.

The 2015 draft consisted of an experiment, where each team's first round pick needed to be a "keeper," or player from the previous season. This proved to be extremely unpopular and the idea was abandoned after just one season.

2015 saw Jack You Up win back-to-back championships, becoming the only team to complete the feat. They went 10-3 and walloped Tyler's 9-4 Central Division winning team 149-87 in the Championship. An additional 144-103 win over Nick (beating him for the third time that year) in the Semifinals got him there. The 2015 Jack You Up team remains the only team to score >140 points in multiple playoff games in a season and even more impressively scored at least 100 points in all but 3 games in the season.

## List of Teams

### Current teams

#### North Division

Saved By Le'Bell (2012-) managed by John

Suck My Diggs (2016-) Managed by Will

Day Drinkers (2020-) Managed by Hug

Danimal and the Lion's Den (2021-) Managed by Danny

#### South Division

The Clippers (2012-) Managed by Alex

Frozen Tundra (2012-) Managed by Aidan

The Casinators (2012-) Managed by Casey

Hide and Zeke (2016-) Managed by Evan

#### Central Division

Hoes Mad (2012-) Managed by Tate

Cee Deez Nuts (2012-) Managed by Brett

Glizzy Gladiators (2015-) Managed by Jayson

The G.O.A.T. (2016-) Managed by Chris

### Former teams

Hot Sauce (2012-14) Managed by Ryan

Domination (2012-15) Managed by Jake

The Rushing Backs (2012-15) Managed by Tyler

The Ferrets (2012-15) Managed by Jack E.

Jack You Up (2013-19) Managed by Jack E.

Team Smrt (2013-20) Managed by Nick