2016
Scooby Doo
The inaugural champion
Established 2016Official league archive
League of
Champions
Dynasties rose. Friendships were tested. Trades were questioned. Collusion was alleged with absolutely no supporting evidence.
Enter the archive Kept alive by one exhausted commissioner.
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10Seasons
of chaos
of chaos
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2016—2025
Completed seasons10
Different champions7
Most titles3
Current eraESPN
The roll of honor
Every champion. Every scar.
Ten completed seasons, seven franchises on the throne, and one trophy still waiting for its next owner.
2017
Flaming Redhawks
A new power rises
2018
Krushing Kiwis
The Kiwi war machine
2019
Flaming Redhawks
Two titles in three years
2020
Gruden Grinds My Gears
The dark timeline begins
2021
Gruden Grinds My Gears
First back-to-back champion
2022
Jay's Squad
The empire interrupted
2023
Gruden Grinds My Gears
Somehow, Gruden returned
2024
The Zoidbergs
The curse is broken
2025
Brent is a Dictator
Beginner's luck becomes a war crime
2026
TBD
The ESPN era begins
The complete chronicle
The story so far
An oral history of questionable decisions, ruined Sundays, and the long road to immortality.
Era 012016—19
The Early Years
Ignorance was bliss.
Every great institution begins somewhere. The League of Champions began in 2016 with Scooby Doo claiming the inaugural championship and earning permanent ownership of the league's first completely arbitrary historical distinction.
Nobody knew yet what this league would become. Nobody knew the grudges that would form. Nobody knew how much time grown adults were about to spend getting angry because somebody else's running back scored from the one-yard line.
2016Scooby Doo opens the history books.
2017Flaming Redhawks seizes the crown and the league finds its first repeat contender.
2018Krushing Kiwis denies the repeat. Derrick Henry drops 47.80 in Week 14.
2019Flaming Redhawks returns for title No. 2. At the time, that was dynasty territory.
Era 022020—23
The Gruden Era
The dynasty that wasn't supposed to happen.
2020. Gruden wins. 2021. Gruden wins again.
Suddenly this wasn't a fluke. For The Zoidbergs in particular, Gruden became the Joker to their Batman—an irritating, recurring villain who simply refused to disappear.
Trades were made. Waivers were fought over. Playoff hopes were born and brutally murdered. And Gruden kept winning.
2020 · Championship No. 1
The darkest timeline begins
Alvin Kamara detonates for 53.20 points in Week 16—on Christmas Day, with six touchdowns—because ruining a fantasy championship apparently wasn't enough.
2021 · Back-to-back
One title is luck. Two are a problem.
Gruden becomes the league's first back-to-back champion. Cowboys suck piles up 1,598.12 points and still watches somebody else lift the trophy.
2022 · The interruption
Jay's Squad restores hope
For one merciful season, the empire is interrupted. Joe Mixon scores 51.10 in Week 9 and joins the league's 50-point club.
2023 · Championship No. 3
Somehow, Gruden returned.
Like a villain in a franchise that had run out of ideas, Gruden comes back and posts a league-record 1,625.64 points. The league confronts an uncomfortable possibility: maybe Gruden was actually good.
Era 032024
The Zoidbergs' Revenge Tour
The commish. The finally crowned king.
For years, The Zoidbergs had run the league. And for years, the league had rewarded that service with misery: botched trades, heartbreaking playoff exits, bad matchups, and fantasy robbery.
There were whispers. Maybe The Zoidbergs were cursed. Maybe the commissioner would never win his own league. Maybe creating the League of Champions had condemned him to spend eternity handing trophies to everyone else.
Then came 2024.And when 2024 rolled around, the gears ground to a halt.
The Zoidbergs finally broke through. This wasn't just a title. It was a coronation years in the making. After eight seasons of frustration, the commissioner finally became champion of the league he created.
Era 042025
Beginner's Luck Becomes a War Crime
No scars. No suffering. One stolen trophy.
Then Brent is a Dictator joined the league. A newcomer. No years of suffering. No accumulated trauma. No decade-long championship drought. And naturally, they immediately won the whole damn thing.
The 2025 season will forever be remembered for what league historians can only describe as Make-A-Wish-style luck. Every break seemed to fall their way: the right matchups, the right weeks, the right circumstances.
While veteran franchises spent years clawing toward championships, Brent is a Dictator apparently walked through the front door, found a trophy sitting unattended, and took it home.
ChampionBrent is a DictatorRookie season · 1st title
VSRunner-upThe ZoidbergsDefending champion · Dynasty denied
Not Gruden. Not an established rival. Just some newcomer wandering into the league with the fantasy-football equivalent of a horseshoe lodged somewhere medically concerning.
Era 052026—
The Mouse Comes for Fantasy Football
Welcome to the ESPN era.
The 2026 season began with an event bigger than any trade, championship, or commissioner scandal in League of Champions history: the Disney empire expanded again.
ESPN—a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company—completed its acquisition of NFL Network and other NFL media assets on January 31, 2026, including the NFL's fantasy-football business. NFL Fantasy moved into ESPN Fantasy for the 2026 season, making ESPN Fantasy the NFL's official season-long fantasy game. The NFL received a 10% equity stake in ESPN as part of the transaction.
After surviving a decade of questionable trades, waiver-wire theft, commissioner abuse allegations, cursed franchises, and Gruden Grinds My Gears, the League of Champions finally encountered an opponent it could not defeat: The Walt Disney Corporation.
“Your league is mine now.”
— Mickey Mouse, probably
The 2026 champion remains unknown. The season has yet to write its story. But one thing is certain: the League of Champions survived Gruden. It survived the Zoidbergs curse. It survived Brent is a Dictator's suspiciously miraculous rookie season. Now it must survive Disney.
2026 season in progress Champion TBD
League record book
Numbers that live forever
The performances, explosions, and statistical absurdities that rewrote the archive.
184.58
Dumpster Fire
Week 14 · 2024
1,625.64
Gruden Grinds My Gears
2023 season
Greatest individual performancesAll-time
01Alvin Kamara2020 · Wk 1653.20
02Joe Mixon2022 · Wk 951.10
03Jonathan Taylor2021 · Wk 1150.40
04Derrick Henry2018 · Wk 1447.80
05Christian McCaffrey2023 · Wk 441.70
Other monster seasonsPoints
- Krushing Kiwis20181,598.50
- Cowboys suck20211,598.12
- Dumpster Fire20241,593.46
The all-time table
Championships by franchise
The only ranking that matters when the group chat gets loud.
01
Gruden Grinds My Gears2020 · 2021 · 2023
3
02
Flaming Redhawks2017 · 2019
2
03
Scooby Doo2016
1
04
Krushing Kiwis2018
1
05
Jay's Squad2022
1
06
The Zoidbergs2024
1
07
Brent is a Dictator2025
1
The story so far
Ten seasons down.
The chaos continues.
Seven different champions. One three-time champion. One commissioner who required nine seasons to finally win his own league. One newcomer who apparently skipped the suffering requirement. And now one enormous mouse standing over the entire operation.
2016 — 2026