LEAGUE HISTORY · 2022–2025
The Southerners Cup: The Complete History
Four seasons produced a dynasty, a bracket heist, a schedule whisperer and twelve managers with receipts.
Era leader
bulltrue77
Highest peak
2,124.26
Schedule’s favorite
+7.1
Bracket bandit
FormidableD
Four seasons, 224 regular-season games, three champions, one repeat offender, and enough bench points to power Tiger Stadium.
The Southerners Cup has already produced a dynasty, an all-time steamroller, a champion with a losing career record, and one manager who appears to have a private arrangement with the schedule. This is the audited history from 2022 through 2025. The jokes are subjective. The numbers are not.
The four seasons, in four acts
2022: Ramon kicks in the door
RamonBertucci went 12–2, scored a still-record 2,124.26 points and posted a preposterous .838 all-play rate. Then he beat Andy for the title. No plot twist, no Cinderella, no committee-room debate. The best team arrived, confiscated the trophy and left everyone else a forwarding address.
The season also introduced the league’s recurring villain: schedule luck. kyledeason went 10–4 despite a .461 all-play rate, banking +3.5 wins above expectation. Andy had the second-best all-play team and finished only 7–7. The algorithm was already doing bits.
2023: three teams go 11–3, chaos wins anyway
bulltrue77, holdinitdown1 and Andy all finished 11–3. bulltrue77 won the title, but the strongest team by underlying performance was BartletForAmerica: 1,931.52 points and a .708 all-play rate. The reward was an 8–6 record and fifth-place playoff finish. If you came looking for justice, you took a wrong turn somewhere near the waiver wire.
BurrowPunch went 6–8, was shorted 2.3 wins by the schedule and still reached the final. Andy spent $51 on Puka Nacua, one of the few large FAAB bids in league history that belongs in the Louvre rather than an evidence bag.
2024: the repeat offender
bulltrue77 went 11–3 again and beat Ramon for a second straight championship. Ramon led the league in scoring at 1,892.12, but bulltrue77 kept the deed to the building. Two rings in two years is a dynasty. Complaints may be filed directly into the trophy case.
WhoDatLSU set the best lineup at a league-leading 93.1% efficiency. wbryson87 finished last in that category at 84.6% and left 312.14 points unused, the largest single-season bench pile in the file. That bench did not need seats. It needed expansion dues.
2025: FormidableD steals the movie
Andy went 10–4 and posted the best lineup-efficiency season on record at 94.4%. kyledeason led all-play at .662. FormidableD entered as the 8–6 fourth seed and won the title anyway, beating YaykoFrederiko in the final. The regular season wrote a careful argument. The bracket threw it into a wood chipper.
Yayko reached the final after receiving +2.1 schedule wins. BurrowPunch had the opposite experience: a .519 all-play team became 5–9 and lost 2.3 wins to matchups. Same casino, very different comp package.
The table nobody can talk around
Career record is the résumé. All-play is the lie detector: it asks how often each team would have beaten every possible opponent each week. Luck is actual wins minus all-play-expected wins. Positive means the schedule was kind.
| # | Manager | Record | Win% | Points | All-play | Luck | Titles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bulltrue77 | 36–20 | .643 | 6,927.02 | .558 | +4.7 | 2 |
| 2 | holdinitdown1 | 34–22 | .607 | 6,626.38 | .481 | +7.1 | 0 |
| 3 | Andy | 32–24 | .571 | 6,984.68 | .571 | +0.0 | 0 |
| 4 | RamonBertucci | 32–24 | .571 | 7,137.80 | .581 | −0.5 | 1 |
| 5 | BartletForAmerica | 30–26 | .536 | 7,038.72 | .575 | −2.2 | 0 |
| 6 | kyledeason | 30–26 | .536 | 6,459.10 | .472 | +3.5 | 0 |
| 7 | BurrowPunch | 27–29 | .482 | 6,827.50 | .539 | −3.2 | 0 |
| 8 | wbryson87 | 26–30 | .464 | 6,768.80 | .513 | −2.7 | 0 |
| 9 | FormidableD | 26–30 | .464 | 6,692.78 | .494 | −1.6 | 1 |
| 10 | YaykoFrederiko | 25–31 | .446 | 6,154.30 | .403 | +2.5 | 0 |
| 11 | WhoDatLSU | 21–35 | .375 | 6,282.76 | .445 | −3.9 | 0 |
| 12 | Greg | 17–39 | .304 | 6,123.92 | .369 | −3.6 | 0 |
bulltrue77 owns the rings, Ramon owns the peak, Andy owns perfect karmic balance, and holdinitdown1 owns several acres of schedule-assisted waterfront property.
Twelve managers enter the film room
1. bulltrue77: The Landlord
36–20, two titles, 4.7 schedule wins above expected. The league’s only repeat champion has earned top billing, even if the schedule helped with the lighting. He owns 5–1 records over FormidableD and wbryson87, but Andy is a flawless 4–0 against him and Ramon is 4–1. Every empire has two neighboring states it avoids invading.
The funniest stat: five wins and zero FAAB spent in 2025. The dynasty finally stumbled, but it did so with the budget discipline of a team preparing for a stadium referendum.
2. RamonBertucci: The Ceiling
One title, the best career all-play rate (.581), the most career points (7,137.80), and the greatest season. Ramon’s 2022 is the standard everybody else is chasing. He also went 4–10 the next year and finished last in 2025 lineup efficiency at 84.8%.
That is the full Ramon experience: summit, ravine, summit again. His $77 Isaiah Likely bid and $65 Daniel Jones bid suggest FAAB is less a budget than a dramatic prop.
3. Andy: The Metronome
32–24 actual, .571 all-play, exactly +0.0 luck. Four years of cosmic neutrality. Andy gets no bailout and no audit. He simply posts receipts, including the 94.4% efficiency record and the famous Puka claim.
He is also 4–0 against bulltrue77, which is an excellent party trick until Ramon and kyledeason walk in; both are 4–1 against him. Andy can disarm the emperor, then immediately lose the sword.
4. holdinitdown1: The Schedule Whisperer
34–22 with a .481 all-play rate and +7.1 luck wins. Nobody has converted ordinary weekly strength into premium standings real estate more efficiently. Three straight third-place playoff finishes from 2022–24 make it even stranger: consistently close, never crowned.
He is 6–0 against Greg and 2–4 against Andy. The schedule gives, Andy apparently repossesses.
5. BartletForAmerica: The Unpassed Bill
Second-best career all-play (.575), second-most career points (7,038.72), zero titles. The 2023 team led the league in points and all-play, then finished fifth. This is not failure. This is an excellent piece of legislation dying in committee.
Bartlet owns wbryson87 5–1 but is 1–4 against both Ramon and bulltrue77. The platform tests beautifully until it reaches the electoral map.
6. kyledeason: The Great Escape Artist
30–26 with a .472 all-play rate and +3.5 luck wins. His entire career luck surplus arrived in the 10–4 debut season, when his all-play rate was only .461. Then 2025 provided the counterargument: league-best .662 all-play, no title.
Kyle owns BurrowPunch 5–1 and Andy 4–1. Ramon owns him 5–2. Somewhere in there is a very specific rock-paper-scissors bracket.
7. BurrowPunch: The Claims Department
A .539 career all-play rate has become 27–29 and −3.2 luck wins. BurrowPunch is good enough to make everybody nervous and unlucky enough to keep the screenshots. The 2023 run from 6–8 to runner-up was the purest version of the brand.
He is 4–1 against Ramon and FormidableD, then 1–5 against kyledeason. The matchup wheel contains no moral logic. Neither did spending $140 in 2022.
8. wbryson87: The Volatility Index
26–30, but a winning .513 all-play rate and the single-week scoring record of 186.28. The underlying team has been better than the record. The lineups have occasionally argued otherwise, especially the 312.14 points abandoned in 2024.
wbryson87 is 4–1 against Ramon and 1–5 against Bartlet and bulltrue77. Apparently the roster is engineered specifically to upset one powerhouse and fund two others.
9. FormidableD: The Bracket Burglar
26–30 career, .494 all-play, 2025 champion. FormidableD is the living argument for getting into the tournament and asking questions later. The title came from the fourth seed after three straight seasons outside the playoff placements.
bulltrue77 has a 5–1 edge and BurrowPunch a 4–1 edge over FormidableD. Counterpoint: neither can repossess the 2025 trophy.
10. YaykoFrederiko: Midnight Runner
25–31, .403 all-play, +2.5 luck wins, 2025 runner-up. Yayko has improved from ten losses in 2023 to fourth in 2024 and second in 2025. The process may not always survive cross-examination, but the trajectory has stopped taking questions.
He owns WhoDatLSU 5–1 and Greg owns him 4–1. Every ladder has one broken rung placed for comic timing.
11. WhoDatLSU: The Case for Reparations
21–35, but −3.9 schedule wins, the harshest career tax in the league. The record is rough; the schedule has made sure every rough edge receives theatrical lighting. There is real evidence of competent Sundays: WhoDatLSU led the entire league in 2024 lineup efficiency.
The best rivalry receipt is a 3–2 edge over BurrowPunch. The worst is 1–5 against Yayko. LSU fans will recognize the emotional range.
12. Greg: The Spoiler Department
17–39, .369 all-play, −3.6 luck wins. Last place is last place, but the schedule has also charged interest. The cleanest positive is 2023, when Greg led the league at 92.6% lineup efficiency. The buttons were pressed correctly; the players simply declined the invitation.
Greg is 0–6 against holdinitdown1 but somehow 4–1 against Yayko and 3–2 against Ramon. This is not a contender’s résumé. It is a banana peel positioned under exactly two important people.
The side awards
- Best four-year résumébulltrue77, 36–20 and two championships
- Best team we have seenRamonBertucci, 2022: 12–2, 2,124.26 points, .838 all-play
- Best ringless underlying teamBartletForAmerica, .575 career all-play
- Schedule Appreciation Society presidentholdinitdown1, +7.1 career wins
- Schedule Reparations claimantWhoDatLSU, −3.9 career wins
- Most expensive emotional purchaseRamonBertucci, $77 on Isaiah Likely in 2024
- Best waiver masterpieceAndy, $51 on Puka Nacua in 2023
- Bench with its own GDPwbryson87, 312.14 points left in 2024
Rivalries with paperwork
| Matchup | Series | The reading |
|---|---|---|
| bulltrue77 vs YaykoFrederiko | 5–2 | Seven games, two titles on one side and a 2025 finalist on the other. |
| RamonBertucci vs kyledeason | 5–2 | Ramon controls the border. |
| RamonBertucci vs FormidableD | 4–3 | The tightest seven-game series, now featuring two champions. |
| wbryson87 vs BurrowPunch | 3–3 | Actual competitive balance. Alert the scheduling office. |
| kyledeason vs BurrowPunch | 5–1 | Less rivalry, more recurring calendar appointment. |
| holdinitdown1 vs Greg | 6–0 | The schedule whisperer found his favorite sentence. |
| Andy vs bulltrue77 | 4–0 | The emperor’s one unsolved problem. |
FAAB, or monetary policy conducted during panic
FAAB is not a clean return-on-investment statistic because Sleeper records winning bids and adds, not a universal value score for every claimed player. So the honest read is behavioral: Andy’s $51 Puka Nacua bid is the gold standard; Ramon owns the two loudest recent swings at $77 for Isaiah Likely and $65 for Daniel Jones; BurrowPunch spent $140 across 24 adds in 2022; and Greg spent zero in both 2023 and 2025. bulltrue77 also spent zero in 2025, proving thrift can look either disciplined or suspiciously like losing the login depending on the standings.
Volume belongs to wbryson87 with 54 adds in 2022 and Andy with 54 in 2023. Sometimes waivers are roster construction. Sometimes they are a weekly podcast hosted by anxiety.
Methodology and full-season checks
All figures were recomputed on August 4, 2026 from raw Sleeper data using the league’s deterministic history engine. The completed seasons are 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Each regular season contains 14 weeks and 56 games per manager.
Standings: regular-season record, points for and Sleeper playoff finish were checked for every season. All-play: each weekly score is compared with all 11 possible opponents; luck equals actual wins minus all-play-expected wins. Positive luck describes a kind schedule, not superior management. Efficiency: actual starters are compared with the best legal lineup available from that manager’s own roster that week. It measures lineup choices, not roster quality. FAAB: totals, add counts and largest winning bids come from transaction history. Head-to-head: every manager’s complete series against the other 11 managers was recomputed. Greg’s historical Sleeper accounts are merged as one career.
Playoff placements are shown only where Sleeper records a placement in the computed dataset; a dash in the source means no listed playoff finish, not that the manager vanished into the transfer portal. Team names and display names can change, so this page uses stable manager identities.
Four years in, the league has learned exactly one durable lesson: “I learned from last year” remains the most dangerous sentence in fantasy football.