Category: CFFL Story

For the final installment of the CFFL Story, let’s be honest – I’m phoning it in. All the other installments were heavy on the narrative but this one will be a couple of lists and some trivia. I figure in the end I might as well stay true to myself. The first two years of…

By and large, the CFFL scoring rules have been pretty straightforward. From the beginning I didn’t want a QB-heavy league so TD passes were 4 points, and I didn’t want a point-per-reception (PPR) league because I felt that put too much importance on 3rd down RBs and possession WRs. More on PPR in a minute.…

The CFFL has had its share of controversies over the years, but most of them were minor enough that I don’t really remember them. One time in the early years an owner submitted his keepers after the deadline had passed and I had emailed out the draft worksheet. Even though it was late I accepted…

As covered in the previous chapters, the first two years of the CFFL proper (2000-01) was the Schizo era, and the next two years (2002-03) was the Mayhem/Maulers era. But those “eras” were short-lived compared to the one true CFFL dynasty, which began in the 2005 season when Sons Of Liberty claimed their first championship…

The 2002 draft was very good for both Mayhem and Maulers. Maulers picked third and drafted Priest Holmes, Isaac Bruce and Tiki Barber to go along with keepers Terrell Owens, Kevin Johnson and a returning-from-IR Jamal Lewis. Mayhem picked sixth and got Fred Taylor, Brett Favre and Hines Ward to go along with keepers Torry…

Going into the 2001 CFFL draft, the only ownership change was Carl taking over TNT and re-naming them Sons of Liberty. The biggest rule change was that we became a keeper league in 2001 and adopted the draft pick value rules for keepers. Even though I had first encountered the draft pick keeper rules back…

After launching the CISFL in 1999 and winning the inaugural championship, I knew I wanted to keep it going but by the summer of 2000 a complication had developed – I no longer worked for CIS. The company that had ramped up for Y2K suddenly found that there wasn’t a whole lot of work post-Y2K,…

I started playing fantasy football in 1995 in what passed for an “online” league at the time. The league was on a service called CompuServe, which some of you fellow old fogies may remember. I don’t remember too many details about it, other than I won the league in 1996, and it had a keeper…