The league's inaugural champion is Stiff Arm, a 5-seed who went 13-15 in the regular season, scored 5th of 10 in total points, made zero trades, and still cut through three playoff opponents by a combined 226.35 points. His quarterfinal 362.8 against Wildcat was the highest single-week score of the postseason. His championship victory over Screen Pass, 245.1–202.8, was never in doubt. The first name etched into Single Season League history belongs to the manager who did nothing exceptional for fourteen weeks and then became untouchable for three.
That outcome — and virtually every other result of consequence — was shaped by the same structural truth: regular-season dominance meant nothing once the bracket was drawn. Blitz went 25-3 and led the league with 3649.5 PF. Kick Return went 21-7 at 3639.5 PF, the gap between them a trivial 10.0 points. The 1-seed reached the semifinal and lost there; the 2-seed did not reach the semifinal at all. Blitz lost 240.9–188.5 to Stiff Arm after benching Justin Herbert (72.5) for Jacoby Brissett (34.9) — a single swap that would have narrowed but not flipped the 52.34-point deficit. Kick Return fell to 7-seed Screen Pass, 274.5–249.1, in the quarterfinal.
The 2-seed finished 8th.
Two-Minute was the league's most disciplined manager — first in lineup efficiency at 94.0%, third in PF at 3551.4 — and lost his semifinal to Screen Pass by 21.51 points. A single swap of Quentin Johnston (30.0) for Marvin Harrison (4.8) alone would have flipped that result. Instead, Two-Minute settled for third place. The three highest-scoring teams in the regular season combined for zero championship-game appearances.
The league's trade economy barely existed. Eight of ten managers made zero trades. The entire mid-season market consisted of two deals between Kick Return and Screen Pass, a closed loop in which Screen Pass sent Jahmyr Gibbs and Josh Allen out and received Amon-Ra St. Brown, Quinshon Judkins, and Jaylen Warren back, netting Kick Return +55.0 PAPB.
Kick Return acquired the better assets. Screen Pass acquired the finals berth. The manager who lost on paper value churned the waiver wire relentlessly — 71 adds, the league high — and rode that volume from the 7-seed to the championship game with 3097.0 PF, 9th of 10 in the regular season.
Wildcat finished last in lineup efficiency at 86.8%, leaving 519.1 points on the bench across the regular season. The 3-seed managed 17-11 but was dismantled 362.8–231.1 by Stiff Arm in the quarters. Neutrals made only 7 adds — fewest in the league — and barely squeezed into the 8-seed at 9-19 before exiting quietly. Hurry-Up finished last in PF (2980.2) and wins (7-21) yet posted the second-highest lineup efficiency at 91.8%, proof that optimization cannot substitute for talent.
Two threads carry forward. First, the keeper decision: Stiff Arm's roster includes Bijan Robinson (rostered-RB PPG rank 4) and Trey McBride (rostered-TE PPG rank 1), and the one-keeper format means whichever he releases reenters the draft pool and reshapes the board for everyone. Second, the trade market's near-total dormancy — only Kick Return and Screen Pass transacted at all — raises the question of whether 2026 will see any meaningful commerce, or whether this league's identity is already set: ten managers drafting, churning waivers, and grinding through the regular season alone, hoping the bracket falls right.
It fell right exactly once. Stiff Arm was standing there when it did.