Est. 2008
About the GFFL
Eighteen seasons of GFFL history, sixteen owners, and a trophy only since 2022.
What Is the GFFL
The GFFL started in 2008, when a group of Gloversville, NY high schoolers decided they could run a fantasy league better than the one a friend had tried the year before. By all accounts, that league was a disorderly mess of punters, head coaches, and owners who weren't paying attention. The GFFL was the fix: a real league, run for the people playing in it. Eighteen seasons later, most of the same owners are still doing exactly that.
The League Today
The Trophies
The champion takes home a physical TrophySmack trophy (one large trophy, a name plate added for each year's winner) in circulation since roughly 2022. There's no other ceremony to speak of. We are, in the commissioner's words, "in desperate need of some."
The other standing award is Mundane Randy, handed to the last-place finisher. It is not named for owner Randy, who didn't join until 2017; the name predates him by years. Marco muttered the phrase, apropos of nothing, sometime around 2013, and it stuck before anyone thought to ask why.
The Owners
One title in eight seasons, plus a share of the longest win streak in league history.
One title, won by 0.62 points. The Asterisk.
Six seasons across two stints in the early years.
Two titles, 18-for-18 seasons, and more playoff wins than anyone in league history.
Three titles and six championship trips. Statistically the luckiest owner in league history.
Eighteen seasons, zero titles, and the guy who accidentally invented Mundane Randy.
Founder and commissioner. Took twelve seasons to win his first title; has two now.
Thirteen seasons and a father-son rivalry with Joe he's never quite won.
A 2018 title built on sharp waiver-wire instincts.
One title, in 2011, and a Cam Newton pick he will remind you about forever, with good reason.
Back since 2018 after a nine-year absence; co-owns as “LLC” with Fat Pat since 2022.
Two titles, including one in his rookie season, and the man behind “chin up soldier.”
Two titles and the single highest-scoring week in league history.
Two titles, three Mundane Randys, and a lineup that always seems to run through tight ends.
First champion, 2008: a 6-7 six seed that somehow won it all.
The newest core owner, and the owner of the biggest blowout in league history.
Fat Pat (Patrick Lee) has co-owned Pookie's franchise since 2022 but has never held an independent team, so he isn't counted among these 16. See his profile.