UPA Dynasty League

Welcome to the UPA fantasy football website. We're a group of friends who met online through Pokemon and have since continued to bond through sports. Some of us have known each other since as early as 2015, and our dynasty league was founded in 2020.

• My name is Ben. I run the site and also make annual highlight videos.
• Drew is the commissioner and is in charge of setting up the league meeting every January.
• I have commissioner powers as well, but that's just as a precaution.
• For example: suppose a manager were to get bored and propose a trade to one of their leaguemates in which one of them gets an entire roster of players in exchange for pennies. Trades process immediately in our league, so if games were ongoing while an offer like that got accepted (for some reason), it would need to be reversed ASAP. If Drew is unavailable, I could step in in that situation.
• That may sound unrealistic and incredibly stupid, but yeah, it actually happened.
• "The Committee" consists of the two of us as well as Survive and Dork.
• On the very rare occasions when a controversial issue arises (i.e. alleged collusion), the 4 of us discuss and vote on a course of action.

A Brief History of the League
After the redraft league was a hit in 2019, we started up a dynasty league the following year. Of the 12 guys who drafted on that fateful night of August 9, 2020 -- Drew, Rabz, Eshaan, Derek, Dork, Pure, Ben, Brett, Noah, Survive, Scrappy, and Matt (in that order) -- 9 remain in the league today.

• Pure was replaced by Bronson after the 2020 season.
• Brett was replaced by Tyler (AKA Retikai) prior to the start of the 2022 season.
• And as for Noah's franchise...
• Noah was replaced by Karm after the 2021 season.
• Karm was replaced by Riches 3 weeks into the 2022 season.
• Riches was replaced by Jose after the 2022 season.
• It's not even like the team is atrocious; its ownership keeps shifting for unrelated reasons. Two years later, and it seems Jose has finally brought this franchise the stability it needed.

One-sentence write-ups of each franchise's history

• Survive: 48 wins - 21 losses (69.57%)
• Survive has made 4 consecutive championships and gone 1-3 in those (he blames Justin Jefferson).
• Drew: 47 wins - 22 losses (68.12%)
• Ah yes, Mr. "I want a power shift" himself, AKA Drew, AKA our commissioner, AKA the guy who no longer wants a power shift because he's won back-to-back championships.
• Scrappy: 42 wins - 27 losses (60.87%)
• Our only other 2-time champion, Scrappy's team was goated for the first 4 years, then everything went wrong for him in 2024.
• Dork: 39 wins - 30 losses (56.52%)
• Dork's team was great for the first few years, then he tried to rebuild... and still somehow kept winning.
• Pure/Bronson: 36 wins - 33 losses (52.17%)
• Players over the age of 25 aren't allowed on Bronson's roster.
• Eshaan: 33 wins - 36 losses (47.83%)
• Eshaan's team has kind of been the epitome of mediocrity; he'll have good seasons, and he'll have bad seasons, but he's usually somewhere in the middle.
• Rabz: 32 wins - 37 losses (46.38%)
• Rabz finally lifted his franchise's curse last season by making the playoffs for the first time (despite his team being playoff-caliber for a few years now).
• Ben: 31 wins - 38 losses (44.93%)
• Haha yeah so my team was goated in 2020, but then everyone fell off a cliff in 2021, and I blew it up prior to the start of 2022, but now things should be back on track again.
• Brett/Tyler: 31 wins - 38 losses (44.93%)
• Tyler's situation is a bit dicey, as he has a rebuilding team with minimal draft capital, but he does have Brandon Aubrey, who has carried him to far more wins than a kicker ever should.
• Matt: 31 wins - 38 losses (44.93%)
• Matt's team was perennially stuck in mediocrity for the first few years, then it absolutely fell off in 2024, but to be fair, injuries are largely to blame.
• Derek: 23 wins - 46 losses (33.33%)
• It would require a lot more than just one sentence to describe how hard the universe has screwed over Derek's franchise.
• Noah/Karm/Riches/Jose: 21 wins - 48 losses (30.43%)
• The degree to which Noah's youth-heavy strategy in the startup draft ended up backfiring is kind of unbelievable, but the team still has plenty of promise, it's just that the rebuild process has been a bit of a slow one.

If you want to see every roster at once, check out the UPA Fantasy Football doc.

Disclaimer: I'm still relatively new to coding. This website was built from a template made by Nick Melhado, and I'm basically just learning as I go along. I intend on making a bunch of miscellaneous tweaks in the future.