Sea to Sea Dynasty League
History and Explanation
1994: Lance’s dad started running a fantasy football league back in Minnesota. At that point the guys he had in the league didn’t know anything about fantasy football. So, dad got them all together at one of the coach’s houses, they grilled hot dogs, put a massive paper board up on the side of the garage, and passed around one magazine, which they picked a player out of.
2002: Lance turns 10, joins his dad's league and instantly falls in love with fantasy football, managing to get to his first third place finish two years later.
2009: Lance's dad officially ends the league. Lance spends a few years doing mostly public leagues and a couple of online private leagues his friends invited him to.
2013: Lance decides to run a league. So he gets it started with friends and family from around the country and in 2014, after he got out of the Navy, he switches the league back to its roots: in-person drafts with a paper board nailed to the wall of a garage.
2018: The 6th season of that league ends, Lance is sick of having to hassle people to pay their entry and drop and pickup fees, so he folds the league.
2019: Lance decides to start a dynasty league. He gets a group of 9 other friends and family together to start the league out with an 18 round draft. The drafts are no longer done on paper boards, but they're still done offline using Teams and Spreadsheets to do our best to keep the in person kind of feel to it. There's no money involved, but there is a trophy!
2020: The draft shifts to a 3 round draft for all incoming rookies and any available free agents.
2022: The league briefly moves to Individual Defensive Players, but switches back to full Defense/Special Teams units immediately following the season.
2024: The league votes to move to a more modern style scoring system.
- Passing: 1 point for every 25 yards, 3 points for every TD, -1 for every Int
- Rushing/Receiving: 1 point for every 10 yards, 6 points for every TD, 0.5 per reception, -2 for every fumble lost
- Kicking and defense are very similar to the modern scoring, just dialed down a little
2025: The league votes to add two expansion teams! Shadow Legion, ran by Anthony, and Bolt Battalion, ran by Matthew, enter the league. Every team is split into 7 tiers, and each owner has to offer up one player from each tier. Anthony and Matthew do the expansion draft where they each select 2 players from each tier, except tier 7 which they select 3 players from, and they each draft 3 players from the pool of available veteran free agents. This is the draft results from that:
From here on you’ll see the current teams in the league and you can access their rosters by clicking on the team name. You’ll also eventually see a draft board from this year, the standings that will be regularly updated as the season progresses, a link to the weekly Recap, and toward the bottom is our list of championship games, MVPs and other various award winners. I hope you enjoy following how things are going for us, as much as we love playing the game.
2025 Expansion Draft
| Round | Bolt Battalion | Shadow Legion |
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| 1 | Nico Collins (HOU) | CeeDee Lamb (DAL) |
| 2 | Saquon Barkley (PHI) | Drake London (ATL) |
| 3 | James Cook (BUF) | Zach Charbonnet (SEA) |
| 4 | Khalil Shakir (BUF) | Jayden Reed (GB) |
| 5 | James Conner (ARI) | Mike Evans (TB) |
| 6 | Travis Etienne (JAX) | Rhamondre Stevneson (NE) |
| 7 | Brock Purdy (SF) | Blake Corum (LAR) |
| 8 | Christian Watson (GB) | Stefon Diggs (BUF) |
| 9 | Dalton Schultz (HOU) | Dak Prescott (DAL) |
| 10 | Jauan Jennings (SF) | Braelon Allen (NYJ) |
| 11 | Michael Wilson (ARI) | Gus Edwards (LAC) |
| 12 | Jerome Ford (CLE) | Chig Okonkwo (TEN) |
| 13 | Houston D/ST | Troy Franklin (DEN) |
| 14 | Baltimore D/ST | Jason Sanders (MIA) |
| 15 | Indianapolis D/ST | Seattle D/ST |
| 16 | Russell Wilson (PIT) | Malik Washington (MIA) |
| 17 | Harrison Butker (KC) | Antonio Gibson (NE) |
| 18 | Diontae Johnson () | Trevor Lawrence (JAX) |
The Teams
A friend of mine created logos for every team except ay_Bilat, The Empire, Storm Surge, Shadow Legion and Bolt Battalion. He did a fantastic job. His name is Luke Persons, his Instagram handle is luke_persons, you should go check out some of his work.
| ay_Bilat | Bolt Battalion | Fantasy Fairies |
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| Fear Itself | Ferocious Felines | Kade's Dawgs |
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| Michael Style | NUKEM | Shadow Legion |
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| Space Rangers | Storm Surge | The Empire |
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Draft Board
Our 2024 draft is three rounds and non-snaking. Below are the trades that will effect this draft:
*In-Season trade: Ferocious Felines got ay_Bilat's first round pick (1.08), D.J. Moore and Dalton Schultz; ay_Bilat got Travis Kelce and Rachaad White
**A pre-draft trade: ay_Bilat got pick 1.07, a 2025 1st round pick and Bryce Young; the Space Rangers got WR Ja'Marr Chase
***A pre-draft trade: the Space Rangers got pick 2.03 and a 2025 2nd round pick; Storm Surge got WR Tee Higgins
****A pre-draft trade: Storm Surge got pick 2.02 and a 2025 2nd round pick; Shenron's Wish got RB Alvin Kamara
*****A pre-draft trade: Storm Surge got pick 2.04; the Fantasy Fairies got RB Zamir White
******A pre-draft trade: Storm Surge got pick 1.02 and Jaylen Waddle; Shenron's Wish got pick 1.03, Zay Flowers and Trevor Lawrence
NO PICK means the team elected to keep a player or multiple players over the limit based on the number of draft picks they had, and forfeited the latest round pick they had.
2024 Draft Results
| Round | NUKEM | The Empire | Storm Surge | Fantasy Fairies | Kade's Dawgs | Ferocious Felines | Space Rangers | ay_Bilat | Fear Itself | Michael Style |
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| 1 | M. Harrison Jr. (ARI) | ******M. Nabers (NYG) | ******J. Brooks (CAR) | R. Odunze (CHI) | X. Worthy (KC) | T. Benson (ARI) | **B. Bowers (LV) | *B. Thomas Jr. (JAX) | B. Corum (LAR) | C. Williams (CHI) |
| 2 | J. Daniels (WAS) | ****L. McConkey (LAC) | ***J. Wright (MIA) | *****D. Maye (NE) | M. Lloyd (GB) | B. Sinnott (WAS) | K. Coleman (BUF) | X. Legette (CAR) | C. Brown (CIN) | J. Burton (CIN) |
| 3 | J. McLaughlin (DEN) | J. McCarthy (MIN) | J. Polk (NE) | R. Davis (BUF) | T. Franklin (DEN) | B. Irving (TB) | B. Nix (DEN) | A. Mitchell (IND) | D. Wicks (GB) | No Pick |
Standings
East Division
| Team | OVR Wins | OVR Losses | DIV Wins | DIV Losses | Points For | Points Against |
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| Fear Itself | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 | 00.00 |
| Space Rangers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 | 00.00 |
| ay_Bilat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 | 00.00 |
| Fantasy Fairies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 | 00.00 |
Central Division
| Team | OVR Wins | OVR Losses | DIV Wins | DIV Losses | Points For | Points Against |
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| Storm Surge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 | 00.00 |
| Ferocious Felines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 | 00.00 |
| Michael Style | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 | 00.00 |
| Bolt Battalion | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 | 00.00 |
West Division
| Team | OVR Wins | OVR Losses | DIV Wins | DIV Losses | Points For | Points Against |
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| Kade's Dawgs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 | 00.00 |
| The Empire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 | 00.00 |
| NUKEM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 | 00.00 |
| Shadow Legion | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 | 00.00 |
Weekly Recap
Previous Dynasty League Articles: 2024
Championships
2019: 1 seed ay_Bilat (91.67) over 2 seed Kade’s Dawgs (64.14)
2020: 6 seed Ferocious Felines (90.36) over 5 seed NUKEM (77.44)
2021: 1 seed Fear Itself (93.40) over 2 seed NUKEM (76.93)
2022: 2 seed Fear Itself (119.48) over 1 seed ay_Bilat (116.51)
2023: 2 seed Michael Style (108.76) over 1 seed Fear Itself (80.48)
2024: 1 seed Storm Surge (137.38) over 2 seed The Empire (103.72)
Awards
Note: In order to have a weekly point total added to a player's season point total the player has to be in the starting lineup. I point this out because there may have been players that scored higher in a single season that didn’t win MVP or OROY in our league, it’s probably because they didn’t start all 13 games (14 from 2021 on)
**We did IDP only for the 2022 season. And the scoring system went more modern starting in 2024.**
MVP
2019: RB Christian McCaffrey (ay_Bilat) 226.05 points
2020: QB Josh Allen (Fear Itself) 191.26 points
2021: RB Jonathan Taylor (NUKEM) 208.20 points
2022: QB Josh Allen (Fear Itself) 204.71 points
2023: QB Josh Allen (Fear Itself) 211.64 points
2024: QB Lamar Jackson (The Empire) 295.40 points
OROY
2019: RB Josh Jacobs (ay_Bilat) 103.95 points
2020: RB James Robinson (Space Rangers) 121.4 points
2021: RB Najee Harris (Michael Style) 147.50 points
2022: RB Kenneth Walker III (Space Rangers) 86.55 points
2023: RB Bijan Robinson (Space Rangers) 115.50 points
2024: QB Jayden Daniels (NUKEM) 205.46 points
COY (as voted on by the coaches in the league)
2019: Ben Thomsen (left the league after one season, was replaced by Cody Wahl [Pretty Ponies], who coached for the 2020 and 2021 seasons, and who was then replaced by Ryan Walsh [Fantasy Fairies])
2020: Nathan Kemmerling (Fear Itself)
2021: Nathan Kemmerling (Fear Itself)
2022: Trey Bartell (ay_Bilat)
2023: Nathan Kemmerling (Fear Itself)
2024: Joel Leach (Storm Surge)
League Trophy
We purchase our trophy from Decade Awards. We haven’t had any problems, and we love the bobblehead trophy, it makes a pretty sweet desk ornament.
