FLANDERS CLAIMS KAOS CUP
Flanders is the 2025 KAOS Champion!
For the 2nd year in a row, the team that was the best from Week 1 right up through Week 17 won the 2024 KAOS Cup. And it wasn’t even close. Springfield Flanders jumped out to an early 224-141 lead and never looked back. They struggled in Week 17, only putting up 97 points, but Dark Helmet was dead in the water, mustering up a mere 98 points himself.
Flanders enjoyed a balanced scoring attack that was led by Puka Nakua (65), Dak Prescot (50) and Chris Olave (36). It wasn’t a masterpiece outing for Flanders, but it got the job done.
On the other side we had Dark Helmet who hung tough all year, but fizzled in the end. Bo Nix (38), James Cook (38) and Zay Flowers (34) played okay, but this was not nearly enough for Dan to snag his first Championship.
This was an odd season. Glenn’s team was really, really good, but nothing like the juggernauts we have had in more recent seasons (2024 - MKBA and 2023 - MFT come to mind). There were no other teams that I can look at and say had a legitimate shot to win a championship this year. Roster flaws and debilitating injuries were abundant this season:
(#2) Dark Helmet was clearly the 2nd best team, but as we found out was not in the league of Flanders.
(#3) Skoal Bandits was probably the 3rd best team, but how seriously can we take a team that did not have two legitimate stating starting QBs ready to start the playoffs?
(#4) MKBA was too banged up from injuries to be a serious threat this year.
(#5) Stick Rock’s team decided to call it quits some time around Halloween.
(#6) MFT was once again too rookie dependent. By the time his players were ready to produce, they were already out of the playoff race.
(#7) John’s Scary Team had an up and down rookie season. But maybe he will learn that you need more than 3 good QBs to compete, especially when you can only start 2.
(#8) Peeping Tomlins is becoming the poster child for not being good enough for the playoffs but not bad enough to tank with another middling performance in 2025.
(#9) Black Ghostbusters was wise enough to realize that it wasn’t happening this year and became sellers at the deadline.
(#10) Wrath of Kahn, with the weirdest FF Season to date. An outstanding W/L record that kept them in the playoff race until the last week only to lose and end up the 10th ranked team.
Now lets talk finances. The following schedule shows the 2025 KAOS Payout:
The big winner this year is Glenn, as he gets $550.
So I need $100 from Rocky, Jared, Jim and $50 from CJ.
Dan wins $50 net, which I can combine with the $100 John owes, so I need $50 from the Hart family.
Pete will get $50 when the money is collected.
Now lets discuss 2026! Here are a few rules we will be changing for next year. If anyone has any additional ideas they would like considered, feel free to add your comments below.
Roster sizes will go from 20 to 16 next season.
Add one additional Flex spot that can be used for a RB or WR.
Allow TE to be used in one Flex spot. (So to be specific, we will have one RB/WR flex spot and add an additional Flex spot that will be RB/WR/TE)
Guillotine league will be used to determine 2027 draft order.
Those who do not want to participate in the Guillotine league will be slotted behind those who join. The Order of non-participants will be in reverse of the final 2026 standings.
Move up Trade deadline to after Week 10. Nobody makes any trades anyway, so this really should have a minimal impact.
As a reminder, I took a shot at guessing everyone’s potential keepers for 2026. The can be found by clicking the link.