The Miller is Great Fantasy Football League is a traditional fantasy league with boring rules. It could, however, be an interesting league with unique rules. This page examines the possibility of a two-tiered league with promotion and relegation.

Regular Standings for Week 16

# Team W-L-T PTS Optimal PTS Week 16 W-L-T Week 16 PTS Week 16 Optimal PTS
Premier Division
1 Vulcan Mind-melds 100-76-0 1902.7 2030.8 4-7-0 111.9 125.8
2 Honolulu Blew It 99-77-0 1880.2 2198.2 6-5-0 119.9 131.6
3 Portland Pat Tillman 94-82-0 1806.0 1981.4 3-8-0 108.1 120.8
4 NY WH Coons 80-96-0 1758.6 2051.5 9-2-0 128.6 138.5
5 OK City Bombers 74-102-0 1666.7 1941.0 0-11-0 70.8 110.7
6 DCFC 65-111-0 1616.5 1915.0 5-6-0 112.6 150.8
Championship Division
7 Springfield Isotopes 118-58-0 1963.8 2222.2 11-0-0 162.6 186.6
8 Team Harleton 115-61-0 1938.4 2157.9 10-1-0 160.0 176.5
9 Office Linebackers 103-73-0 1884.5 2028.0 8-3-0 123.7 149.3
10 Seattle Lawful Evils 88-88-0 1735.9 1904.4 1-10-0 80.2 94.3
11 Palestinian Chicken 68-108-0 1652.6 1886.0 2-9-0 88.4 123.3
12 51st Statesmen 52-124-0 1507.3 1666.5 7-4-0 121.2 128.0
- Premier Division Championship Game (Vulcan Mind-melds v Honolulu Blew It)
- Premier Division Relegation Game (Oklahoma City Bombers v DCFC)
- Championship Division Promotion Game (Springfield Isotopes v Team Harleton)
- League Relegation Game (Palestinian Chicken v 51st Statesman)
The most important standings are the ones to the left, which present the formal promotion/relegation model standings for this alternate league. Each week, every team's score is compared to every other team's score. This produces their record.
Only the top-6 teams each year are eligible to compete for the title. This group is called the "Premier" division. After playing all weeks in the season, the top two teams in the Premier division compete for the title; the bottom two teams compete to stay in the Premier division with the loser of this game being relegated to the "Championship" division.
The top two teams in the Championship division compete for the opportunity to be promoted to the Premier division; the bottom two teams compete to avoid the league punishments for the year.

Optimal Points Standings for Week 16

Optimal v. Regular

# Team W-L-T PTS Optimal PTS
Premier Division
1 Honolulu Blew It 127-49-0 1880.2 2198.2
2 NY WH Coons 118-58-0 1758.6 2051.5
3 Portland Pat Tillman 116-59-1 1806.0 1981.4
4 Vulcan Mind-melds 115-61-0 1902.7 2030.8
5 OK City Bombers 108-68-0 1666.7 1941.0
6 DCFC 105-71-0 1616.5 1915.0
Championship Division
7 Springfield Isotopes 141-35-0 1963.8 2222.2
8 Team Harleton 133-43-0 1938.4 2157.9
9 Office Linebackers 111-65-0 1884.5 2028.0
10 Seattle Lawful Evils 105-71-0 1735.9 1904.4
11 Palestinian Chicken 104-72-0 1652.6 1886.0
12 51st Statesmen 73-103-0 1507.3 1666.5

Optimal v. Optimal

# Team W-L-T PTS Optimal PTS
Premier Division
1 Honolulu Blew It 109-67-0 1880.2 2198.2
2 NY WH Coons 92-83-1 1758.6 2051.5
3 Vulcan Mind-melds 92-84-0 1902.7 2030.8
4 Portland Pat Tillman 85-91-0 1806.0 1981.4
5 DCFC 85-91-0 1616.5 1915.0
6 OK City Bombers 83-92-1 1666.7 1941.0
Championship Division
7 Springfield Isotopes 116-59-1 1963.8 2222.2
8 Team Harleton 112-64-0 1938.4 2157.9
9 Office Linebackers 89-87-0 1884.5 2028.0
10 Seattle Lawful Evils 78-98-0 1735.9 1904.4
11 Palestinian Chicken 72-103-1 1652.6 1886.0
12 51st Statesmen 40-134-2 1507.3 1666.5
The two standings to the left show two different scenarios.
The left-most standings calculate the record for each team if their owner had selected their optimal lineup and competed against each team's regular lineup.
The right-most standings are for the competitive records for all teams if they selected their optimal weekly lineup.

Percentage of Optimal Performance

Week 16 Optimal Pct.

# Team % of optimal
1 51st Statesmen 94.7%
2 NY WH Coons 92.9%
3 Honolulu Blew It 91.1%
4 Team Harleton 90.7%
5 Portland Pat Tillman 89.5%
6 Vulcan Mind-melds 89.0%
7 Springfield Isotopes 87.1%
8 Seattle Lawful Evils 85.0%
9 Office Linebackers 82.9%
10 DCFC 74.7%
11 Palestinian Chicken 71.7%
12 OK City Bombers 64.0%

Overall Optimal Pct.

# Team % of optimal
1 Vulcan Mind-melds 93.7%
2 Office Linebackers 92.9%
3 Seattle Lawful Evils 91.2%
4 Portland Pat Tillman 91.1%
5 51st Statesmen 90.4%
6 Team Harleton 89.8%
7 Springfield Isotopes 88.4%
8 Palestinian Chicken 87.6%
9 OK City Bombers 85.9%
10 NY WH Coons 85.7%
11 Honolulu Blew It 85.5%
12 DCFC 84.4%
To help explain the additional standings, here are two tables that show how much of each team's optimal performance they were able to achieve. The left-most table shows the most recent week's performance. The right-most table shows the overall performance.

Best Players Available via Free Agency for Week 16

POS Player PTS
QBTyler Shough24.2
42.5
36.2
8.2
22.7
30.9
19.6
19.2
28.9
13.2
33.0
20.2
4.5
WRParker Washington28.5
7.9
15.6
23.3
27.5
6.8
14.0
13.2
12.3
11.5
36.8
55.5
11.6
WRKalif Raymond14.2
5.5
5.2
17.7
16.3
0.0
5.1
2.8
8.1
9.5
20.4
19.6
9.7
RBTyjae Spears19.0
31.3
22.8
21.2
8.0
17.8
28.1
14.6
29.6
15.4
25.9
10.3
30.9
RBJaylen Wright11.8
7.8
10.0
1.7
3.8
7.1
26.3
7.3
1.6
10.2
5.3
7.6
16.5
TEChig Okonkwo13.4
12.0
12.9
15.2
26.0
3.1
11.8
3.4
4.5
1.2
5.5
1.1
10.7
FLEXIsaac TeSlaa13.2
3.7
1.3
12.2
0.0
1.4
8.8
2.7
6.6
5.0
4.2
7.4
0
KCharlie Smyth22.9
10.5
6.6
10.4
12.3
8.6
2.0
11.2
6.6
5.3
17.4
9.3
11.3
DEFGiants21.0
0.0
2.0
10.0
12.0
-5.0
8.0
14.0
10.0
9.0
14.0
29.0
12.0
Every week teams have the ability to sign new players off of waivers. The table to the left shows the highest scoring players available via waivers from the previous week.
Reading across the rows, each cell shows the number of points that the corresponding team scored and whether the free agent player would have improved the team at that position. A green square indicates the player would have offered no improvement; a red square indicates that the player would have been an improvement over the player selected.

The 2025 MIG Awards

"Every year, MIG fan around the world wants to know which players are the best that the MIGFFL has to offer. As a former player and general manager myself who has seen a ton of Johnnie Mortons come and go, I should know. These guys you're about to meet are no Johnnie Mortons.

"On the left, you will see the players that are truly the best of the best at their position. You know this because they have the most points. I'm no math whiz like the Frinkiac over here, but I know that more is more than less. And that's just football. Of course, it should be noted that you can't score while sitting on the bench. None of these guys got points for being a benchwarmer, so these award winners earned their prize by getting out in the dirt with all the other men and rolling around until they scored. Boom!

"I don't understand the right-most column so I'll leave that to Frinky."

"Ahem, yes, the player data we've contabulated on the right using advanced statistical measures of the most standard of deviations known to man shows those individuals that - unlike that confounded monkey, with the biting, and the scratching, and the DEAR GOD he's GOTTEN INTO THE mainframe! - Where was I, oh yes, the data you see on the right shows the individual players that showed up consistently in the scoring columns week after week. We systematically excluded players that had started in under 60% of the season's games and also those averaging less than 50% of the best player's points per game. Good glayvin, this took a lot of work."

Best MIG QB of 2025

#1 Josh Allen

365.5 pts
(24.4 ppg)
#2Dak Prescott
319.45 pts
(22.8 ppg)
#3Jalen Hurts
302.3 pts
(20.2 ppg)
#4Patrick Mahomes
294.1 pts
(22.6 ppg)
#5Justin Herbert
274.9 pts
(21.1 ppg)

"Mr. Consistent" MIG QB of 2025

#1 Drake Maye

21.09±4.1 ppg
#2Baker Mayfield
17.63±6.9 ppg
#3Jalen Hurts
20.15±7.6 ppg
#4Dak Prescott
22.82±7.7 ppg
#5Patrick Mahomes
22.62±7.8 ppg

Best MIG RB of 2025

#1 Jonathan Taylor

338.5 pts
(22.6 ppg)
#2Christian McCaffrey
330.8 pts
(22.1 ppg)
#3Jahmyr Gibbs
319.2 pts
(21.3 ppg)
#4Bijan Robinson
303.1 pts
(20.2 ppg)
#5De'Von Achane
281.6 pts
(18.8 ppg)

"Mr. Consistent" MIG RB of 2025

#1 Jaylen Warren

12.74±5.6 ppg
#2Kyren Williams
14.75±6.0 ppg
#3Javonte Williams
12.92±6.1 ppg
#4Chase Brown
13.57±6.8 ppg
#5D'Andre Swift
11.79±7.0 ppg

Best MIG WR of 2025

#1 Jaxon Smith-Njigba

332.3 pts
(22.2 ppg)
#2Puka Nacua
331.3 pts
(22.1 ppg)
#3Ja'Marr Chase
255.0 pts
(18.2 ppg)
#4George Pickens
248.9 pts
(17.8 ppg)
#5Amon-Ra St. Brown
248.1 pts
(17.7 ppg)

"Mr. Consistent" MIG WR of 2025

#1 Jaylen Waddle

11.1±6.4 ppg
#2DK Metcalf
10.95±6.6 ppg
#3Davante Adams
14.14±6.9 ppg
#4Nico Collins
14.18±7.0 ppg
#5CeeDee Lamb
15.45±7.5 ppg

Best MIG TE of 2025

#1 Trey McBride

239.3 pts
(16.0 ppg)
#2Brock Bowers
154.2 pts
(12.8 ppg)
#3Kyle Pitts Sr.
137.3 pts
(12.5 ppg)
#4George Kittle
132.6 pts
(14.7 ppg)
#5Travis Kelce
120.0 pts
(9.2 ppg)

"Mr. Consistent" MIG TE of 2025

#1 Tyler Warren

7.61±4.1 ppg
#2Travis Kelce
9.23±5.7 ppg
#3Trey McBride
15.95±9.3 ppg
#4Brock Bowers
12.85±10.5 ppg
#5Kyle Pitts Sr.
12.48±13.3 ppg

Best MIG K of 2025

#1 Cameron Dicker

173.8 pts
(11.6 ppg)
#2Brandon Aubrey
172.3 pts
(11.5 ppg)
#3Chase McLaughlin
148.0 pts
(9.9 ppg)
#4Tyler Loop
127.1 pts
(8.5 ppg)
#5Jake Bates
121.6 pts
(9.4 ppg)

"Mr. Consistent" MIG K of 2025

#1 Matt Prater

7.83±3.8 ppg
#2Tyler Loop
8.47±4.0 ppg
#3Jake Bates
9.35±4.3 ppg
#4Chris Boswell
7.82±4.5 ppg
#5Cameron Dicker
11.59±4.7 ppg

Best MIG DEF of 2025

#1 Los Angeles

249.0 pts
(11.9 ppg)
#2Seattle
147.0 pts
(13.4 ppg)
#3Green Bay
117.0 pts
(7.8 ppg)
#4Baltimore
112.0 pts
(11.2 ppg)
#5Houston
104.0 pts
(13.0 ppg)

"Mr. Consistent" MIG DEF of 2025

#1 Denver

10.4±5.6 ppg
#2Kansas City
8.73±5.7 ppg
#3Los Angeles
11.86±6.7 ppg
#4Green Bay
7.8±7.4 ppg
#5Seattle
13.36±11.6 ppg
"Let's be real folks, this game ain't about the Johnnies and Joes, it's about their exes and hoes. Heh heh heh, just kidding, folks. Matty had to make a little joke there. It's a team game! While the swarthy men do the pounding on the field, the general managers and team owners beat 'em all off in the board room. Double boom!

"In the MIGFFL, we have two phases. First, you draft your team. That's where the foundation is set for the season to come. Then you have the cleanup phase, where you replace the duds with new hot studs through waivers. That's what I like. Frinky?"

"Using the Frinkiac 3000, an amazing device despite its clear lack of flubber, I have been able to determine the exact number of MIG points that a team has derived from its drafted players. Applying the subtraction matrix, we also can accurately determine the number of MIG team points that came from free agent and waiver claims.

"Below you will see two tables. The one on the left ranks the teams based on drafted points they have amassed, while the one on the right shows the points gained from transactions made in-season. Oh for glayvin out loud, that monkey is picking tranSIStors off the motherboard and EATING THEM! Stay calm, Frinky. Ahem, please excuse me while I apply the monkey-deterrent spray which has a core ingredient of... LOVE?!? Who has been screwing with this thing? Darn you, Mr. Professional Football Mayvin!"
# Team Drafted PTS Total PTS % drafted PTS
1 Office Linebackers 1498.8 1884.5 79.5%
2 Portland Pat Tillman 1443.5 1806.0 79.9%
3 Team Harleton 1426.3 1938.4 73.6%
4 Honolulu Blew It 1417.9 1880.2 75.4%
5 Seattle Lawful Evils 1407.0 1735.9 81.1%
6 NY WH Coons 1379.9 1758.6 78.5%
7 Palestinian Chicken 1352.5 1652.6 81.8%
8 Vulcan Mind-melds 1256.7 1902.7 66.0%
9 Springfield Isotopes 1243.8 1963.8 63.3%
10 DCFC 1153.9 1616.5 71.4%
11 OK City Bombers 1001.5 1666.7 60.1%
12 51st Statesmen 924.4 1507.3 61.3%
# Team Waiver PTS Total PTS % waiver PTS
1 Springfield Isotopes 720.0 1963.8 36.7%
2 OK City Bombers 665.2 1666.7 39.9%
3 Vulcan Mind-melds 646.0 1902.7 34.0%
4 51st Statesmen 583.0 1507.3 38.7%
5 Team Harleton 512.0 1938.4 26.4%
6 DCFC 462.6 1616.5 28.6%
7 Honolulu Blew It 462.3 1880.2 24.6%
8 Office Linebackers 385.7 1884.5 20.5%
9 NY WH Coons 378.7 1758.6 21.5%
10 Portland Pat Tillman 362.5 1806.0 20.1%
11 Seattle Lawful Evils 328.9 1735.9 18.9%
12 Palestinian Chicken 300.1 1652.6 18.2%