They’re starting the 29th season of the Bronco Alumni Football League today – 12 guys who all went to school at Santa Clara. It’s a well-run league; the guys get together in Tahoe every year for the draft. And I bring the league up because the results don’t seem to be statistically possible.
Of the 12 franchises in the league, only one has never won the championship – the Easter Island Tiki Gods. Yet during the league’s history, he’s scored more points than anyone else. He’s scored 500 more points than all but one of the other owners.
Four teams have scored more than a 1,000 fewer points than Easter Island over the last 28 years, and those franchises have won a combined 12 titles.
How is that statistically even possible?
This is a TD-only league, with the top four teams advancing to head-to-head playoffs.
Anyway, this league has me wondering. Can anybody else out there top this league for some kind of luck element? That is, maybe the lowest-scoring team winning the championship more than anyone else? And are there any other fantasy teams out there that are the all-time leaders in points in their league over 20-plus years without ever winning the championship?
BAFL STANDINGS (1988-2015) | ||||||
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Team | Win | Loss | Tie | Pct | Points | Titles |
Santa Cruz Great Whites | 202 | 166 | 3 | .549 | 12,149 | 4 |
San Francisco Ballbusters | 203 | 179 | 3 | .531 | 11,444 | 1 |
Vegas Virgins | 200 | 183 | 2 | .522 | 11,799 | 3 |
Silverdale Studmuffins | 198 | 185 | 2 | .517 | 11,903 | 1 |
Phoenix Gila Monsters | 188 | 177 | 6 | .515 | 11,260 | 4 |
Los Angeles Schaefer Men | 195 | 185 | 5 | .513 | 11,796 | 1 |
Rock Creek Spectrum Analyzers | 192 | 190 | 3 | .503 | 11,830 | 3 |
Easter Island Tiki Gods | 186 | 195 | 4 | .488 | 12,438 | 0 |
Redwood City Fog | 145 | 163 | 4 | .471 | 9,611 | 1 |
Capistrano Crime | 177 | 203 | 5 | .466 | 11,594 | 3 |
Canoga Park Grasshoppers | 176 | 205 | 4 | .462 | 10,871 | 6 |
Hollywood Stars | 139 | 172 | 1 | .447 | 9,403 | 1 |
—Ian Allan