The Origin Years (2010–2019) — OJT Fantasy Football

How this started

A high-school group chat that refused to grow up

The OJT started in 2010, back when most of these guys were still in high school. They graduated in 2015 and kept playing. They've got jobs now, rent, actual responsibilities, and they still torch every fall arguing over kicker streams like their lives depend on it. Eight bored teenagers picking fantasy teams turned into sixteen years of the same crew refusing to let the thing die. That's the cool part. Now the ugly part.

It did not start pretty. The rosters were a revolving door of friends who got dragged in, beaten senseless, and never seen again. Pige has been here since the very first season in 2010, and by 2013 he was leading the whole league in scoring. Jimmy went 10–3 right next to him and neither could reach a final. Jack won a title on two roster moves. Kirby, the league's forever punching bag, actually won the whole thing in 2013. The crew came together fast, and one thing held the entire time. The best team kept losing. The talent was getting robbed before there was even a trophy worth stealing. The receipts are below. So are the bodies.

8→12→10

Teams, and the chaos between

It opened as an 8-team league in 2010, swelled to a bloated twelve in 2014, then settled at ten. Managers came and went the whole way.

2013

The year the band showed up

Only four of today's ten were in it for 2010 and 2012. By 2013, eight of them were in. The whole league basically formed in one season.

6–7

Three straight titles, three losing records

Brandon, then Pige, then Jack, from 2017 to 2019, every champion under .500. Three years running, the best team in the league got mugged. The trophy has never meant less.

Champions, all still here

Every crown from 2010 to 2019 belongs to a current member, Millan, Jack (×3), Kirby, Pige (×2), Shane, Brandon. The rotating cast of friends never won a thing.

How the league formed

It didn't fill up all at once. For years it was a couple of today's regulars mixed with a rotating cast of friends who have long since vanished.

In 2010, four of today's managers were already in: Nima, Millan, Shane and Pige. 2012 had four again: Nima, Millan, Jack and Pige. Then 2013 happened, and the roster jumped to eight at once, adding Kirby, Jimmy and Austin with Shane back in. Austin was a 2013 original who bailed and came back in 2018. Brandon joined in 2014, Miles in 2016. The full ten weren't in one room until Nima's 2020 return. Everyone else on these tables, the Christophers and Kyles and Nicks, are friends who got bored and left. None of them ever won.

20104 of 10

20124 of 10

20138 of 10 · the band shows up

20148 of 10

20158 of 10

20169 of 10 · +Miles

20178 of 10 · Nima banned

20189 of 10 · Austin's back

20199 of 10

202010 of 10

Today's ten managers, by how many were in the league each year. It jumped from four to eight in 2013 and basically stuck. Austin ducked out for a few years, Nima was serving his ban, and the full ten weren't in one room until 2020.

Champions of the era

Nine titles in ten years, 2011 was a lockout. Every winner is still in the league today. But keep an eye on the last three, all won with a losing record: 6–7, 6–7, 6–7.

2010

Millan

11–2 · most points

wire to wire

2011

—

lockout

no season

2012

Jack

7–6 · 2 moves

laziest title

2013

Kirby

8–5

two 10–3s went home

2014

Pige

8–5

12-team year

2015

Shane

9–4

first of two

2016

Jack

9–4

ring #2

2017

Brandon

6–7

mickey-mouse

2018

Pige

6–7

mickey-mouse

2019

Jack

6–7

mickey-mouse

Jack's 2012 title is the laziest in league history: 7–6 on two roster moves all season. Kirby won 2013 at 8–5 while two 10–3 teams (Pige and Jimmy) went home. And 2010 stands alone as the one year the best team actually finished the job, Millan went 11–2 with the most points and took it.

The Suspension

Every league has one story it doesn't bring up at the reunion. Here's that story.

The crime

Banned three years for the sin of being bad

In 2016 the league invented its first-ever last-place punishment and immediately handed it to Nima, who'd just gone a repulsive 2–11. The sentence: post a bikini pic of himself on social media. So he appealed, and he was right, for the record. The guy he was racing for last had padded his wins against teams that didn't even set their lineups: no kicker in, half their studs on a bye. It wasn't football, it was a bye-week bake sale. He wasn't bad, the season was rigged. The league heard every word of it, nodded, and banned his ass for three years.

The vindication

Then the league spent three years proving him right

With Nima gone, the OJT cranked out three straight champions with losing records. 6–7. 6–7. 6–7. Shane went 10–3 twice and won jack shit. Every single year the best team got its lunch money taken by some 6–7 scrub holding a trophy. Three full seasons of hard evidence that the league he got banned for calling a clown show was, in fact, a clown show. The comeback is a different page. This one belongs to Brandon, Pige and Jack, and the losing records they lifted the trophy with.

The argument, before it had a name

The most-points prize didn't exist yet. These are the years that made everyone realize it had to.

2010

The one time the system worked. Millan went 11–2 with the most points and actually won. Frame it, it doesn't happen again for years.

2012

Nima went 11–2, scored the most points in the league, and didn't even make the final. Jack took the title at 7–6 on two roster moves. The entire wins-vs-points fight, born in one season.

2013

Two teams went 10–3, Pige (most points) and Jimmy. Neither reached the final. Kirby won at 8–5.

2014

Millan led the league in points at 9–4 and didn't even medal. Nima went 10–3 and grabbed a bronze. Pige won it at 8–5. Twelve teams, one lesson.

2015

Pige put up the most points in the league, 1,586, at 9–4 and lost the final. Shane took the ring.

2016

Jimmy had the best team on the board, 10–3 with the most points, and won nothing. Jack won at 9–4. Same movie, fifth showing.

Six seasons, and five times the team that led in points or record didn't win. Jimmy and Pige were "best team, no ring" a decade before anyone built a spreadsheet about it. The prize came later. The pain was always there.

Standings, year by year

Every pre-2020 season, ranked by regular-season record with the playoff medals laid on top, plus points for, points against and the transaction count. Current members are in bold; the faded names are the departed cast (a dash means a locked private profile). Tap a year to open it.

Champion Runner-up Third Medals are the playoff finish. Rows rank by regular-season record, points for breaks ties. A team can sit at the top and win nothing, or wear gold from the middle of the table.

2010 · Millan, wire to wire 8 teams · Nima's very first season›

Rk	Manager	Team	Rec	PF	PA	Mv
1	Millan	Millan Eats World	11–2	1390	1103	12
2	ld	the i.t. crowd	10–3	1308	1048	23
3	Pige	Black Sheep	8–5	1208	1113	1
4	—	hardcore parcour	6–7	1170	1138	15
5	Shane	The Romosexuals	6–7	945	1058	16
6	—	ChadLostHisJohnson	5–8	1153	1155	2
7	Nima	The Awesome Nima's	4–9	1182	1255	10
8	—	Foozy Nuesbaums	2–11	751	1237	0

The one origin year the system worked: Millan went 11–2 with the most points and took the whole thing wire to wire. Even here the bracket got weird: a 10–3 team ("the i.t. crowd") settled for third while Pige grabbed runner-up at 8–5, in the league's very first season. Eight teams, everyone made the playoffs, and "Foozy Nuesbaums" still found a way to go 2–11 with a 750 for.

2012 · Jack's 2-move title 8 teams · the argument is born›

Rk	Manager	Team	Rec	PF	PA	Mv
1	Nima	Shark Face Gang	11–2	1505	1259	6
2	—	Average Joes	7–6	1399	1368	19
3	Jack	Frigid Aardvark Cum	7–6	1345	1296	2
4	—	Goats	7–6	1191	1160	0
5	Christopher	The IT Crowd	6–7	1313	1324	12
6	Pige	Jake and Amir	6–7	1105	1247	0
7	—	Suck my Vick	5–8	1359	1349	12
8	Millan	Sherpa for Life	3–10	1210	1424	7

The argument that never dies was born right here. The best team on the board went 11–2 with the most points in the league and won nothing. Jack took the title from the middle of the pack at 7–6 on two roster moves all year, the laziest ring in league history. Only four of today's ten were even in it yet.

2013 · the league forms 10 teams · 8 of today's 10 arrive›

Rk	Manager	Team	Rec	PF	PA	Mv
1	Pige	Alex Pehrson's Team	10–3	1566	1344	20
2	Jimmy	theugliestpetrakes	10–3	1413	1152	26
3	Kirby	Kirby's Team	8–5	1401	1280	14
4	Jason	Planet Z	8–5	1365	1245	16
5	Shane	Emma Brummond	7–6	1383	1409	24
6	Nima	Dr Drain's Dynasty	6–7	1341	1339	31
7	Millan	Sherpa Life	6–7	1270	1285	14
8	Jack	Lopeísisté teamísisé	5–8	1218	1373	9
9	Austin	Austin's Team	3–10	1218	1321	13
10	Christopher	Christopher	2–11	1080	1508	12

The season the OJT basically formed: eight of today's ten are on this board. Pige put up a monster, 10–3 with the most points in the league (1566), and it bought him nothing but a bronze. Jimmy went 10–3 too and got zero, and his team "theugliestpetrakes" was a roast of Jack, who was running "Lopeísisté teamísisé" down in 8th. Kirby won it all from third at 8–5. Two 10–3 teams, no ring between them. Sound familiar?

2014 · the 12-team peak 12 teams · Pige takes it›

Rk	Manager	Team	Rec	PF	PA	Mv
1	—	We dem buns	10–3	1426	1257	23
2	Nima	Tappa Zukie's Team	10–3	1400	1153	40
3	Millan	Sensei Holmes	9–4	1456	1236	14
4	Pige	Yung's Team	8–5	1344	1211	33
5	Kirby	Calvin and Cobb	7–6	1271	1255	16
6	Jack	Turn Down for Watt	7–6	1244	1276	21
7	Christopher	Christopher's Team	6–7	1274	1251	22
8	Kyle	Peety Pablo	6–7	1069	1359	32
9	Brandon	Winning Is My Forte	5–8	1248	1297	15
10	Shane	Money Team	5–8	1140	1310	23
11	Jimmy	Eifert tower	4–9	1234	1341	25
12	—	$ Zack's B Cups $	1–12	1067	1228	2

The bloated twelve-team high-water mark. Millan led the entire league in scoring at 9–4 and didn't sniff a medal. Two 10–3 teams, "We dem buns" and "Tappa Zukie's Team," split one bronze between them. Pige won it all from fourth at 8–5. Footnote for the archives: that "Tappa Zukie" name up at #2 is the exact one that would win the 2025 title, eleven years later. "$ Zack's B Cups $" mailed in a 1–12 on two moves.

2015 · Shane's first ring 10 teams · Pige scores the most, loses›

Rk	Manager	Team	Rec	PF	PA	Mv
1	Pige	SremmLife	9–4	1586	1345	19
2	Shane	The White Knight	9–4	1403	1269	32
3	Jimmy	dimsdale degenerates	8–5	1346	1247	29
4	Millan	Sicarios	8–5	1326	1244	29
5	Kyle	McCoy	8–5	1273	1356	16
6	Kirby	My ball Zach Ertz	6–7	1258	1235	22
7	Jack	Kira Laurento(sloth)	5–8	1339	1290	18
8	Brandon	John Stamos	5–8	1147	1310	5
9	Nick	Nick's Nice Team	4–9	1103	1284	0
10	Nima	Nick's Naughty Team	3–10	1144	1345	34

Shane's first ring, won from second. Pige topped the whole league in points at 1586 on a 9–4 record and lost the final, the points-without-a-ring identity he still carries a decade later. Down at the bottom, Nima cratered to 3–10 and dead last, the slide toward his ban already underway.

2016 · Jack again, Miles debuts 10 teams · Nima's last before the ban›

Rk	Manager	Team	Rec	PF	PA	Mv
1	Jimmy	OJTs BEST athlete	10–3	1470	1376	8
2	Jack	Kira Laurento(sloth)	9–4	1333	1306	13
3	Miles	Kira Fatrento	7–6	1429	1294	10
4	Kyle	McCoy	7–6	1369	1348	17
5	Kirby	Kirbys team	7–6	1275	1269	39
6	Millan	Kira Lacameltoe	6–7	1392	1297	30
7	Brandon	John Stamos	6–7	1242	1380	15
8	Pige	SremmLife 2	6–7	1180	1209	49
9	Shane	Clits Out 4 Harambe	5–8	1270	1367	15
10	Nima	A-Dawgs Siceingteam	2–11	1312	1427	39

Jack's second ring, taken from second at 9–4. Jimmy sat on top of the standings at 10–3 with the most points in the league and walked away with nothing, the pattern that still defines him. Pige backed into a runner-up from 6–7. Rookie Miles snagged bronze. And at the very bottom, Nima's 2–11 was his worst season ever, and the last one before a three-year ban.

2017 · the first clown title 10 teams · Nima banned · champ went 6–7›

Rk	Manager	Team	Rec	PF	PA	Mv
1	Shane	The GB Packers	10–3	1340	1125	36
2	Jack	William Football III	9–4	1242	1236	10
3	Kirby	Kirbys team	8–5	1382	1288	40
4	Pige	LUV Is Rage 2	7–6	1348	1250	22
5	Millan	Chat $hIt Get Banged	7–6	1196	1146	34
6	Brandon	John Stamos	6–7	1211	1271	7
7	Jimmy	OJTs BEST athlete	5–8	1169	1359	11
8	Miles	PlayboiCartiIsMyDad	5–8	1110	1133	8
9	Kyle	McCoy	4–9	1188	1268	13
10	Nick	Lil JuiceBox	4–9	1177	1287	32

The first title of the ban set the tone perfectly. Shane owned the regular season at 10–3 and lost the final to a 6–7 team, so Brandon lifted the trophy from sixth place in the standings. A 5–8 Jimmy somehow snagged the bronze. Almost the whole crew was already here, missing only Nima and Austin, with Kyle and Nick the last two randoms parked at the bottom where they belonged.

2018 · Pige wins with a losing record 10 teams · 6–7 champ, most points against›

Rk	Manager	Team	Rec	PF	PA	Mv
1	Shane	Boca Box Munchers	10–3	1572	1342	37
2	Jack	William Football III	8–5	1422	1282	13
3	Brandon	John Stamos	8–5	1413	1418	17
4	Pige	Eternal Atake	6–7	1484	1535	16
5	Jimmy	OJTs BEST athlete	6–7	1474	1493	21
6	Kirby	Kirbys team	6–7	1423	1415	32
7	Miles	TriptheKid	6–7	1291	1410	1
8	Kyle	WavìPapï	5–8	1385	1463	8
9	Millan	Chat $hIt Get Banged	5–8	1275	1295	31
10	Austin	Austin's Team	5–8	1250	1336	8

Pige won the whole thing at 6–7, a losing record, from fourth in the standings. His opponents dropped more points on him than anyone in the league all year, the worst luck on the board, and he won anyway. Meanwhile Shane went 10–3, led the league in points, and settled for bronze. Robbed again. The man could not buy a ring in this era.

2019 · Jack, 6–7, from the 7-seed 10 teams · the last title before Nima came back›

Rk	Manager	Team	Rec	PF	PA	Mv
1	Pige	Eternal Atake	9–4	1531	1268	31
2	Millan	ChickenTikka MoSalah	9–4	1422	1187	30
3	Kyle	WavìPapï	8–5	1459	1422	19
4	Kirby	Kirbys team	8–5	1317	1379	31
5	Jimmy	OJTs BEST athlete	7–6	1332	1281	19
6	Shane	Boca Box Munchers	6–7	1353	1272	29
7	Jack	William Football III	6–7	1321	1225	24
8	Brandon	John Stamos	5–8	1239	1354	20
9	Austin	Jewish Messiah	4–9	1174	1339	11
10	Miles	TriptheKid	3–10	1059	1483	6

The last clown title before the ban lifted: Jack won it all at 6–7 as the 7-seed, buried seventh in the standings. Two 9–4 teams sat on top, and Millan's reward for the second-best record was an early playoff exit. Shane snuck onto the podium again, bronze from a 6–7 record. Miles finished dead last at 3–10, a rookie gag for a guy on year four. Then the ban lifted, the league rewrote its whole constitution, and recess was over.

Hall of Fame & Shame · origin cut

A decade is plenty of time to earn a plaque. Or a restraining order.

The Two-Move Trophy

Jack, 2012

Won a championship on two roster moves the entire season. Didn't lift a finger, still lifted the trophy. Living proof you can win this league in a coma.

Best Team, No Luck

Pige, 2010–19

Runner-up in the league's very first season, then the most points in the league by 2013 with nothing to show for it. He has been the best roster that can't finish since day one. Started early, never stopped.

The Eleven-Year Setup

Nima, 2014

Named a team "Tappa Zukie," went 10–3, choked. Then dusted off the exact same name in 2025 and won the whole thing. An eleven-year troll nobody saw coming.

The 750 Club

Foozy Nuesbaums, 2010

Went 2–11 and put up 750 points across an entire season, in an eight-team league, then vanished off the face of the earth. One of the worst rosters ever assembled. He knew, and he bounced.

Effort Not Found

$ Zack's B Cups $, 2014

Went 1–12 in the twelve-team season on a grand total of two moves. Quit in September and rode it straight to the basement. Didn't even give the league the courtesy of trying.

Robbery, Broad Daylight

Shane, 2017–18

Went 10–3 in back-to-back seasons with the best team in the league both years and walked off with a silver and a bronze. Mugged twice by 6–7 champions. The most robbed man of the entire era, and it is not close.