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Started to craft this list after being pretty wowed by Curry Barker’s Obsession.

Enjoy/roast/outrage in the comments. Tried to avoid ties as much as possible but it was very hard some years to rank films over each other that were so stylistically different. I also didn’t include Zach Cregger in 2022 because he technically did direct a feature film before Barbarian.

2026 - Obsession (dir. Curry Barker)
2025 - Eephus (dir. Carson Lund)
2024 - The First Omen (dir. Arkasha Stevenson) or Janet Planet (dir. Annie Baker)
2023 - Past Lives (dir. Celine Song)
2022 - Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells)
2021 - The Lost Daughter (dir. Maggie Gyllenhaal)
2020 - Sound of Metal (dir. Darius Marder)
2019 - Booksmart (dir. Olivia Wilde)
2018 - TOO MANY GOOD DEBUTS I CANNOT HAVE A THREE WAY OR FOUR WAY TIE
2017 - Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele) or Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig)
2016 - The Witch (dir. Robert Eggers)
2015 - Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland)
2014 - Nightcrawler (dir. Dan Gilroy)
2013 - Fruitvale Station (dir. Ryan Coogler)
2012 - Beasts of the Southern Wild (dir. Benh Zeitlin)
2011 - Attack the Block (dir. Joe Cornish)
2010 - Catfish (dir. Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman)
2009 - District 9 (dir. Neill Blomkamp)
2008 - Synecdoche, New York (dir. Charlie Kaufman)
2007 - Persepolis (dir. Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud)
2006 - The Foot Fist Way (dir. Jody Hill)
2005 - The 40 Year Old Virgin (dir. Judd Apatow) or Pride and Prejudice (dir. Joe Wright)
2004 - Primer (dir. Shane Carruth)
2003 - House of Sand and Fog (dir. Vadim Perelman)
2002 - Chicago (dir. Rob Marshall)
2001 - Donnie Darko (dir. Richard Kelly) or Fraility (dir. Bill Paxton)
2000 - The Virgin Suicides (dir. Sofia Coppola)

Just to clarify, after rolling over my leagues the waiver order is from highest finish last year to lowest. There is no way to fix this in Sleeper without manually adjusting in commish settings. Not a huge pain for one league, but a real tiresome affair when I’m commissioning the amount I am.

Our leagues would prefer that the waiver order to start the offseason is reverse standings. It also doesn’t look like it rolled over the last teams to make moves from previous year for FAAB bidding as well.

Yes, this is important as the tiebreaker for FAAB bidding shouldn’t go to the champ for our first post draft waiver run.

is to stop being precious about your end of bench players. Always have minimum three guys you can cut at a moment’s notice without any regret. If you somehow have a “stacked” bench - create more flexibility for yourself.

There have been so many instances where a guy like Rashod Bateman or Marvin Mims were sitting on the end of my bench and since I didn’t want to outright “cut” these players I invested in or had hope in, for them to go be the “top player” on waivers where I let good trades pass me by. And those players turn out to be nothing. Sure, it sucks having to a cut a guy who becomes successful for another manager, and they got that player for free after you held for so long. But always take a trade where you’re getting the top player or proven talent. Clear that end of bench if you need to. Only show any loyalty in this game to your absolute core starters. You’ll be so much more successful, I promise.

I believe last I checked the 12 owner Superflex league average roster size was around 25 on Sleeper. That puts total rostered players around 300 in total.

We are not going to include rookies or players that have been in the league for more than 4 seasons and proven their roster clogger bonafides. We are not assuming TEP, just SF and PPR.

This leaves:
230. Michael Mayer
233. Tre Tucker
234. Malik Washington
238. Will Howard
239. Jaydon Blue
240. Jaylen Wright
241. Ray Davis
243. Isaiah Bond
246. Tez Johnson
247. Brashard Smith
248. DJ Giddens
250. Jordan James
253. Jatavion Sanders
255. Xavier Legette
256. Ryan Flournoy
257. Quinn Ewers
258. Marvin Mims
261. Ben Sinnott
264. Lequint Allen
265. Dontayvion Wicks
269. Donte Thornton
273. Riley Leonard
275. Isaiah Davis
279. Cedric Tillman
282. Tyquan Thornton
283. Kendre Miller
284. Jahan Dotson
285. Jalen Royals
288. Darnell Washington
291. Demario Douglas
293. Trevor Etienne
294. Joe Milton
295. Tyson Bagent

Mandolorian and Grogu seems like a logical spot after the Endgame trailer was at Cinemacon, but really feels like at this point Marvel just has no faith or desire to drum up buzz. Dune beat it to IMAX. Beat it to trailer launch. Will it defy odds and beat its ass at the box office?

With rookie drafts in full flight and contenders of yesteryear looking to rebuild and rebuilders looking to make deals to have their teams take the next step.

With a poorly received draft class limiting top upside potential for contenders and 2027 hype at peak, there seems to be a lot of potential for the movement of elite assets this offseason.

But looking at deals volume on KTC and roster audit, this offseason seems to be the slowest thus far, especially with top assets.

Which elite assets have you tried to sell and surprisingly cannot get any bites?

Going to throw a few names out of “losers” this offseason that could still be viable moving forward in Dynasty:

Woody Marks (market assumption is that with Texans adding Montgomery to be presumed primary back, Marks is just a situational guy or backup)

Mason Taylor (market assumption is that drafting Sadiq in first there will not be enough targets to go around, and Taylor is buried)

Rico Dowdle (market assumption is he goes to Pittsburgh to be the backup or atleast 1B to Warren)

Pat Bryant (market assumption is that Waddle move will pus Bryant to WR3 on depth chart behind Waddle and Sutton)

Dallas Goedert (market assumption is even with AJB vacated targets, drafting of Stowers and Lemon means not enough volume to sustain Goedert this season)

Kyle Williams (market is anticipatory of a AJB trade and acquisition of Romeo Doubs will stifle Williams production and ability to carve out role)

Alvin Kamara (market assumption is Etienne signing and Kamara decline and reluctance to play outside of New Orleans spells the end for a former league winner)

Tory Horton (market assumption that resigning of Shaheed means Horton is not in immediate plans for the passing attack)