Hey cabbie!

The Taxi Squad, the Draft etc.

The proposal to add a Taxi Squad spot in 2026 was passed with a 2/3 majority. It's really pretty simple and I'll go over the details below. First I want to explain why I liked the idea and put it up for a vote.

We are dropping one roster spot (to 15) as per our vote last year. I feel that will free up some talent for the waiver wire but also handicaps us a bit as far as lineup options. Adding the Taxi Squad spot doesn't counteract the roster reduction much and it gives us what I think is an interesting strategy as far as roster construction. Quite a few of us like rolling the dice on rookies (I'm looking at you, Hogan) and with this option we can do that without cramping our rosters. Here is how it works in Q&A form:

Q: Why are we doing this? I thought you wanted to keep things simple.

A: This isn't a change from that. Anything is simple compared to calculating keepers values for 12 rosters of 18 players each and doing spreadsheets for every team. Stuff like this, or adding a second flex, or doing the 'pick your draft slot' thing are just little ways to spice the league up a bit. Some work, some don't. If this proves to be a bad idea we can drop it for 2027.

Q: Do I have to deal with this? 

A: Nope, it is entirely optional for everyone. If you don't want to mess with it, you can ignore it. 

Q: Why would I want to jack with this?

A: Here's an example...every season NFL clubs will draft some mid-round QBs with the idea that they might nail down the backup role or even serve as the 'get us through the season' starter at some point. Clayton Tune to the Cardinals a couple of years back is a good example. This year Carson Beck is that same guy. Maybe your starter has a rookie behind him. He'd make a good TS candidate to claim for free after the draft. The Ravens drafted an RB who likely won't see much action but if Henry or Hill go down the kid has the talent to help. If you have Henry he might be an option. Stuff like that.

Q: Who goes on the Taxi Squad?

A: Any rookie you either a) draft, or b) claim in the post-draft open claim period (which begins the morning after the draft as always) is eligible. We will draft 14 rounds on Draft Night leaving a 15th spot open to be filled during Open Waivers beginning Tuesday morning. You can use that period to find a hidden gem rookie or use one you drafted. Side note: You use that Open Waiver period to fill your roster whether you use the TS or not. Any waiver funds used will be added back to you. Side Note #2: Rookies are designated with (R) after their names in the MFL system.

Q: Where is the page for doing Taxi Squad business?
A: Look for the Taxi Squad link under Transactions on the top menu.

Q: How many TS slots are there? 

A: One slot, for one-time use. And that slot doesn't count as one of your 15 roster spots. 

Q: Can I put a rookie on the TS at any time?

A: You get one, and only one, period to place your NFL rookie on the Taxi Squad. 

Q: When can I put a guy on the TS?

A: That period begins after the draft is complete and I've had the chance to upload the rosters. You have to add him before the NFL season's first game. Technically 6 pm Central on Thursday September 10.

Q: Can I have more rookies?

A: Sure! You can draft, claim, drop, trade rookies to your hearts content, as always! But only one can be stashed on the TS and not count against your roster.

Q: Can I switch rookies? 

A: Before the TS locks on Thursday the 10th you can swap rookies on or off it but at 6pm on Thursday that option ends. 

Q: How long can I keep my TS rookie on the TS?

A: You can keep him on the TS as long as you want this year. You are under no obligation to do anything with him.

Q: How do I put a rookie on the TS and how do I call my TS rookie up to my roster?

A: MFL calls moving a player onto or off your TS 'promoting' and 'demoting'. Once you choose the guy you want to put on the TS use the 'demote' option. You can 'promote' him any old time during the season as long as you have space on your roster. There is also an option to 'drop' your Taxi Squad rookie on the TS page but I'm not sure why you'd do that other than having changed your mind on owning someone before the list locks in the preseason. 

Q: If  I promote my Taxi Squad rookie can I replace him with a different one on the TS? 

A: Nope, once the preseason window closes the rookie on your Taxi Squad is the only one you can place there in 2026. 

Q: Can I trade my Taxi Squad rookie?

A: Yes. I learned you can trade him directly from the TS without promoting him when I looked at the setup in the (shitty) dynasty league I was roped into. BUT the team receiving that player needs room on their regular roster because he cannot go on to their Taxi Squad.

There you have it. I made that sound more complicated than it actually is. Think of it this way... between the draft and the first 2026 kickoff you get to throw a rookie into your 'closet'. Once you yank him out, you no longer have a closet. 

When: Labor Day, September 7th at 6:30 pm Central, 7:30 Eastern, 5:30 Paz time. 

Where: Beats me. I'll let you know. 

Details: PrimeTime Draft will again be how we pick online. There is another product I'm still looking at but I'm not sure if I want to venture outside our 'comfort zone'. We'll have a Zoom room setup again. 

Links for both will be provided via email.

More: We'll draft 14 rounds that night with the usual Open Waivers period beginning Tuesday morning so you can fill gaps.

Specifics will be posted here, on the league site, and via email.

Pick Me a Winner

 Well, that was fun. Sort of. When I decided to use the 'choose your slot' draft position thing I wasn't envisioning what we went through Wednesday afternoon. First of all, I had used the Draftordergenerator.com site in past years (though not last year). And I did read online that there had been reports of delayed results being emailed out, but I gave it a shot anyway. I'm not sure what the issue was, possibly that I 'copy and pasted' the email addresses from my Gmail contacts. 

But, anyway, the league site generator worked fine. And, as a plus, we got through the whole selection process in an afternoon. Based one this league's history, I was figuring it would be late August. So, kudos to you.

The draft order has been entered in the league site. I have no problem with guys trading around. Just let me know before the first of September so I can set up the draft night software. Speaking of which...I found a nicer-looking, more flexible online draft site, and I was gonna adopt it, but I decided that I'd rather just keep the known quantity. I'm not up for doing testing and tutorials. 

The Taxi Squad proposal has six votes at the moment. I won't adopt anything that only gets six votes. Let your voice be heard. passed. More details (many more LOL) are coming this weekend right here on the blog.

Pick Your Poison (plus Taxi Squad proposal)

👉 Note: I added a discussion about a possible Taxi Squad spot below this draft stuff. Check it out.

As I write this, we are six weeks away from the 2026 EHFL Draft! It's scheduled for September 7 at 6:30 Central time. That, once again, is Labor Day, so make your arrangements now.

This year, we will be choosing our own draft slots. We've done this before, and it's a nice addition to the drafting process without getting too crazy or complicated. Here are the basics:

Later this week, I will generate a draft spot selection order using a draft randomizer tool online. The output will likely be labeled as the "draft order," but don't be fooled. The order will indicate the priority for choosing your draft slot.

I will text/email each owner when their opportunity to choose is open. You will have 24 hours from that point to pick your slot from those still available. There will be a running tally in the league message on the home page.

If you fail to respond within 24 hours, your name goes to the bottom of the list.

I hope this goes well, but I guess we will find out. I hesitated to go back to this since responding to these things, reading the news, etc., is, let's face it, problematic here.

Taxi Squad...Yea or Nay?

I've given some thought off and on over the past year to adding a Taxi Squad spot. Here's what it would entail:

• One NFL rookie player would be eligible to be placed on the Taxi Squad. He would NOT count against your 16 player roster until activated.*
• He would have to be placed on the TS between the end of the draft and the start of the season. He can be someone you drafted, or a FA pickup in that first, post-draft waiver claim window. Once the 'window closes an hour before the first NFL kickoff, the ability to add a player to the TS spot is gone.
• Once activated to your regular roster during the season he cannot be demoted again to the Taxi Squad. Obviously you'd need to have an open slot on your roster to activate him to...either via a cut, a trade, placing a guy on IR, etc. 
• Once you activate your Taxi Squad guy you cannot add another player to it. IOW this is a one-and-done thing. This would be accomplished by me throwing a switch once the season kicks off. 

*If you want to place a rookie you drafted in your TS slot it would immediately open a spot for you to add a free agent to fill your roster again.

If you don't draft a rookie, or you don't want a drafted rookie to be your TS guy and want to add a rookie free agent after the draft as your TS guy, I would be able to intervene and make it work.

The more I think about it, the more I like it. It would add a bit of intrique to the draft I think. "Grab this rookie now?" "Wait and add one after the draft?" Lemme know how you feel. I'll put a non-binding poll up on the home page. Happy to hear your thoughts, suggestions, World Cup adventure stories.

New Helmets? Hell, yes!

New helmets! In other words, another thing that nobody cares about but me. LOL 🤣 But that's OK. Jacking with this keeps me off the streets. (click the graphic to enlarge the graphic)

I thought it was time for a refresh. Over the years I've used helmets I've found at The Helmet Depot, and they have been just fine. Along the way I've kept team-specific folders with helmets I've found there as alternatives (think 40th anniversary helmets from 2019) and the occasional random change I've made to a couple of teams.

This spring and summer I pulled some that I thought might work for each team and got to work modifying them. I used MS Paint and my rather rudimentary PS Elements skills to add clip art and/or a wordmark to each and then ran them through Chat GPT to 'smooth out the edges' and make them look more professional. 

I did that for every team except the Blizzard. I never could find anything I liked in the way of clip art, and I think the name cries out for something besides just a wordmark, so I asked for suggestions based on the team nickname and colors and AI came up with that mountain scene. 

The 'stand alone' wordmarks under each of the helmets were done in good ol' MS Paint using one of the 600 (only a slight exaggeration) fonts I've downloaded just for that purpose. EDIT: I used ChatGPT to improve the graphic element on a couple of these wordmarks as I was struggling to get them to look presentable. 

One thing I could never do on my own was successfully create 'mirror images' of wordmark helmets to use for postseason matchup previews. Chat GPT made that easy. Relatively easy, anyway. For some reason the Flyers helmet, with the Baltimore city flag, took about 20 attempts at getting the reverse image done correctly. AI is a useful tool, but it is far, far from perfect. Here is an early attempt at making a reverse image of the Flyers...

Alrighty then.

But I got everything finished, finally. The new hats are on the website and other places like the Team Profiles page linked over on the right. I hope you like them and I'd love getting some feedback, pro or con. 

Other stuff... Not much else to deal with right now. We are still on for a Labor Day draft. I'll get more info out as that draws near.

-commish

May Update...a LONG one!

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation...

Last time I posted here I mentioned that I was adding league sites for the seasons we spent prior to our first year on Myfantasyleague.com (2003). I also wanted to 'fix' our established sites since quite a few had degraded over time due to 'link rot' and lost graphics.

 

It was a long, and sometimes tedious process, but it was also fun and I have it complete. Read on to see what I was able to do. First up, the 'sites that never were':

Before we go any farther.. the sites are all found by clicking the 'Yearly Bests and Websites' link on the right.

MFL allowed me to create a site for each of these seasons. They don't have player databases going back that far so what I was able to do was somewhat restricted. Each of those seasons uses a common 'skin' (they all look alike) and I was able to do the following:

->Create a banner: This was something I've had a lot of fun with. I tried to be era 'appropriate' with these. When I could I included Hughes News graphics from the corresponding year. The 1995 banner I added to the top of this post is an example of that. In other cases I built it around a player or two from the title winning club like the '92 Steve Young banner, or I just created something that I liked for no good reason.

->Season Notes: From the scores and standings, as well as the old Hughes News issues, I came up with a few lines covering what made each season unique. Changes to the league makeup, team shuffles, rule changes, quirky scoring weeks, that sort of thing. 

-> Scores, the schedule, and final standings: Entering the schedule, team names and weekly scoring was the 'drudge work' part of all this. But in doing it, and cross-checking the data, I was able to fix some errors I found in the records I was keeping and in what I produced for the Yearbook. I even found at least one correction I needed to make in a Hughes Bowl game score. Luckily none of the 'fixes' changed a game winner at any point. 

I also found that I had screwed up the 1983 schedule (see below) but it's too late to do anything about that now. LOL  Live and learn. 

->Hughes News Examples: Each season has a link near the top of the page to 'Hughes News' which sends you to the Campionship Edition for that season as well as some sample pages of each year's newsletter. Some seasons have one, others have several. Many of the sites have Stat Sheets as well as the newsletters. Since I used the same style of spreadsheet stats for long stretches I didn't include them for each year. 

It was fun to go back through the archives and trace the evolution of our communication over the decades. Handwritten/typed with 'rub-on' headlines and letterheads through 'web-posted only', email-only seasons, etc. I'd forgotten stuff like using Quattro Pro, WordPerfect, 'The Commissioner' and assorted other programs to run this thing and get the info out to everyone. I had several flashbacks to using Macintosh desktops and workstations at UH Intramurals and at school in Baytown, and that bulky Gateway 2000 386-SX aka my dear, departed first home machine. (with 2MB of RAM, and 40MB hard drive! LOL). 

->Missing/Upgraded Champs Editions: In some seasons, particularly in the early 1990s and early 2000s, I sent the majority of  'newsletters' as emails, or as online, text-only pages. Some title winners during that era never received a 'proper' Hughes News Champs Edition. I've tried to rectify that by putting something more graphical for those teams. These are also  part of a different project I'm working on. I've done 5 or 6 as of this writing and I'm planning on doing a few more this summer. In most cases I've included the original 'News' (such as it was) along with the new, updated version. These are all accesible through the season site link as noted above and the Champions News Editions link to the whole history of these newsletters over on the right. 

These are the teams who got 'upgraded' Championship Editions:

• 1991 Nats
• 1992 Bombers
• 2000 Nats
• 2001 Holes
• 2003 Bombers
• 2004 Nats
• 2006 Sticks (upgraded player photos only)
• 2007 Bombers

The 1992 Champions Edition is shown below. Originally that season had a pretty 'Plain jane', text-only version and I thought I'd bring it into the modern era. The text shown is the original text with some spelling/grammar corrections.  The photo is one from the 49ers' 1992 season that I ran through an AI site and I loved the way it came out, (We will discuss AI below). if you look at Bobby's title season site you will see this and the original.

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->Misc. stuff: the Hughes Bowl box score, the champ's helmet and the approriate playoff bracket: Both are dsplayed on each year's site. 

June Update... Since i got so little responce to this (other than from Jack, Thanks for checking this stuff, Jack!) I decided I'd do something for myself and produce updates for my title wins. I had this one in mind for another season but I did it for 2005 because, fuck it, why not? Other than the 'action photo's uni update, there is no AI involved. I also did tweaks or completly new pages for 1990, 1996 & '97, and 2010. 

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We began with MFL online in 2003. All our league sites remained up and visible but many had gotten 'unlinked' from my account which meant I had no way to fix anything that had gone sideways. Banners and other graphics which had been housed on my old Flickr or Photobucket accounts were no longer visible and modules with bad/outdated info/links couldn't be removed. 

That finally changed when I asked the MFL folks to allow me to access our 2011 page so I could correct a misspelled owners name and have the plaque look more, well, professional. They were kind enough to walk me through that AND they returned all the league sites to my account.

So regaining those sites has allowed me to reinstall some banners. In many cases I recreated the originals or created a new one. I applied the same ‘skin’ and module arrangement that I used for the new league sites to be consistent. I also added a helmet for each champion. 

And, again,  the Champ's H-News is linked near the top as in the 'new' sites. A few other Hughes News pages are there as well. But, since we were doing things mostly online and eventually via the blog, they are almost all just text-based newsletters. By about 2006, give-or-take, we were totally on the blog and for some of the years all I was producung was stat stuff. I've tossed some examples of those under the Hughes News links as well.

All the stats, rosters, etc. are still available via the regular menues, unlike the '80-'02 sites mentioned above. The system did NOT allow me to do cetain things like remove now-pointless standings columns. Or the 'dead photo' icons that now appear in place of long gone pics for division names I had used for a few years. 

After some debate with myself, I decided to 'convert' these to the standard, simple template, at least through 2024. I figured that as we move along I'd leave the previous season site intact for one full season. This also cuts down on the bandwidth for TOS who provides and hosts the new template and all the scripts that make it work.

Using AI... this is certainly becoming a contentious subject as of late. And I understand the debate. No need to get into that here. My use of AI in relation to this project was limited to:

• Tweaking some images of players so that they appear in EHFL uniforms. 
• Having some legacy images 'cleaned up' or enhanced for aesthetics. Old Mac and crude pixel art needed to be fixed.
• Adding color to the background on some of the banners I created. A real timesaver and much neater than I could do.
• Correcting or suggestions for the code I used to building or tweaking some tables and pages. I could spend an hour hunting down a missing ">" but Chat GPT can do it instantly. 
• Pulling the text from old News Champs editions that had been converted to image files. I used the text to create the new replacement Champs editions. MS is abandoning/cratering Publisher this fall and I'm racing to save a lot of the work I did with it. 

I'm also in the process of creating new helmets for our teams which I may or may not use. AI has had a hand in that. 

I don't use AI for spelling/typos/grammar/punctuation where it would actually be useful.  🤣

The Championship Plaque... the site-based one (auto-created by MFL each season) went FUBAR when I added the new sites so I created a new one from scratch. You can view it via the link in the right-hand column. AI helped with fixing the coding I struggled with to align the 'plates' and size the text correctly. 

And finally...this was a really fun project that turned into way more work than I anticipated when I began it. But I enjoyed it, truly a labor of love. 

I also love feedback and corrections! Please check out as many of the new/old yearly sites as you can, especially those that represent your title(s), and let me know what you think.

Can we all agree that the Statute of Limitations is up on a mistake I made 43 years ago, scheduling the 1983 season? The graphic below is the 'Schedule Validation' page that I generated after entering the schedule into the new/old 1983 season website. Click it, and the problem is evident.

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We were a twelve-team, two-division league. The idea was that a team played the other five division rivals twice, and four games against teams from the other division. It was supposed to be four games against four different opponents. 

As you can see, the Heroes, for example, played three different Wice teams, with two against the Giants.  Several other teams had the same scheduling anomaly. The Bombers, the '83 champs, played two games against both the Nats and the Blizzard! Yikes!

If you stuck with me here and read all the way through, thanks. Again, comments/corrections/criticisms and all very much welcome. Enjoy the rest of the break. See everyone soon.

-Commish 

Spring/Summer Update #1 2026

 

I hope everyone is enjoying the start of the off-season. Summer plans are the best plans. I'm posting now, and possibly monthly over the spring/summer, to bring the few who look at this blog up to date on what I've been up to since the end of the season. 

February

• Finished and distributed 2026 League Yearbook.
• Rolled over the league site to 2026.
• Did routine new season site tasks, i.e., clearing rosters, resetting waiver $$, shuffling schedule weeks, etc.
• Fixed broken code affecting the Quick Links module.
• Reached out to MFL for help fixing a misspelling of a champion owner's name on the site plaque.
• Related to above... was reconnected to all of our MFL season sites, many of which had been disassociated from my account for various, mundane reasons such as a defunct email address. 
• I cleaned up those old league sites and added a header and/or year graphic to each one to easier ID them. See below for more details.
• Began the process of adding 'legacy' season sites on MFL. Once they 'reattached' my account to our previous seasons, I was also able to create sites for 1980, 1981, etc. These sites are limited in scope with a banner and scores; they will represent our complete history. 
• Used ChatGPT and Google AI to clean up the coding of Ed Hughes Tribute page and several other news blog pages.
• Began updating a long-abandoned project...an Excel workbook of scoring by franchise and owner from 1980 to date.

Old League Sites...    

For a couple of years, I've been aware that many of our pre-2020 MFL sites had fallen into disrepair, with bad links, missing graphics, and corrupted layouts among the problems. Part of that was due to MFL's policy of moving older sites off their original servers. And part of it was because much of my customization code/graphics had been stored on defunct or outdated sites, or on ones like my old Flickr account, that had gone from free to requiring payment. 

I wasn't really able to do much to fix the issues, with the older sites particularly, because in moving them to other servers, MFL had somehow dissociated them from my account. Or severed my ability to log in as commish. 

Then, a few weeks ago, I noticed that a championship owner's name from a decade or more ago was misspelled on the Champs plaque on our site. I went back to the year in question and found I had no ability to fix that. With the season over, I had the time to do something about it. I contacted MFL and, after a series of messages back and forth, they re-linked me to all our seasons. A few more messages and I was able to figure out how to get the name straightened out. 

With that done, I decided to clean up the sites, at least those with issues, most of which were seasons before 2020. I converted them all to a common, default layout and 'skin'. All of them have a new/updated/restored graphic on the front page to make them easy to ID since they otherwise look similar. In restoring the sites, I used the original banner or a higher-quality reproduction in cases where we had one. I created those that were lacking. 

Once I finished that, I took on the task of creating MFL sites for all of our seasons. The only real content they have is scores, the schedule, and standings to go along with season-appropriate banners.  It's tedious work to enter the data, but I enjoy finishing up a site. The sites do not have rosters, as the MFL database doesn't reach back to the 80s, but I've noticed that our 2003 site has FA listings for that season, so I may be able to load rosters for some of the later 'missing' season sites. Sites are in place from 1980 to 1983. That '83 site is incomplete, as I haven't yet tackled adding the schedule and results. 

If you are up for a stroll down memory lane, you can do so now, and the links to each are in an easy-to-find spot. I took our 'Yearly Best' page, which lists the team that had the highest scoring, the most wins, and the champ for all seasons. I linked the MFL sites to the year listed in the left column. You can get there through this Hughes News site. Just look in the right column for the link to 'Yearly Bests and Websites".

Post Season Post

 

Yes, it is time to wrap up the 2025 season in a pretty orange box and move on to 2026, our 47th season. The '26 site is online and ready to go. Unlike last year when I was wrestling most of the summer with the new template and the many new-to-me modules, this time it was simple...accept the update, clear the rosters, shuffle the schedule, add back and/or adjust a few modules, and pick a color and new header logo. I was done in an hour or so. Easy, peasy.

Here is the inside dope, what you need to know for 2026:

➤The '26 league site is here: EHFL 2026. You can just change the year in your bookmark to get there as well. 

➤Rosters will be reduced from 17 to 16. No other rule changes are in the works other than one related to drafting, which will be discussed below.

➤If I'm feeling ambitious over the summer, I may dig into our standings/playoff seeding tiebreak system and clarify or modify the list. As mentioned previously, some of what is in the document we use now is outdated, confusing, or just doesn't apply to our current situation. 

➤Entry fee will be $23 for 2026. And in a related note, PayPal won't let me put a button up on the page without creating a 'business' account. Booo! I'll be emailing everyone my PayPal and Venmo addresses over the summer to collect the fee. Check, cash, or MO is fine as well. Paying via PayPal should be via the Friends and Family option. Details will be included in the email. Your prompt attention to the payment request is much appreciated. 

➤No pay, no play. I'm trying to finance Ellis' Harvard education, and how can I do that and carry your butt as well? 😜😉

➤Keep Labor Day open for drafting and expect a new online draft site. I may solicit some testers late in the summer for the new draft page. 

➤Speaking of the draft.. we are going to go back to something we did some years back, a 'Pick Your Spot' system that I liked a lot. When I generate a list of clubs via the random generator site, that list will not be the draft order but the priority choice order. In other words, each owner, in turn, will pick his own draft slot. So, the list that is generated looks like this:

1. Heroes
2. Nats
3. Rbacks
4. Sticks
5. Legends
6. Flyers
7. etc...

And then the Heroes will get to choose any draft position for 2026. The Nats would have their pick, then the Rbacks, Sticks, and so on through the 12 franchises. I don't have all the details in place, but teams will have a time limit to choose a slot (likely 48 hours) before they fall to the end of the line, and we move on to the next team in the queue. 

Once slots have been chosen, trading of slots (with a TBD limited amount of waiver cash involved) would be allowed. Note that only initial slots would be eligible to be traded, NOT individual draft picks. For example, in the above scenario, the Heroes might select the #5 slot, which is what I was hoping for. I end up with #7 (or #3 or whatever). I could offer the Heroes X amount of waiver cash to swap positions. There would be a hard deadline on that as well, since I need time to set up the draft site with teams, logos, etc. 

Feedback on this is welcome, but my initial discussions with a few owners have been positive. It sort of goes against my philosophy of 'less work is better' that I've adopted recently, but it isn't much trouble. And when you see the research I've done into the 'slots vs wins' included in the Yearbook, you might find getting a choice is a nice option. 

Speaking of the Yearbook...

I'm just polishing it up this week. It's done, and was sent to you via email. I sent it out in MSExcel format, and I included a link to a Google Sheets version for those who prefer that or don't have Excel access.

I've added/updated a ton of stuff this year. It's a super fun project for me, and I hope you will take the time to check it out. I've done quite a bit of error checking, but fresh eyes are always welcome, as are suggestions for new additions. 

Here is a summary of what is coming:

This is a Changelog/Addition List for the 2026 Yearbook:

• I updated all the applicable team and league pages with 2025 records and 300 Win Club badges.
• Scores have been added to the Playoff Games tab.
• The Hughes Bowl Results page has been enhanced with high and low scores per era and game totals.
• I cleaned up the Champs Lineup page with added initials to differentiate players and fix some NFL team identifications and other errors.
• Research shows I had for decades listed the final score of the 1984 Hughes Bowl incorrectly. The Giants scored 59, not 69 points in beating the Holes. It is fixed now and a new, corrected Hughes News Champs Edition published.

EDIT:The Playoff Game scores page still lists the incorrect score for the '84 Hughes Bowl. It'll be corrected in the next edition.

• I added box scores for every Hughes Bowl, including lineups and scoring for both clubs.
• I added scores for every game in our history. Regular season scores are on six pages divided (roughly) by era and/or decade.
• I used the history function on our league site to find individual game high scores as well as combined one-game high scoring totals.
• I did some old-fashioned hand research to find those same records for games prior to 2003. See the 'Fun Facts' tabs for scoring records and oddities.
• There are some oddball stats highlighted on the Scores pages themselves as well. 
• I added a page showing my Draft Slots research. It is basically a look at how slots result in wins. Take it for what it's worth. Note: It covers the current redraft era that began in 2022.
• Added a page with some Hughes Bowl trivia and data
• Added a Second Season winners list to the Contest page

Please let me know what you think once you get a chance to dig into it. 

I don't plan to publish any updates to this blog before the summer but if something comes up that you need to know about I will update everyone, either here or through an email.

And there you have it! See ya soon enough.