The Showdown Almanac
Est. 2012 · 16 teams · Head-to-head, nine categories2012-13 to 2025-26

The Showdown

The league almanac. Every banner, every pick, every bad beat.

Every banner

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Season 15

2026-27 so far

Week 2 of 21 is under way. Justin is the defending champion, Jono took Wembanyama first overall, and Dan's Week 1 was the only perfect week against all 15. The live season, the re-graded report card and every recap are on Showdown HQ.

Ladder after Week 1

#ManagerCatsv all 15Week 2Grade
1EricHart and Harper7-1-16-7-22-7B
2DanAnt...Man...7-2-015-06-3B+
3JonoMassimobanyama6-3-011-47-2B+
4DavidWTJ curse of the Big Man5-3-19-63-6A-
5TimTim's Terrific Team5-4-014-16-3A
5WilliamWhite Boy Summer5-4-06-7-27-2C+
5JustinVoss Angeles Lukas5-4-02-134-4B-
5WilsonSpeaker For The DNP5-4-06-8-11-8C+
9RonChetGPT - Activated4-5-09-68-1A-
9JingGs and Cs4-5-04-118-1C-
9DarrenAt the Turn4-5-012-34-4C
9KennyZombie Sonics4-5-08-73-6C
13AaronWheelin & Dealin3-5-14-10-12-7B
14FrankLift Small Bunt Ball3-6-02-132-7D+
15KevinKePang2-7-07-6-21-8B-
16Kim-MengKHANNNNNN....1-7-11-147-2D+

Early records for the book

  • $106 in one waiver run
    28 October. 14 adds and 56 bids, both season highs, with Kenny's $28 for Kris Dunn the top bid.
  • 15-0 against the league
    Dan's Week 1 totals beat every other team's. Kim-Meng's beat one.
  • 0 for 6
    Precious Achiuwa at the line on Sunday of Week 1, which cost Kenny FT% and the matchup 5-4.
  • Zero trades
    Still none since the draft. Kevin hasn't made a move of any kind.
The archive

Season by season

Pick a year. The ladder, the bracket, the draft board and the hindsight redraft, the players who decided it, the waiver wire and the trades, plus the wider NBA fantasy story of that season.

Silverware

Honour roll

Every grand final, every minor premiership, every wooden spoon.

All-time

Hall of Fame

Standings across 14 seasons. Tap a column to sort. All-play is the share of categories you would have won playing every team every week, the purest measure of how good a roster was.

Where everyone finished

Final placing each season. Yellow is a title, the darker the shade the higher the finish.

Fortune

Luck and bad beats

Luck compares the categories you actually won with what your weekly numbers would have won against an average opponent. Positive means the schedule was kind.

All-time luck

Single-season extremes

The hard luck files

Beating the odds

Head to head

Rivalries

Matchup records, regular season and playoffs. Read across a row: that manager's record against each opponent.

Most played, most lopsided

The numbers

Record book

Weekly records count standard seven-day weeks only, so the long All-Star and opening weeks do not skew them.

On the clock

Draft room

Snake drafts, 16 teams, 13 rounds. Player value is the per-game nine-category rank for that season, so a player has to have played a quarter of the season to be ranked at all.

Number one picks

Average finish by draft slot

Greatest draft steals

Draft IQ

Rounds 1-5 across all 14 drafts. Nailed it means nobody left on the board went on to a better per-game season.

First round report card

A hit finishes top 24 per game and plays half the season. A bust finishes outside the top 100 or misses most of the year.