Come play with us in 2025-26 for the Keeping Karlsson Ultimate Patron League's 11th season! 

Becomes the 8th different manager in history to claim the title of KKUPFL Ultimate Champion

Was it ever in doubt? In his 9th KKUPFL season, Ian has climbed the mountaintop to claim the title of KKUPFL Ultimate Champion! 

Ian F (Dream Warriors) accomplishes the feat in his Tier 1 debut, finally reaching Sweden after coming out of Tier 2 last year and Tier 3 the year before-- and after persisting through three non-consecutive tries in Tier 2 to earn his way into the top tier of the KKUPFL. This is Ian's second KKUPFL trophy-- he topped Tier 4 Södertälje in 2019-20. 

Congrats, Ian F (Dream Warriors), on reaching the pinnacle of fantasy hockey!

A huge thanks and congrats to all 16 of our Tier 1 managers for an incredibly competitive season; to all 50 of our KKUPFL S10 Champions who are spraying champagne 🥽 in the ⁠🏆champs-channel🏆on Discord; and to all 716 @KKUPFL S10 Managers for a season well played.

More to come.. but for now, how about heading to ⁠the KKPP channel on Discord to join our playoff pool?

Welcome to the KKUPFL S10 post-season! 

Congrats to all who made the champs bracket, and best of luck to those who are gonna make some lemonade in the consolation bracket, and also huge thanks and kudos to those 13th and 14th place teams that stayed active all season long for a good time. 

Remember: keep playing til you're out! Your standing, even in consolation, may impact your promotion/relegation outcomes for Season 11  👀

A few quick notes:

🏎️  Congrats to popi for an incredibly decisive Fast Track win! With that, popi has punched their ticket to Tier 1 to compete for the KKUPFL Ultimate Championship next season.

📰 Congrats to A&G - Nate for finishing atop the standings in Tier 1! We'll be watching to see if that President's Trophy translates to post-season success.

🫡 Speaking of which: we will have a new KKUPFL Ultimate Champion this season! Two-time defending champ Ryan narrowly missed the Tier 1 playoffs on the total points tiebreak, ending an incredible 3 year run of unprecedented success that included a Fast Track win and back-to-back KKUPFL Ultimate Championships. 

👏: Above all else, thanks to all 716 managers for playing this season. Our annual exit survey will be out in the coming weeks, and we'd love your feedback on it.

Who will be the next manager to etch their name in the record books as the KKUPFL Ultimate Champion?

Welcome to Week 21! This is a crucial week for some of us, while others may already be well enough aware of our playoff destinies.

But in either case — please continue setting your lineups and trying your best! Your matchup may have playoff implications for others in your league, and it also could still have implications for you when promotion and relegation takes place.

Try your best, have fun, and finish strong 💪💪💪

What is KKUPFL Madness? It's your chance to compete in a bracket-style tournament that brings together teams from all divisions and tiers across the league. The best part? You don’t need to do anything extra to compete! Keep managing your team just like you always do, your daily KKUPFL scores will determine if you advance by outscoring your opponent in each round.

🏆 Is your team flying high? This is your opportunity to prove you're not just the best in your division but the best in the entire KKUPFL!

💪 Has your season been a little bumpy? Here’s your second chance to claim glory and show what you’re made of.

We'll have more details about the final format soon, but in the meantime, let us know that you would like to be a part of this years tournament by reacting to the KKUPFL Madness message on Discord with a 🏆.

There’s room for everyone to join the madness—so get ready to compete, cheer, and fight for the title!

As promised -- we've been hard at work updating the KKUPFL Promotion and Relegation scheme, and think we've got things figured out for how Season 10 standings will translate into Season 11 placements! 

To see which final standings positions correspond to which promotion and relegation outcomes next year, check out the new graphic posted at on our Rules page.

Special shoutout to Derrick - TNF & The Eras Team for the massive help he's been in coming up with this, and to everyone who gave their feedback in the process, too 🙂 

It may have felt like an entire offseason, but the NHL's three-day holiday break is over!

The NHL action resumes tonight with the first game starting at 7:00 PM ET, so be sure to prepare your rosters and set those lineups. Don’t forget to double-check after making any transactions to ensure your team is ready for puck drop.

We hope you've been enjoying the KKUPFL season so far. Even if it's been a bit bumpy, there's still plenty of time to put on your glass slippers and make a Cinderella run for a top-six finish to advance to the playoffs! Let's bring our A-game, have fun, and continue making the KKUPFL the most exciting and engaging league around!

Do you know that we pride ourselves on the KKUPFL being a league where all managers are active? It's true!, and is one of the things that makes KKUPFL the best, fairest and most fun fantasy experience, imo.

Our goal is to have 100% of managers be active in every single matchup, all season long. Being an active manager is simple! All you need to do is:

🏃Start your best active players every night

🏃Use your IR by putting injured players into IR slots, and moving healthy players out 

🏃Use all your available roster slots

What happens when managers aren't active?

When managers aren't active, the @KKUPFL Commish team will reach out to offer support. When managers are frequently inactive and/or unresponsive, we move to warning and then replacing them with an active manager from the waitlist (inactive managers may rejoin the KKUPFL via the waitlist).

What if I can't stay active?

We understand life can get busy sometimes! Trust that we will make every effort to contact and support managers who go inactive. With that said, if you know you will be away or unable to manage your team for a time, please be proactive by adding a co-manager to take care of your team when you cannot. Or, if you're not up for continuing to manage your KKUPFL team, please DM or tag @KKUPFL Commish as soon as possible so we can find a replacement.

For more info, see our formal Inactive Manager Policy

Thanks, all, for helping us be a super active and healthy league!

The day is here! ⁠unknown was last night (in Eastern Time), and now it's officially the night of hockey in Czechia! NJ and BUF face off today at 1pm ET. Make sure your lineups are set.

What do you need to know?

👟Start your lineups! Make sure you hit the Start Active Players button before the games begin, and remember to do it again every time you make an add or drop.

🥇 Nothing gold can stay. KKUPFL S9 Champions, you've had a good run, and congrats on your win last year. But that was last year. You'll keep your role forever, but your gilded names on Discord are gone.. until you earn them back.

🥳 Have fun! The KKUPFL is about fun, community and healthy competition. Remember that those first two pieces are (at least) as important as the third. If you ever need a hand, or have a question/concern, or think you need a replacement manager, please tag @KKUPFL Commish on Discord to get our attention and we'll do all we can to support you.

Thank you for playing with us in our 10th season! To a year of big games, great streams, perfect FAB bids, timely add/drops.. and fun

We hope all 702 716 of you are having an amazing time through draft week! We've loved seeing your ⁠📸draft-pics, sharing advice in allied chats, table talk in ⁠kkupfl-zone, and just generally basking in the glow of a new roster and season. Here's some stuff you should know: 

Slow Drafts Continue: Our goal is to complete drafts by Thursday, Sept. 26. It's still important to draft kindly and courteously! A friendly reminder that your 8 hour timer is in case you're sleeping or legitimately unavailable-- and not for lengthy bouts of indecision. Autodraft when you can. Be patient when people need time. Thanks! 

Yahoo! Leagues Our commish team will be sending invites out to join your Yahoo! leagues-- and importing your drafted rosters-- from Sept. 25-30. Watch your division chats for your link, and please join promptly when you see it. 

Roster Moves Once you're in your Yahoo! leagues, all undrafted players will be on waivers. Every team has a $100 FAB budget for waiver claims for the season. Waivers will open on Oct. 1st, and process on Oct. 3rd. After that, all players will become free agents, and you'll have all day on Oct. 3rd to make unlimited add/drops. All adds processed on and after Oct. 4 will count against the maximum 4 adds allowed per matchup. 

First Matchup Your first matchup is longer than most, beginning on October 4 and ending on October 13. You will still have only 4 adds available to you for the duration of this matchup. 

Questions? Feedback? Unbridled excitement? >>> ⁠Join us in the kkupfl-zone channel on Discord.

Thanks to everyone who has registered for season 10 of the KKUPFL!! The registration deadline has officially passed, and our team has already started getting busy putting all the divs together. Stay tuned for your league invites to be sent in 6 days! To anyone who hasn't registered yet, it's not too late!! Please just click the button in ⁠kkupfl-s10-registration channel ASAP to get on the list and we'll do our best to get you in. Note that anyone who registers(ed) starting today, who also played last season, may not get the tier placement they had earned due to us having already given the spot to someone else. But in that case we'll still do our best to get you in as high a tier as possible. If you're not sure if you've registered or not, just check for the logo beside your name when you post a message on Discord anywhere on the server. If you see it, that means you've registered.

Here's the schedule for kicking off the KKUPFL's 10th season! 

• September 2 - Registration deadline for guaranteed entry 

• September 9 - Draft invites sent out, via Fantrax, + division chats created

• September 13 - Deadline to accept draft invites 

• September 9-15 - Draft orders set + allied chats created 

• September 16 - Slow drafts begin 

• September 28 - @Tier 1 Sweden Auction Draft 

• September 25-30 - League invites sent out, via Yahoo 

• October 1 - Leagues officially open for business (eg add/drops), on Yahoo 

• October 4 - Puck drop 

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?

With a stunning come from behind victory @ryan (HIBA) has become the first ever 2-time KKUPFL champion. Down 12 fantasy points going into the last day he squeezes out the victory by just one point over @NolanM (Bell City Beauties). Ryan's rise over these past few seasons has been remarkable. From winning the fast track and getting himself promoted into Tier 1, to winning Tier 1 now in back-to-back seasons, Ryan is proving a force to be reckoned with. Will someone be able to step up to put an end to his reign next year in Season 10 of the KKUPFL?

CONGRATS TO OUR @KKUPFL S9 Champions!!!! 

🏆  🏆  🏆   🏆   🏆   🏆   🏆   🏆   🏆   🏆   🏆 

Full list to come. But for now, you will know the champs on Discord by their hard-earned and freshly golded usernames, fancy trophy emoji, and (I imagine) by their celebrating and boasting and bragging in the ⁠🏆champs-channel🏆. Yes, champs.. go there! Now! Rejoice! You deserve it!

Thank you to all 6️⃣ 4️⃣ 8️⃣  managers who played with us in KKUPFL SEASON 9. You're all champs to us (but some champier than others.. and also shoutout to the consolation champs).

Big things coming in KKUPFL SEASON 10. Stay tuned.

The KKUPFL Ultimate Championship is down to the wire!!!!!! 🙀 

Defending champ @ryan (HIBA) has clawed back within striking distance, but still follows @NolanM (Bell City Beauties) by 12 fpts at this exact moment. Nolan has stayed on top thanks to another out-of-this-world performance from Kirill Kaprizov worth 14.5fpts this afternoon.

Robert Thomas will be Ryan's last start at 8pm (but has Oettinger at 10pm if he plays back to back); Jonathan Drouin will be Nolan's at 10pm. 

We have Fast Track winners to announce!!

@Colin B (Prestige Worldwide) has guaranteed himself a ticket to Tier 1 in Season 10! Colin, from Team PJ and Tier 2 Ottawa, racked up 5926.55 fpts in 22 weeks, beating out all 647 other KKUPFL managers. Look out, Tier 1 Sweden..

Coming in 2nd is @Miller's Crosschecking (Myllys) with 5870.05 fpts, who has earned a pass from Tier 6 Gunilla all the way up to Tier 2 next season.

And, in 3rd, is @King with 5773.70 fpts from Team Chris and Tier 8 DeBoer. @King also gets to take the fast track up the pyramid to Tier 2 next season 🚆 

Congrats to you all! 

📣 KKUPFL PLAYOFFS ARE HERE!!

It’s true! We’re here! And even if you don’t think you made the playoffs... guess what, you probably did, because everyone ranked 1st to 12th has something to play for in the coming weeks 🤠

If you’re ranked between 1st-6th, you’re in your division’s championship bracket. If you’re ranked 7th-12th, you’re in your division’s consolation bracket. There are promotion and relegation implications through both brackets, so keep doing all you can to earn every point and win your matchup. 

Your final standings from the playoffs will determine where in the KKUPFL pyramid (and your journey to Tier 1) you’ll find yourself next year.

Best wishes to everyone on your postseason quests for KKUPFL glory!! 😤 

📢 It's that time of year again for the KKUPFL Madness!!! 🏆 

What is that? It's a chance to compete against teams across divisions and tiers doing exactly what you're already doing, competing each week in the KKUPFL. If you join, we'll sort you into a bracket tournament style and use your weekly KKUPFL score. Score higher than your bracket opponent, move on, and aim to be the last person standing. Information on how to sign up is on Discord.

With data from all 46 slow drafts, Here is our annual KKUPFL ADP ! 🥳 We think this is most complete post-draft analysis you'll ever have for your team. 

🔹Compare your team to the other 644 teams that have been drafted

🔹See who you reached on/got value on

🔹Find the most similar team to yours

🔹See how others GM who drafted at the same spot as you did

🔹See the different strategies used by other GMs 

🔹If you dare... you can also check out all the teams ranked by Standardized over/under ADP.  ⚠️

Reminder that ADP is made up of the average draft position of every KKUPFL managers (some who will finish 1st, and some who will finish last!), and so it doesn't necessarily indicate that you were right or wrong to reach for a players. ADPs also fails to capture each draft particularities (Runs, strategies, etc)

You're missing out if you don't click, and make your own copy of it. Check out the ADP on the Fantasy Tools page of our website.

September 6 - Registration deadline

September 11 - Fantrax slow draft invitations go out; group chats are created

September 22 - Slow drafts begin at 9am ET; Yahoo! league invites sent out as drafts progress

October 7 - Yahoo! leagues turned on and moves can be made

October 10 - Season 9 puck drop

Hamonic (7.5), Tuch (6) and Sorokin (9.5) all putting in great efforts for Ryan on Monday.. but outdone handily by Harrison's Hayton (12) and Palmieri (16.25) alone, plus his Hartman and Johansson  combining for 13.5 fpts vs Ryan's Grubauer (-3.3)

Ryan hasn't been able to make up ground so far tonight, even with Point's 13 fpt performance -- though Harrison's squad has +4 GP tonight, so that's probably a win for Ryan to just break even on a night where he's outmanned

Only Zibanejad (9.25) has really popped on Harrison's squad tonight.. some other decent performances but also some quiet nights, especially on the blueline