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!!!! 

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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