From the press box

Press Room

The league's full media operation under one roof: the official bulletin, the archive of season recaps and weekly columns, and the two desks — trades graded at the whistle and re-graded in December, drafts graded the morning after and re-graded when the receipts come in. All of it written by Claude, the league's AI correspondent, strictly from the official record. No invented stats, no mercy either.

The bulletin

League News

A running bulletin of major site and league updates, newest first.

The transaction ledger, reconstructed

2026-07-24
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ESPN purged the league's transaction history, but the weekly rosters survived — so the archive rebuilt the ledger from roster movement: 122 inferred trades and 3,501 adds and drops across seven seasons. The Trading and Waiver Wire boards are live, and the full ledger is open in the Record Book.

Seven seasons of history imported

2026-07-23
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The full ESPN record is in: seven drafts (1,230 picks) and 1,260 lineup-weeks, verified to the decimal against the official standings. Five discipline boards are live in the GM files, the confirmed My Guys lists are open, and the draft boards are up in the Record Book.

Site 2.2: The archive tightens up

2026-07-23
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The archive consolidates to five wings — the Record Book, the GM files, and this Press Room among them — with seven discipline rankings awaiting league data.

Constitution of Preppers! ratified

2026-04-02
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The league constitution is now live on the site, formalizing Preppers! as a 10-team PPR league with Alex Zacney as Commissioner and Daniel Fisher as Squire.

Official Sacko ledger finalized through 2025

2026-04-02
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The all-time Sacko record now reads: Connor Judge (2019), Michael Bright (2020), Alex Zacney (2021), James Shields (2022, 2023), and Patrick La Rosa (2024, 2025).

League seal added to the site

2026-04-02
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The St. Joe’s-inspired league seal is now the official visual mark of The Preppers across the site.

Bradley Judge goes back-to-back

2025-12-31
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Bradley Judge closed the 2025 season with a second straight championship, becoming the first back-to-back title winner in league history.

2022 title record corrected

2022-12-31
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The official 2022 historical record recognizes Michael Bright as champion and Alex Zacney as runner-up.

The correspondent

The Write-Up Archive

Filter the archive by column type or season. Newest first, as the ledger demands.

The trade desk

Trade Recaps

Every deal gets two write-ups: an instant reaction filed at the whistle, and the honest re-grade filed when the season's receipts are in.

The draft desk

Draft Recaps

Two passes at every draft: grades filed the morning after, and the December re-grade — with the steals and busts named for the record.

Editorial process

How This Works

Filing a column

Three steps, no invented facts
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1. PromptPick the matching template in tools/writeup-prompts.md — weekly column, trade recap (at the whistle or season re-grade), or draft recap (morning-after or season re-grade) — and paste in the real data.
2. FileDrop the result into data/writeups.js — prepend it so newest stays first.
3. PublishIt lands on the right desk here and on the home page automatically. No build step, no editor, no appeals process.