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Does the best regular season win anything?

19 completed seasons, 2007–2025. The #1 seed has won the title 4 of 19 times. Picking a champion at random out of a hat would hit about 6% of the time.

#1 seed wins the title

21% 4 of 19 Reached the final 7 of 19

All-play leader wins the title

26% 5 of 19 Reached the final 9 of 19

Same team held both

9 of 19 #1 seed was also the all-play leader

Random baseline

6% 1 team in 16

Season by season

All-play is cut at the end of the regular season — week 14 in recent years, week 13 before 2021.

Year #1 seed All-play leader Champion Result
2025 Wascawy Wabbits 15-3 Da Dangsters .729 Computer Jocks 6 seed neither
2024 Wascawy Wabbits 14-4 Wascawy Wabbits .714 Wascawy Wabbits 1 seed #1 seed all-play
2023 Fire Ready Aim 15-3 Fire Ready Aim .762 Fire Ready Aim 1 seed #1 seed all-play
2022 Vitside Mafia 15-3 Vitside Mafia .762 Vitside Mafia 1 seed #1 seed all-play
2021 Wascawy Wabbits 15-3 Wascawy Wabbits .819 Midwestside Connection 4 seed neither
2020 Wascawy Wabbits 14-4 Running Down The Dream .764 Bring the Pain 7 seed neither
2019 Midwestside Connection 15-1 Midwestside Connection .790 Bring the Pain 2 seed neither
2018 Wascawy Wabbits 16-0 Wascawy Wabbits .923 Under Siege 6 seed neither
2017 LBer-DeCleaters 13-5 Devil Dogs .764 Fire Ready Aim 2 seed neither
2016 Bring the Pain 14-2 LBer-DeCleaters .810 LBer-DeCleaters 2 seed all-play
2015 Amish Rakefighters 15-3 LBer-DeCleaters .744 Amish Rakefighters 1 seed #1 seed
2014 LBer-DeCleaters 13-3 Pacific Pigskins .800 Bring the Pain 5 seed neither
2013 LBer-DeCleaters 13-5 Vitside Mafia .656 Devil Dogs 4 seed neither
2012 LBer-DeCleaters 13-5 LBer-DeCleaters .723 Devil Dogs 5 seed neither
2011 Fire Ready Aim 14-4 Dark Magicians of Chaos .790 Sabertooths 4 seed neither
2010 Dark Magicians of Chaos 13-5 Dark Magicians of Chaos .713 Fire Ready Aim 7 seed neither
2009 Acer FC Edge 14-4 Bring the Pain .790 Las Vegas Elite 4 seed neither
2008 Bring the Pain 15-3 Bring the Pain .764 Dark Magicians of Chaos 4 seed neither
2007 BOYZ II MEN 14-4 Dark Magicians of Chaos .862 Dark Magicians of Chaos 5 seed all-play

How these are counted

  • The #1 seed is the team that took the first-round bye in that season's championship bracket, read off the games actually played. MFL's standings row order is not seed order when two teams tie on record — the bye went to the second row in 2008 and 2010.
  • The champion's seed is worth reading with one thing in mind: seeds 1–4 go to the four division winners whatever their record, and 5–7 to the wild cards. So a 4 seed is not the fourth-best team — it's the division winner with the weakest claim, and it has won more titles here than the 1 seed has.
  • All-play is every team measured against every other team's score, week by week, through the last regular-season week. MFL publishes an all-play figure but it spans the playoff weeks too, which would let a champion's own title run inflate the number this page is testing.
  • Every bracket is verified against the league's championship history before it counts, and a season is only published once exactly one bracket fits the games that were played. A season we can't pin down that precisely is refused rather than guessed at.