2025 Groundhog
Status: retired. The Groundhog Swap was voted out by unanimous vote and is no longer in play. This page is the archive — the 2025 swap log, the collusion ruling, and the full rule text as it stood.
2025 Swap Log
| Time | Team | Opp | Week | Out | In |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/12/08 6:44:25 PM EST | Egbukkake | Weenies | 7 | Kendrick Bourne | Xavier Legette |
| 2025/12/09 6:47:45 AM EST | Hail Murray | Egbukkake | 5 | Wandale Robinson | Tory Horton |
| 2025/12/09 7:05:05 AM EST | Purdy Solid Team | Free Bonix Bets | 14 | Oronde Gadsden | Dallas Goedert |
| 2025/12/09 7:34:43 AM EST | Brown Bag Special | Egbukkake | 10 | Romeo Doubs | Roman Wilson |
| 2025/12/09 8:10:01 AM EST | Weenies | mhsarch | 2 | Croskey- Merritt | Stevenson |
| 2025/12/09 8:18:57 AM EST | Year of the Cal | Cuatro Cuatro | 9 | Javonte Williams | Rico Dowdle |
| 2025/12/09 8:28:43 AM EST | Cuatro Cuatro | Rush Lamar Rush | 4 | Jamar Chase | DK Metcalf |
| 2025/12/09 8:31:31 AM EST | Rush Lamar Rush | Purdy Solid Team | 1 | Matthew Golden | Isaac Teslaa |
| 2025/12/09 9:18:36 AM EST | White trash daddies | DavidHart25 | 4 | Chris olave | Woody marks |
| 2025/12/09 11:24:46 AM EST | Free Bonix Bets (INVALID) | Hail Murray | 1 | K. Johnson | J. Reed |
Seeding Changes
Brown Bag Special #3 → #1
Purdy Solid Team #1 → #2
Cuatro Cuatro #2 → #3
Year of the Cal #6 → #4
Show me dem tetties #4 → #5
Hail Murray #7 → #6
Free Bonix Bets #5 → #7
Collusion Ruling
@lamoureux33 and @ddelvecc colluded on the Groundhog Swap.
The league voted to hand the penalty decision to the commissioner rather than apply the standard 2nd-round forfeiture written into the rule.
Commissioner’s ruling: both teams lose their 8th round pick in the 2026 draft.
The Rule (as it stood)
Archived from the Constitution — Spice #5. No longer in play.
Groundhog Swap — one use per season
After our final regular-season game wraps on Monday night (Week 14), each team gets a single chance to replace one benched player (from his/her team) with a starter for one earlier regular-season week (from his/her team). The commissioner uses Sleeper’s Edit Lineup → Recalculate to lock it in.
9.1 Eligibility
- Swapped-in player must have been on that team’s roster during the target week (Sleeper roster history = source of truth).
- The post-swap lineup must still include:
- Franchise QB and that QB’s real-life backup
- A valid Rookie starter.
- If either rule above breaks, the swap is void.
9.2 Submission timing
- All teams submit their swap on the first Tuesday after the regular season ends via a Google Sheet by 4:00 PM ET. Anything after 4:00 (according to Google) is ignored. (We’ll try to get a neutral party to host this poll so that the commish can’t see any results, but if nothing works, you’ll have to trust the commish.)
- Commissioner applies the approved swaps, then Sleeper handles the recalculated records, points, and seeding.
9.3 Anti-Collusion (honor-system enforcement)
- Any owner can flag a suspicious swap within 12 hours of the public post.
- A league vote opens; a penalty triggers only if both conditions are met:
- 67% or more of neutral owners (owners not named in the protest and not directly benefiting) vote “yes.”
- The commissioner sees objective evidence of coordinated manipulation.
- Penalty: Each team involved forfeits its next year’s 2nd round pick (pick is removed from that draft).