Septic Tank Division

Tom Sinko is a man of many talents. Fantasy football may or may not be one of them.  Outside the TCT, Tom is known as MisterFive, one third of the rap group Risky Biz alongside fellow TCT manager Bob Simmons. He also has an acting résumé, appearing as an extra in several movies and television shows, most notably playing a zombie on a Walking Dead spin-off. Between music, acting, and fantasy football, Tom has built an impressively diverse résumé. Unfortunately, only one of those hobbies has produced a 27–37 career record.

The frustrating part is that Tom actually does everything a competent fantasy manager is supposed to do. He comes to the draft prepared, works the waiver wire, makes trades, stays involved, and participates in the group chat. The effort is there. The process appears to be there. The wins have simply spent several years refusing to cooperate. His first three seasons in the Bush League produced finishes of eighth, eighth, and tenth before Tom finally broke through with a 10–4 regular season in the 2025 Septic Tank, easily the best campaign of his TCT career.

Maybe 2025 was the beginning of something. Maybe MisterFive has finally figured out fantasy football. Or maybe Tom simply spent three years method acting as a dead fantasy manager after discovering that zombie role and has now decided to return to the living. Either way, the Commissioner has seen enough improvement to remain cautiously interested.

Commissioner’s Verdict: Tom is a great guy, an active league member, a rapper, an actor, a willing trader, and apparently a convincing enough zombie that somebody put him on television. Statistically, however, fantasy football remains the least impressive section of his résumé. The encouraging part is that Tom finally showed signs of life in 2025. After three difficult Bush League seasons, MisterFive went 10–4 in the regular season and proved there may actually be a capable fantasy manager buried underneath all that makeup. The zombie has risen. Now we find out if he can stay alive.

TCT Manager Score: 45

TCT Career

• Bush League Division: 17–31
• Septic Tank Division: 10–6
• Overall: 27–37
• Championships: 0 

Chris Fournier joined the TCT in 2024 already carrying fantasy football experience from outside the league, and it didn't take long for that experience to translate. In his rookie season, Michael Scott's Tots went 7–7 before Chris ripped off three straight playoff wins and captured the 2024 Dead-Bottom Championship. He followed that by moving into the Septic Tank and going 10–6 overall in 2025, giving him an impressive 20–13 record through his first two seasons.

Chris also checks just about every box the Commissioner looks for in an engaged fantasy manager. He comes to drafts prepared, works the waiver wire, actively pursues trades, and generally appears to know what he's doing. The only problem is that sometimes Chris may be too prepared. During a recent TCT Guillotine League draft, Fournier became the human embodiment of the spinning loading icon, repeatedly taking so long to make his selections that the rest of the draft slowly began turning against him.

This eventually led to a back-and-forth with Nick Downey, which is generally the fantasy-football equivalent of accidentally wandering into a bear enclosure. Chris, much like Rob Fredericks, practices a distinctly PG-rated form of trash talk. Downey does not. Watching Fournier attempt to defend his deliberate drafting process against one of the most relentless shit stirrers in TCT history became considerably more entertaining than the draft itself. Chris may have been taking forever to pick, but at least everyone had something to do while they waited.

Commissioner’s Verdict: Chris is a really nice guy, an experienced fantasy player, and through two seasons has given the Commissioner very little reason to question his ability. He's active, prepared, willing to trade, works waivers, and already owns a championship. His biggest weakness may simply be that he occasionally approaches a fantasy draft like he's selecting the next Pope. The early results are promising, though, and if Fournier continues winning at this rate, everyone will eventually forgive the long draft clock.

TCT Manager Score: 109

TCT Career

• Septic Tank Division: 10–6
• Dead-Bottom Division: 10–7 | 🏆 2024 Champion
• Overall: 20–13
• Championships: 1

Michael Stephens joined the TCT in 2024 from the North Shore of Massachusetts, where apparently the air is cleaner, the schools are better, the property values are higher, and everyone south of Boston is considered some form of coastal peasant. Michael is the cousin of longtime TCT managers Mike and Chris Stephens, although years of living among North Shore high society have understandably made it difficult for him to acknowledge these South Shore family connections publicly.

Michael arrived with a big personality and immediately backed it up on the fantasy field. In his rookie season, he went 11–5 overall and finished third in the Dead-Bottom Division. He followed that by moving into the Septic Tank and posting another winning regular season in 2025. Through two years, Michael owns a 20–12 career record, and unlike many managers with strong opinions about fantasy football, his statistics actually provide evidence that he might know what he's talking about.

His most important accomplishment, however, came during his rookie season when Michael entered into a competition with Mike Stephens to determine who was the real Mike Stephens. The details of the competition have become less important than the result: Michael won. Mike Stephens was stripped of his identity, Michael became The Real Mike Stephens, and the matter has been legally settled as far as the TCT is concerned. Any future references to Mike Stephens should presumably include some form of disclaimer explaining that he is not the authentic version.

Commissioner’s Verdict: Michael Stephens has only been in the TCT for two seasons, but he's already established himself as a good fantasy manager, a major personality, and the officially recognized Real Mike Stephens. A 20–12 start speaks for itself, and his continued willingness to associate with the league despite our overwhelmingly South Shore demographic demonstrates a remarkable commitment to charity. There is still plenty of career ahead of him, but Michael has already proven one thing beyond dispute: apparently they even do fantasy football better on the North Shore.

TCT Manager Score: 49

TCT Career

• Septic Tank Division: 9–7
• Dead-Bottom Division: 11–5
• Overall: 20–12
• Championships: 0

Kevin Macedo is a TCT original, having been part of the league since the inaugural 2015 season. The twin brother of fellow longtime manager Scotty Macedo, Kevin has generally been the quieter of the two and one of the quieter personalities in the league overall. While other managers have spent eleven years arguing, podcasting, threatening retirement, and creating unnecessary drama, Kevin has mostly just quietly managed Last Mohican and watched the TCT hierarchy slowly collapse underneath him.

Kevin began in the Champion’s Division, but as the league expanded and new divisions were created, he developed an unfortunate habit of finding them. Champion’s eventually became Backroom. Backroom eventually became Bush League. Bush League eventually became Septic Tank. Entering 2025, the Commissioner genuinely believed Kevin was destined to become the first manager in TCT history to play in every division. Instead, Kevin managed to win just enough games to finish seventh and narrowly avoid relegation to the Dead-Bottom. History will have to wait.

There was one major interruption to Kevin's gradual descent. In 2020, Last Mohican went 11–4 overall and won the Backroom Championship, including an absurd 172.90–74.22 demolition in the championship game. Kevin then made TCT history by becoming the first champion to voluntarily remain in his current division rather than accepting promotion. This decision also made him the first known victim of what would become the TCT Title Defense Curse. Kevin followed his championship by finishing fifth in 2021, ninth in 2022, and eventually falling into the Bush League anyway. Apparently the TCT gods consider refusing promotion an act of disrespect.

Commissioner’s Verdict: Kevin is a quiet guy, a league original, a champion, and one of the few managers who has experienced nearly the entire TCT pyramid firsthand. His 73–97 career record isn't going to terrify anyone, but surviving eleven seasons deserves something, especially when the league keeps building new divisions underneath you. Kevin now lives down in Florida, safely removed from most TCT nonsense geographically, but Last Mohican continues marching on. He avoided the Dead-Bottom in 2025, preserving one remaining piece of unfinished business. Four divisions down. One to go.

TCT Manager Score: 427

TCT Career

• Champion’s Division: 26–34
• Backroom Division: 33–29 | 🏆 2020 Champion
• Bush League Division: 8–24
• Septic Tank Division: 6–10
• Overall: 73–97
• Championships: 1

When Mikey Stephens asked to join the TCT Bush League in 2022, the Commissioner was genuinely surprised. Mikey had never played fantasy football before, and voluntarily entering this league as your introduction to the hobby is a little like learning to swim by being thrown off a fishing boat. Somehow, it worked.

Mikey proved to be a competent fantasy manager remarkably quickly. He learned how to work the waiver wire, manage his roster, make trades, and generally do all the things experienced managers are supposed to know how to do. After going 9–7 overall as a rookie, Soggy Bottom Boys broke through in Year Two, going 12–4 and winning the 2023 Bush League Championship. Two seasons after entering the league without any fantasy football experience whatsoever, Mikey was a champion and headed for the Backroom.

Unfortunately, that appears to be where the movie should have ended. Mikey went 5–11 and finished dead last in the 2024 Backroom, immediately earning a return trip to the Bush League. He followed that with a 7–9 season in 2025, suggesting Soggy Bottom Boys may officially be experiencing a cold streak. Mikey doesn't shy away from trash talk when it finds him, but lately the fantasy gods have provided his opponents with considerably more ammunition.

The most devastating loss didn't even occur on the fantasy field. During Michael Stephens' rookie season, the two cousins competed for the right to determine who was The Real Mike Stephens. Mikey lost. Michael Stephens now legally possesses the title, while Mikey has been forced to continue his TCT career under what is essentially a disputed identity. Going from Bush League Champion to losing your division and your name in consecutive seasons is an impressive collapse even by TCT standards.

Commissioner’s Verdict: Mikey deserves legitimate credit for entering the TCT with zero fantasy football experience and becoming a champion in only his second season. He learned quickly, stays involved, works waivers, makes trades, and isn't afraid to defend himself when the trash talk starts. Unfortunately, the last couple seasons have gone in the opposite direction. Soggy Bottom Boys got bounced out of the Backroom, returned to losing in the Bush League, and Mikey surrendered the legal rights to his own name. The talent is clearly there. Now he just needs to rediscover it—and perhaps someday earn the right to become The Real Mike Stephens again.

TCT Manager Score: 271

TCT Career

• Backroom Division: 5–11
• Bush League Division: 28–20 | 🏆 2023 Champion
• Overall: 33–31
• Championships: 1

Scotty Macedo is a TCT original and one of the managers whose history with the Commissioner predates the league itself. The two have known each other since high school, making Scotty a natural choice when the TCT launched in 2015. Wild Pony immediately justified the invitation, reaching the inaugural Champion’s Division championship game before losing to the Commissioner. Three years later, Scotty finished the job, winning the 2018 Champion’s Division Championship and establishing himself as one of the league’s early champions.

Eventually, though, Scotty lost the love of the game. After falling from the Champion’s Division into the Backroom, he stepped away following the 2020 season and spent three years in retirement. Then the Commissioner announced another major TCT expansion for 2024, adding two more divisions, and apparently the sight of additional opportunities for relegation was simply too tempting. Scotty came out of retirement, Wild Pony 2.0 was born, and the comeback officially began in the Bush League.

Unfortunately, Wild Pony 2.0 has not yet rediscovered the magic of the original. Scotty went 9–7 overall in his return season before slipping to 6–10 in 2025. Now he finds himself in the Septic Tank alongside his twin brother Kevin, creating one of the more entertaining situations entering the new season. Between them, the Macedos have now occupied nearly the entire TCT pyramid, and one sufficiently disastrous season could send either brother to the Dead-Bottom and make him the first manager in league history to play in every division. Finally, a sibling rivalry where losing may actually make you more historically significant.

Commissioner’s Verdict: Scotty has been a friend since high school, a TCT original, a Champion’s Division champion, a retiree, and now one of the league’s great comeback experiments. The first version of Wild Pony reached two Champion’s Division championship games and won a belt. Wild Pony 2.0 has mostly been discovering just how many divisions the Commissioner added while Scotty was gone. The talent was there once, and maybe it can still be found again. But with Scotty and Kevin now sharing the Septic Tank, the Commissioner will be watching a different race just as closely: which Macedo reaches the Dead-Bottom first?

TCT Manager Score: 640

TCT Career

• Champion’s Division: 40–37 | 🏆 2018 Champion
• Backroom Division: 7–8
• Bush League Division: 15–17
• Overall: 62–62
• Championships: 1 

When Tim Cabral joined the TCT in 2024, the Commissioner had one major concern: Tim seemed significantly more interested in European football—Portugal in particular—than the version where people wear helmets and occasionally understand what a catch is. There was legitimate concern that Tim had joined the wrong fantasy sport. Then his rookie season started, and the Commissioner was quickly proven wrong.

Tim threw himself into fantasy football the same way he tends to throw himself into everything else. Retired Lawyer went 10–4 in the regular season and 11–5 overall, finishing third in the Septic Tank and earning Tim an immediate promotion to the Bush League. He looked prepared, capable, and comfortable enough with American football that the Commissioner began wondering why he had ever been concerned in the first place.  Then 2025 happened.

Robjection Overruled went 4–12 and finished dead last in the Bush League, immediately sending Tim back to the Septic Tank and raising some questions about everything we thought we had learned during Year One. Apparently Tim's transition from Portuguese football enthusiast to competent fantasy football manager was not quite as complete as originally believed. One excellent season followed by one complete disaster leaves the Commissioner with absolutely no idea which version is real.

Commissioner’s Verdict: Tim is a genuinely nice guy who tends to fully commit himself to whatever captures his attention, which makes his fantasy future interesting. We've already seen what happens when Tim gets things right: an 11–5 rookie season and immediate promotion. We've also seen what happens when he doesn't: 4–12 and a one-way ticket back to the Septic Tank. If Tim ever gives fantasy football the same level of attention he gives Portugal and European football, the rest of the TCT could legitimately be in trouble. Until then, we're still trying to determine whether 2024 was the beginning of something special or whether Retired Lawyer should have stayed retired.

TCT Manager Score: 38

TCT Career

• Bush League Division: 4–12
• Septic Tank Division: 11–5
• Overall: 15–17
• Championships: 0

Courtney Duarte—or Coach Courtney, as the Commissioner knew her first—joined the TCT in 2024 through one of the more wholesome recruiting stories in league history. Courtney was the Commissioner’s daughter’s pitching coach, and somewhere between softball conversations the subject of fantasy football came up. Once the Commissioner discovered Courtney already loved fantasy football and had experience playing it, her fate was basically sealed. When the TCT expanded in 2024, Courtney was the first manager asked to join the newly formed division.

Her introduction to the TCT didn't exactly go according to plan. Pooper Coopers finished 8–8 overall and eighth in the Septic Tank, immediately sending Courtney down to the Dead-Bottom. For someone specifically recruited because the Commissioner knew she could play fantasy football, getting relegated in Year One was not the strongest opening argument. Fortunately, Coach Courtney apparently just needed a season to adjust to the unique educational environment of the TCT.

In 2025, Courtney responded exactly the way you'd want. Maye I Take Your Hat Sir? entered the playoffs at 7–7 and then won three straight postseason games, finishing 10–7 overall and capturing the Dead-Bottom Championship. She stayed active throughout the season, made 32 roster moves, and turned a first-year relegation into a championship and promotion opportunity one season later. Turns out the pitching coach knows something about making adjustments.

Commissioner’s Verdict: Coach Courtney is the best. She was the first person the Commissioner thought of when the TCT expanded, and two seasons later she's already rewarded that decision with a championship. Her career started with immediate relegation, but instead of staying buried in the Dead-Bottom, she came back the next season and won the whole thing. She's experienced, active, competitive, an incredibly nice person, and apparently pretty good at making adjustments whether she's coaching pitchers or managing fantasy teams. Coach Courtney has officially coached herself out of the Dead-Bottom.

TCT Manager Score: 86

TCT Career

• Septic Tank Division: 8–8
• Dead-Bottom Division: 10–7 | 🏆 2025 Champion
• Overall: 18–15
• Championships: 1

Mike Roy joined the TCT in 2024 and has quietly become exactly the kind of league member every Commissioner wants. He shows up to the events, participates in the league, has made multiple appearances on The Commissioner’s Desk Podcast, and is genuinely one of the nicest guys in the TCT. In a league populated by lunatics, shit talkers, conspiracy theories, fake retirements, and people requiring headlamps to complete fantasy drafts, Mike has committed the unusual offense of being a completely normal, pleasant human being.

Fortunately, his fantasy teams have provided a little more drama. Mike entered the Dead-Bottom in 2024 as Digitus Medius, went 9–7 overall, and finished fifth. A year later, he rebranded as Making Fantasy Great Again and took a significant step forward, going 11–6 and reaching the 2025 Dead-Bottom Championship Game. His championship bid ultimately ended against Coach Courtney Duarte, leaving Mike one win short of a title and giving him a strong 20–13 career record through his first two seasons.

The early evidence suggests Mike may simply be a pretty good fantasy football manager. There's no elaborate explanation required. He shows up, competes, wins more often than he loses, and apparently saves whatever hidden insanity he possesses for somewhere outside the Commissioner’s field of vision. Even his podcast appearances have failed to produce a major scandal, public feud, or league investigation. Frankly, Mike needs to start being a little more problematic because these bios don't write themselves.

Commissioner’s Verdict: Mike is a great guy, a reliable member of the TCT, and someone who has supported the league by showing up to events and appearing on the podcast. More importantly, he's backed that participation up with a very strong start to his fantasy career. A 20–13 record and a championship-game appearance through two seasons suggest Mike knows exactly what he's doing. He may not provide the Commissioner with the endless supply of ridiculous material that some managers do, but perhaps that's actually a compliment. Every league full of crazy people needs at least one normal guy.

TCT Manager Score: 45

TCT Career

• Dead-Bottom Division: 20–13
• Overall: 20–13
• Championships: 0

Tony La Russa. Phil Jackson. Bill Belichick. Pete Martin. When historians debate the greatest coaches in the history of sports, these are the names that inevitably enter the conversation. Three of them have won championships at the highest level of professional sports. The fourth coaches the Commissioner’s daughter in softball and manages a fantasy football team called Petes Pricks. Greatness comes in many forms.

Pete joined the TCT in 2025 already possessing the most important qualification a fantasy manager can have: he knows how to lead a team. As the Commissioner’s daughter’s softball coach, Pete is the kind of coach who wants everyone having fun but also expects their best. He knows when to encourage, when to push, and how to get the most out of his players. Most importantly, he has absolutely no interest in taking shit from any “jamokes.” This philosophy apparently translates surprisingly well to fantasy football.

In his rookie season, Petes Pricks went 10–4 in the regular season and 11–5 overall, eventually finishing third in the Dead-Bottom. Even more impressive, Pete accomplished this while making only five roster moves all season. Five. Apparently Coach Martin doesn't believe in constantly tinkering with the lineup. He drafts his guys, looks them directly in the eyes, tells them he believes in them, and sends them back onto the field. Other managers scour waivers every Tuesday morning. Pete apparently just tells his roster to play better.

Commissioner’s Verdict: Pete is a fantastic guy, a great coach, and exactly the kind of person the Commissioner wanted in the TCT. He keeps things fun, expects your best, gets the most out of his players, and won't tolerate any "jamokes" getting in the way. His first fantasy season followed basically the same formula: trust your team, don't panic, make five moves all year, and somehow go 11–5. It's too early to put him alongside La Russa, Jackson, and Belichick just yet. But none of those guys ever finished third in the Dead-Bottom either.  POST IT!

TCT Manager Score: 27

TCT Career

• Dead-Bottom Division: 11–5
• Overall: 11–5
• Championships: 0