Fantasy Football Playoff 2025: DynasDee Bubble Watch
An insider’s tour through panic season in the league’s most dramatic playoff race.
The final week hits different when you’re living inside the DynasDee ecosystem, a place where Points For is religion, trade accusations fly like late-season waiver bids, and half the league insists that fate, not poor management, is what’s keeping them from immortality.
The 2025 Fantasy Football Playoff race is a gauntlet of overachievers, underachievers, trade-deniers, matchup luck merchants, and one team that should probably be investigated by the league office.
This is the Bubble Watch, where every roster move gets scrutinized, every collapse gets magnified, and every playoff possibility gets litigated like a trade involving Ladd McConkey.
Let’s go tier-by-tier.
Secured 1st Round Bye
James Levi | The Blueprint
There’s dominance, and then there’s whatever James Levi has been doing all year.
Unequivocally, the best team in the league from Week 3 to now, Levi built the kind of roster usually reserved for YouTubers making “idealized draft strategy” videos. But the defining moment, the one insiders will be talking about long after this season ends, was the heist-level trade for James Cook, a move that fortified his RB room and effectively punched his ticket to the championship before Halloween.
James hasn’t just been good, he’s been inevitable.
The league has spent the year trying to convince itself otherwise.
Playoff Locks
Max Brown | The Accidentally Dangerous Contender
Max Brown isn’t reading this.
He’s not checking projections, he’s not scrolling waivers, and he’s not analyzing matchups unless someone tells him to.
And yet… here he is. Again.
Every fantasy league has That Guy, the one who cares the least but somehow ends up in the promised land while the spreadsheet psychos and trade-machine addicts sit at home wondering what cosmic sins they committed.
Max’s team has been buoyed all season by a hilarious, borderline historical, run of underperforming opponents. His Points Against is a joke, a meme, a glitch in the fantasy matrix.
But come playoff time?
The football gods stop taking requests.
Margins get thin.
Matchup luck runs out.
Max is locked in, but whether he can survive actual turbulence is another story entirely.
Basically a Playoff Lock
Samir Hadaad | The Quiet Contender With Loud Results
Samir is the league’s stealth bomber. One of the strongest managers all year, yet somehow still discussed like he’s sneaking into the playoffs through a side entrance.
He’s basically in unless multiple teams drop simultaneous 300-point nuclear performances, but he has an actual path to a 1st-round bye:
- Beat Liam
- Max Brown loses
That’s it.
Samir’s midseason moves have aged beautifully. Shipping Omarion Hampton for Drake London and a ’26 first felt risky at the time, but the late-season emergence of Dowdle and Vidal flooded his RB room with unexpected stability.
This is how contenders operate, identify value, remove emotion, and pray the waiver wire gods bless you just one more time.
Samir hasn’t flown under the radar, everyone just forgot to check the radar.
Should Be In
Chris Leahy | The Chaos Manager Who Found the Light
Chris has been the league’s most dramatic manager, part visionary, part arsonist, part mad scientist, depending on which week you caught him.
Here’s how Chris clinches:
- Win against Bleier
OR
- Lose, and either Liam or Phil loses their matchup.
He owns a significant PF lead on his competition. Losing and still missing the playoffs requires a full-blown worst-case scenario where everything goes wrong simultaneously.
And honestly? After this season’s rollercoaster, that feels possible, but improbable.
The Arc of Chris Leahy’s Season:
- The Early Blunders:
Drafting BTJ in the 2nd. Trading a 1st for Isaac Guerendo. A start so shaky it inspired several group chat interventions. - The Big Swing:
Sending Baker plus a 1st plus a 2nd for TreVeyon Henderson, an unproven rookie with anime protagonist upside. - The Possible Veto Scandal:
Moving Addison and Gobert for Ladd McConkey, a trade that still has insiders whispering collusion? *in hushed tones*
But here he stands, poised to make the playoffs, armed with momentum, and maybe, just maybe, having found his final form at exactly the right time.
On the Bubble
These are the teams that turn Bubble Week into Appointment Television.
Liam Hennessy | The Sleeping Giant
Liam faces a cooling-down Samir, a matchup wrapped in narrative tension. Samir’s pristine season has developed some hairline cracks; now Liam has a chance to hammer them open.
Among insiders, there’s a growing belief Liam might have the best long-term roster in the league. The QB room, the WR depth, the structure, everything screams rising powerhouse.
The issue?
One elusive RB1.
He’s chained to the Walker plus Charbonnet nightmare and the spiritual pain of an injury-prone RB2 spot. But in a one-week sprint, with the right variance? Liam is as dangerous as anyone.
Beaux Sanchez | The Darkhorse With the Monster RB Room
Beaux gets Max Brown this week, usually a death sentence given Max’s historical matchup luck, but maybe this is the moment the luck bends the other way.
Beaux’s RB depth is the envy of the league.
His problem? The passing game.
QB and WR play have been jagged, unpredictable, and exhausting to manage. But the formula for a late-season surge is here:
- Justin Jefferson wakes up
- Justin Herbert strings together elite performances
- Beaux’s RB room keeps hitting
If those things happen, Beaux isn’t just fighting for a playoff spot, he’s shaping up to be the boogeyman no contender wants to see in a win-or-go-home scenario.
Cointoss
Jesse Sanchez vs. Jordan Zawaydeh
This is it, a single showdown, one game to define everything. The winner likely grabs the final playoff spot, unless the fantasy gods choose violence and create the triple-win scenario that knocks them both out (we’ll get to that).
This matchup is pure chaos, pure stakes, pure theatre.
Jesse Sanchez | The Trader Who Couldn’t Stop
No one tanked their title odds harder via trade than Jesse.
Moving Ladd McConkey and James Cook, in a contending year, is a level of self-sabotage usually reserved for reality TV contestants.
And yet… he’s still here.
Why?
Because his draft was that good.
But he needs help. He needs Aaron Rodgers to stop microdosing peyote on live television and start throwing touchdowns like it’s 2014 again.
Jordan Zawaydeh | The Survivor
No manager has endured more chaos, more heartbreak, more IR designations than Jordan.
He’s lost, at various points:
- James Connor
- Tyreek Hill
- Omarion Hampton
- Brock Purdy
- Cam Skattebo
Most teams collapse under that kind of injury avalanche. Jordan stayed competitive.
He crushed the rookie draft, Egbuka and Skat is a haul future GMs will study. Even if he misses the playoffs this year, the rebuild is already over. The window is opening.
How They Both Miss
If Chris, Liam, and Phil all win this week, the PF gap shuts the door for both Jesse and Jordan.
A nightmare scenario.
The bubble pops.
A double elimination without either team actually losing.
Fantasy football is cruel.
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