The permanent record

Every season matters.

The archive joins old commissioner databases with the seasons preserved on Sleeper—without erasing former owners or rewriting old franchises.

Archive map

What is on file.

02 / Sources
2015–19

Commissioner database archive

468 regular-season game records plus career summaries for the fourteen franchises represented in that database.

Imported
2020

Sleeper season linked

The earliest linked Sleeper league in the current chain.

Linked
2021

Archive gap

No linked Sleeper league has been verified for this season yet. It remains marked instead of guessed.

Needs source
2022–26

Continuous Sleeper archive

League settings and drafts are connected for each linked season through the active 2026 league.

Live
People, not just slots

Ownership belongs in the story.

03 / Franchise memory

Current team pages use the active 2026 roster map. Former franchises and owners stay in the historical ledger under their own names, so an old record is never silently reassigned to whoever occupies a roster today.

Next layer of the archive

Built to grow.

04 / Commissioner records
Championship ledger

Titles & finishes

Champion, runner-up, playoff field, and final standings can be added season by season once the source is verified.

Ownership ledger

Former owners

Ownership changes can be recorded as timelines instead of overwriting the people who built each era of a franchise.

Keeper ledger

Player trajectories

Draft origin, acquisition path, annual cost, keeper year, and final year of eligibility can live together.

Transaction archive

How rosters changed

Future imports can connect draft history to adds, drops, trades, and keeper eligibility without inventing missing details.