The founding
The League of JSTARians began in 2014. The founding season survives through league memory rather than recovered ESPN data, which is why it belongs to the story without being folded into the verified statistical record.
A living record of the people, seasons, and endings that refused to die.
The founding, the first recovered seasons, the BakaBois identity, and the two-league format.
The League of JSTARians began in 2014. The founding season survives through league memory rather than recovered ESPN data, which is why it belongs to the story without being folded into the verified statistical record.
The scoreboard begins in 2015. Miguel won the first preserved championship, Kent claimed his first crown a year later, and Austin finally finished a title run in 2017. The league was still finding its permanent cast and identity.
The BakaBois name arrived in 2018 and the joke became the institution. This was still one league, so its league championship was the Baka Bowl: Mitchell, Fernando, Kenneth, Kent, then Kenneth and Cesar sharing the final title of the era.
Expansion in 2023 changed the shape of the championship. Each league could have its own ESPN final, while the Baka Bowl became the separate cross-league game that decided the overall BakaBois champion.
Titles tell only half the story. Near-misses and returns gave the archive its shape.
Four championships across three eras, capped by the 2024–2025 repeat. Every argument about the league’s final boss starts here.
Runner-up in 2017, 2018, and 2019, then co-champion with Kenneth in 2022. No owner has spent more time at the center of the league’s hardest endings.
The suggestion that gave BakaBois its name became attached to a championship in 2020 and a shared title with Cesar in 2022. The instigator also became a two-time champion.
Runner-up in the first preserved season, champion in 2017, and runner-up again in 2020. Austin’s résumé connects the chaotic beginning to the modern league.
The story comes first. The ledger is there when you want to inspect it.
Brett brought the stronger regular-season record and scoring total. Kent survived the final anyway, repeated as champion, and became the first owner in the verified archive with four titles.
Kent turned a 7–6 regular season into championship number three, beating an 11–2 Will. The result began the first half of a back-to-back run.
Savage entered the first cross-league Baka Bowl from a 7–6 regular season and beat 10–3 Wes. Expansion changed the format, but not the league’s habit of letting the final rewrite the season.
The imported ESPN archive freezes Kenneth above Cesar, but league history records the championship as a tie after the canceled Bills–Bengals game. They share the last Baka Bowl title of the single-league era.
Kent paired an 11–3 record with his second title. The same season also produced the archive’s scoring ceiling when Mitchell posted 208.92 points in a single week.
Kenneth beat Austin to win his first championship. Two owners who had defined different parts of the early archive met at the end of the last season before Kent returned to the top.
Fernando’s lone championship run cut through another strong Cesar season. A third consecutive runner-up finish turned a bad ending into genuine league lore.
The league became BakaBois and Mitchell became its first champion under the new name. Cesar’s 11–2 season ended one place short for the second year in a row.
Austin finished the run that escaped him two years earlier. Cesar took second, beginning a stretch of near-misses that would become one of the league’s clearest heartbreak stories.
Kent and Ben both arrived at 11–3. Kent left with the championship, the first line in a title history that would eventually become the league standard.
Miguel won the first championship preserved by the archive after a 6–8 regular season, denying 10–4 Austin and establishing immediately that the best résumé would not always own the ending.
Kyle served a one-time last-place punishment: 24 hours in a Waffle House, with one hour removed for every waffle eaten. It never became a recurring rule. It did not need to—the attempt was enough to survive.
Current commissioner.
Founding commissioner through the first two-league seasons.