The Difficult Beginning
Cesar’s BakaBois legacy did not begin with a winning record, a top seed or an immediate championship run.
His first recorded season ended 5–9 in 2015. His Real Fresno Bulldawg team followed with another 5–9 finish in 2016. Across those two seasons, Cesar went 10–18.
Nothing in those opening records guaranteed what came next. Beginning in 2017, however, Cesar stopped merely chasing a winning season and started repeatedly reaching the final game.
Three Finals in Three Years
Cesar’s breakthrough arrived in 2017.
He finished 8–5 with 1,530.44 points and advanced to the championship against Austin. The final ended in a brutal 2.62-point loss: Austin won 107.62–105.00, leaving Cesar just short in his first appearance.
The following season produced Cesar’s strongest stored regular-season record.
Playing as WARE IS THE LAM SAUCE!?, he went 11–2, scored 1,790.50 points and earned the No. 1 playoff seed. He also assembled a verified 10-game winning streak. Cesar entered the postseason with the record, the scoring output and the top position in the bracket.
Mitchell stopped the run in the championship, winning 142.04–134.54. Cesar had reached a second consecutive final, but the title remained out of reach.
His third trip required a completely different route.
In 2019, IN JACKSON WE TRUST finished only 6–7 and entered the playoffs as the No. 6 seed. Instead of disappearing from the bracket, Cesar advanced all the way back to the championship. Fernando ended the run with a 144.26–122.62 victory, handing Cesar a third consecutive runner-up finish.
That three-year stretch is unique within the league’s complete overall championship ledger from 2014 through 2025. No other owner appears in three consecutive overall finals.
It was an accomplishment with a cruel shape: three straight chances at the championship and three straight finishes one step short.
A Missing Season, Then a Return
There is no Cesar standings row for 2020, so his record should not be stretched across a season the preserved standings do not assign to him.
His next recorded campaign came in 2021. Cesar returned with an 8–6 record, earned the No. 5 seed and made the playoffs. He finished fourth, reestablishing himself as a postseason team after the gap in his standings history.
One year later, he was back in the championship chase.
2022: The Fourth Trip
Cesar entered the 2022 season as Chorizo Country, Let’s Ride.
The team went 8–6, scored 1,558.96 regular-season points and entered the playoffs as the No. 5 seed. It was not the dominant profile of his 2018 team, and it did not come with a first-round bye. Cesar would have to win twice just to return to the final.
In the opening round, he faced Austin, the same owner who had beaten him in the 2017 championship. Cesar advanced with a 116.90–107.42 victory.
The semifinal brought John’s Johnny Woj. Cesar won again, 108.70–94.22.
Five years after his first championship appearance, Cesar had reached his fourth final.
The Final That Could Not Finish Normally
The preserved ESPN matchup row for the 2022 championship shows Kenneth’s team ahead of Cesar’s, 74.50–55.20.
That imported score remains part of the historical matchup record. It was not erased or rewritten. But the championship could not be settled as an ordinary completed fantasy matchup because the Bills–Bengals game was canceled following Damar Hamlin’s on-field medical emergency.
Kenneth had Josh Allen in his lineup. Cesar had Joe Burrow. Both championship teams were directly affected by a real NFL game that was stopped and never resumed.
The league therefore made a separate official determination. The commissioner-approved championship ledger records the outcome as a shared title, recognizes Kenneth and Cesar as the 2022 co-champions and lists no runner-up.
Both pieces of history matter. The imported ESPN row remains Kenneth 74.50–55.20. The official league ruling remains a shared championship.
Cesar was not the 2022 runner-up. He was officially one of the season’s two champions.
A Roster Rebuilt in Flight
The team that reached the final looked very different from the one preserved in the stored draft reconstruction.
Cesar’s corrected championship lineup featured:
- QB: Joe Burrow
- RB: Nick Chubb
- RB: James Cook
- WR: Jaylen Waddle
- WR: Zay Jones
- TE: Travis Kelce
- FLEX: Jahan Dotson
- D/ST: San Francisco 49ers
- K: Matt Prater
Dotson belongs in the starting lineup because ESPN lineup slot 23 represents the FLEX position, even though the historical import incorrectly marks that row as a non-starter.
The complete final roster contained 15 players. Compared with the stored 2022 draft reconstruction, only four were draft holdovers: Burrow, Chubb, the 49ers defense and the Bills defense. Three of those four—Burrow, Chubb and the 49ers defense—started in the championship lineup.
Even the tight-end position illustrated how much the roster had changed. The estimated draft archive has Cesar selecting George Kittle, but Travis Kelce was his starting tight end in the final.
Because that draft archive is an estimated reconstruction, it should not be used to invent an exact transaction history. The surviving data does not safely identify every later player as a waiver claim, free-agent addition or trade. What it does show is a championship roster that had been substantially rebuilt between draft night and Week 17.
The Seasons After the Crown
Cesar did not disappear after reaching the championship ledger.
He followed the shared title with an 8–5 playoff season in 2023. A difficult 3–10 finish followed in 2024, but he rebounded again in 2025. Lord Chorizo Master of Meat went 7–6, entered the postseason as the No. 7 seed and lost a competitive opening-round matchup to Mitchell, 142.04–135.14.
That 2025 matchup matters to the career count. Cesar’s honors summary lists six postseason appearances through 2023, but the preserved 2025 seed and playoff matchup establish at least a seventh.
Across his 10 recorded seasons—2015 through 2019 and 2021 through 2025—Cesar owns a 69–65 regular-season record and 14,986.60 points.
His weekly scoring history adds useful context. Among the 11 managers who qualify for the league’s comparable-week scoring leaderboard at the 50-week minimum, Cesar ranks second with a 56.89 average percentile across 68 complete regular-season weeks.
That measurement is intentionally narrow. It excludes playoffs, consolation games, Baka Bowls and incomplete league-weeks. It measures comparable weekly regular-season scoring strength, not championships, final finishes or draft quality.
The Long Road Reaches the Crown
Cesar’s career cannot be reduced to one season.
The full story begins with two 5–9 records. It turns with a 2.62-point championship loss in 2017. It reaches its regular-season peak with an 11–2 record and a 10-game winning streak in 2018. It becomes historically distinct when a 6–7 sixth seed reaches a third consecutive final in 2019.
Then comes the gap, the return and the fourth championship appearance.
The 2022 final ended under circumstances no fantasy league could have planned for. The imported score remained in the database, but the league made an official ruling that accounted for an NFL game that could not be completed. Kenneth and Cesar were named co-champions. There was no runner-up.
Three consecutive runner-up finishes could have defined Cesar’s legacy. Instead, they became the road that led to his place among the champions.
Four finals. Three runner-up finishes. One official crown.
The long road finally reached the top.
Cesar at a Glance
- Recorded seasons: 10
- Regular-season record: 69–65
- Regular-season points: 14,986.60
- Overall finals: 4
- Official championships: 1 — shared in 2022
- Runner-up finishes: 3 — 2017, 2018 and 2019
- Postseason appearances: At least 7
- Best stored regular season: 11–2, 1,790.50 points in 2018
- Longest verified winning streak: 10 games
- Comparable-week scoring: Second among 11 qualified managers; 56.89 average percentile across 68 usable weeks
