IFA 2002

After much discussion during the off-season, a consensus of owners decided to proceed with the relocation of the league to a new provider, primarily due to the uncertainty that Sandbox would continue to offer free fantasy football services. Plus, the spam from Sandbox was getting intolerable.

To reflect the many changes in the league, the name was changed to IFA (again a reference to B5: after the Shadow War, Sheridan and the rest of the Council of Light formed the Interstellar Alliance to ensure that... well, you're probably not interested, but you can always watch the DVDs if you are).

In this inaugural season of the IFA, the league consisted of nine returning teams and three expansion teams. Several team names no longer included place names, a result of expansion and of the move from Sandbox to Yahoo. Yahoo does not require a place name, and limits team name length.

The four time champions got off to a miserable 0-5 start, and even a late season surge was not enough to prevent the league crown from finally passing into the hands of another team. Expansion squad Tenacious E, whose coach brazenly predicted a championship even before the season started, turned out to indeed have what it takes to claim the IFA title.

In a year of changes and transitions, expansion teams did well in the IFA: all three new teams finished in the top five.