Season 5 (Summer 2015)

SFL Season 5 (Summer 2015) was the fifth season of Simulation Football League. The regular season featured twelve teams divided in two conferences playing an unbalanced schedule of 8 games (twice against three other teams in the same conference and once against the other two), qualifying 4 teams to playoffs. There were bye-weeks for the first seeds of each conference in playoffs, and the D.C. Dragons became the first (and so far, the only one) expansion team to become SFL Champions, after defeating Santa Fe Gorillas 31-30 in the SFL Championship Game, a game who has been dubbed as "the Greatest SFL Game Ever Played" [video ][video ]

Expansion and Conferences
The league announced on March 7th, 2015 that they will expanding the league to 12 teams, and opened two conferences: Teal and Gray. The teams played their eight regular-season games inside the conference on regular season, qualyfing three teams to playoffs, and the first seed received a bye-week. The four expansion teams were the D.C. Dragons, Louisville Wolfpack, Santa Fe Gorillas and Tallahassee Pride [1 ]

Teams
Gray Conference
 * D.C. Dragons
 * Louisville Wolfpack
 * Minneapolis Maulers
 * New York Knights
 * Oklahoma City Renegades
 * San Francisco Bulldogs

Teal Conference
 * Baltimore Crabs
 * Cleveland Vipers
 * Honolulu Legends
 * Orlando Intimidators
 * Santa Fe Gorillas
 * Tallahassee Pride

Regular Season
In the Gray Conference, both expansion teams made the playoffs, being the Wolfpack the best record in the league, Dragons and Knights also qualified to post-season, the latter defeating Bulldogs in the last game of regular season. The defending champions, Maulers, were the worst team in conference, with an 1-7 record. In the Teal Conference, both expansion teams made the playoffs too, both with 6-2 récord, being Gorillas the first seed based on goal difference. The Crabs qualified once again to post-season, for the third time in three seasons. The Vipers were the worst team in the season, with an abismal 0-8 record.

Playoffs
In wildcards, Pride defeated Crabs 44-34 and the Dragons eliminated Knights 17-7, being this the first defeat the franchise had in playoffs. In Championship Games, featuring the four expansion teams, Gorillas win over Pride 31-27 and Dragons over Wolfpack 35-27. That set the game against Dragons and Gorillas, which the first won 31-30.

SFL Champion: D.C. Dragons (1st title)

Links
Summer 15 Season