After Pancake decided to continue the league, it came to his attention that three of last year’s players were not responding to his emails. This meant he needed replacements. They came in the form of Eli Thompson (another trombonist from the high school where it all started), Jason Peterson (another saxophonist from that same school), and Cal Gregg.
 
The league rules and format remained the same for the new year, but the draft was held later. At the beginning of September, the league once again met at the commissioner’s house to draft. And again, Sean Alumbaugh (with the randomized first pick in the draft – again) picked RB Eddie Lacy in the first round. Only two QB’s were taken in the first two rounds this time, and running backs came off the board quickly.
 
After the draft, a fourth member (Kevin Portis) went out of touch. The commissioner was in need of another new member to take over the newly-drafted team – Sean Crowell, another graduate from the league’s high school, hopped in to take over a team already set for failure. His 4-10-1 record would tie for fifth-worst all-time; however, he would redeem himself, as seen under ‘2016.’
 
Statistically speaking, the 2015 season was legendary in terms of points scored, even though future rules changes would lessen the year's standing by future generations. Two teams would post records that remained as two of the top four records all-time until 2021. Two of the top ten highest season scores all-time were posted by 2015 teams, including the highest, until the 2020's as well. Ethan Maas set a long-standing (but no longer standing) record of 1887 points that season, earning him a first-ballot spot in the Breakfast League Hall of Fame (established in 2018).
 
Ethan’s success that year was reflected in his record: he won his first four games, and nine of his first ten. He would collect two more losses before the playoffs (one of those losses still produced 122 points – but it was that loss that foreshadowed the championship match). His team name was one of the league’s best, making fun of a national celebrity running what many viewed as a prank candidacy for President: Donald Trumps Hair. Spoiler alert: it was no joke after all. Ethan entered the post season as the three seed.
 
For last season’s playoff teams, it didn’t go very well. Commissioner Pancake posted what was arguably one of the worst five performances all-time in the league, going 4-11. Kaelan Carlson, the defending champ, failed to return to the postseason with a 6-7 record (he finished 7-8). Sean Alumbaugh would go down the stretch to garner a 6-9 record.
 
Other playoff competitors were Jason Peterson and Aaron Green, with records of 6-6-1 and 7-5-1, respectively.
 
After Ethan, there was another dominant force to take control of the league: Brandon Gaede. A six-win streak helped take Gaede to his first playoff, and regular-season championship, with a record of 10-2-1. So, what happens when you throw two first-ballot hall of famers on opposite sides of a bracket? You get a championship round where legends are made. Unbelievably, this championship also went down to the wire, tying with a score of 198 apiece. The five deciding points (based on highest seed) went to Brandon Gaede. His efforts earned him a spot in the Breakfast League Hall of Fame as a first-ballot candidate.