FurinaST, also known as Furina or Ashley, is the deputy commissioner of the AFF and serves as the commissioner to both the ABA and APL. They have been in the AFF since the league’s creation in 2021, alongside with AFF commissioner Kero (Las Vegas, Trent).

From Chapel Hill to Salt Lake, Furina has been involved in sports throughout his entire life. The first jobs held by Furina were that of a scorekeeper for youth basketball games at 16 years old, but only for a short time before becoming a referee who has worked junior collegiate level events for Basketball, an Arizona state championship for Football, and semi-professional events for Soccer. Also an experienced sports gambler, Furina has made a fair sum of money placing bets down with some very long odds parlays cashing in for ridiculous jackpots.

Furina has been a leading figurehead of the Alliance for as long as it’s been around, creating the sheets, prizes, and format of each league under the Alliance umbrella, as well as established the Alliance Association. The AFF, ABA, APL, and AA Sheets that are displayed on this site are all created by Furina, while the weekly updates are maintained in part with help from Ludiyolo (Alaska Emperors, Isaac). The official sites in partnership with the Alliance, as well as the shop where Alliance merchandise can be purchased were all created by Furina, with sponsorships from Kero.

To contact FurinaST, you can find their discord with the username:
focalorsfurina

2021
In the first season of the AFF, Furina had the Florida Flamingos (Yokai) out to a fast start, boasting the best record in the league up until a two game skid brought them down to the 3rd seed where they would stay until the end of the regular season. An active team on the trade market, quite a few moves had benefitted them throughout the year, but it would ultimately be the activity in the moving of assets that would be the downfall of the Flamingos (Yokai), dropping to the 6th seeded Seattle Sockeyes (Vegas Gamblers) in the first round as a 3v6 upset.

The end of the season saw a 10-3 regular season finish, an 0-1 playoff record, and a few postseason awards such as having the MVFP Runner Up (Mark Andrews).


2022
Following the 2021 campaign, the Salt Lake Saints (Yokai) put together the greatest team in AFF History, having Austin Ekeler (RB1), Justin Jefferson (WR1), Ja’Marr Chase, and Joe Burrow on the same team. Starting the year a strong 7-0, the Saints were hot before making crucial moves that involved sending away the runaway QB1 in Patrick Mahomes for Joe Burrow and other pieces that were used to bring in Ekeler and Jefferson.

Finishing at 11-3, the Saints (Yokai) were the feared team to beat in the playoffs regardless of the conferences, though they were immediately tested with a first round matchup against the Memphis Pharaohs (Houston Voyagers) that barely saw Furina’s side squeak out their first franchise playoff victory. The conference championships against a familiar foe in the Las Vegas Gamblers, the Saints (Yokai) put up a very solid effort that met projections as Vegas’s team entered a tailspin that was finished with Arizona WR De’Andre Hopkins having the worst game of his career, finishing with only 1 catch and 5 yards with Trace McSorely as the signal caller.

The conference championship against their past playoff demon set up the most peculiar matchup in AFF History, in a championship game no less. Enter “Hamlingate”. The Boston Olympians and Salt Lake Saints (Yokai) had a game that was heading into Monday Night with the Olympians leading on total points but the Saints (Yokai) leading on projected points. Due to the once-in-a-lifetime circumstances of the Damar Hamlin Bills vs Bengals situation, the league had stepped in and offered each player a solution that would crown both of them as the champions of the 2022 AFF Season.

Damar Hamlin was named as the Final 4 MVFP, while Furina’s Saints (Yokai) also saw Justin Jefferson win the MVFP Runner Up, the 2nd RU in Yokai history.


2023
Following the year of success that the Saints (Yokai) had, Furina’s side would eventually finally claim a long-coveted MVFP trophy with 4th round draft pick Keenan Allen stealing the show in many weeks of the regular season. The inaugural year of the AA Cup gave headway to a wonderful debut performance from the Saints (Yokai), though they would ultimately fall short of winning the crown in the finals while having a depleted roster at the hands of the Florida Stingrays.

With the theme of a depleted roster, the Yokai had practically no chance in their playoff run despite another strong regular season, winning their division and having a second consecutive 1 seed into the postseason. Keenan Allen, the MVFP, as well as top 3 quarterback Justin Herbert both went to the sidelines the minute the postseason began, stripping Furina’s squad of all hope as they saw themselves face another first-round exit at the hands of the Carolina Aviators.


2024
Another year of heavy change for the landscape of the Alliance, there was a whole new league created that served as a relegation/promotion format to the Champions League called the Challenger League. This expanded the AA Cup pool as well as gave a looming threat to those near the bottom of the league table at the end of the year.

Despite the worst start in franchise history at 3-3, the Week 7 matchup between the Emperors and Yokai would start a streak that remains the longest unbeaten run in the Alliance Fantasy Football history, tying the aforementioned game with Alaska while winning an AA Cup matchup the same week. The Yokai had won each and every AA Cup game heading into the postseason, as well as had gone on a 7 game win streak, which translates to a 12 game unbeaten run. The red-hot Yokai, even while down players in their major bye weeks, seemed invincible to a bad week with each and every outing having a final scoreline of above 130 points.

The momentum carried itself through the rest of the year, but would ultimately fall short in the Champions League postseason. After avenging a round 1 matchup defeat in prior years with a convincing victory against the Aviators, the Boston Olympians would prove to be even hotter than the blistering Yokai, putting up 190 against a team that still managed to drop over the 130 point threshold. Even with the electrifying week, nothing could have prevented the blowout that faced the Yokai.

Despite the earlier than hoped for exit of the playoffs, the AA Cup in the very same week was won off the back of AA Cup MVFP De’Von Achane, besting the Cincinnati Queens who were also in their own conference final matchup that saw them taste defeat to the Detroit Dinos.

Justice would come for the queens after becoming the runners up to the AA Cup, defeating Tokyo in the 3rd place game to claim a podium spot and win some cash to give a consolation prize to a successful season.


2025
Beginning in 2025, the ABA had its inaugural season in which the Yokai were blessed with the 2nd overall pick, allowing them to select their personal favorite NBA player, Luka Doncic. Luka would become a staple to the Yokai’s success throughout the year, but nothing would contribute more to the victories the Yokai were enjoying than a mid-season blockbuster trade that would send a king’s ransom of players to the Atlanta Thrashers in exchange for Nikola Jokic. Jokic and Doncic would team up with a bunch of players who had been seen as lesser value than what was expected, only to receive major upticks in production and fantasy scoring as the league went on. Notably, players like Tyrese Haliburton and Franz Wagner were acquired for players such as Lamelo Ball. Some players acquired through other trades were sent back and forth to other managers which resulted in a lineup unlikely to ever be seen again in the ABA.

Finishing the year 15-2, the Yokai were the clear favorites from just about week 10 to win the ABA title, though they would face stiff opposition from the Carolina Aviators in the Eastern Conference Finals. Proving too much for the roadblocks ahead, the Yokai managed to score nearly 280 points in the postseason matchup against the Aviators. Their finals matchup against the injury-laced Phoenix Monsoons turned south for Phoenix rather quickly, securing the Alliance Basketball Association crown for the Tokyo Yokai.

The ABA MVFP was given to Nikola Jokic, though the surprising hero of the Final Four on the Yokai was none of the talent you would have expected, instead being Philadelphia guard Quentin Grimes. Outscoring his projection by over double in back-to-back weeks, and scoring the most total points for the Yokai in the Final Four, was enough to secure the F4MVFP trophy for Grimes, which is likely the most bizarre award winner in the Alliance as a whole.

Las Vegas Gamblers
Arguably the most storied and impactful rivalry in the AFF with each meeting between the two having a ripple effect shaking the entire league with the implications of each victory or defeat, the Tokyo Yokai and Las Vegas Gamblers seemingly are always destined to be on a crash course with one another.

In Year 1, the Yokai and Gamblers were involved in a series of trades, but none more impactful than the one that sent Ja’Marr Chase from the Yokai to the Gamblers. While the trade proved valuable for the Yokai in the regular season, with all the assets gained providing them more wins in the short term, including a win over the Gamblers, it was ultimately the Gamblers who had proven that they had won the Ja’Marr trade with Chase eliminating his former team in the first round of the playoffs to complete a 3v6 upset.

In Year 2, the Yokai and Gamblers were placed in the same division and thus played each other two times during the regular season. The Yokai had started the year HOT winning their first 7 games of the season in dominating fashion for the most part, including a 159.00-105.05 victory over their previous playoff killer in Vegas. However, that was only the first meeting of the year between the two teams, as in week 13 a very close 123.05-120.90 game that saw the Gamblers barely beat out the Yokai leveled the season series, and allowed the Gamblers to recover a 3 seed in the playoff hunt. In a severe twist of fate, had the Gamblers lost in that week 13 match-up, they would have had the 4 seed and outperformed the Yokai again in the first round, which would have made it back-to-back years with the Yokai bowing out to the Gamblers in round one. Instead, the Yokai and Gamblers both advanced to the Stars (now Emerald) conference championship where the Yokai would crush the Gamblers 135.45-102.35, in a game that featured the worst game of star WR De’Andre Hopkins having his worst game of his career, in part from Trace McSorely throwing him the ball. The Yokai would go on to win the title in the eventual Damar Hamlin situation with the Boston Olympians.

In Year 3, the Yokai and Gamblers were no longer in the same conference and did not play each other in the regular season nor postseason at all. However, thanks to the AA Cup’s inaugural season, the Yokai and Gamblers drew one another in the first round where Tokyo won 173.40-105.75. In a very bad year for the Gamblers, the Yokai made sure to take advantage to repay the favor of knocking Vegas out of a competition in the first round as a way to avenge the failures in Year 1. Tokyo would eventually go on to be the AA Cup Runner Up.

Year 4 was a very eventful year for both franchises in relation to one another, as they were back in the same conference again and thus would play each other at least one time guaranteed. One of the biggest trades in AA Cup history took place with the Gamblers and Yokai, which was set in motion from a previous trade with the Gamblers and Yokai only a week prior. De’Von Achane was sent to the Yokai though, which proved to be a vital asset for the Yokai later in the season. The first meeting in year 4 actually came earlier than scheduled, when they drew one another in the Week 10 AA Cup Quarterfinal match-ups. A familiar name, Ja’Marr Chase, was an absolute standout, boasting over 55 fantasy points for the Yokai in a 133.90-79.65 blowout. In Week 13, with playoff hopes on the line for the Gamblers, the Yokai put up a very solid performance that was highlighted by Mark Andrews and the Broncos Defense, with the latter having 23 fantasy points in a defensive masterclass that knocked the Gamblers out of the playoffs with the 153.20-139.95 result.



Alaska Emperors
Though not as heated as their rivalry with the Gamblers, the Emperors and Yokai certainly have an odd history of playing each other.

In Year 1, the Yokai and Emperors met twice in the regular season where Tokyo had claimed victory both times, but the end of the season saw the Emperors take both the Points Forced crown as well as the Points Allowed crown from the Yokai, by an incredibly small margin for each.

In Year 2, the Emperors were the ones to claim a very odd week 10 victory against a red hot Yokai, which made the Yokai become very active on the trade market and eventually acquire Austin Ekeler, the 2022 RB1, without losing Ja’Marr Chase or Justin Jefferson. The Emperors would barely miss the playoffs due to seeding tiebreakers in their own division.

Year 3 was yet another odd iteration of the Yokai and Emperors, but still not the weirdest one yet. Bijan Robinson and Kyren Williams were two key players in this matchup, but is most commonly known for the difference in having AJ Brown and Dallas Goedert in the Eagles game that ended up deciding the game in a very close call. This game had birthed some inside jokes between the two owners who look back at that game very fondly, including the nicknaming of all of their players for that week specifically. Somehow, the standings changes that were put into effect the year before made it so that the Emperors would find a way to miss the playoffs by the slimmest of margins yet again.

Year 4 can summarize how the Yokai and Emperors meetings tend to go, as this one has famously ended in the only TIE in AFF history, ending as a 78.25-78.25 game which saw the owners strike an agreement to bench Justin Tucker and Trey McBride before the double MNF games. Had Tokyo played their entire squad and Alaska followed suit, the Yokai would have picked up the win, but the agreement for the tie had mutually benefitted both teams in the moment and future for standings purposes. Tokyo, who moved to 3-3-1 at the time, had won 7 straight regular season outings to end the year at a 10-3-1 record.



Boston Olympians
There have been two significant meetings between the Olympians and Yokai, but both meetings have both been very historic results.

Year 2 saw the Olympians and Yokai involved in quite possibly the most odd finish to a fantasy football year, being the Week 17 Hamlingate situation. Both teams agreed to simply draw the match and record them both as champions, much like how olympic ties can be decided. Boston had no Bills or Bengals, while Tokyo had Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase, and Evan McPherson in play, which is what prompted the option for a tie to be selected. Projections had favored the Yokai to win by a margin of 31, but the total points tally was in favor of the Olympians. In the end, both have a championship trophy to commemorate the occasion.

Year 3 had a meeting in the AA Cup between the two teams that saw the Yokai win by a margin of 104-102.95, for an absolute nail biter of a quarterfinal match-up.

Year 4 saw the Yokai and Olympians meet twice, once in the regular season and once in the postseason. While the Yokai had dominated the week 13 matchup in part to KaVontae Turpin’s Kick Returning stats, the Olympians had the last laugh in the Emerald Conference Championship, scoring 190 points in the Week 16 50 point massacre. Both teams seemingly got what they were aimed for though, as the Yokai had managed to win their AA Cup matchup and thus take the AA Cup Championship that week while the Olympians were able to advance to the AFF Champions League Championship.

Carolina Aviators
One of the most unsung and underrated rivalries in the Alliance, the Aviators and Yokai have had a rich history running back to yearly meetings in all competitions except the AA Cup. Having played one another in the AFF Champions League postseason in both 2023 and 2024–both being first round matchups as well–as well as one time in the ABA Eastern Conference Finals.

The AFF matchup has been one that has seen Furina hold a comfortable series advantage over Star’s Aviators, despite a blemish in the playoff record. However, Furina and Star have met a myriad of times through these competitions, and will only continue to meet as the two franchises have shown spells of success that seem to plot them on crash-courses to face one another.

In 2023, the Carolina Aviators took advantage of a very hobbled Saints (Yokai) team in the first round, easily dismantling their once optimistic season even further, capped off by a defensive masterclass from the once sure-handed and reliable Chargers duo of Justin Herbert and Keenan Allen–one of whom was named MVFP–had both been ruled out due to injuries just prior to the game. The first win for the Aviators of course comes at a much needed time in the playoffs, marking the first of their franchise history.

2024 Saw Furina’s Yokai take their revenge, reclaiming lost ground in the next first round matchup shared between the two teams. In a script-flip, it was Star’s Aviators that would be seeing more of an injury bug that could not overcome the strength of Furina’s red hot group, entering the postseason with a blistering 7 game win streak in the Champions League, as well as a 4 game win streak in the AA Cup, combining with a tie in week 7 to bring the Yokai unbeaten run to an aggregate 12 games. Despite the red-hot form, the Yokai would fall to a similar fate as the year prior Aviators in the Champions League postseason, falling in the conference finals.

2025 brings into perspective the Alliance Basketball Association. The Aviators, backed behind their superstar Jayson Tatum, were a serious threat to the domination of the regular season the Yokai had seen, managing to win 15 of 17 games in a campaign that saw an impressive 13-0 start to the season. While the Yokai had seemed unbeatable after acquiring star talent from other franchises, the Aviators stood firm and gave the Yokai a serious run for their money until the very last day, ending in the largest total score from two combined teams in the entire history of the ABA (279.00-230.00). The Yokai would go on to continue their warpath in the ABA, winning the Finals and sweeping every major award in the process, while the Aviators would go on to dominate the Banditos in the 3rd place game.

From Top to Bottom, Left to Right:
2022 C1 Draft (Furina)
2023 C1 Draft (All)
2024 C1 Draft (Furina)
2025 ABA Draft (All)

Organized chronologically (Top to Bottom, Left to Right)

From Top to Bottom, Left to Right:
Florida Flamingos (2021)
Salt Lake Saints (2022-2023)
Tokyo Yokai (2024-Present)

Class of ’25
-Ja’Marr Chase (1x C1 MVFP, 1x Champions League Champion, 1x AA Cup Champion, 1x, AA Cup RU, 1x Emerald Champion, 3x Sapphire Champion, 1x WR1)

-De’Von Achane (1x AA Cup MVFP, 1x AA Cup Champion, 1x Sapphire Champion)

-Josh Allen (1x C1 MVFP, 1x AA Cup Champion, 1x Sapphire Champion)

-Mark Andrews (1x C1 MVFP RU, 1x AA Cup Champion 2x Sapphire Champion, 1x TE1)

-Keenan Allen (1x C1 MVFP, 1x AA Cup RU, 1x Sapphire Champion)

-Justin Jefferson (1x C1 MVFP RU, 1x Champions League Champion, 1x Emerald Champion, 1x Sapphire Champion, 1x WR1)

-Evan McPherson (1x Champions League Champion, 1x AA Cup RU, 1x Emerald Champion, 2x Sapphire Champion)

-Quentin Grimes (1x ABA F4MVFP, 1x Alliance Basketball Association Champion, 1x Eastern Conference Champion)

-Nikola Jokic (1x ABA MVFP, 1x Alliance Basketball Association Champion, 1x Eastern Conference Champion, 1x C1)

-Luka Doncic (1x Alliance Basketball Association Champion, 1x Eastern Conference Champion, 1x PG1)

Note that this is not for records that result in trophies. Things such as league titles, conference titles, AA titles, MVFPs, and RUs will be in the Trophy Case tab!

Team Feats
Champions League Playoffs: 4x (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Champions League Conference Regular Season Titles: 3x (Emerald 2022, Emerald 2023, Emerald 2024)
Champions League Regular Season Titles: 1x (2023)

Alliance Basketball Association Playoffs: 1x (2025)
Alliance Basketball Association Conference Regular Season Titles: 1x (East, 2025)
Alliance Basketball Association Regular Season Titles: 1x (2025)

Alliance Premier League Playoffs: 1x (2025)

Positional Feats
QB1: 1x (Josh Allen 2021)
RB1: 1x (Austin Ekeler 2022)
WR1: 2x (Justin Jefferson 2022, Ja’Marr Chase 2024)
TE1: 1x (Mark Andrews 2021)
K1: 1x (Tyler Bass 2022)
D/ST1: 2x (Dallas Cowboys 2021, Denver Broncos 2024)

PG1: 1x (Luka Doncic, 2025)
C1: 1x (Nikola Jokic, 2025)

DEF1: 1x (Daniel Muñoz. 2025)