Clark Olson Wins 2025 NFBC Platinum League & $120,000

[Greg Ambrosius]

NFBC Hall of Famer Clark Olson joined the NFBC Platinum League for the first time in 2025 and walked away with the $120,000 league prize. He led this league for much of the season and won the title by 15.5 points. He also won the $5,000 Draft Champions league title, the $1,000 Draft Champions league title and finished with a total of 11 NFBC league titles in 2025. Well done Champ.

Clark drafted from the 15th spot in this league, the same spot he won the Main Event overall title from in 2024. He started out with Kyle Tucker and Fernando Tatis Jr., but it was his pick of Cal Raleigh in Round 7 that was the difference maker. The fact that Clark is a Seattle Mariners' fan probably didn't hurt that selection, but even Clark couldn't have envisioned the power surge from the Big Dumper in 2025!!! Maybe it was the fact that Clark was wearing his gold Hall of Fame jacket during the entire draft that became his lucky charm!!!

His Hell Bent For Leather team took the lead really from the start of April and never gave it up. His lead shrunk to 4 points over Mike Mager at the All-Star break, but it quickly grew to 20 points by early August and it cruised to the 15.5 point victory margin. Mager finished second to earn $60,000, while Kyle Brinkmann finished third to earn $24,000. Danny Bronski finished fourth to earn $10,000. Cost of entry for this league was $15,000.

Clark's victory ended a two-year reign of the Platinum League title by Phil Dussault. Phil is the only person to repeat in the Platinum League and he's the only two-time Platinum League champion. Clark becomes our 10th different Platinum League champion in 11 years of this contest.

This league will again be held in Las Vegas at the Rio and Online in 2026 on Saturday, March 21st at 4 pm PT/7 pm ET. This year's members have first dibs on spots through December 31st and then after that we'll open Registration to everyone else if there are any spots left. Thanks all and congrats to all of the prize money winners.

Here were the final standings:

2025 NFBC Platinum League
1 Clark Olson Hell Bent For Leather 127
2 Michael Mager Bronx Yankees PLAT 111.5
3 Kyle Brinkmann JK ALL THE WAY PLATINUM 93.5
4 Danny Bronski War With The Eskimos I 88
5 Andy Robinson Robinson 87
6 JimJ Ferrari Ferrari 82
7 John Pausma Gruber_Pausma 77

Here was the payout structure for the NFBC Platinum League:

League Prizes
1 - $120,000
2 - $60,000
3 - $24,000
4 - $10,000

[Greg Ambrosius]

This is the 11th year that we've hosted the NFBC Platinum League and Clark Olson becomes our 10th different champion since 2014. Only Phil Dussault is a two-time Platinum League champion. Here is the list of NFBC Platinum League champions:

2014 - Donn Johnson $200,000
2015 - Nick Cassavetes & Jim Stanard tied (split $150,000)
2016 - Dave Potts $120,000
2017 - Bill Phipps & Eric Kesselman $120,000
2018 - Jon Stadtmueller $120,000
2019 - KC Cha $120,000
2021 - Andy Robinson $120,000
2022 - Glenn Schroter $120,000
2023 - Philippe Dussault $120,000
2024 - Philippe Dussault $120,000
2025 - Clark Olson $120,000

[Greg Ambrosius]

We used actual FAAB dollars to bid for draft spots in the NFBC Platinum League this year and I don't remember what Clark Olson paid for the 15th spot, but it wasn't much. Here were Clark's draft picks from the 15th spot:

Hell Bent For Leather:
1 15 Tucker, Kyle OF Hell Bent For Leather
2 16 Tatis Jr., Fernando OF Hell Bent For Leather
3 45 Hader, Josh P Hell Bent For Leather
4 46 Olson, Matt 1B Hell Bent For Leather
5 75 Contreras, Willson C Hell Bent For Leather
6 76 Webb, Logan P Hell Bent For Leather
7 105 Raleigh, Cal C Hell Bent For Leather
8 106 Naylor, Josh CI Hell Bent For Leather
9 135 Gray, Sonny P Hell Bent For Leather
10 136 Kirby, George P Hell Bent For Leather
11 165 Pressly, Ryan P Hell Bent For Leather
12 166 Lopez, Reynaldo P Hell Bent For Leather
13 195 Eflin, Zach P Hell Bent For Leather
14 196 Robles, Victor OF Hell Bent For Leather
15 225 Rengifo, Luis 2B Hell Bent For Leather
16 226 Torres, Gleyber MI Hell Bent For Leather
17 255 Estevez, Carlos P Hell Bent For Leather
18 256 Fitzgerald, Tyler SS Hell Bent For Leather
19 285 Gelof, Zack UT Hell Bent For Leather
20 286 McMahon, Ryan 3B Hell Bent For Leather
21 315 Bassitt, Chris P Hell Bent For Leather
22 316 Fedde, Erick P Hell Bent For Leather
23 345 Walker, Jordan OF Hell Bent For Leather
24 346 Larnach, Trevor OF Hell Bent For Leather
25 375 Abreu, Wilyer OF Hell Bent For Leather
26 376 Sears, JP P Hell Bent For Leather
27 405 Irvin, Jake P Hell Bent For Leather
28 406 Kremer, Dean P Hell Bent For Leather
29 435 Jones, Jared P Hell Bent For Leather
30 436 Perdomo, Geraldo SS Hell Bent For Leather

[Greg Ambrosius]

Here were Clark's winning FAAB pickups throughout the year:

Hell Bent For Leather:
March 30:
Jorge Polanco 20
Jordan Hicks 10
Tyler Alexander 1

April 6:
Anthony Bender 90
Jake Mangum 80
Kyren Paris 35

April 13:
Christopher Morel 160
J.T. Ginn 40
Taijuan Walker 10

April 20:
Kumar Rocker 44

April 27:
Andy Pages 60
Edouard Julien 1
Emerson Hancock 1

May 4:
Sean Burke 2
Hunter Dobbins 1
Jeff McNeil 2

May 11:
Chad Patrick 2
Jordan Romano 10
Otto Lopez 2
Lenyn Sosa 2

May 18:
Edward Cabrera 2
Mickey Moniak 1
Seth Halvorsen 2
Christian Encarnacion-Strand 1

May 25:
Joey Ortiz 2
Jacob Lopez 2
Stephen Kolek 1

June 1:
Alexander Canario 1

June 8:
Ramon Urias 1
Michael McGreevy 33
Sawyer Gipson-Long 23
Jacob Lopez 2
Alek Thomas 1

June 15:
Jake Irvin 12
Kameron Misner 1

June 22:
Jacob Lopez 16
Janson Junk 16
Isiah Kiner-Falefa 3
Gabriel Arias 1

June 29:
Chase Burns 180
Trevor Rogers 20
JP Sears 2

July 6:
Angel Martinez 1
Hunter Dobbins 1

July 13:
Sawyer Gipson-Long 1

July 20:
Andre Pallante 1

August 3:
Daniel Schneemann 1
Erick Fedde 1

August 10:
Tanner Scott 2
Jacob Wilson 1

August 17:
JP Sears 1

August 24:
Yu Darvish 40
Daylen Lile 1
Ryan Ritter 1

August 31:
Ryan Weathers 2
Mauricio Dubon 1
Curtis Mead 1
Heriberto Hernandez 1
Liam Hicks 1

September 7:
Victor Vodnik 1
CJ Kayfus 1
Daniel Schneemann 1

September 14:
Tyler Mahle 2
Tanner Gordon 1

September 21:
Cristian Javier 6
Kai-Wei Teng 6
Victor Scott II 2
Masataka Yoshida 2
Jeff McNeil 2
Kyle Higashioka 1