Yes QFL Thrice is alive and well. Here is the QFL Thrice rookie draft results compared to Prime using the wisdom of AI.

What happens when you give two completely separate fantasy leagues the same rules, the same rookie pool, and a blank draft board?

You get the QFL Prime and QFL Thrice rookie drafts.

Although both leagues operate under the QFL format, Prime and Thrice are independent leagues with their own managers, teams, draft capital and strategies. That makes comparing their rookie drafts particularly interesting.

The question isn’t how the QFL changed from Prime to Thrice.

It’s this:

When two different leagues are given the same group of rookies, how similarly do they value them?

The answer, based on the first rounds, is surprisingly similar — but with plenty of disagreement.

The Same Rules, Very Different Draft Boards

QFL Prime was the first-ever QFL league, and its rookie draft established the original market for this group of players.

Prime’s first round began:

1. Jeremiah Love
2. Jadarian Price
3. Carnell Tate
4. Makai Lemon
5. KC Concepcion
6. Jonah Coleman
7. De’Zhaun Stribling
8. Jordan Tyson
9. Omar Cooper
10. Ja’Kobi Lane

QFL Thrice, operating independently, opened its rookie draft with:

1. Jeremiyah Love
2. Jadarian Price
3. De’zhaun Striblin
4. Carnell Tate
5. Jordan Tyson
6. Jacobi Lane
7. Sadiq
8. Makai Lemon
9. KC Concepcion
10. Boston

Right away, we see something fascinating.

The two leagues agreed emphatically on the top two players.

But after Love and Price, the debate begins.

Prime preferred Tate at No. 3, while Thrice pushed Stribling into that spot. Prime had Lemon fourth and Concepcion fifth, while Thrice had both players considerably later.

This isn’t one league correcting the other.

It’s two different groups of managers looking at the same players and reaching different conclusions.

Love and Price: The Universal Top Two

If there was one thing the two leagues agreed on, it was the top of the board.

Jeremiah/Jeremiyah Love went No. 1 in both leagues.

Jadarian Price went No. 2 in both leagues.

That’s remarkable considering the drafts were conducted independently.

There was no shared draft order and no requirement for Thrice to follow Prime’s rankings.

Yet the two leagues independently reached the exact same conclusion about their top two rookies.

For Love in particular, the consistency is striking. Prime made him the first-ever rookie selection in QFL history, and Thrice’s managers independently arrived at the same decision.

Whatever the differences between the leagues, Love was apparently the easiest decision on either draft board.

Stribling Is the Biggest Winner

No player benefited more from the difference between the two leagues’ evaluations than De’Zhaun Stribling.

Prime selected Stribling seventh overall.

Thrice selected him third.

That’s a four-pick difference, and it represents one of the clearest examples of the two leagues having different opinions about the same player.

Thrice’s managers weren’t simply following Prime’s lead. If they were, Stribling would have been available much later.

Instead, they placed him ahead of several players who went before him in Prime.

That’s the beauty of having separate leagues: the same player can have a completely different market depending on who is holding the draft picks.

Tyson and Lane Also Rise in Thrice

Stribling isn’t the only player who received a much higher valuation in Thrice.

Jordan Tyson went from No. 8 in Prime to No. 5 in Thrice.

Ja’Kobi Lane went from No. 10 in Prime to No. 6 in Thrice.

Sadiq went from No. 11 in Prime to No. 7 in Thrice.

In other words, Thrice wasn’t simply copying Prime’s draft.

It had its own preferences.

Three players who were outside Prime’s top seven were pushed into Thrice’s top seven.

That tells us that Thrice’s managers saw a different tier of talent emerging from the same rookie pool.

Prime’s Favorites Slide in Thrice

Of course, every riser needs a faller.

The biggest Thrice slides among players selected in both drafts were:

Omar Cooper’s six-pick drop is the largest difference among the returning players.

Jonah Coleman also experienced a significant change, falling from sixth in Prime to 11th in Thrice.

And perhaps the most interesting pair is Lemon and Concepcion.

Prime managers valued them as the fourth- and fifth-overall picks.

Thrice managers still liked both players enough to take them in the first round, but pushed them down to eighth and ninth.

That’s not a rejection.

It’s a different valuation.

The Biggest Surprise: How Much the Leagues Agree

For all of the differences, the most impressive part of the comparison may actually be the amount of agreement.

Of Thrice’s 24 first-round selections, 20 were also selected in Prime’s first round.

That’s more than 80 percent of the Thrice draft.

That means that despite being completely independent leagues, the managers in both QFLs identified a remarkably similar group of players as the most desirable rookies.

The disagreement was primarily about where those players belonged, rather than whether they belonged.

That’s an important distinction.

Both leagues essentially identified the same core rookie class.

They just shuffled the deck differently.

Four Players Break Into the Thrice First Round

Thrice did, however, introduce four names that weren’t selected in Prime’s first round:

• Cyrus Allen — No. 12
• Stowers — No. 16
• Germie Bernard — No. 20
• Ted Hurst — No. 23

These players represent the clearest examples of Thrice’s unique evaluation.

Prime’s managers had 24 first-round selections and didn’t use them on these players.

Thrice’s managers did.

Whether those selections ultimately prove to be steals or reaches is a question for another season, but the draft itself establishes an important fact:

The two leagues did not have identical opinions about the depth of the rookie class.

Thrice found four players worth spending first-round capital on who never made Prime’s opening round.

And Four Prime Picks Don’t Make Thrice

The reverse is just as interesting.

Prime’s first round included:

• Katron Simpson
• Ty Simpson
• Singleton
• Branch

None of those players appeared among Thrice’s 24 selections.

So while Thrice added four players to the first-round conversation, it also left four Prime first-rounders on the outside.

That creates an almost perfect illustration of the difference between the leagues.

Prime had its own version of the top 24.

Thrice had its own version.

And while those lists overlapped heavily, neither league completely agreed with the other.

The Team Strategies Are Completely Different Stories

The player rankings are only half of the fun.

Because Prime and Thrice are separate leagues, their team situations are also completely independent.

That means a player being selected early in one league doesn’t create any obligation for another league’s managers to value him similarly.

In Thrice, VOTE QUIMBY was particularly aggressive, accounting for seven selections in the 24-pick first round:

• Carnell Tate
• KC Concepcion
• Cyrus Allen
• Stowers
• Mike Washington
• Malakai Fields
• Kaelon Black

That’s nearly 30 percent of the entire first round going to one team.

Meanwhile, other Thrice teams had only one or two opportunities to make their mark.

The Prime draft had a completely different distribution of picks and managers.

And that’s precisely what makes the comparison worthwhile.

These aren’t the same franchises making decisions years apart.

They’re different fantasy teams operating under the same QFL rules.

What the Drafts Tell Us About the QFL Format

The comparison between Prime and Thrice is almost a real-world experiment.

Take:

The same rules.

The same rookie class.

Two different groups of managers.

Then let them draft.

The result is remarkably consistent at the top but increasingly unpredictable as the draft progresses.

Love and Price were universally accepted as the top two.

The next group — Tate, Stribling, Tyson, Lemon, Concepcion, Lane, Sadiq and Coleman — was much more fluid.

And by the middle and bottom of the first round, the leagues began making significantly different bets.

That’s exactly what you want from a competitive fantasy ecosystem.

There isn’t one objectively correct draft board.

There are different evaluations, different team needs, different risk tolerances and different managers willing to make different bets.

Prime vs. Thrice: The Verdict

If QFL Prime and QFL Thrice were competing against each other for the title of “best rookie draft,” there would be no easy winner.

Prime gets credit for being the first to identify the talent pool.

Thrice gets credit for having its own opinions rather than simply mirroring Prime.

But the real winner might be the QFL format itself.

Two independent leagues produced rookie drafts that were more than 80 percent identical in player selection, yet still had substantial differences in player valuation.

That’s a pretty compelling result.

The consensus says the leagues recognized the same stars.

The differences say the managers weren’t just following a script.

And that’s what makes rookie drafts fun.

The names are the same.

The rules are the same.

But the people making the picks are different.

QFL Prime and QFL Thrice prove that even when everyone is playing the same game, nobody has to see the draft board the same way.

ACTUAL PRELIMINARY QFL THRICE ROOKIE DRAFT RESULTS