• Print
• Email

TSL Quarterback Rankings – Pre-Season Review

“And, with that, the Race for Social Co-Ed Football Immortality has ended” – The Godfather, July 5^th 2019

Last season’s race is indeed over, and 40 of our 46 teams went home losers, crushed and dejected.  But that’s the beauty of sports – there’s always next season.  And on August 24^th, NEXT season becomes THIS season, and hope springs eternal.  We’re all undefeated again, with dreams of glory and championships.  We’ve added Guy X and Girl Y to our rosters, and this time we really ARE invincible, and we might even go undefeated! 

We’re lying to ourselves of course – this season our slightly larger league will actually have 41 teams go home without winning the big one.  But it feels good to believe in ourselves right now, doesn’t it?  Maybe this really is our year…

***

Welcome back to the TSL Quarterback Power Rankings.  If you read the article last year (and there must have been at least five or six of you) then you’re familiar with the concept – every week we share our rankings for the Top Ten QBs in the League, and discuss who’s trending up (how long before Dean Thompson is #1 in the League?  2022?) and who’s trending down (you’re not getting any younger Topper).  And because we’re overly enamored with charts and stats, we also like to bombard you with those from time to time.  Here’s a recap of how this works, copied and pasted almost verbatim from last year’s pre-season review:

“Are you going to show rankings for all 47 starting QB’s every week?”

No, just the Top Ten will be shown EVERY week, but the write-up will have commentary on other rising and falling QBs throughout the League as well.  We may expand to a Top 15 or Top 20 as the season goes on if we’re feeling ambitious.  Stay tuned.

“Is this going to be heavily biased towards the higher divisions?”

The top ten probably will be, sure.  The purpose of a Power Ranking is to highlight the best in the League, and for the most part the best are competing AGAINST the best.  But we will absolutely be acknowledging the performance (good and bad) of Quarterbacks in the lower divisions as well.  We doubt a pure D5 quarterback will ever crack the Top Ten (they didn’t last season), but we will try our best to cover all divisions in the write-up, every week.

“So you’re only ranking QB’s… what about the rest of us?”

We didn’t forget about the rest of you.  In addition to the QB Rankings, we will do our best to put out other rankings that the rest of you can enjoy – best team offenses, best team defenses, best referees, best at bar …  ranking anything is always fun.  Unless we rank you last, of course.

“You keep saying ‘we’.  Who is writing this?  Who determines these rankings?”

Don’t worry about who’s writing this.  Let’s be honest: If you knew, you would incessantly whine to that person or persons about why you or your QB should be ranked higher every week.  Anonymity is key for journalism THIS important.

So there you go.  We don’t have any new “pre-season rankings” for you, because there are too many new teams and new faces to predict right now.  But here are the final “Top 20” rankings from the end of Spring 2019’s regular season (which might have looked different if we had re-ranked them after playoffs…): 

Expect many of those names in the Top Ten again this season.

If you have any constructive feedback that could improve our rankings (let me guess – your team’s QB should be ranked higher) or analytics you’d like to see (who’s the longest winning streak in the League right now after the fall of Public Enemy? Gryffindor at 7 games, believe it or not, and they play Public Enemy in Week 1!), please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..   

We don’t have a cool sign-off phrase like “I’ll be watching…” (dear Sentinel author: please write one for us) so we’ll just close by saying good luck to everyone with this season’s race for Social Co-Ed Football Immortality!

• Prev
• Next