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WEEK 1 POWER RANKINGS
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- Category: TSL QB Power Rankings
- Created: Thursday, 02 May 2024 14:30
- Published: Thursday, 02 May 2024 14:30
- Written by Jeff Krol
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Welcome back to the TSL Quarterback Power Rankings! If you've read our article in the past (if for no other reason than to complain about how wrong we are) then you’re familiar with the concept – every week we share our rankings for the Top QBs in the League and discuss who’s trending up and who's trending down. We on the QB Power Rankings Committee are not what you'd call "great writers" (or even "very good" writers... check out the Godfather if you want better writing) so we typically lean heavily on graphs and stats instead... at least, we do after a few weeks, when there's significant enough data to bother sharing. In our season opening articles we also make a few predictions for the session and re-print an explanation of how these Power Rankings work, which we've copied and pasted almost verbatim from previous articles.
- Wanderers win their first ever TSL championship, and we'll even guess the score is 30 something to 30 something in the D3 Finals
- Whoever wins D2 will buck the trend and actually jump to D1 in the Fall... stranger things have happened!
- At least one brand new team will make it to their divisions Finals game
- GUCCI finally shake off their underperforming in the playoffs and take home the D5 championship
- The Rose Garden WILL begin construction before the end of the Spring session!
- No D6 team will finish with more than 6 wins in the regular season
- Legends do NOT win the D1 championship for a record fourth straight season [nailed it! Eyes Downtown walked away with the title... as well as the 2023 Team of the Year Award]
- There will be at least one gender team vs gender team Finals. We're counting GUCCI as a gender team here to give us some more flexibility, but we'll either seen Father Baker vs Cunning Stunts or BAADies vs GUCCI in a championship game this Fall. [we could not have been MORE wrong; Cunning Stunts was the only gender team to escape the first round, after which they promptly lost in the semis, and GUCCI, Father Baker and BAADies all lost in the first round... with Father Baker and BAADies combining for a total of zero points!]
- No one goes winless this season. Yes, we made that prediction last Spring and got it wrong (twice) but we feel much better about it this time! [wrong yet again; Not So Sticky went winless in the regular season before shocking Spinelli's in the playoffs... but TMA won zero games the entire Fall session]
- Frodo Swaggins has the worst record of any returning team in D1, but they will make their division's Final Four. [they did! Frodo beat Sticky Nation in the play-in game to make the Final Four, and had a reasonably competitive semifinals game against Legends before bowing out of the playoffs]
- Freeballers will play in (and maybe win, but that's not an "official" prediction) the D2 Championship game [we were so close... but Freeballers lost a classic to Scared Hitless, so the furthest they made it was the semi-finals]
- Steph's Misty-rious Infection beats the Dirty Dozen in the Breakfast Club Finals [we got the winner right... but not the runner-up, as BDD was the next-to-last team standing in Breakfast Club]
WEEK 8 POWER RANKINGS
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- Category: TSL QB Power Rankings
- Created: Thursday, 12 October 2023 15:31
- Published: Thursday, 12 October 2023 15:31
- Written by Jeff Krol
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- The breakdown of best offenses, defenses and net point differentials per division. As always, stats below have removed forfeit games from the math, so what you see on the charts may not match the website (intentionally). There was only one forfeit this year (shame on you, Rick Reccio) so not as many adjustments as usual for that. Then we tried to color each team's data by their official jersey colors, but half this league apparently uses the same colors so it's not perfect (sorry Cunning Stunts for your sexist pink coloring!)
- A graph of average point differentials per game for each division with a similar "Favorites, Contenders, Pretenders" logic we've used in previous seasons (if you're winning games by an average of 6+ PPG, you're a Favorite in green; if you're losing by an average of 6+ PPG, you're a Pretender in red; all other teams are yellow in the middle; these are not OUR judgments on who falls into each category, it's strictly based on the math of your team's point differentials). For what it's worth, in the last five seasons that we've been showing these graphs, we've had 21 eventual division champions classified as "Favorites", 15 as "Contenders", and exactly zero as "Pretenders".
- A quick twitter sized (or "X sized") recap of the division heading into playoffs, and then identifying which teams are "overrated" and "underrated" in each group. Note that these last two categories are based purely on what we see in the scores and stats, NOT our own personal feelings of players on each team (we might personally think Travis Henry's Kids are overrated, but if the underlying numbers say their team is underrated, that's where we'll include them below) so TRY not to be offended thinking the "website is being mean". We're just reading numbers off a website, man. Relax.
So if Cunning Stunts were the BEST offense, who were the worst? This season we had two teams fail to make it to 20 PPG on offense (Practice Squad & Back That Pass Up). Those teams, unsurprisingly, went a combined 3-15 this season.
- A D1 championship is our baseline since it's the best a team can do. Let's make that worth 100 points.
- A D2 title is worth, at BEST, 49% of that, since two D2 titles don't quite equal a D1 title (you can argue it should be LESS than 49%, but we've made the choice to weight lower divisions as heavily as reasonably possible here). 49 points for a D2 title.
- A D3 title should be worth 49% of THAT, so about 24 points for each D3 championship.
- Every subsequent division is worth 49% of the previous one, so D4 is worth 11 points, D5 is worth 5 points, and D6 is worth 2 points.
- Indoor championships aren't currently worth a point (though we may revised this in the future). With apologies to DILFS, Jelly Beans and Sticky Bandits, Winter sessions are often used to make new teams and play with new people. No team should be penalized in the rankings for doing that instead of entering their usual squad.
WEEK 6 POWER RANKINGS
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- Category: TSL QB Power Rankings
- Created: Thursday, 28 September 2023 17:14
- Published: Thursday, 28 September 2023 17:14
- Written by Jeff Krol
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WEEK 7 POWER RANKINGS
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- Category: TSL QB Power Rankings
- Created: Thursday, 05 October 2023 20:29
- Published: Thursday, 05 October 2023 20:29
- Written by Jeff Krol
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WEEK 5 POWER RANKINGS
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- Category: TSL QB Power Rankings
- Created: Wednesday, 20 September 2023 20:39
- Published: Wednesday, 20 September 2023 20:39
- Written by Jeff Krol
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