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WEEK 4 POWER RANKINGS
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- Created: Thursday, 14 September 2023 16:06
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- Written by Jeff Krol
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WEEK 3 POWER RANKINGS
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- Created: Wednesday, 06 September 2023 20:43
- Published: Wednesday, 06 September 2023 20:43
- Written by Jeff Krol
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WEEK 1 POWER RANKINGS
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- Created: Wednesday, 23 August 2023 12:47
- Published: Wednesday, 23 August 2023 12:47
- 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.
- Legends do NOT win the D1 championship for a record fourth straight season
- 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.
- 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!
- Frodo Swaggins has the worst record of any returning team in D1, but they will make their division's Final Four.
- Freeballers will play in (and maybe win, but that's not an "official" prediction) the D2 Championship game
- Steph's Misty-rious Infection beats the Dirty Dozen in the Breakfast Club Finals
- Buffalo Vice will shock the world and win the D4 championship. Why not?? It's their time!! [It wasn't their time. They were really good, and they made it to the semi-finals, but the D4 championship (as it so often does) went to Puckett All-Stars]
- Last season the Replacements were the only winless team in the League. This season, every team will be good enough to win at least ONE game. [They weren't. Practice Squad went 0-8 before winning a playoff game, so they narrowly avoided going winless. But both Creekers and Back That Pass Up didn't win a single game last session. Creekers was in the wrong division, and already have a win under their belts this Fall. Back That Pass Up was in the right division, but just couldn't pull off a W.]
- Eyes Downtown end their recent championship drought and take home the D1 title. [They didn't. Another D1 championship game, another loss to Legends.]
- Steph Infection does NOT three-peat as Breakfast Club Championship. Give someone else a turn. [We got this one right! Congrats to BDSM for taking home the title last season. Sean is pretty good at this football stuff.]
- Joey Batts does NOT three-peat as the #1 ranked QB by our last Power Ranking of the year. Please, God, give someone else a turn. [He repeated as the D1 champion, which is all he cares about we're sure. But he did NOT finish #1 in last season's Power Rankings, as that honor went to Mike Thomas who went undefeated throughout the regular season.]
- GrASS Eaters beat Southside in the D6 championship game. Take that one to the bank. [We picked the correct winner, AND we picked them beating Southside... only problem is GrASS Eaters beat Southside in the Semifinals, and Two Tuddies in the Finals. So we can't give ourselves credit for this one either.]
- Two D1 teams have folded this session, so you won't see Andy Smigiera or Dave Eickhoff in the Power Rankings this session
- Jabronies is also not returning for Fall session so another Top Ten QB in Joe Miano will not be back
- Mark Dalfonso returns for THREAD after a nearly three year absence. He was consistently one of the best QBs in the League for D1 champs Marketing Mayors in the past, so we expect to see him in the Top Ten in no time.
- Jeremy "Hogan" Olsen is back and throwing for Freeballers this session. He won a D2 championship already with Passed Our Prime, so he's already shown he can do it.
WEEK 2 POWER RANKINGS
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- Created: Friday, 01 September 2023 13:30
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WEEK 8 POWER RANKINGS
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- Created: Thursday, 15 June 2023 16:45
- Published: Thursday, 15 June 2023 16:45
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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). 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 7+ PPG, you're a Favorite in green; if you're losing by an average of 7+ 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 19 eventual division champions classified as "Favorites", 11 as "Contenders", and exactly zero as "Pretenders".
- A quick twitter 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 Jabronies 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.
Untouchaballs have the widest lead of any division leader right now, almost a full 10 PPG better than the next best team. These guys aren't just favorites, they're STRONG favorites. Has anyone on the website mentioned yet that they've also won 7 in a row?
So if Puckett were the BEST offense, who were the worst? This season we had four teams fail to make it to 20 PPG on offense (Creekers, Back That Pass Up, Scared Hitless and Not So Sticky). Those teams, unsurprisingly, went a combined 4-28 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.
- Across 64 Power Rankings we've done dating back 8 seasons, there have been 33 Quarterbacks to make our Top Ten.
- The highest average position of any QB over this period is Chris Cole, who was our first ever #1, held the top spot on a record 22 occasions (including a record 10 weeks in a row), and never fell outside of the Top 3 in his five seasons in the "Power Ranking era". He is also tied with Bro Kleckler for the SECOND longest streak of #1 rankings (8 weeks in a row), so in summary, he was pretty good.
- The record for most weeks in our Top Ten belongs to Bobby McConnell, who has been in the Rankings for 60 consecutive weeks. Bobby missed only the first four weeks of our first season when he was injured, and since his first appearance he has held the top spot 11 times, the second spot 14 times, the third spot 24 times, the fourth spot 9 times, and the fifth spot 2 times (this week and last week). He has never fallen outside the Top Five in this timeframe.
- There are only five quarterbacks that have ever been achieved the #1 Ranking: Chris Cole, Bobby McConnell, Joey Batts, Bro Klecker, and Mike Thomas.
- Bobby McConnell is the only quarterback to make the Top Ten every season we've been doing Power Rankings. Joey Batts has made every season (and in fact every WEEK of every season) except for the one he took off from throwing in a higher division.
- Matt Glowacki is the only quarterback to date to make the Top Ten exactly once. He was ranked 7th our first week in 2019, and has never been back.