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Like I said a few posts up, I was gonna wait a week or two to update, but I made some slight adjustments to how I calculated the ranking and I was excited to share it as quickly as possible.

The adjustments I made are:

1) For skill ratings, instead of setting the grading scale such that 100% is the highest average of any team in the league, I set it such that 100% is the highest rating that any team in the league has achieved in any game during the season. This means there's not going to be anybody getting perfect scores in those categories, which just kinda feels more realistic to me.

2) Instead of just using Win/Loss percentage, I decided to calculate a simple Strength of Record (S.O.R) metric. It won't be nearly as fancy as anything you'd see on ESPN, don't get me wrong, but it does account for the relative strength of your opponents, by giving you points for your wins and taking away points for your losses based on the win-loss record of your opponents. TL;DR: beating strong teams awards more points, and losing to strong teams costs less points.

3) Since I expect Strength of Record to become more reliable as more games are played, I set the formula to slowly increase the weight of S.O.R. over time and reduce the weight of Salary. This will be very gradual and won't be very noticeable until around 4-5 weeks in.

Without further ado, CapnCrazy110's III.15 Power Rankings, Version 2!

Rk---------------Overall Score
1---Lahser------0.897
2---Turtles------0.862
3---Sloths-------0.852
4---Dogs--------0.84
5---Pirates------0.828
6---Peppers-----0.79
7---Tall Bodies--0.779
8---Champs-----0.76
9---Cardinals----0.713
10--EBW---------0.693
11--Huskies-----0.693
12--Tropics------0.656
13--Kings--------0.648
14--Sonics-------0.641
15--Wolves------0.579
16--Capybara---0.541

Link to category-by-category scores for each team: https://ibb.co/Yf5KDq4

Observations:

There were several big purchases in the last 48 hours that seriously impacted the salary portion of the ranking. Beware of Dogs and Hartford Huskies both moved up one spot in the ranking based on those moves, at the expense of Porch Pirates and Tropics.

The difference between EBW and Hartford is ~.00013, and I almost reported their ranks as flipped bc I rounded the numbers to 3 decimals before sorting.

For funsies I decided to check what the ranking would be if salary was ignored entirely. My team would have been #1, followed by Tenacious Turtles, with Lahser at 3rd. Which just underscores how heavily myself and Turtles rely on our deep lineups.

The top defensive rating so far was Galloping Sloths against Lahser. But the best offensive rating was Lahser in that same game.

The average defense in the league is actually slightly better than the average offense. An average defense rating is Respectable (low) while an average offense rates as Average (high). It just looks like the defenses are weaker because of the way that the ratings are scored.

The lowest ranked unbeaten is Tall Bodies at 7th. They didn't get many points for their 2 wins because they've only beaten 0-2 teams. Case Cardinals comes in at 9th despite being 0-2 for exactly the opposite reason.

Last edited by CapnCrazy110 at 8/4/2022 1:12:38 AM

Nicely done. I will also post each weeks top performances from now on.

Day 1 (Saturday 30 July 2022) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Galloping Sloths 83 - Clarkston Wolves 67
BallaChamps 105 - Green Peppers 118
Super Sonics 84 - Tall Bodies 106
Case Cardinals 101 - Lahser 110
ExplosiveBubbleWrap 66 - Beware of Dogs 100
Porch Pirates 108 - The Tropics 97
kings31 80 - Tenacious Turtles 107
Breckenridge Capybara 89 - Hartford Huskies 102

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 118 : Green Peppers
Rebounds : 58 : Super Sonics
Assists : 35 : Tall Bodies
Steals : 14 : Clarkston Wolves
Block Shots : 13 : Tenacious Turtles

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 35 : G. Flint (Case Cardinals)
Rebounds : 25 : G. Flint (Case Cardinals)
Assists : 12 : E. Csányi (BallaChamps)
Steals : 4 : W. Tolbert (Beware of Dogs), F. Moore (Lahser), K. Leyens (Clarkston Wolves)
Block Shots : 5 : C. Vaughan (The Tropics)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : M. Nalesso (Porch Pirates) (26 Points, 7 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 3 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 33
Shooting Guard : A. Navajas (Green Peppers) (31 Points, 3 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 34
Small Forward : P. Butler (Beware of Dogs) (32 Points, 3 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 31
Power Forward : G. Flint (Case Cardinals) (35 Points, 25 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42
Center : I. Welsh (ExplosiveBubbleWrap) (26 Points, 10 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 34

MVP of the evening
G. Flint (Case Cardinals) (35 Points, 25 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42

The bad performance of the evening
T. Hearn (Super Sonics) (2 Points, 2 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -5

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : T. Pang (Case Cardinals) : 6 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : T. Pang (Case Cardinals), L. Shomron (Breckenridge Capybara), R. Quezada (The Tropics) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : G. Flint (Case Cardinals), Á. Junieles (Case Cardinals), E. Brogys (kings31), W. Tolbert (Beware of Dogs), C. Ambler (ExplosiveBubbleWrap), B. Miglietta (BallaChamps), E. Csányi (BallaChamps), M. Erickson (Tall Bodies) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : A. Navajas (Green Peppers) : 6 Three points

The best performer : D. Heredia (Lahser) : Rating : 15.5

The worst performer : F. Yidi (Galloping Sloths) : Rating : 4.0

Day 2 (Tuesday 2 August 2022) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Clarkston Wolves 80 - BallaChamps 97
Green Peppers 123 - Super Sonics 111
Tall Bodies 94 - Case Cardinals 81
Lahser 91 - Galloping Sloths 90
Beware of Dogs 64 - Porch Pirates 79
The Tropics 90 - kings31 91
Tenacious Turtles 92 - Breckenridge Capybara 64
Hartford Huskies 67 - ExplosiveBubbleWrap 81

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 123 : Green Peppers
Rebounds : 64 : Breckenridge Capybara, BallaChamps
Assists : 24 : Green Peppers
Steals : 15 : Hartford Huskies
Block Shots : 11 : Lahser

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 37 : J. Staszkiewicz (BallaChamps)
Rebounds : 20 : T. Synnott (BallaChamps)
Assists : 9 : H. Valgur (Green Peppers)
Steals : 6 : J. Lasn (Hartford Huskies)
Block Shots : 4 : J. Rabouin (Tenacious Turtles), L. Lebrun (Beware of Dogs), G. Cvetkovic (Lahser)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : M. Craig (Super Sonics) (29 Points, 1 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots), J. Legay (Green Peppers) (28 Points, 2 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 26
Shooting Guard : A. Navajas (Green Peppers) (33 Points, 7 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 36
Small Forward : J. Staszkiewicz (BallaChamps) (37 Points, 11 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 33
Power Forward : I. Stipaničić (Galloping Sloths) (31 Points, 18 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 38
Center : G. Flint (Case Cardinals) (13 Points, 19 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 29

MVP of the evening
I. Stipaničić (Galloping Sloths) (31 Points, 18 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 38

The bad performance of the evening
L. Nicholson (Beware of Dogs) (5 Points, 6 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -6

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : C. Vaughan (The Tropics) : 6 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : C. Torres Retana (Clarkston Wolves) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : I. Frazier (Case Cardinals), A. Vanhorn (Case Cardinals), R. Stone (kings31), L. Nicholson (Beware of Dogs), B. Dowell (ExplosiveBubbleWrap), E. Mattox (Tall Bodies) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : A. Navajas (Green Peppers) : 8 Three points

The best performer : G. Flint (Case Cardinals) : Rating : 15.5

The worst performer : B. Whiting (BallaChamps), L. Nichols (BallaChamps) : Rating : 4.0

I need subscribe to your YT channel, good content. Idk if have this in your idea journal but I think you do a video(s) on you starting fresh again to the NBBA. Road to the NBBA or something like that

GGs Hartford! I'll never be too upset about losing on the road to a decent team, but I gotta admit I'm really disappointed I couldn't pull it out. Got exactly the tactics matchup I wanted, but I badly underestimated your SG's defense, and the RNG really didn't like Nalesso and Demaeght tonight. No big deal though, just means I gotta take all my frustration out on the next team I face. Right, Menace?

Also, not going to post a full update because not a lot changed rankings wise, but I will say that a LOT of teams must have had great GS updates and Enthusiasm for tonight, because the skill ratings jumped a LOT! the average offense rating for the whole league jumped from average (high) to respectable (low) and the average defense went from respectable (low) to just a smidge below respectable (high).

Also, 3 teams posted ratings higher than anyone had achieved in the first 2 games.

My team got the best offensive rating of the season so far, but I did it while playing patient and my opponent had a defense rating that WOULD have tied the best rating if it happened last week. So it didn't really reflect on the scoreboard. Additionally, Lahser and BallaChamps both tied the previous best, which had been set by Lahser on Tuesday.

And Beware of Dogs and Tenacious Turtles both broke the season high for defense ratings on the same night, posting ratings that both averaged out to Proficient (low). Additionally, Tall Bodies and Hartford Huskies both tied the previous season high, which was set by Galloping Sloths on Tuesday.