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Power Rankings
The power rankings return this week. It seems to me that everyone in this league really underestimates themselves a lot. The rankings are meant to reflect a combination of the overall record and last week record. The metric I use is 80% overall 20% last week, the number the at end of each team is the base line score.
1. Jungle Fever, the Fever keep on winning and remain number 1. .927
2. Pittsburgh Pressure, two wins for the Pressure against Rebellion and Sloths. We look forward to a potential finals preview tonight against Green Gremlins. .927
3. Green Gremlins, wins against Boom is Art and SM Lizards make the Gremlins back on track. And with Dragojevic back in the lineup the game at Pittsburgh looks to thrilling. .927
4. Souljas, the souljas are here and hopefully to stay. They beat the Boilers25 and Lion Rebels this week and look forward to the matchup at Jungle Fever. .708
5. Beachlife, A win vs Retired but beaten by West Side Tigers this week .681
6. Boom is Art, a good week for Boom is Art going 1-1 beating the Sloths but losing to Green Gremlins .681
7. Galloping Sloths, Yakoska you might you are overrated still but listen to this you are second place in your Conference and have the 6th best overall record, you deserve to be in the top half. .581
8. West Side Tigers, a loss to Jungle Fever but a victory over Beachlife makes a good week .464
9. SM Lizards, back to back wins for SM Lizards all be it against Retired and Red Bull Lakers .564
10. Illiniwek, two losses for Illiniwek to Boilers25 and Jungle Fever .464
11. Boilers25, a victory over Illiniwek but a loss to the Souljas .391
12. Lion Rebels, a victory over Righteous Rebellion allows the rebels to jump the Rebellion .245
13. Righteous Rebellion, two losses this week, one a blowout loss to Pittsburgh, the other a close one to the Rebels .218
14. Monkeykid, a loss to Red Bull and Gremlins drop you to 14. .145
15. Retired, losses to SM and Beachlife both close games keep you at 15. .145
16. Red Bull Lakers, you finally won a game but that is not enough to move you from the cellar. .172

What a night in the league, 7 out 8 Great 8 teams won, a nominee for upset of the year occurred, and 15 of out the 16 spots in the new rankings changed already.

Only an upset because we were ranked too highly to begin with.... :)

Edit> And now, not even the upset of the week.

Last edited by Yakoska at 8/14/2021 9:43:58 PM

I'll be bringing the post-game reports back after the all-star break.
I'm hella inactive this season because I've been busy w moving & other things.

My boy Spicci has been the #1 Rebounder in all of D.3 the past two seasons, and still gets no all-star appearance. smh.

Nurek isn't even a regular starter on my team (Though do to injuries, we did play more 3 big man sets than usual so far this year) and got more votes than my starters... Shrug. Who understands these things.

Edit> But I will take the rather surprising 3pt contest win... wow.

Double edit> I say surprising, because Jump Range: prolific..... is not what I call a 3 pt shooting rating

Last edited by Yakoska at 8/19/2021 10:23:58 AM

I mean, Spicci is special when it comes to rebounding, but his rating compared to the other two dudes who ended up as starters for your league at PF/C are clearly better all around players. He may get into your hall of fame, but being the top defensive rebounding in DIII doesn't scream all star. (But also, if he was my player I'd have the same gripe!

I'm not saying he's Hakeem Olajuwon, I'm just questioning how this works. Usually in the NBA, the top rebounder is highly recognized even if they only score 15pts per game.
No biggie though. He's my teams staple for now, but I'm in a reconstructive phase so we'll see what happens.

Oh for sure - I too question how it works. I was surprised my bigs made the all star game.

Power Rankings
Sorry it has taken so long to update rankings, packing for college is laborious task. After the all star break some teams have more questions than answers, myself included but let’s get to it.
1. Jungle Fever
They keep on winning, holding their opponents last week to a combined 68 pts, Wow
2. Pittsburgh Pressure
As soon as I felt confident enough to put myself at Number 1, we nearly get upset by Redbull Lakers. Although that is scary to me, I see a difference, last season we lost a game like that to the Rebellion, this season we held out and won.
3. Beachlife
Two wins for Beachlife against Souljas and Illiniwek, they maintain position
4. Green Gremlins
The Green Gremlins lost to Pittsburgh but beat Lion Rebels. The Gremlins have established themselves as best in their conference, but just that “in their conference”
5. Galloping Sloths,
you may be shocked to see Sloths here, and I agree they don’t belong at 5 but quite frankly who does. As will be explained later
6. Souljas,
the Souljas lost to Jungle Fever and Beachlife this week and drop as a result
7. Boom is Art,
they fell victim to the major upset of the season losing to retired
8. SM Lizards,
they beat West Side but lost to Illiniwek, very average
9. Illiniwek,
at least they beat SM
10. Boilers25,
The boilers lost to the Sloths but beat Rebellion
11. Retired,
the upset of the season and another win over Monkeykid jumps Retired in the rankings never before seen, maybe they should be 5
12. West Side Tigers,
two tough losses against Great 8 competition
13. Lion Rebels,
losing to Gremlins but beating the sloths, I see an argument to make them higher but at this point I don’t know
14. Monkeykid,
they lost to retired but bounced back against West Side
15. Righteous Rebellion,
a blowout loss to JF and a close loss to Boilers25 gets you nowhere
16. Redbull Lakers,
you almost had me Redbull, you almost did, but you still lost and to boom is Art as well, but hey at least you kept me from #1