The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

     Well, it's been a while since we've had Power Rankings.  It's a very odd year and we've moved from the standard one week setting to the daily function for a scoring period.  That has given us a 45 day season.

     As such we will still have rankings every week (on Mondays probably).  I have created a table that indicates how everyone has progressed from the start:

     Any streak of four or more gets a box around it.  So what do we have to take away so for from the table and season so far...? 

     Somehow Kyle is the best team?  Rob took a potentially a big loss from Ohtani getting injured, but is still 8-2.  My own pitching staff lost Kluber and Mikolas for the year within minutes of each other and I started with the worst losing streak to date but seem to be turning it around. 

     Bradley started off red hot feeding off of what he did last year, but has since fallen a bit apart over the last five days...  Or has he?  He really hasn't.  He's lost by 3, lost by 0.5, won by 4.5, lost by 18 and lost by 16.5.  So not really that bad, and those two larger losses, he still scored 20+.

     Chad won 3 out of his 5 and looked like he may be vying to have a decent season but has gone on to a five game losing streak.  But let me dive into these messed up stats a bit more because this is unfair and he's playing the wrong team on the wrong days.  So the average score so far into the year is 31.66071429 (I know pretty accurate).  The last five weeks his opponent has scored over 44.  The last four have been over 60.  Now granted, yesterday was the first of those five where Chad notched over the average himself, but still, that is quite unlucky.

     One would think that having a schedule like Chad's would make him the team with the toughest schedule.  But there is one more difficult with John Bierkamp's schedule.  Albeit, not by very much.  Six times his opponent scored 45+.  He played Jeff on Day 1 that scored a league high 112.5 that day.

     Our last focus will be Jeff that of course had 112.5 on that first day, but over the last nine days he's posted only 140.0.  Such a strong start and it has led to a 3-6 record afterward.

     Looking at the graph above, I have marked every single point difference so far this year...  Naturally 65.7`% of matches were resolved within 30 points.  But surprisingly only 25% of them were only within 10.  You'd think it would be a higher amount right?  But we haven't had a single tie so far.  When it does occur, do take note the home team, which was decided at random will win the match.

     Remember for the playoffs, it will go to the top four teams in each division.  We'll be making the matches one week long, old fashioned rules will apply. 

     So for this year, I'll be doing a more personal approach to the rankings.  So without further ado, here you go:

#14 Zack Peters (2-8):
  He's got the worst record in our league currently, ranks last in scoring overall but 12th in hitting and pitching.  Watching the scores, his team has been struggling more and more over the ten days and team scoring less and less.  That being said, still 35 days to go, plenty of time to turn this ship around.

#13 John Guttman (3-7):
  Such disappointment to see his name right here, but being third lowest in points and dead last in batting.  Perhaps like his St. Louis Cardinals, his team is infested with the virus...

#12 Chad Sansbury (3-7):
  Chad's Grand Plan to postpone a couple years of baseball so that all of his young players are coming into their prime while the rest of the league has a bunch of aging old guys like Edwin Encarnacion has been thwarted slightly by playing this year.  Even so, this is a bit better than the initial expectation following the draft.

#11 Jon Jones (6-4):
  You're probably saying right now "Tyler, why the hell did you rank Jonny this low?"  And I'm asking you to let me speak.  We'll you don't have a choice on this, I'm speaking anyway...   So while his batting is 2nd overall in our league right now.  His pitching is in dyer straights...  Three players well below zero there, Max Fried seems to be the only real threat he has in this staff.  It ranks dead last and doesn't look like it will be easy to fix that issue right off hand.

#10 Jeff Michaud (4-6):
  He's fourth from the bottom in the scoring, fifth in the division.  His pitching is actually pretty good.  But unlike Mr. Jones up there, the batting is very poor at 13th in the league.  As stated above, he came out with a bang and fell off from there averaging 15.56 a game since Day 2.  Half the league average.

#9 Tyler Kluge (3-7):
  The team I have has finally started to look a bit better.  3 or 4 days ago, I'd rank myself dead last but starting to roll forward after the 115 point win the other day.  But looking at the stats, the team is deaftly average.  Average in batting (#6), Average in pitching (#8), Average in overall scoring (#8).

#8 John Bierkamp (4-6):
  John also has an average team like me, but his pitching is a bit better so far into the young season.  Ranked fourth overall despite the much lesser amount of innings in comparison to those with similar scores.

#7 Jason Speaks (6-4):
  Making it into the top half, Jason finds his way here scoring 5th overall.  His batting ranks 3rd overall thanks to a league leading 19 homeruns.

#6 Rob Jones (8-2):
  I know Robert is 8-2 right now.  Which is amazing since he is seventh in overall scoring.  So you might be thinking, he must have barely won...  So lets find out...
Day 01: Won by 13.0
Day 02: Won by 6.5
Day 03: Lost by 59.5
Day 04: Lost by 42.0
Day 05: Won by 22.0
Day 06: Won by 35.5
Day 07: Won by 28.5
Day 08: Won by 22.5
Day 09: Won by 4.5
Day 10: Won by 5.5
  So a few super close matches, but man when Rob loses he gets smoked!  Still his pitching is ranked all the way down to 10th despite the #5 batting.  This indicates more of a .500 record may be in the future.

#5 Shon McCullough (5-5):
  Big Shon is actually our second highest scorer but has only five wins...  So why is that?  Bad luck?  No, not really, the team is actually pretty good. Let's not fool ourselves, Yastrzemski and Nelson Cruz can't keep carrying his offense.  He's an above average team, but it's not at the level of those higher ranked.

#4 Jordan Good (6-4):
  For the guy that was so disgruntled for not being for money this year and not going to play, he's doing pretty good.  That said, he actually has been updating his team and such and the results are there.  4th in batting, 5th in pitching, 4th in overall scoring and 4th here in the rankings.  The team is among the elite and still a contender to reap the rewards of winning the league this year and beyond.

#3 Andy Coak (6-4):
  Andy has come into the year like a boss.  Jumping all over the new rules adding a ton of pitching.  He's batting is only 11th.  But the pitching leads the league and with all the RP/SP starters he has, I found out first hand it's just too much to overcome if a few of them have good days.  To put the difference into further perspective...  He has over 107 Innings Pitched, the next highest is just over 81 innings to this point.  Most teams are around 70.  So he's fighting quality with quantity and should not be understated on the power of that in the league this year.

#2 Kyle Spector (8-2):
  Yeah, he's the top scorer. 7th in batting and 2nd in pitching.  But you can't fool me Kyle, your team is still not this good.  Obviously Brad is better.  But I want to point out a neat stat...  Kyle has started a great deal of pitchers already this year.  But this is unique because his pitchers that he has started has been extremely lucky.  Eight wins and zero losses for that pitching squad.  Now let's be realistic here, that can't keep up.  So let's get a closer look and look at each start...
Day 1: Lance Lynn vs. Colorado, Win 6.0 IP, 9 K's
Day 2: Nick Anderson vs. Toronto, Win 1.1 IP in relief role
Day 3: Kenta Maeda vs. Chicago White Sox, Win 5.0 IP, 2 ER, 6 K's
   Had 9 runs of support in the first 2 innings.
Day 3: Yusmero Petit vs. Los Angelos Angels, Win 1.0 IP in relief role
Day 4: Diego Castillo vs. Atlanta, Win 1.0 IP in relief role
Day 8: Craig Stemmen vs. Colorado, Win 1.1 IP in relief role
Day 9: Kenta Maeda vs. Cleveland, Win 6.0 IP, 6 K's ...
   Cleveland can't hit their way out of a paper bag...
Day 10: Chris Bassitt vs. Seattle, Win 5.2 IP, 7 K's.
  Now Josh James was in line to blow this yesterday but he somehow got out of it when the Astros rallied.  So the power of the fantasy gods are on his side.  Especially when you have four relief wins.

#1 Brad Brenneman (6-4):
  I know I just beat him, but let's be honest, the way he smoked everyone last year won't just disappear just like that.  His team still has the best hitting and one of the best pitching squads in our league by a wide margin.  His pitching is alive and well in third place right now.  His batting that is so immense is in 9th place.  Once that wakes up we should all watch out.