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Week 4 Power Rankings Continued

7. Mighty Moose Rockets (4)
Hutch44’s squad looked to be fierce after one week, but has been up and down, especially with an injured Kofan for a week. A convincing win against Lion Rebels followed by a shoot out loss to Beer Bellys has us scratching our heads in wonder. Their EFFG ratings about even out which helps to explain their 3-5 record. Will they find the magic now that Kofan is back and better than ever?

8. Lion Rebels (10)
This squad will not win more than one game in a row – while they’ve only given up 100 points once, they’ve also only scored more than 100 once. At times, they’ll go entire games without hardly giving their start center the ball. Speculation is that ownership is evaluating the managers job, particularly interested in Speedtraps’ success, and may inquire about poaching him from Linndale.

9. Miami Cleo (12)
Gotta give them credit, Miami seems to be out here playing for their lives over the last two weeks, getting it back to a somewhat respectable shape almost a quarter of the way through – a tough loss to the War Birds Tuesday night, leaves them hurting – but they’ve shown some spark and are hoping to make a mark on the season in order to not relegate.

10. Rip City Revival (8)
A convincing win over San Dominica Warriors followed by a relatively narrow loss to the monster Ashkickers this week, leaves them here at 10th. Neither their EFFG or OPP EFFG is super impressive, but it is consistent. They seem like the classic beat the teams they should beat and lose to the teams they could beat, but maybe that’s just me. True to their story, they’re floating this season – will their competitive spirit kick in?

11. San Dominica Warriors (11)
Coach Stephenson’s team had a rough week, getting dominated by Rip and then having to face Gremlins – may be a moral victory by keeping them to 81 points on the night, but still, their record is suffering because of it. I still think the Big 8’s 6th – 2nd seeded teams could be a sloppy mess the whole season – “So you’re saying there’s a chance!?”

12. War Birds (9)
Grimhawke finds himself in an awkward position after narrowly losing what should have been a win against Seattle and then followed it up with a tight win against Miami. They’re facing the opposing conference cellar dwellers this next week – will they vault themselves into the thicket of mediocrity or tumble to despair?

13. Pintipv (7)
This one feels like it’s gotta hurt pintipvw. Things were looking pretty promising, but their OPP EFFG has gotten a lot worse since the first week of the season. Curious matchup against MMR before facing down Linndale at home – will they be able to right the ship and get back into the playoff chase?

14. Seattle SuperSonicz (15)
After Seattle held off War Birds comeback (or rather came back from War Birds comeback) they struggled against whitestok’s squad – but potentially winnable games next week. They actually improved their OPP EFFG while staying steady with their own EFFG.

15. Dallas Bomskwad (13)
After starting to keep a close eye on Dallas toward the end of last season as they clawed their way into the playoffs, this feels like a let down for them, but they were only 7-15 last season – still, 1-7 with a -150+ point differential hurts. A welcome first win against Weather only brought them to invite Philly into kick ass, but they, too, face the opposing conferences bottom shelf teams – perhaps they can tack on two more wins!

16. Weather Society (16)
At least you can’t say Weather didn’t try, but it does appear that they’re going to stop trying after listing their originals this week. What’s next for Melan Collie – preparing for immediate relegation and domination in DIV IV botville? Somehow they’re OPP EFFG continues to tank, nearly 13 points worse than it was after the first week of the season.

Great write-up as usual. This week I will slide bigtime I'm sure, not even going to try to win lol. Will be good training opportunities for my younglings ha ha. I'll save my normal reserves for the cup game instead, I can win that one I hope.

Shout out to Mighty Moose for a fun game this week, that was craziness!

Day 9 (Saturday 21 May 2022) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
pintipv 100 - Mighty Moose Rockets 130
Gremlins 85 - Lion Rebels 70
The Ashkickers 81 - San Dominica Warriors 84
Żubr Białystok 81 - Rip City Revival 98
Miami Cleo 79 - Seattle SuperSonicz 63
Dallas Bomskwad 79 - War Birds 105
Weather Society 50 - Philly Dribble 112
The Beer Bellys 35 - Linndale 128

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 130 : Mighty Moose Rockets
Rebounds : 75 : Linndale
Assists : 30 : Philly Dribble
Steals : 11 : Miami Cleo
Block Shots : 13 : Linndale

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 36 : F. Jarkes (Seattle SuperSonicz)
Rebounds : 18 : J. Pugejs (Seattle SuperSonicz)
Assists : 9 : M. Maurin (Miami Cleo), É. Blanchet (San Dominica Warriors)
Steals : 5 : A. Varpukevicius (Miami Cleo)
Block Shots : 5 : G. Locus (Miami Cleo)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : É. Blanchet (San Dominica Warriors) (25 Points, 4 Rebounds, 9 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 26
Shooting Guard : A. Varpukevicius (Miami Cleo) (22 Points, 8 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 5 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 27
Small Forward : W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets) (24 Points, 17 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35
Power Forward : J. Fleurent (Mighty Moose Rockets) (23 Points, 11 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 3 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42
Center : D. Charles (Mighty Moose Rockets) (28 Points, 14 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 0 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 34

MVP of the evening
J. Fleurent (Mighty Moose Rockets) (23 Points, 11 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 3 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42

The bad performance of the evening
B. Piotrkowicz (The Beer Bellys) (0 Points, 2 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -14

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : A. Leonard (Dallas Bomskwad) : 7 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : L. Rojas (The Ashkickers), A. Parrish (San Dominica Warriors), J. Campino (Gremlins), B. Piotrkowicz (The Beer Bellys), Z. Fatik (Rip City Revival), F. Grossman (pintipv), E. Lenkovicius (Dallas Bomskwad) : 5 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : G. Locus (Miami Cleo), K. Brown (Lion Rebels), S. Hatch (Żubr Białystok), G. Cappilli (The Beer Bellys), D. Villari (The Beer Bellys), W. Huffman (The Beer Bellys), H. Musayyab (The Beer Bellys), B. Piotrkowicz (The Beer Bellys), J. McCloud (Dallas Bomskwad), J. Felip (Dallas Bomskwad) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : J. Vázquez (Gremlins) : 6 Three points

The best performer : T. Armstead (Lion Rebels) : Rating : 18.0

The worst performer : F. Jarkes (Seattle SuperSonicz), J. McGill (Weather Society) : Rating : 4.0

Day 10 (Tuesday 24 May 2022) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Mighty Moose Rockets 82 - Gremlins 98
Lion Rebels 59 - The Ashkickers 71
San Dominica Warriors 68 - Żubr Białystok 74
Rip City Revival 72 - Miami Cleo 65
Seattle SuperSonicz 90 - Dallas Bomskwad 39
War Birds 106 - Weather Society 80
Philly Dribble 88 - The Beer Bellys 99
Linndale 102 - pintipv 72

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 106 : War Birds
Rebounds : 66 : The Beer Bellys
Assists : 29 : War Birds
Steals : 17 : Seattle SuperSonicz
Block Shots : 14 : Seattle SuperSonicz

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 33 : G. Chiodarelli (Mighty Moose Rockets), N. Neochoritis (Rip City Revival)
Rebounds : 24 : Y. Semiramis (The Beer Bellys)
Assists : 10 : R. Kiaulius (War Birds)
Steals : 6 : F. Cristancho (Seattle SuperSonicz)
Block Shots : 4 : F. Jarkes (Seattle SuperSonicz)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : L. Rojas (The Ashkickers) (25 Points, 10 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots), H. Šapiras (Żubr Białystok) (22 Points, 4 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 23
Shooting Guard : N. Neochoritis (Rip City Revival) (33 Points, 7 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 31
Small Forward : D. Komlósi (pintipv) (22 Points, 10 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 28
Power Forward : B. Herron (War Birds) (18 Points, 11 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots), C. Pirtsos (War Birds) (13 Points, 18 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots), V. Valladares (San Dominica Warriors) (12 Points, 17 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 28
Center : Y. Semiramis (The Beer Bellys) (26 Points, 24 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 0 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45

MVP of the evening
Y. Semiramis (The Beer Bellys) (26 Points, 24 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 0 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45

The bad performance of the evening
R. Alderman (Dallas Bomskwad) (2 Points, 5 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -10

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : R. Alderman (Dallas Bomskwad) : 7 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : H. Yuyao (Żubr Białystok) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : A. Gallucci (Miami Cleo), G. Chiodarelli (Mighty Moose Rockets), D. Charles (Mighty Moose Rockets), W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets), B. Lutz (Lion Rebels), M. Grimm (Żubr Białystok), C. Ellison (Weather Society), T. Aaron (Weather Society), J. McGill (Weather Society), J. Felip (Dallas Bomskwad), R. Alderman (Dallas Bomskwad) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : H. Šapiras (Żubr Białystok) : 6 Three points

The best performer : M. Velasco (Philly Dribble) : Rating : 17.5

The worst performer : J. McGill (Weather Society) : Rating : 4.0

Unfortunately, I don't have enough time for commentary on the power rankings this week, so I'll just leave it all to your imagination. Here's week 5's ranks:

1. Philly Dribble
2. Gremlins
3. Linndale
4. Ashkickers
5. Mighty Moose Rockets
6. Miami Cleo
7. Żubr Białystok
8. Rip City Revival
9. War Birds
10. San Dominica Warriors
11. The Beer Bellys
12. Lion Rebels
13. Seattle SuperSonicz
14. pintipv
15. Dallas Bomskwad
16. Weather Society

Hope you all have a good Memorial Day weekend!

Dang so now I really want to know how I was able to shoot up the rankings!

Day 11 (Saturday 28 May 2022) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

*Unnecessary Commentary* Whew! I should go camping more often - looks like a nice round of games from Saturday night, including (and I haven't checked the box score) what appears to be a significant upset of Gremlins by Linndale!

Night results
The Ashkickers 103 - Mighty Moose Rockets 99
Żubr Białystok 69 - Lion Rebels 84
Miami Cleo 75 - San Dominica Warriors 64
Dallas Bomskwad 46 - Rip City Revival 100
Weather Society 59 - Seattle SuperSonicz 97
The Beer Bellys 121 - War Birds 112
pintipv 78 - Philly Dribble 109
Gremlins 100 - Linndale 109

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 121 : The Beer Bellys
Rebounds : 66 : Seattle SuperSonicz
Assists : 31 : Seattle SuperSonicz
Steals : 11 : War Birds
Block Shots : 11 : Miami Cleo

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 44 : D. Santana (Miami Cleo)
Rebounds : 18 : N. Lisnevskiy (Seattle SuperSonicz)
Assists : 9 : N. Lisnevskiy (Seattle SuperSonicz)
Steals : 4 : B. Lutz (Lion Rebels)
Block Shots : 6 : P. Cheatle (Miami Cleo), H. Yuyao (Żubr Białystok)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : I. Avellaneda (The Beer Bellys) (27 Points, 6 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 27
Shooting Guard : K. Knowles (Linndale) (29 Points, 0 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots), G. Jordan (Seattle SuperSonicz) (19 Points, 3 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 24
Small Forward : B. Barrera (The Beer Bellys) (30 Points, 9 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 27
Power Forward : N. Neochoritis (Rip City Revival) (40 Points, 3 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35
Center : Y. Semiramis (The Beer Bellys) (20 Points, 12 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steals, 4 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 28

MVP of the evening
N. Neochoritis (Rip City Revival) (40 Points, 3 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35

The bad performance of the evening
A. McGovern (Weather Society) (2 Points, 0 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots)Q. Bailey (Dallas Bomskwad) (2 Points, 1 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -6

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : O. Reine (The Ashkickers), A. Itararé (Dallas Bomskwad) : 6 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : M. Živanić (War Birds), B. Lutz (Lion Rebels), H. Yuyao (Żubr Białystok) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : G. Locus (Miami Cleo), D. Charles (Mighty Moose Rockets), D. Nava (Gremlins), M. Grimm (Żubr Białystok), P. Traganitis (Żubr Białystok) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : D. Minkinen (Żubr Białystok) : 7 Three points

The best performer : M. Velasco (Philly Dribble), K. Knowles (Linndale), T. Armstead (Lion Rebels) : Rating : 16.0

The worst performer : J. McGill (Weather Society), M. Cornwell (Weather Society) : Rating : 5.0

Day 12 (Tuesday 31 May 2022) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Mighty Moose Rockets 81 - Żubr Białystok 96
Lion Rebels 88 - Miami Cleo 83
San Dominica Warriors 108 - Dallas Bomskwad 44
Rip City Revival 94 - Weather Society 52
Seattle SuperSonicz 59 - The Beer Bellys 99
War Birds 108 - pintipv 119
Philly Dribble 81 - Gremlins 94
Linndale 78 - The Ashkickers 95

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 119 : pintipv
Rebounds : 63 : Żubr Białystok
Assists : 30 : War Birds
Steals : 12 : San Dominica Warriors
Block Shots : 11 : The Ashkickers

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 32 : D. Komlósi (pintipv)
Rebounds : 17 : W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets), W. Chan Kiew (Gremlins), H. Yuyao (Żubr Białystok)
Assists : 9 : R. Kiaulius (War Birds), I. Avellaneda (The Beer Bellys)
Steals : 5 : G. Gattoni (The Ashkickers)
Block Shots : 4 : P. Cheatle (Miami Cleo), M. Živanić (War Birds)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : J. Fleurent (Mighty Moose Rockets) (23 Points, 10 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 0 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 30
Shooting Guard : F. Alidori (San Dominica Warriors) (28 Points, 2 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 24
Small Forward : B. Griffiths (War Birds) (18 Points, 8 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 28
Power Forward : W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets) (29 Points, 17 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 34
Center : W. Chan Kiew (Gremlins) (26 Points, 17 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 33

MVP of the evening
W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets) (29 Points, 17 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 34

The bad performance of the evening
K. McNulty (Mighty Moose Rockets) (4 Points, 8 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -9

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : R. Kiaulius (War Birds), A. Coronado (Linndale), A. Itararé (Dallas Bomskwad) : 6 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : M. Maurin (Miami Cleo), P. Huddleston (Philly Dribble), L. Shunhao (Philly Dribble) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : A. Gallucci (Miami Cleo), W. Kofan (Mighty Moose Rockets), G. Chiodarelli (Mighty Moose Rockets), K. Brown (Lion Rebels), S. Hatch (Żubr Białystok) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : A. Varpukevicius (Miami Cleo), D. Komlósi (pintipv) : 5 Three points

The best performer : P. Fasselli (Philly Dribble) : Rating : 17.0

The worst performer : F. Jarkes (Seattle SuperSonicz) : Rating : 4.0

I step away and we're down 7 after a buzzerbeater at the half...and I come back to a 18 point loss. I thought it would be more competitive than that; figured about 5 to 8 points, and did not expect to win.

That free throw differential though...

It is interesting - I was thinking (before I checked) that it might've been a gameshape issue, but yours appears solid. A lot more fouls for your team, which with your defensive capabilities, I'm a little surprised by. Been playing BB for quite a while (second stint for me after a 15 season stint starting in about season 7), but I'm still learning more and more. 9 fouls by your two SFs is rough. It also didn't help that Ash's team appears to be full of FT nailing SOBs ;)

Week 6 Power Rankings Preamble - An Explanation
So, I've kind of described my process for this in the Week 1 PRs, but I'm going to go into more detail for you. Basically, I use Buzzer Manager's Team Stats to pull each team's Efficiency (EFF) rating (which is just the sum of each player's efficiency from a game) and each team's Allowed Opponent Efficiency (OPP EFF). Each week, this number is the average of what the team’s efficiency from all their games combined on the season, so we see that number fluctuate a little bit from week to week depending on opponents played. But over time, as I was anticipating, we'll start to see less fluctuation, and much as the standings show, our rankings will play out the way it probably should play out. But I would note, this is entirely dependent on tactics, game prep, player injuries, etc. So, a couple of examples to make it clear.

In week 1, Philly Dribble led DIV.III with an average EFF of 128.5, but their OPP EFF was 93, which ranked them 6th in the division. I take those two rankings and average them, with leaves them with a ranking of 3.5 for the week. Miami Cleo, on the other hand, ranked dead last in EFF with 78, while they ranked 8th in OPP EFF with 102 allowed. This left them with an average ranking of 12. Packer_22 was curious as to why they jumped the rankings last week (from week 4 to 5) and I'll try to address that here.

Jumping forward to Week 4, Miami's EFF averaged out to 92 over the course of the ensuing three weeks, which gave him a rank of 10th while his OPP EFF was 94.3 (nearly 8 points better than week 1) which was still only good for 8th, giving him an average ranking of 9 (which strangely enough, placed him 9th in the overall rankings [in the event of a tie in average ranking, I take into consideration the previous week's average ranking as well...in the event of another tie there, I take into account EFF ranking]. Moving to Week 5, Miami played Seattle SuperSonicz and while they didn't obliterate them (16-point victory), they racked up 113 EFF while holding their OPP EFF to only 47. In the second game of that week, they lost by 7 to Rip City Revival, and while they only had 63 EFF, they did hold Rip City to 72 EFF (which is about 14 less than what they averaged on the season at that point). All in all, the big jump came from a lower OPP EFF for the week, coupled with The Beer Belly's week where they dropped 15 points in EFF and nearly 9 in OPP EFF from the previous week. So, the result, even though Miami only moved one place in EFF and two places in OPP EFF, the chaos of the other teams resulted in their move up to 6 from 9 the week before.

So, hopefully that explains it a little better...or maybe it's just clear as mud. For what it's worth, I'm guessing that Buzzer Manager's Efficiency is based on Player Efficiency Rating (PER), or at least some form of it. If you haven't checked out PER before and you're a math nerd, it's kind of interesting, although some people say it's a bit deprecated at this point. (https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/cmrkv3/basketball_st...) provides a great breakdown of the formula, while (https://www.basketball-reference.com/about/per.html) details the formula on a surface level. At any rate, onto the rankings! This week, the ranking is first (as always), and the team’s name will be followed by a +/- the number of spots they've moved since last week.