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Okay, we've got enough games now that differentiation starts to occur...so...straight from the glbwiki linked League Power Rankings Spreadsheet, we present the first

WE-BBB-15 Power Rankings!!!

(Note: This includes Pre-season scrimmages as data points...this can make things a bit misleading, but we don't have enough data to really do math yet, so we gotta take what we can get)

Rank, Team (Strength of record, quality of play)

1 Massena Red Raiders ( 11 , 22.90910042 )
2 Berlin Eagles ( 9 , 2.668007124 )
3 South Yorkshire Scorpions ( 7 , 7.029664349 )
4 Luxembourg Grand Duchy ( 7 , -21.99129843 )
5 Cancún Sharks ( 7 , -66.05965598 )
6 Cleethorpes Dock Wallopers ( 6 , -8.95455017 )
7 Ukraine Valkyries ( 6 , -26.92043511 )
8 Paris Vikings ( 5 , -50.28630609 )
9 London Apes ( 4 , 21.5242814 )
10 Turin Wardogs ( 4 , -10.41484188 )
11 Cheshire Jabberwocky ( 4 , -29.76600187 )
12 Köln Prowlers ( 3 , 3.000339776 )
13 Chi-Town Hustlers ( 2 , -39.03460969 )
14 Shadow Rattlers ( 1 , 15.41771127 )
15 Barcelona Badasses ( 0 , 27.45116404 )
16 Lübeck Cougars ( 0 , 5.600015667 )
17 MONTANA WOLVERINES ( -2 , 29.60503278 )
18 Copenhagen Vikings ( -2 , 12.16058764 )
19 Dinwiddie Dustdevils ( -2 , 6.660782553 )
20 Rotterdam Marauders ( -2 , -22.95807307 )
21 Henry Patriots ( -3 , -1.191802303 )
22 Gothenburg Geats ( -3 , -40.95466752 )
23 London Sword Masters ( -5 , 21.98764229 )
24 Gaul Visigoths ( -5 , 19.69729216 )
25 Zamora Tizonas ( -5 , 1.082852891 )
26 The Chutaba Clan ( -5 , -19.21967205 )
27 Essen Verivalta ( -6 , 80.24154724 )
28 Buffalo Buffalos ( -6 , 40.41251729 )
29 The Nancy-Hawk Left-Handed Bowls ( -6 , 15.59477194 )
30 Milan Shock ( -6 , 7.687873276 )
31 Paris Superbes ( -6 , 1.100828618 )
32 Rome Gladiators ( -12 , -4.080098569 )

What is quality of play?

I suppose I can be happy with a top 3 ranking at this point

Originally posted by TrevJo
What is quality of play?

I don't get it either. We played a #4, 12 and 31 and our # is one of the lowest if not lowest for quality of play.

Originally posted by Shefpan
Originally posted by TrevJo

What is quality of play?

I don't get it either. We played a #4, 12 and 31 and our # is one of the lowest if not lowest for quality of play.

Its your Avatar holing your teams power ranking back

Quality of play is a sort of "How'd you do against the spread" sort of thing...

Basically, if you're playing a team significantly worse than you, you're expected to spank them worse than Alabama playing some team from the Mountain West conf...oh...never mind...but you get my point.

So, a poor "quality of play" means you didn't beat up on the cupcakes as much as the math says you should have.

It's still very early in the season, so that number is expected to vary greatly over the next couple of weeks. Really, it'll be game 6-7 before we get any real stability, as to this point, there aren't many intraconfernce games played yet (only 2, as both scrimmages and week 1 were interconference), so there aren't many common opponents to work with yet.

If you're heavily into understanding the math (I'm not, btw, I just punch the numbers into the formula), I encourage you to do a search on the GLB wiki for Power Ranking Spreadsheet and delve into it there.

Incidentally, strength of record is basically ((wins of teams you've beaten) - (losses of teams that have beaten you)), so in other words, Massena is on top because the teams they've beaten have won most of their other games (therefore are presumably good) as opposed to a team that is 3-0 but their opponents are a combined 0-9.

Nice writeup. I hope your around to continue this.

To be honest Berlin Does not deserve number 2

That can happen early on.

Odds are most teams will shift dramatically next game, as we get 33% more information abotu how good teams are, comparatively.

Be interesting to see how these rankings look without the preseason games, but it's too early to read much into it.

With last season's scrimmages, last seasons regular games and this seasons reg & scrimmage games, I'm on 14 game win streak

Oh god, Jinxed it..

Scorpions should be at the top always number 1!!!! Go Scorpions!!

Does this include non-league scrims?

Originally posted by djmtott
Does this include non-league scrims?

no.. Scrims wont even be considered at all after the first 4 games are played. Everyone stop taking this spread to heart. Its only up so you can get an idea of whats going on it will be more accurate in the weeks to come.

No, this just includes the two scheduled Pre-season games everyone played within the league on Days -3 and -1 (IIRC, may have been -4 and -2).

They will be discarded after game 6 (at the latest). After 6 "regular" games, we'll have enough data for stuff to matter. I still need to figure out if I need to delete the data from the spreadsheet or if the programming behind it disregards them automatically...guess I'll do some digging).