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Power Rankings----Pre-Season Edition

Intro to Season 22

Later today Season 22 will officially be underway! As much as last season lived up to the hype about II.4 being such a great league, it was somewhat of a down year for the league. That looks to change in a big way this season as more than half the league seems to have their sites set on Promoting. Entering the season, we have two teams with payrolls in the mid $600K range, and 11 of the 16 teams have payrolls over $400,000. That bodes well for the leagues TV Contract, but its going to make games each and every week a major fight! Entering this season, 5 of the top 6 teams reside in the Great 8 Conference.

Payroll as of 11/30/12

Arizona Desert Storm------- $ 664 977
Reston Thumpers------- $ 642 758
Technical Fouls------ $ 540 966
10inch Vertical------- $ 480 003
Beware of Dogs------- $ 472 664
Old Yet Sexy Hippies------- $ 462 633
Forza Juventus------- $ 452 784
Super T-REX $ 422 629
World Idea Toys------ $ 413 499
Burger Chefs------ $ 400 866
Dog River Riverdogs----- $ 400 256
GS_Warriors------ $ 368 457
Arizona Cacti ------ $ 361 978
Delta 9------ $ 340 374
Little Rock Rimrockers------ $ 265 670
USA Elite-------- $ 234 273

The Rankings

#1 (Tie) Reston Thumpers(3 First Place Votes)---Already a solid Core coming in, and tons of money in the bank, early purchases indicate this team does not plan to stay in D2 long!

#1 (Tie) Arizona Desert Storm(2 First Place Votes)--- Set up to LI opponents with blunt force. (Fewmit)

#3 10inch Vertical---Bad luck in PO last season, could have challenged FR better. (TnT)

#4 Delta 9(1 First Place Vote)---Deserves the top spot from last season performance until someone knocks him off. (TnT)

#5 (Tie) Beware of Dogs---One of the strongest teams down the stretch, might be sitting in the NBBA if they had HCA last season.

#5 (Tie) Technical Fouls---3rd Highest payroll, deadly big men, with best backcourt in recent memory.

#7 World Idea Toys---Quite possiby the best Outside based upper division team in America.

#8 USA Elite---Lowest Payroll in the league, makes no difference, very dangerous and will take you out of your game.

#8 Dog River Riverdogs---One of the best D2 Franchises of all time, comes back to D2 ready to go.

#10 Old yet Sexy Hippies---Very Deep Team, primed to make a run.

#11 Forza Juventus---

#12 Arizona Cacti---

#13 Burger Chefs---

#13 GS Warriors---

#15 Super T-Rex---

#16 Little Rock Rimrockers

Games to Keep an Eye on Saturday!

In the Big 8, World Idea Toys who's lack of HCA in the Conference finals quite possibly cost them a Championship, and subsequent promotion, has a tough road game right out of the chute traveling to face USA Elite.

In the Great 8, two likely playoff teams square off with revamped rosters. Technical Fouls @ Arizona Desert Storm. This game will have no shortage of quality big men and defense.



Last edited by Jason at 12/1/2012 5:55:59 PM

Poll:  Which of the Pre-Season Top 5 will win the Championship?

Hey guys! Merry Christmas to everyone! :-)

We have 2 games left before we finish the first round of conference play, before moving into Inter-Conference play. That will be a good tme for the 2nd edition of the Power Rankings...Now that we will have 7 games under our belt, I can use the whole formula which factors in statistical performance as well.

Following Saturdays game (7th game of the season), please submit to me by BB mail your Power Rankings. Please get these to me by Midnight EST on Sunday. As always, please feel free to include any commentary and a note whether you are okay with me giving you credit for the comments, or whether you would prefer to remain anonomous :-)

Good luck to everyone tonight :-)

Just a reminder to get your Power Rankings subimissions into me by tomorrow night :-) Time for Inter-conference play :-)

Hey guys! We had a terrific response with the Power Rankings this week, with 9/16 submitting theirs....I am whipped tonight and going to sleep now, but will put this together in the morning....There is still time to submit your votes if you like :-)

Power Rankings----Conferce Play Complete edition

We had great turnout with 9 of 16 owners submitting rankings! The variety in the votes makes the polls more fun, and realistic as well! There were a couple of guys imparticular I was expecting votes from, and didn't, so there is room to do even better next time time :-) Very interesting factoring in statistics this time around! Little Rock whom may be heading towards being a bot team, and hasn't won a game, actually finished a suprising #13 because despite their 7 losses, are still competing and putting up solid stats. It looks like the Big 8 has bridged the gap a little in terms of competitive teams. Inter-Conference play should be really fun to see how it sets the stage for the final stretch! Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you enjoy this edition of the Power Rankings!

Team Payrolls as of 12/24/12

Arizona Desert Storm $ 709 669
Technical Fouls $ 546 649
Reston Thumpers $ 522 633
Dog River Riverdogs $ 498 614
Beware of Dogs $ 496 369
World Idea Toys $ 482 558
Forza Juventus $ 478 274
Delta 9 $ 456 659
Old Yet Sexy Hippies $ 440 257
10inch Vertical $ 400 858
GS_Warriors $ 385 905
Super T-REX $ 379 057
Arizona Cacti $ 370 882
Little Rock Rimrockers $ 265 670
USA Elite $ 255 277
Burger Chefs $ 197 461

The Power Rankings (Formula includes Owner Votes, 4 statistical categories, and quality wins)

#1 Arizona Desert Storm (9 First Place Votes)-- Running over the league so far and looks to be in prime position to have homecourt throughout playoffs as he plays both World Idea and USA Elite at home this season. (Dunkface)

#2 Forza Juventus---Already one of the bet outside teams in D2, got stronger this past week. (Jason)

#3 (Tie) Technical Fouls----Scary front lines. (TnT)

#3 (Tie) World Idea Toys (1 First Place Vote)---Seem intent on making a serious run at the championship (Dmitri)

#5 Reston Thumpers---Looks like current roster is not final, tons of resource to make a push. (TnT)

#6 USA Elite (1 first Place Vote)---Most unique team in BB continues to work wonders (all while stockpiling enough cash to buy a small country) (Dunk Face)

#7 GS Warriors---Strong balanced team, doesn't seem to ge any respect despite 3 quality wins. (Jason)

#8 Delta 9---Quality squad, but do they have the right player mix this year? (Dmitri)

#9 Dog River Riverdogs---Very solid core team, with great management. 1, maybe 2 pieces away from being a force in this league. (Jason)

#10 Super T-Rex----Decent, balanced team, may be able to stick around if he gets homecourt in the relegation series. (Dunk Face)

#11 10inch Vertical---Was very strong down the stretch last year. (Dmitri)

#12 Arizona Cacti----Better than their record, can compete with anyone on any given day. (Jason)

#13 Little Rock Rimrockers BB Might be losing another quality player. (Jason)

#14 Beware of Dogs--- Incredibly disappointing start for a team with a stacked roster and who probably had some championship aspirations. (Dunk Face)

#15 Old Yet Sexy Hippies---Cruising along, probably more focused on the U21 than his own team. (Jason)

#16 Burger Chefs---Must like his burgers well done because he's getting smoked night after night. (Dunk Face)

#1 Arizona Desert Storm 1.67
#2 Forza Juventus 4.17
#3 Technical Fouls 4.67
#3 World Idea Toys 4.67
#5 Reston Thumpers 4.83
#6 USA Elite 5.50
#7 GS Warriors 6.17
#8 Delta 9 6.67
#9 Dog River Riverdogs 9.83
#10 Super T-Rex 10.0
#11 10inch Vertical 10.33
#12 Arizona Cacti 10.50
#13 Little Rock Rimrockers 12.83
#14 Beware of Dogs 13.0
#15 Old Yet Sexy Hippies 13.17
#16 Burger Chefs 14.67


Last edited by Jason at 12/24/2012 11:26:50 PM

Guess I was one of the "foot-draggers" that you spoke about. I'll try to do better next go round:-)...A nice body of work here. Not much that I would change, except I think that both 10inch Vertical and Beware of Dogs might be ranked a bit too low. And perhaps the Riverdogs might be a touch too high. I'm also not so sure that Dog River's management is that on the ball:-) BTW, a very Merry Christmas to a fine bunch of BB managers!

I think Forza Juventus is a little overrated.

I think Forza Juventus is a little overrated.

LOL, wel, I just realized that I had the Quality win column reversed...so it indeed changed some of the rankings...now you are #2

Very interesting to see what the perception of some of these teams are. My personal rankings had differences of 8 spots, 5 spots, and two with 4 spots as opposed to the final list. I don't want to say which teams, but I strongly believe they will start to balance out over the course of interleague play, assuming there aren't a ton of huge additions and subtractions.

Very interesting to see what the perception of some of these teams are. My personal rankings had differences of 8 spots, 5 spots, and two with 4 spots as opposed to the final list. I don't want to say which teams, but I strongly believe they will start to balance out over the course of interleague play, assuming there aren't a ton of huge additions and subtractions.

Remember though, these power rankings have 6 categories of value, and only 1 are the Votes. So teams that are playing well, and putting up strong statistics get a bump in the final rankings.