PowerRanks: Week 6

It just got interesting

There are now TWO first place teams as Cathy Baker and Dean Baker lead the league with a .608 winning percentage. However, there are still 6 more teams within 10 games of the leader and no one is more than 12½ games behind the co-leaders.

Navigating the Trade Waters

The waiver wire remains active as well with several teams picking up players last week and several others putting players up on the trade block. I know I've made a few trade proposals and have received some others. If I haven’t gotten back to you yet, its just because I’m pretty busy at the moment. I encourage all of you to get out there and get the trade market hopping. Post your available players on the Trading Block and let others know about it through your comments here at the blog.

Also, don’t forget that you can trade things like draft picks in addition to players. To do so, indicate this in the trade comments and then email me if/when the trade goes through. This gives you added flexibility to go for it all this year or play for next year.

On to the PowerRanks

Image of Dean Baker

This week, TeamLA rose to 1st place in the Yearly PowerRanks. He achieved a 6.5 PR last week, despite losing 6-4 to Michael Bittiker’s Arlen’s Marlins and their 1.4 score. How can that be? Well, Dean scored very well in the pitching categories while Mich struggled there with a 5.97 ERA and 1.61 WHIP. Because Dean had such a large lead over the entire league in a few categories like ERA and WHIP, he scored very well in PowerRank even though he was fairly average in the other categories.

Weekly PowerRanks

Rank	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	11	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	7.9
2	7	Team LA	6.5
3	2	Seal Beach Dreamers	2.1
4	4	Soi Disant	2.1
5	5	Arlen's Marlins	1.4
6	3	The Cocos	0.8
7	12	deus ex machina	-1.9
8	6	Charisma	-2.1
9	8	CV Mom	-2.5
10	1	SD Thunder is BACK	-2.6
11	9	Corn Poppers	-5.5
12	10	Lucky 13's	-6.1

Yearly PowerRank

This Week	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	2	Team LA	6.9
2	1	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	6.9
3	3	Arlen's Marlins	2.8
4	6	Seal Beach Dreamers	2.6
5	5	The Cocos	2.6
6	4	SD Thunder is BACK	1.4
7	9	Soi Disant	-0.2
8	8	CV Mom	-0.9
9	7	Charisma	-2.7
10	10	deus ex machina	-3.6
11	11	Corn Poppers	-6.8
12	12	Lucky 13's	-8.9