PowerRanks: Week 16

Chase gets Lucky?

Chase's Lucky 13s not so quietly knocked off his first-place dad 8-1 to move into a 4th place tie in the standings. This, though you may have missed it, is his 2nd week in a row leading the PowerRanks and 3rd time in the last 5 weeks. As little as 3 weeks ago, his team was in last place in the Yearly PowerRankings and has suddenly jumped to seventh place.

Looking over his past PowerRankings, it shows a steady progression to becoming one of the best in the league. However, can he maintain that and overcome the wins the top 3 already have in the bank? Yes. He is just 9.5 games off the new leader, Lyin' Co. Reformers who had a good week too. A 9.5 game swing in the few remaining weeks isn't that unheard of and if Victor Martinez starts playing again like he might tonight, he'll be in a great position to take the league.

Here is a graph of his PowerRank by week:

Weekly PowerRank

Rank	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	1	Lucky 13's	10.4
2	2	The Cocos	5.1
3	4	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	4.5
4	5	SD Thunder is BACK	2.4
5	3	Soi Disant	0.8
6	12	Seal Beach Dreamers	0.8
7	11	Team LA	-0.6
8	7	deus ex machina	-1.7
9	8	Charisma	-3.3
10	9	Arlen's Marlins	-4.8
11	10	CV Mom	-5.3
12	6	Corn Poppers	-8.1

Yearly PowerRank

This Week	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	1	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	8.0
2	2	The Cocos	6.8
3	3	Seal Beach Dreamers	1.7
4	4	Team LA	1.0
5	6	Soi Disant	0.4
6	5	Arlen's Marlins	-0.6
7	10	Lucky 13's	-1.4
8	8	deus ex machina	-1.9
9	7	CV Mom	-2.0
10	9	Charisma	-2.8
11	11	SD Thunder is BACK	-3.6
12	12	Corn Poppers	-5.6

PowerRanks: Week 15 All*Star Week

A rather quiet week as there were only a few games. Scores will probably deviate more this week than any other as they are the victims or beneficiaries of luck. Some players had a good game and that was enough to push teams to the top this week whereas in a regular week that performance would be evened out a little more.

Weekly Rankings

Rank	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	6	Lucky 13's	6.6
2	2	The Cocos	5.7
3	10	Soi Disant	2.5
4	1	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	2.3
5	9	SD Thunder is BACK	1.6
6	8	Corn Poppers	1.0
7	12	deus ex machina	0.4
8	11	Charisma	-1.1
9	3	Arlen's Marlins	-1.9
10	7	CV Mom	-4.2
11	5	Team LA	-5.5
12	4	Seal Beach Dreamers	-7.5

Yearly Rankings

This Week	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	1	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	7.9
2	2	The Cocos	6.3
3	3	Seal Beach Dreamers	1.8
4	4	Team LA	1.6
5	5	Arlen's Marlins	0.3
6	7	Soi Disant	-0.1
7	6	CV Mom	-1.4
8	8	deus ex machina	-2.0
9	9	Charisma	-2.7
10	12	Lucky 13's	-3.4
11	11	SD Thunder is BACK	-4.0
12	10	Corn Poppers	-4.4

Tools to help manage your team: Benchcoach

Are you looking for a way to figure out how well you're doing? Do you want a way to evaluate a trade someone else has proposed to you? Well, Benchcoach is a tool which will analyze your team and provide you with some recommendations. The owners of the site have pioneered a new technology called "Fangelica" which does the back end heavy lifting to calculate what moves would be best for you to make.

Like any system, it is imperfect, but if you are looking for a way to easily manage your team or evaluate trades, this is a great tool. For example, they recommended I trade Hiroki Kuroda to Lyndsey for Ian Kinsler. I asked Lyndsey if she would go for that. Not surprisingly, she turned me down. However, they also recommended I trade Heath Bell for James Loney. That did sound reasonable to Lyndsey, although I don't need a 1B. So, if you use it, don't check your brain at the virtual door. Image by Getty Images via @daylife

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PowerRanks: Week 13 Another week, Another Trade

Team LA shows us why he's in first

Arlen's Marlins were again active on the trade market sending Ryan Zimmerman and Hiroki Kuroda to The Cocos for Ben Zobrist. Coming into the season, Zobrist was a keeper (24th round) while Arlen's Marlins drafted Zimmerman 3rd (25th overall) and Kuroda in the 12th round (144th overall). The Marlins have been busy filling the middle of the infield positions with Pedroia and now Zobrist and adding an extra bat with Manny. Unfortunately, Pedroia and Manny are nursing injuries, but hopefully will be back soon to help out in the stretch run. The Cocos give up their best stolen bases guy for someone who provides a huge boost of power and get a pitcher who, until his last start, has been fairly dependable. We'll soon find out if the gamble was worth it.

Team LA got a whopping 13.5 PR score this week while 8 other teams went negative. He won 9-1 over last place charisma cementing his 1st place standing going into All-Star week. The rest of the league is beginning to separate as 25.5 games separate first and last place. However, who will be in the playoffs is still very much in the air and will probably come down to who goes on a hot streak to finish the season.

Weekly PowerRanks

Rank	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	8	Team LA	13.47445338
2	5	The Cocos	3.850307593
3	7	Seal Beach Dreamers	3.329371732
4	10	Soi Disant	0.090846982
5	6	Arlen's Marlins	-0.01855904
6	1	Lucky 13's	-0.910970562
7	3	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	-2.653140869
8	4	Corn Poppers	-2.739639144
9	11	CV Mom	-2.97227674
10	12	SD Thunder is BACK	-3.299219761
11	9	Charisma	-4.016644163
12	2	deus ex machina	-4.134529409

Yearly PowerRank

This Week	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	1	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	7.101073382
2	2	The Cocos	3.934261417
3	3	Seal Beach Dreamers	3.213357679
4	5	Team LA	3.207734429
5	4	deus ex machina	0.438299661
6	7	Soi Disant	0.291405675
7	6	CV Mom	-0.321095153
8	8	Arlen's Marlins	-0.700531791
9	9	Charisma	-1.789583288
10	11	Corn Poppers	-4.796844018
11	10	SD Thunder is BACK	-4.888856088
12	12	Lucky 13's	-5.689221906