PowerRanks: Week 21

The final PowerRankings for our 2010 league are below. The Lyin' Co. Reformers built the best team and although the owner is presently on the DL, his team seems to be rolling, currently beating TeamLA 9-0 for a spot in the championship game. Although my Cocos had the power of Coco Crisp for the last couple of weeks, I still managed to lose the first round of playoffs to Jon's ThunderCRACK after the Seal Beach Dreamers won the tie-breaker to gain a bye in the first week of playoff play. Who will ultimately wear the cufflinks this year?

A post on off-season trading will be up sometime soon. If your season ended like mine, you're probably looking for a bit of redemption and a shot at the cufflinks next season. Hopefully, the next post will clear up any confusion about off-season trading and re-ignite the age-old debate of live draft versus automated draft.

Weekly PowerRank

This Week	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	9	SD Thunder is BACK	5.0
2	2	deus ex machina	4.9
3	11	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	3.3
4	5	The Cocos	1.9
5	7	CV Mom	1.3
6	4	Seal Beach Dreamers	1.0
7	3	Arlen's Marlins	-0.6
8	6	Lucky 13's	-0.9
9	8	Team LA	-2.0
10	1	Charisma	-2.5
11	12	Corn Poppers	-2.5
12	10	Soi Disant	-9.0

Yearly PowerRank

This Week	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	1	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	8.2
2	2	The Cocos	5.8
3	3	Seal Beach Dreamers	4.0
4	6	deus ex machina	0.1
5	4	Team LA	-0.3
6	5	Arlen's Marlins	-0.5
7	8	Lucky 13's	-1.5
8	7	Soi Disant	-1.9
9	9	Charisma	-2.7
10	11	SD Thunder is BACK	-3.0
11	10	CV Mom	-3.2
12	12	Corn Poppers	-5.0

Preliminary List of Keepers

Here is the preliminary list of keepers. Please note that you may update your final keepers until NOON CST, Saturday, March 27th. The draft status will be set to ready sometime on March 28th, so pre-rank your players (if you choose to) now.

Player	Round Drafted
deus ex machina (Jordan)
Ichiro Suzuki	2
Joe Mauer	6
Felix Hernandez	9
Yovanni Gallardo	11
Josh Johnson	14
charisma (Adam Nehring)
Manny Ramirez	1
Alex Rodriguez	4
Nick Markakis	5
Jacoby Ellsbury	6
Troy Tulowiski	7
Lyin' Cty Reformers (Don Baker)
Chase Utley	3
Roy Halladay	4
Cliff Lee	5
Derek Jeter	10
Kendry Morales	24
Arlen's Marlins
Evan Longoria	1
Derek Lowe	7
Denard Span	16
Andy Pettitte	24
Soi Disant (Lyndsey Baker)
Ian Kinsler	1
Jimmy Rollins	2
Bobby Abreu	8
Matt Cain	10
Shin-Soo Choo	12
The Cocos (Grant Baker*)
Albert Pujols	1
Dan Haren	6
Javier Vazquez	9
Pablo Sandoval	19
Ben Zobrist	24
Seal Beach Dreamers (Cathy Baker)
Mariano Rivera	5
Jayson Werth	13
Ubaldo Jimenez	18
Aaron Hill	23
Jason Bartlett	24
TeamLA (Dean Baker)
Mark Teixeira	1
Andre Ethier	2
Jose Valverde	11
Justin Verlander	12
Rajai Davis	24
Lucky13's (Chase Baker)
Matt Kemp	5
Derrek Lee	10
Zack Greinke	13
Brian Wilson	15
Chris Carpenter	18
CVMom (Corrine Baker)
Hanley Ramirez	1
Ryan Braun	3
Justin Morneau	4
Jair Jurrjens	16
SD THUNDER IS BACK (Jon Manson)
Tim Lincecum	1

* Denotes League Champion, bearer of the cufflinks.

Keepers

Let's clear up the confusion

I've heard from some of you thinking that we were not doing keepers next season. That is not true. Many of you have told me how much you like having keepers on you team and I think it adds a little more fun into the mix, so be thinking about who you want to keep next year.

Here are the rules:

• You may have up to 3 keepers o-ranked (Yahoo's ranking) 1-99. These players will be drafted in the first 3 rounds. You may choose to take the draft picks instead of the keeper.
• You may also retain 5 more keepers o-ranked 100+. These will be drafted in order in rounds 10-14. Again, you may take draft picks or a combination of draft picks and keepers for this round.
• You must submit your keepers 2 weeks prior to the start of the draft
• There will then be a 3 day window to change your keepers after seeing everyone elses.
• You may begin trading players (any players, not just keepers) from your 2009 roster after the conclusion of the playoffs. They may be traded for other players or draft positions. (i.e. you can trade Player A for the other team's 4th round pick.)
• If you want to keep the player you drafted, you must add him to your keepers.
• Your roster will consist of only your keepers 2 weeks from the start of the draft.

I know this may be a bit confusing, so let me know if you have questions. Just post them in the comment section below. This is a FIRST DRAFT of the rules, and the aim is to level the playing field enough so that everyone, regardless of interest or ability will be able to have fun. Please let me know any thoughts you have.