PowerRanks: Week 12

Deus ex machina jumps from 8th to 4th with a very strong week (Jordan are you reading this?) and Chase and the Lucky 13's lead the 2nd half improvement with a 12.4 point jump in PR over the first half.

Arlen's Marlins was finally able to get the decent middle infielder they needed netting Pedroia and also Manny Ramirez from Adam. Charisma got Evan Longoria, Michael Young, and Alfonso Soriano in exchange. Vote on who "won" the trade in the sidebar.

Meanwhile, here are the new PowerRanks:

Weekly PowerRanks

Rank	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	6	Lucky 13's	6.8
2	4	deus ex machina	6.5
3	3	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	5.8
4	11	Corn Poppers	1.5
5	7	The Cocos	1.1
6	10	Arlen's Marlins	0.0
7	2	Seal Beach Dreamers	-1.5
8	9	Team LA	-2.3
9	5	Charisma	-2.3
10	8	Soi Disant	-2.5
11	1	CV Mom	-5.4
12	12	SD Thunder is BACK	-7.8

Yearly PowerRanks

This Week	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	1	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	8.1
2	2	The Cocos	3.4
3	3	Seal Beach Dreamers	2.7
4	8	deus ex machina	1.0
5	4	Team LA	0.7
6	5	CV Mom	0.2
7	6	Soi Disant	0.0
8	7	Arlen's Marlins	-0.6
9	9	Charisma	-1.0
10	10	SD Thunder is BACK	-3.8
11	11	Corn Poppers	-4.7
12	12	Lucky 13's	-6.0

PowerRanks: Week 11

I don't have a lot to say as I've suddenly got quite busy. These PowerRanks reflect week 11's stats. The "previous week" is actually week 7.

Weekly PowerRanks

Rank	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	6	CV Mom	4.906027673
2	7	Seal Beach Dreamers	4.211198572
3	8	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	3.188224354
4	1	deus ex machina	2.816563014
5	5	Charisma	2.566144009
6	9	Lucky 13's	-1.135161275
7	3	The Cocos	-1.25415409
8	2	Soi Disant	-1.263392686
9	11	Team LA	-1.327521894
10	12	Arlen's Marlins	-1.800665166
11	4	Corn Poppers	-4.746068687
12	10	SD Thunder is BACK	-6.161193825

Yearly PowerRanks

This Week	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank	Team Owner
1	1	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	7.694133945	Don Baker
2	3	The Cocos	3.525334932	Grant Baker
3	4	Seal Beach Dreamers	3.366681649	Cathy Baker
4	2	Team LA	1.561073026	Dean Baker
5	8	CV Mom	1.537529982	Corrine Baker
6	5	Soi Disant	0.440307398	Lyndsey Baker
7	7	Arlen's Marlins	-0.418637951	Mich
8	9	deus ex machina	-0.712016452	Jordan Baker
9	10	Charisma	-1.093703735	Adam Nehring
10	6	SD Thunder is BACK	-2.148547986	Jon Manson
11	11	Corn Poppers	-5.57053211	Paul Manson
12	12	Lucky 13's	-8.181622699	Chase Baker

PowerRanks: Week 7

The so-called Soi Disant knock off former first place TeamLA

Image of Cathy Baker

In a week that can only be described as “stunning” Lyndsey Baker's Soi Disant pulled off an upset of early favorite TeamLA. Team LA has been wildly inconsistent this year as far as the weekly PowerRanks. This week, by far his lowest at -3.8, he paid for it by losing 6-3 to the quite consistent Soi Disant who, over the last 4 weeks have had PR's between 2.0 and 2.6 resulting in a 6-3 win and are now tied for 2nd place, just one game behind Cathy Baker's Seal Beach Dreamers.

Jordan Baker's deus ex machina led this week’s PR with a 7.4. That is the third best score this year.

Top Weekly PR Ranks, 2010

Team	PR	Week
Lyin' Cty Reformers	7.92	Week 6
Lyin' Cty Reformers	7.71	Week 4
deus ex machina	7.43	Week 7
SD Thunder is BACK	7.19	Week 2
Team LA	6.49	Week 6

As you can see, just 3 teams have scored over 7 PR this year, and the team after that didn’t quite score .5 PR below that. Way to go Jordan!

Weekly PowerRanks

Rank	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	7	deus ex machina	7.4
2	4	Soi Disant	2.6
3	6	The Cocos	2.4
4	11	Corn Poppers	2.1
5	8	Charisma	0.8
6	9	CV Mom	0.4
7	3	Seal Beach Dreamers	-0.5
8	1	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	-1.2
9	12	Lucky 13's	-1.8
10	10	SD Thunder is BACK	-2.0
11	2	Team LA	-3.8
12	5	Arlen's Marlins	-6.4

Yearly PowerRank

This Week	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	2	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	6.6
2	1	Team LA	5.0
3	5	The Cocos	2.6
4	4	Seal Beach Dreamers	2.5
5	7	Soi Disant	1.1
6	6	SD Thunder is BACK	0.3
7	3	Arlen's Marlins	0.0
8	8	CV Mom	-0.6
9	10	deus ex machina	-1.2
10	9	Charisma	-1.6
11	11	Corn Poppers	-5.9
12	12	Lucky 13's	-8.8

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

PowerRanks: Week 5

Fight for the top knots virtual 2nd place tie

Behind TeamLA, four teams are within four games of claiming first place. SD Thunder IS BACK have led the charge and are just 3.5 games behind the leader. The other teams are the Seal Beach Dreamers, Soi Disant, and The Cocos.

Image of Jon Manson

Jon Manson of the SD Thunder has put together a crack team that is in the top 3 in all pitching categories and leading batting strikeouts. He has also gotten surprising production from Alex Rios and Ryan Theriot. As for pitching, no one can doubt that Lincecum is helping out, but Francisco Liriano? Who thought he would be doing this well after struggling so much after Tommy John surgery? Seven of his pitchers are in the top 100 in Yahoo’s rank. It’s not surprising then that he was tops in PowerRank this week with a 4.8 and improved from 6th to 4th in the yearly PowerRank.

This week has some interesting matchups as all four 2nd and 3rd place teams play each other and Dean Baker (Team LA) plays Arlens’s Marlins who are 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Yearly PowerRanks.

Weekly Rank

Rank	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	8	SD Thunder is BACK	4.8
2	9	Seal Beach Dreamers	2.5
3	4	The Cocos	2.4
4	5	Soi Disant	2.4
5	6	Arlen's Marlins	1.8
6	7	Charisma	1.5
7	3	Team LA	1.5
8	10	CV Mom	0.7
9	11	Corn Poppers	0.4
10	12	Lucky 13's	-5.0
11	1	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	-6.0
12	2	deus ex machina	-7.1

Yearly Rank

This Week	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	1	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	5.402189439
2	2	Team LA	5.186046434
3	3	Arlen's Marlins	3.628191112
4	6	SD Thunder is BACK	2.662336224
5	4	The Cocos	2.168704839
6	5	Seal Beach Dreamers	2.055793344
7	7	Charisma	-0.831047507
8	8	CV Mom	-0.865740052
9	9	Soi Disant	-1.114582188
10	10	deus ex machina	-4.779252739
11	12	Corn Poppers	-6.188355067
12	11	Lucky 13's	-7.324283838

PowerRanks: Week 4

Big Wins, Big Losses

Five of six matches had the winner scoring 7 or more points. Three of those scored 9. However, the difference between first and last place is just 10 games meaning a big week will get you right back into it. Everyone still has a good shot. You may just be missing one piece. There are 11 potential trade partners out there, so find someone who matches up well with your team's needs and make a trade.

Rank	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	4	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	7.707772133
2	8	deus ex machina	5.500410795
3	3	Team LA	4.537061983
4	5	The Cocos	3.548194213
5	11	Soi Disant	2.029211142
6	7	Arlen's Marlins	0.726446093
7	1	Charisma	0.657337359
8	10	SD Thunder is BACK	-0.394424078
9	12	Seal Beach Dreamers	-2.337492751
10	2	CV Mom	-5.515657943
11	9	Corn Poppers	-7.459363922
12	6	Lucky 13's	-8.999495024

This Week	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank
1	1	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	8.7
2	3	Team LA	4.8
3	2	Arlen's Marlins	3.2
4	7	The Cocos	2.0
5	4	Seal Beach Dreamers	1.2
6	5	SD Thunder is BACK	1.1
7	8	Charisma	-1.0
8	6	CV Mom	-1.2
9	10	Soi Disant	-2.1
10	12	deus ex machina	-2.3
11	9	Lucky 13's	-6.6
12	11	Corn Poppers	-8.0

PowerRanks: Week 3

TeamLA Thunders into Lead

With their 7-2 victory over the SD Thunder, TeamLA takes first place in the Happier Family League. The Thunder managed to edge out TeamLA on batting strikeouts and on base percentage and managed to tie in saves at 5 apiece (league average last week was just 2.5). Dean and Jon trade places in the yearly PowerRank as Dean is now ranked 3^rd and Jon is 5^th.

This week, the SD Thunder try to get back on track against the floundering, yet seemingly always undervalued Charisma while TeamLA goes up against the 3^rd place Seal Beach Dreamers.

It is still a young season as only 10 games separate first place from last place, so if your team isn’t doing well right now, a good week could put you right back in the hunt, especially against a higher positioned team.

Weekly PowerRanks

Rank	Team Name	PowerRank
1	Charisma	5.4
2	CV Mom	4.7
3	Team LA	3.6
4	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	2.1
5	The Cocos	1.4
6	Lucky 13's	-0.6
7	Arlen's Marlins	-0.6
8	deus ex machina	-1.0
9	Corn Poppers	-2.3
10	SD Thunder is BACK	-3.2
11	Soi Disant	-4.7
12	Seal Beach Dreamers	-4.7

Yearly PowerRank

This Week	Last Week	Team Name	PowerRank	Team Owner
1	2	Lyin' Cty. Reformers	5.4	Don Baker
2	4	Arlen's Marlins	3.5	Mich
3	5	Team LA	3.3	Dean Baker
4	1	Seal Beach Dreamers	3.1	Cathy Baker
5	3	SD Thunder is BACK	1.5	Jon Manson
6	7	CV Mom	1.1	Corrine Baker
7	6	The Cocos	0.5	Grant Baker
8	11	Charisma	-0.2	Adam Nehring
9	9	Lucky 13's	-1.9	Chase Baker
10	8	Soi Disant	-4.8	Lyndsey Baker
11	10	Corn Poppers	-4.9	Paul Manson
12	12	deus ex machina	-6.7	Jordan Baker