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It seems to me that there is a particularly low volume on the TL right now. It's both a bad market for buying and selling, which seems a little rare. I'm guessing things will open up a bit once teams start dropping out of the tournament. I have an old NBBA rival as my next opponent, and it looks like he is in a similar roster quagmire.

6 games in! The only defeated team left is East Gary Eagles, in a wonderful turnaround from last season. Lots of teams tanked this week, presumably for cup games. Still aren't seeing the complete picture of this league yet with lots of rebuilds and money saving going on.

I've divided us into sections this week, based on the ratings.

Power Rankings

Above the Rest
1. Toronto Traptors, 20.426

Contenders
2. Eclypze, 12.153
3. East Gary Eagles, 11.834

Fighting for the Playoffs
4. Cow Lickers, 5.223
5. Lake Charles Creoles, 4.942
6. Natellio, 3.823
7. Chicken Hawks, 3.737
8. lakey, 0.926
9. The Door Mats, 0.837

Struggling
10. Thunderhorse, -0.319
11. CA Foreigners, -1.119
12. Demon Hoosiers, -1.888
13. The Veggies, -2.913
14. Bushrods, -6.988

Giving up?
15. Cathar Heretics, -18.505
16. Extra Crispy, -32.169

One last heads up: I'm working on implementing an update in my formula to include effort differences. This way, if you get Ct'd an lose, it's not as big of a deal as an even effort loss. And if you normal a TIE and lose, you're worse off. This should reward those saving enthusiasm, and give a good picture on where teams stand towards the end of the season, when enthusiasm really matters. Hope to have that next Wednesday.

I think there is a problem with your formula.... my team always looks like it sucks :p

Haha. Sorry! Maybe the enthusiasm change will help...

I will say, that a 2-4 record will not help :) Your biggest issue though is that you have the 3rd to last average ratings. See below.

Average Ratings
Traptors: 7.464
Eclypze: 6.907
Chicken Hawks: 6.732
Lake Charles: 6.722
Natellio: 6.537
Thunderhorse: 6.519
East Gary: 6.445
lakey: 6.417
Cow Lickers: 6.370
Door mats: 6.305
CA Foriegners: 6.176
Demon Hoosiers: 6.176
The Veggies: 6.073
Bushrods: 6.056
Cathar: 5.471
Extra Crispy: 4.398

I know, just being a smart ass. I totally understand it.

We just got trounced by Eclypse. It certainly doesn't put us above the rest.
I really hope Extra Crispy are just in a quick rebuild. They've brought crispiness to the league.

We just got trounced by Eclypse.

Taking nothing away from smedlock, but he did home CT your away TIE. That makes it tough to really say where you two stand head to head.

WooHoo from 12th to 7th to 4th in the power rankings. Hopefully i can stay in that area i dont plan on contending this season possibly next season depends on how my training goes. But honestly i dont really see anyone at the moment being able to compete with Traptors unless we all CT 'em and they miss the playoffs :)

Im game... can anyone say conspiracy?

Looking at Rosters I think that Eclypze will be the biggest trouble. Not sure how much money he is still sitting on, but I can see him making another addition and a strong push to end the season.

First, sorry that I had a walkover on Tuesday. I was about 2 minutes late on setting my roster, and apparently I didn't have a default lineup set. My bad.

Ratings are here! I have implemented an effort section into the formula, and weighted it as slightly less important than game ratings and record, but slightly more important than point differential. Basically, if you play on even effort, you get 0 points. If your TIE versus a normal, you get 1 point and the other team gets -1 point. 2 and -2 for CTs versus TIE, and so on. What this does is helps a little in a loss where you play on less effort, and takes a little away from winning on more effort. So, for teams like Toronto Traptors who have been winning despite playing on less effort, their reward is great. Teams like East Gary, on the other hand, who have played a lot of games on more effort, are negatively effected.

So here we go!

Power Rankings
1. Toronto Traptors, 23.218
2. Eclypze, 9.714
3. Chicken Hawks, 9.126
4. East Gary Eagles, 8.710
5. Cow Lickers, 5.899
6. Lake Charles, 4.151
7. CA Foriegners, 3.849
8. Natellio, 3.064
9. lakey, 1.826
10. The Door Mats, 1.051
11. Demon Hoosiers, -2.215
12. Thunderhorse, -3.257
13. Bushrods, -4.959
14. The Veggies, -5.963
15. Cathar Heretics, -28.036
16. Extra Crispy, -38.997