Friday, April 17, 2009

Season 4 Power Rankings - End of Regular Season

Chuckles McGee - Cobbfather Post Gazette

It's time for the final edition of the Power Rankings for Season 4! And the story of the last rankings period has to be the Austin Rock Stars (#7) who end the season on a 14 game win streak. Clearly, they are the hottest team in the league going into the playoffs and have a lot of momentum.

The top 5 remains unchanged from the previous rankings. Florida takes the #1 spot for the 7th straight rankings period, with an impressive 10-2 mark to end the season. Sacramento, Memphis, Jackson and New York Pride round out the top 5 - who finished the season solid, but not spectacular.

Other notable performances to end the season include #6 New York Primetimers (10-2), #9 Syracuse (9-3), and perhaps the most surprising of all, #30 Cheyenne goes 8-4!

Now, instead of the standard teams on the rise and decline, we're going all the way back to the preseason rankings and comparing them to the final rankings to see who climbed the most in the rankings, and to see who declined the most in the rankings.

Teams who improved the most: #8 Vancouver (+13), #9 Syracuse (+13), #15 Colorado Springs (+13), #3 Memphis (+12), #16 Charleston (+8)

Teams who declined the most: #29 Texas (-22), #17 Detroit (-10), #12 Chicago (-9), #17 Fargo (-9), #18 Huntington (-8)

Here is the complete final edition of the Regular Season Power Rankings!!


Rank

Team

Record

Prev

1

Florida

113-49

1

2

Sacramento

106-56

2

3

Memphis
100-62

3

4

Jackson

99-634

5

New York (AL)

99-63

5

6

New York (NL)

97-65

7

7

Austin

95-67

11

8

Vancouver93-696

9

Syracuse

91-71

9

10

Burlington

90-72

8

11

Dover88-74

10

12

Chicago89-73

12

13

Rochester
86-76

14

14

St. Louis

82-80

13

15

Colorado Springs

79-83

18

16

Charleston

79-83

15

17

Fargo

79-83

16

18

Huntington

77-85

22

19

Boston

77-85

17

20

Oakland

76-86

21

21

Honolulu

76-86

23

22

Hartford

75-87

19

23

Buffalo

75-87

20

24

Sioux Falls

71-91

24

25

Kansas City

67-95

25

26

Ottawa

69-93

27

27

Detroit

65-97

28

28

Durham

63-99

30

29

Texas

64-98

26

30

Cheyenne

60-102

31

31

Atlanta
60-102

29

32

Los Angeles

52-110

32



We hope you enjoyed the Power Rankings this season, thanks for reading!