Thursday, January 11, 2018

Season 36 Power Rankings #1

It's hard to believe that a quarter of Season 36 is already in the books, but that means it's time for the first power rankings of the regular season!  And we have yet another first time #1 at the top of the rankings, the 5th one in the last 6 Power Rankings!  It's Little Rock on top, jumping up one spot, with their top ranked offense and great pitching getting them off to an amazing start.  At #2, our preseason power rankings didn't like them, but simmy sure does, it's Fargo, up 19 spots to #2, off to a fantastic start as well!  Florida is up 1 spot to #3, thanks to outstanding pitching.  At #4, the preseason rankings predicted the dynasty was over, but we should have known better, Houston leaps 11 spots to join the top 5!  And at #5 is previous top ranked team, Montgomery, still off to a great start, although their pitching has struggled some what.   Now for the biggest climbers and biggest falls since the preseason rankings!

Biggest Climbers: #2 Fargo (+19), #12 Milwaukee (+15), #4 Houston (+11), #10 Salem (+9)

Biggest Falls: #22 Jackson (-11), #29 Richmond (-11), #15 Baltimore (-9), #17 Santa Fe (-9), #23 Kansas City (-7)

Here are the complete rankings, good luck to all as the season rolls on!

Pitching Offense
Team  W L PREV Rank Rank
1 Little Rock 33 8 2 3 1
2 Fargo 30 11 21 5 6
3 Florida 27 14 4 2 14
4 Houston 23 18 15 7 5
5 Montgomery 26 15 1 20 3
6 Buffalo  26 15 13 6 13
7 Sioux Falls 26 15 3 1 21
8 Oklahoma City 27 14 10 4 26
9 Salt Lake City 25 16 5 10 11
10 Salem 22 19 19 12 7
11 Nashville 23 18 7 11 10
12 Milwaukee 23 18 27 22 2
13 Cincinnati 20 21 14 13 7
14 Boston  24 17 9 28 4
15 Baltimore 21 20 6 8 23
16 St. Louis 19 22 17 19 12
17 Santa Fe 22 19 8 23 9
18 Portland 20 21 12 18 20
19 Charlotte  18 23 26 21 21
20 Norfolk 18 23 24 15 25
21 Los Angeles 17 24 20 26 16
22 Jackson 18 23 11 15 27
23 Kansas City 16 25 16 24 17
24 Helena 15 26 22 25 15
25 New York 16 25 32 9 30
26 Syracuse 17 24 23 29 19
27 Honolulu 16 25 30 17 31
28 Memphis 18 23 28 27 28
29 Richmond 15 26 18 13 32
30 Colorado Springs 12 29 29 32 18
31 Minnesota 11 30 25 31 24
32 Atlanta  12 29 31 30 29