Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Season 5 Power Rankings - Regular Season #6

Chuckles McGee - Cobbfather Post Gazette

It's time for another edition of the Power Rankings! 10-5, 9-6, 11-4, and 11-4. Those were the records of 4 teams ranked consecutively in the last edition of the power rankings during this rankings period. What were the rankings of those four teams? 1-4? 3-6? OK, let's stretch a bit, 10-13? Wrong! Believe it or not, those are the records of the teams ranked 29-32 in the last power rankings for this period. Congrats to #29 Syracuse (10-5), #30 Kansas City (9-6), #31 Wichita (11-4) and #32 Ottawa (11-4) on fantastic records for this rankings period. Needless to say, they all moved up in the rankings.

So, what's going on at the top? There's a new #1! Even though they only were able to match the records of the #31 and #32 teams this period, an 11-4 record was enough to propel Rochester to #1. Tampa Bay fell one spot to #2, Jackson is #3, Sacramento #4, and Vancouver #5.

Other teams who did well this rankings period include a trio of teams from the AL East - #6 Atlanta (10-5), #8 Boston (11-4) and #11 Burlington (11-4). #7 Dover also went 11-4.

It was a rough period for #10 Austin (5-10), and #14 Memphis (4-11), but not as rough as it was for Los Angeles, who went 1-14, and that 1 win was the first game, so they are currently on a 14 game losing streak.

Here's this edition's teams on the rise and teams on the decline section.

Teams on the rise: Syracuse, Wichita, Kansas City, Ottawa, Rochester, Dover and the entire AL East

Teams on the decline: Los Angeles, Austin, Memphis, New York (NL)

And now the unveiling of the latest edition of the Regular Season Power Rankings!!


Rank

Team

Record

Prev

1

Rochester

61-29

3

2

Tampa Bay

60-30

1

3

Jackson
57-33

4

4

Sacramento

55-352

5

Vancouver

56-34

6

6

Atlanta

56-34

7

7

Dover

56-34

8

8

Boston52-3811

9

San Francisco

51-39

10

10

Austin

53-37
5

11

Burlington

49-41

14

12

Florida

46-44

12

13

New York (AL)

45-45

15

14

Memphis

45-45

9

15

Honolulu

44-46

18

16

New York (NL)

44-46

13

17

San Juan

44-46

16

18

Hartford

43-47

17

19

Buffalo

42-48

22

20

Charleston

42-48

20

21

Durham

40-50

25

22

Cleveland

41-49

19

23

Wichita

38-52

31

24

Detroit

39-51

21

25

Syracuse

36-54

29

26

Kansas City

36-54

30

27

Little Rock

37-53

23

28

Oakland
37-53

24

29

St. Louis
36-54

26

30

Cheyenne

35-55

27

31

Ottawa

33-57

32

32

Los Angeles

31-59

28


Check back after game 105 for the next installment of the power rankings!