Friday, July 13, 2012

Week 13 Power Rankings

Week 13 Power Rankings


1.       Younger(2)
The biggest compliment is that when you want to talk about how good other teams’ defenses are  you have to start off by saying, “Other than Younger . . . “ If Younger scored exactly 8 runs in every game this year(thus giving them the third lowest runs average in the league), they’d be undefeated. Even the 7 runs they gave up to Lapine are deceiving because it took Lapine 13 innings to score runs 5-7. If Younger gives up 41 runs their next game, they’ll STILL lead the league in fewest runs against average.

2.       Harris(3)
Harris has a +29 run differential over their last four games. The closest teams to that amount are Wallman and Mamone who both have a +20 total.

3.       Pollock(1)
I wish I could say everything about our team is amazing, but we’ve been struggling to score for the past 7 weeks. During that time, we have the third lowest runs scored in the league. At Union Hill we’ve averaged 14.75 runs. Away from UH, the average goes down to 8.89. The bright side is that while our runs against average at UH is 14, the number is a very impressive 5.89 at all other fields.

4.       Feldman(5)
Their run differential during the current 4 game winning stream is the lowest out of any 4+ winning streak this season, but there’s no doubt that Feldman’s record isn’t indicative of what this team is about.

5.       Applebaum(4)
Not only do they have a great offense, but they are the only team to give up just 1 run on multiple occasions.

6.       Wallman(6)
If you take any team’s three highest run scoring games, it does not equal the 57 runs Wallman has put up during their 3 game winning streak that ended Wednesday. Not bad for a team criticized by some for not having enough offense.

7.       Mamone(7)
Their 35 runs against over the last seven games is tied with Younger(of course) for the lowest in the league.

8.       Sarcona(8)
It is impossible to win the championship and lose back to back games during the playoffs. Team Sarcona is the only team who has not lost 2 games in a row at any point this season.

9.       Lapine(9)
Lapine is one of only two teams who are currently on a 3 game streak of scoring 10+ runs. Unfortunately they lost two out of those three games partly due to the fact that they were missing Drapkin.

10.   Granese(11)
As Granese pointed out in his recap, his team has an impressive 9 consecutive games of giving up fewer than 10 runs. The flip side to this is they’ve only scored 18 runs in their last 4 games which is the lowest in the league.

11.   Goldfarb(12)
If there’s a sleeper team in the league you can make a good argument that it’s Goldfarb. Although they are 6-9, they have a +16 run differential in their last 8 games.

12.   Carlin(10)
After looking for awhile, I just couldn’t find any interesting trends wit this team. But that’s appropriate for Team Carlin. We’re still waiting to see if this is the team who was thought by many to be a contender or the team who is currently 5-8 playing in a very tough American league.

13.   Randell(13)
Randell has a league high 10 games in which they’ve given up double digit runs.

14.   Shefkind(14)
I’m afraid to say anything because we play them this Sunday. They are the only team not to win a game by more than 3 runs. Now that I said that, I expect this to change this weekend.

15.   Jacoby(15)
In addition to having the worst runs against average in the league, Team Jacoby has the longest current streak of scoring fewer than 10 runs a game(6).

16.   Beilis(16)
It’s hard to find any silver lining when looking at Beilis’s stats. I tried. In 4 games at Union Hill, Beilis has scored a total of 16 runs.

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