*S21 DSFL Power Rankings - Week 6

[Colabear]

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Welcome to the week 6 S21 DSFL Power Rankings.

I've compiled rankings from the DSFL GMs and the wider community to create a weighted system which should give a relatively balanced results and is protected from a single team brigading the vote to put themselves to the top. It assumes people aren't lying about who they are or who they play for.

Overall Community Rankings

#1: UP 1 Myrtle Beach Buccaneers (4-2) (1.5)
#2: UP 2 Kansas City Coyotes (4-2) (1.83)
#3: DOWN 2 Minnesota Grey Ducks (3-3) (3.25)
#4: UP 1 Norfolk Seawolves (3-3) (4.08)
#5: UP 3 Portland Pythons (3-3) (5.08)
#6: DOWN 3 Tijuana Luchadores (3-3) (5.25)
#7: = London Royals (2-4) (7.08)
#8: DOWN 2 Dallas Birddogs (2-4) (7.17)

Six weeks into the season we start to get a better picture of what's going on, and our voters appear to have more faith in the records of the teams. After week 2 we saw relatively little deviation from the pre-season rankings but now we're beginning to see a power shift. While Myrtle Beach remain in the top tier of teams, Kansas City have joined them at the expense of Minnesota.

However it's not just the top of the rankings where teams are moving, across the board there's a big shift. Portland takes a huge leap up the rankings, jumping from last place right up to fifth. Norfolk also shift up a sport, and all this movement comes at the expense of Tijuana who drop 3 spots to sixth place.

Finally London and Dallas remain near the bottom, with Dallas dropping back 2 spots following Portland's ascent.

Poll Responses

This week there were fewer votes overall, which will add higher variance to the ranking system. Two teams London and Norfolk didn't have a single representative vote in the poll. Is this a sign of waning interest from those teams? An indicator that they don't care what the comunity thinks? What do you think?

Rankade Rankings

For a more impartial comparison I've also used Rankade to rank the teams based on the results.

#1: 2097 - = Myrtle Beach Buccaneers
#2: 2089 - = Minnesota Grey Ducks
#3: 2027 - = Tijuana Luchadores
#4: 1973 - = Kansas City Coyotes
#5: 1954 - = Portland Pythons
#6: 1877 - = Norfolk Seawolves
#7: 1517 - = Dallas Birddogs
#8: 1508 - = London Royals

The rankade ratings move more slowly and are less reactionary to most other rating systems.

There remains a calibration period for the two expansion teams which has a big effect on some of the games. But which should normalise in coming weeks as they begin to reach parity with the other teams.


Current Ratings

How differently do different groups vote?




Voting was fairly well aligned this time compared to previous votes, the Portland players vote was the most idiosyncratic. Not just in putting themselves top but with Norfolk second while Myrtle Beach and Minnesota were down in fifth and sixth respectively.

Homerisms

We've seen a far less biased week of rankings this week. Three teams ranked themselves as the top team: Kansas City, Myrtle Beach and Portland. It seems in previous power rankings Portland were given somewhat unfair credit for their impartialiy due to a fault in the authors spreadsheet.

Dallas Birddogs - self rank: 5 - actual rank: 7.17
Kansas City Coyotes - self rank: 1 - actual rank: 1.83
London Royals - self rank: N/A - actual rank: 7.08
Minnesota Grey Ducks - self rank: 1 - actual rank: 3.25
Myrtle Beach Buccaneers - self rank: 1 - actual rank: 1.5
Norfolk Seawolves - self rank: N/A - actual rank: 4.08
Portland Pythons - self rank: 1 - actual rank: 5.08
Tijuana Luchadores - self rank: 3 - actual rank: 5.25

So The George Washington Cannot Tell a Lie award for honesty goes to... The Minnesota Grey Ducks, who ranked themselves in third as the best of the 3-3 teams.

The Homer Simpson award for lack of perspective goes to... The Portland Pythons, who were given a lot of credit for their honesty previously, when really they were just as biased as everyone else.

[Memento Mori]

the Portland players vote was the most idiosyncratic. Not just in putting themselves top but with Norfolk second while Myrtle Beach and Minnesota were down in fifth and sixth respectively.

Is Portland okay? I think they need to lie down.