Powers' Rankings: Week 1

And we're back! Another season in the books that literarily no one cares about now since the next season has officially started. Banners fly forever, but everyone lives in the present. How much did the MaDraft effect our rankings? How much of it is just adapting observations over the course of 3 months since the Winter Meeting? How much of it is basically just throwing darts? You're guess is as good as Fred's. [Fred is the office parrot.]

Let's take a look at where we stand headed into Week 1.


Powers' Rankings: Week 1
By: Max Powers

Current Rank	Last Year (Based on final playoff results)	Pre Season	Team		Notes
1	4	1	Weymouth Shaddupu		Even after a questionable draft, the Poo sit pretty as the favorites entering the season.
Current Rank	Last Year (Based on final playoff results)	Pre Season	Team		Notes
2	1	2	Quebec City Piglets		Seems appropriate the defending champs meet up gainst the top seed in these early rankings in Week. Hopefully they don't tie.
Current Rank	Last Year (Based on final playoff results)	Pre Season	Team		Notes
3	2	3	Santo Domingo All-Star Factory		With one of the most well rounded offenses in the league, the Factory felt they could afford to use 5 of their 7 draft picks on bullpen help. Also, don;t look now, but Matt Harvey looks to be serviceable again.
Current Rank	Last Year (Based on final playoff results)	Pre Season	Team		Notes
4	3	4	Tijuana Hispanics		Wait, why are they this high?
Current Rank	Last Year (Based on final playoff results)	Pre Season	Team		Notes
5	6	5	Las Vegas Doggs		Boredom does silly things to a team during a draft. With 19 bats, the Doggs could single handedly roster the line up of that expansion team they've been pushing but will never get.
Current Rank	Last Year (Based on final playoff results)	Pre Season	Team		Notes
6	11	7	Rakeville Rockets		Having to settle for Ryan Braun, the Rockets may be poised to make some noise this year
Current Rank	Last Year (Based on final playoff results)	Pre Season	Team		Notes
7	7	10	Bridgewater Weasels		With one of the better drafts this year, the Weasels were much more competative than their 2017 season rankings had them. They should give teams pause when they match up each week.
Current Rank	Last Year (Based on final playoff results)	Pre Season	Team		Notes
8	9	8	Dublin Snake Chasers		The Chasers' window is closing fast and they seems to be fine with letting it happen.
Current Rank	Last Year (Based on final playoff results)	Pre Season	Team		Notes
9	5	6	San Juan Guerites		A lot has to go right if San Juan is going to squeak into the playoffs again.
Current Rank	Last Year (Based on final playoff results)	Pre Season	Team		Notes
10	10	9	Tokyo Omyoujis		The contraction whispers keep coming up, but the Robots continue to do just enough to stick around - just not enough to make the playoffs.
Current Rank	Last Year (Based on final playoff results)	Pre Season	Team		Notes
11	8	11	Rio de Janeiro Cristos		Rio is setting the standard for a rebuild. Vegas, Dublin, Tijuana take note.
Current Rank	Last Year (Based on final playoff results)	Pre Season	Team		Notes
12	12	12	San Fernando Valley Jets		Ohtani is finally here. Hopefully he puts it all together when the Jets are finally ready to compete in a meaningful way.