We're a third of a way through the 2018 season, and no one is terribly surprised at the overall standings thus far. What is surprising is the examples of utter domination that has been on display from week to week. Just 7 weeks though we've witnessed four separate 10-0 wins by three separate teams. More importantly we've seen four separate 0-10 losses by FOUR separate teams - you have to go back to 2003 to find a year that had that many different teams to register the 0-10 loss in the same season. The most 10-0 wins the league has witnessed in a single season was 2007 when there was 6. The league has never seen more than 2 perfect games in the first 3rd of the season (2016). Is this a a fluke, or a sign of things to come for the remainder of the season? The only thing to know for sure is Rakeville picked the wrong season to be this bad.
Powers' Rankings: Week 8
By: Max Powers
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| Current Rank | Last Week | Pre
Season | Team |
1
| 1 | 1 | Weymouth Shaddupu |
| Overall | 7-0-0 |
Even when they're bad, the Poo find a way to win. With season low W, RBI, and team AVG, Weymouth still finds a way to sweep the 5 offensive categories against the Weasels. They are now 25-10 overall across offensive categories.
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| Last 5 | 5-0-0 |
| Division Standings | 2nd | Next Three Opponents | Week 8: SD | Week 9: DUB | Week 10: TIJ |
| Current Rank | Last Week | Pre
Season | Team |
2
| 2 | 6 | San Juan Guerites |
| Overall | 5-2-0 |
J.D. Martinez continues beasting since moving to the Carribean, as he has contibuted a quarter of San Juan's total home runs in the past 3 weeks.
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| Last 5 | 4-1-0 |
| Division Standings | 1st | Next Three Opponents | Week 8: DUB | Week 9: RIO | Week 10: QC |
| Current Rank | Last Week | Pre
Season | Team |
3
| 3 | 3 | Santo Domingo All-Star Factory |
| Overall | 4-1-2 |
The best team in the west sits 5.5 games back from the 2nd best team in the East. Can they make up ground in the next 8 weeks?
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| Last 5 | 3-1-1 |
| Division Standings | 1st | Next Three Opponents | Week 8: WEY | Week 9: LV | Week 10: SFV |
| Current Rank | Last Week | Pre
Season | Team |
4
| 5 | 2 | Quebec City Piglets |
| Overall | 4-3-0 |
The defending champs are officially playing as such. doing so agaist their own division. After playing everyone in the West once, their .720 division winning percentage is the highest in the division.
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| Last 5 | 4-1-0 |
| Division Standings | 2nd | Next Three Opponents | Week 8: LV | Week 9: SFV | Week 10: SJ |
| Current Rank | Last Week | Pre
Season | Team |
5
| 4 | 10 | Bridgewater Weasels |
| Overall | 3-2-2 |
As alluded to last week, the Weasels are only as good as Didi Gregorius allows them to be. They're going to need to bring in more than a side-arm throwing Josh Donaldson to carry the offensive load.
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| Last 5 | 2-2-1 |
| Division Standings | 3rd | Next Three Opponents | Week 8: TKO | Week 9: TIJ | Week 10: DUB |
| Current Rank | Last Week | Pre
Season | Team |
6
| 6 | 8 | Dublin Snake Chasers |
| Overall | 3-2-2 |
Dublin joins the growing trend of leaving positions wide open, as they keep Adrian Beltre starting at 3B while he's weeks away from returning from the DL. Sad.
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| Last 5 | 2-1-2 |
| Division Standings | 3rd | Next Three Opponents | Week 8: SJ | Week 9: WEY | Week 9: BRW |
| Current Rank | Last Week | Pre
Season | Team |
7
| 7 | 5 | Las Vegas Doggs |
| Overall | 3-2-2 |
The Doggs' plan of grabbing pitching ratios each week has more than back fired, as they sit 6-8-0 in those catgories. Meanwhile they've been carried by their offense that has racked up a 25-9-1 record on the otherside of the ball.
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| Last 5 | 1-2-2 |
| Division Standings | 3rd | Next Three Opponents | Week 8: QC | Week 9: SD | Week 10: TKO |
| Current Rank | Last Week | Pre
Season | Team |
8
| 10 | 9 | Tokyo Omyoujis |
| Overall | 3-4-0 |
Man, one's got to wonder how good this team would be with an active ownership.
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| Last 5 | 2-3-0 |
| Division Standings | 4th | Next Three Opponents | Week 8: BRW | Week 9: RAK | Week 10: LV |
| Current Rank | Last Week | Pre
Season | Team |
9
| 8 | 4 | Tijuana Hispanics |
| Overall | 1-4-2 |
Would you believe this team sits in the top half of every counting offensive stat? Perhaps if they didn't sit in the basement of team average it would make more of a difference.
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| Last 5 | 0-3-2 |
| Division Standings | 5th | Next Three Opponents | Week 8: RAK | Week 9: BRW | Week 10: WEY |
| Current Rank | Last Week | Pre
Season | Team |
10
| 11 | 11 | Rio de Janeiro Cristos |
| Overall | 1-5-1 |
Oh man, if you aren't anticipating this match up of Rio and San Fernando I don't know why you're reading this.
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| Last 5 | 1-3-1 |
| Division Standings | 6th | Next Three Opponents | Week 8: SFV | Week 9: SJ | Week 10: RIO |
| Current Rank | Last Week | Pre
Season | Team |
11
| 12 | 12 | San Fernando Valley Jets |
| Overall | 1-5-1 |
What on earth is this? Where am I? What's going on? - It says a lot about the state of the league that the Jets move up the rankings after a tie.
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| Last 5 | 1-3-1 |
| Division Standings | 5th | Next Three Opponents | Week 8: RIO | Week 9: QC | Week 10: SD |
| Current Rank | Last Week | Pre
Season | Team |
12
| 9 | 7 | Rakeville Rockets |
| Overall | 1-6-0 |
Oh, my God, we’re having a fire. Sale. Oh, the burning! It burns me! Evacuate all the schoolchildren!
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| Last 5 | 0-5-0 |
| Division Standings | 6th | Next Three Opponents | Week 8: TIJ | Week 9: TKO | Week 10: RIO |
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