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Week Three Power Rankings
Week 3 Observations
Three weeks into the start of Season 60 in the illustrious Div. III.11 there had been 56 total transfers. Last season at this point, we'd seen 70 transfers, with 42 players sold and 28 bought. There was an actual profit of just over $25k, mostly thanks to two players being sold by the tanking Lion Pride for $2.5M. The real numbers showed that we spent $7.8M on those 28 players while selling those 42 for just a touch more.

This season, [DISREGARD]we've only seen 48 transfers in total for a total deficit of $6.2M. 23 of those transfers were new arrivals where we collectively spent $10.8M while the 25 that were sold netted us a return of $4.6M[END DISREGARD]. I left that last part in there, because I wanted to show how big of a change Miami's bankruptcy selloff affected these numbers. So, picking back up from "This season," we've seen "just" 54 transfers in total for a total deficit of $2.5M. 23 of those transfers were new arrivals where we collectively spent $10.8M while the 31 that were sold netted us a return of $8.3M. Big spenders! Here are some stats from the transactions over the last sixish weeks:

Players Sold by Position
PG | Average Age: 30.6 | Total Profit: $2.92M | Number of Players: 10
SG | Average Age: 28.0 | Total Profit: $1.04M | Number of Players: 02
SF | Average Age: 25.4 | Total Profit: $1.39M | Number of Players: 08
PF | Average Age: 27.3 | Total Profit: $1.42M | Number of Players: 05
C | Average Age: 23.4 | Total Profit: $1.59M | Number of Players: 05

Players Bought by Position
PG | Average Age: 22.3 | Total Spent: $1.59M | Number of Players: 6
SG | Average Age: 25.4 | Total Spent: $3.92M | Number of Players: 5
SF | Average Age: 28.0 | Total Spent: $570 K | Number of Players: 4
PF | Average Age: 26.4 | Total Spent: $3.48M | Number of Players: 5
C | Average Age: 30.3 | Total Spent: $1.32M | Number of Players: 3

This week's rankings will be accompanied by some facts about each team's transactions for the season. Only 4 teams didn't have a single transaction while half of the division didn't bring on anyone new at all. Onto the rankings! Also, we're going in reverse (again) this week!

Week 3 Power Rankings
16. Żubr Białystok (16)
EFFG:16 | OPP EFFG:16

Number of Transactions: 0
Pre-bot Salary Total: $291.7K
Post-bot Salary Total: $29.8K

Fun fact: Technically, there were a bunch of transactions, but none that are countable for this post's purposes. But dropping 90% of salary is a pretty crazy ordeal, especially in this league.

15. Las Vegas High Rollers (15)
EFFG:14 | OPP EFFG:14

Number of Transactions: 10
Profit: $336.9K
Spent: $548.9K
Result: -$211.9K

Outgoing Salary: $32.0K
Incoming Salary: $186.1K
Result: $154K more total salary

Fun fact: Las Vegas brought in the highest paid player by more than $45k/week at more than 90% less than the second highest paid player coming in in Andrija Miljak. They also incurred the highest number of transactions but had an equal number in as out. But it hasn't resulted in that first elusive win as of yet, though Miljak has only played in one game thus far, but he's most likely being reserved for the Cup game this week.

14. Twotone Touloose (14)
EFFG:15 | OPP EFFG:12

Number of Transactions: 4
Profit: $1K
Spent: $130.9K
Result: -$129.9k

Outgoing Salary: $3,541
Incoming Salary: $21.1K
Result: $18.6k more total salary

Fun fact: All of Tee665's transactions were with players 24 or younger.

Week Three Power Rankings - Part II
13. Linndale (13)
EFFG:13 | OPP EFFG:11

Number of Transactions: 4
Profit: $888K
Spent: $324.9K
Result: $563.1K

Outgoing Salary: $109.4K
Incoming Salary: $18.2K
Result: $92.2k less total salary

Fun fact: new transfer PG Maurizio Cerri recorded three triple doubles in his second season for Italian club Panzerotti in Italia IV.2 and then was sold the following season, and again in Season 60, then again last season, before Linndale swooped in. In his short tenure, he's been sold for a collective $1,117,700!

12. Philly Dribble (12)
EFFG:8 | OPP EFFG:15

Number of Transactions: 1
Profit: $450K
Spent: $0
Result: $450K

Outgoing Salary: $81.3K
Incoming Salary: $0
Result: $81.3K less total salary

Fun fact: Phil_Wings offloaded 30-year-old Miguel Velasco after the start of the season. The $81k guard was bought up by Denmark's #4 team in the country Horsens Kasuars, which roughly translates to Horses Cassowaries...and I didn't know this, but a cassowary is a genus of large flightless birds chiefly from New Guinea and northern Australia that have a horny "helmet" on their head and are related to the emu. They're currently the number one seed in the Great 8 of the DBL and Velasco played back up PG in their last game, scoring 4 points to go along with 5 rebounds in 23 minutes.

11. Fort Wayne Pistons (10)
EFFG:10 | OPP EFFG:13

Number of Transactions: 0

Fun fact: No movement from The Mechanic on the transfer list since November 8th of last year which is all the way back at the start of Season 59 in Buzzer Beater time.

10. San Dominica Warriors (5)
EFFG:11 | OPP EFFG:9

Number of Transactions: 1
Profit: $38K
Spent: $0
Result: $38K

Outgoing Salary: $7,747
Incoming Salary: $0
Result: $7,747 less total salary

Fun fact: The Warriors lone move was to sell 22-year-old SF Ronnie Lindquist, purchased by League II.3 Romanian team dunarea oinacu, which references a commune Oinacu in the very southern part of Romania near the Danube River, which is the 2nd longest river in Europe and runs near Oinacu. Young Ronnie is currently playing occasional backup SF for the middling squad, playing in only one game for 13 minutes, but hitting his only shot for Oinacu Danube.

9. 209's MostWanted (11)
EFFG:9 | OPP EFFG:10

Number of Transactions: 0

Fun fact: Alex's crew went 2-0 last week, asserting themselves as the middle of the top tier, above both Linndale and Philly, whom they beat on the road by 26 points.

8. F.Day Internet Lovers Club (4)
EFFG:12 | OPP EFFG:5

Number of Transactions: 8
Profit: $95.8K
Spent: $4.19M
Result: -$4.1M

Outgoing Salary: $57.7K
Incoming Salary: $179K
Result: $121.3K more total salary

Fun fact: With seven new players coming in, F. Day could be said to have turned over their whole roster, which has led Mc KR's squad to a 4-2 record, which is good for third place in the Big 8. Three of their starters are new players in Piana, Branimirovic, and Blanco with an average salary of $41k, it looks like they may have picked the right time to pounce in the Big 8.

Week Three Power Rankings - Part III
7. Miami Cleo (7)
EFFG:7 | OPP EFFG:7

Number of Transactions: 9
Profit: $4.15M
Spent: $0
Result: $4.15M

Outgoing Salary: $349.5K
Incoming Salary: $0
Result: Presumed recovery from bankruptcy

Fun fact: Four of Miami's bankruptcy sell off players sold for at least $754k, with Arys Varpukevicius hitting the $1M mark. If you take out the three "under $7k/week salary" players, you're left with six players who averaged $55k in salary and an average sale price of $698.8K. With only what looks to be only one player left on the roster, presume them to plummet in the rankings moving forward thanks to walk overs. Tony Ashton might be the only Cleo left...though I suppose if they were broke enough, he might get listed again. A thousand bucks for a not great but not terrible 19-year-old MVP player has got to be tempting to someone!

6. Super Sonics (6)
EFFG:5 | OPP EFFG:8

Number of Transactions: 1
Profit: $1,000
Spent: $0
Result: Less one Barney Drummond a 19-year-old rookie who is getting some serious Cup action.

Outgoing Salary: $3,873
Incoming Salary: $0
Result: Meh.

Fun fact: Super Sonics ALMOST got upset on Tuesday night, squeaking out a 1-point victory over Twotone on the road with mostly bench players. They were down 12 after one quarter, made up three points by half, and then found themselves up two heading into the final frame. Both teams only managed to score a total of 27 points in the fourth quarter and were tied at 65 until 36 seconds left when Davies dunked the ball. Souza made two free throws to apparently seal the deal, but Twotones took too much time to get their ensuing shot off when they had 11 seconds to do so, and while the final buzzer beating three was good, it was not good enough.

5. Lion Rebels (2)
EFFG:6 | OPP EFFG:6

Number of Transactions: 0

Fun fact: Landed myself out of the Cup already, to go along with four other teams after just three games into it. And, as expected, thoroughly outmatched by southpaw on Tuesday in my annual, "Hey guys, let's score less than 70 points tonight - it'll be great!" game.

4. southpaw army (3)
EFFG:3 | OPP EFFG:3

Number of Transactions: 6
Profit: $357.6K
Spent: $3.45M
Result: -$2.38M

Outgoing Salary: $75.6K
Incoming Salary: 235.5K
Result: $159.9K more in total salary

Fun fact: southpaw did a three for three transactions, sending off some young blood for cagey vets in anticipation of making the jump to Div. II and sealing their fate as Dominant in Div. III this season. And while they're now 4th in these power rankings, you'll find the top three teams this week all have the benefit of having played the botified 16th ranked team which has been quite the boon for each of them in terms of efficiencies on both ends of the court.

Week Three Power Rankings - Part IV
3. VileOnes (9)
EFFG:1 | OPP EFFG:4

Number of Transactions: 4
Profit: $740K
Spent: $1.3M
Result: -$577.8K

Outgoing Salary: $58.5K
Incoming Salary: $112.4K
Result: $53.9K more in total salary

Fun fact: Vile Returns traded out two 30+ vets for some late 20's back court. New PG Messineo has been dishing out assists and leads the league with 41 in six games while new SG Brinkman has been shooting over 50% so far and while his three-point percentage could use some work, he's been a powerful one-two punch with SF Bovar with the two of them combining for 40 pts/game.

2. Mindless Zombies(8)
EFFG:4 | OPP EFFG:1

Number of Transactions: 3
Profit: $61K
Spent: $400K
Result: -$339K

Outgoing Salary: $34.6K
Incoming Salary: $68.1K
Result: $33.5K more in total salary

Fun fact: The second team to make a LEAP up the rankings, Mindless sold off an aging vet for minimal return and got a fair price for an under-performing PG in order to bring in $68K C Jose Ledu. And while they've made their way back from appearing dead to start the season back to .500, Ledu has somewhat quietly been steadily improving over the course of six games. In their matchup against Fort Wayne last weekend he put together a solid 19 pt 24 reb game for a 17.0 rating.


1. Tasty Tardsicles (1)
EFFG:2 | OPP EFFG:2

Number of Transactions: 3
Profit: $551.8K
Spent: $510K
Result: $41.8K

Outgoing Salary: $79.9K
Incoming Salary: $24.6K
Result: -$55.3K less in total salary

Fun fact: Only six teams made a profit from the transfer list activity thus far, with Tasty being one of them. The cost of doing so usually means less in salary power, but they remain at the top of the rankings despite a 19-point loss to Super Sonics last weekend in part thanks to 34-point beat down of Miami.

Next week we'll be looking back at what Week One's rankings were compared to the current ranking. Best of luck!

Day 7 (Saturday 16 September 2023) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
209’s MostWanted 81 - Las Vegas High Rollers 86
Linndale 104 - Philly Dribble 109
San Dominica Warriors 88 - Lion Rebels 103
southpaw army 110 - F.Day Internet Lovers Club 78
Super Sonics 50 - Miami Cleo 0
Tasty Tardsicles 103 - Twotone Touloose 54
Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️ 104 - VileOnes 97
Fort Wayne Pistons 159 - Żubr Białystok 53

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 159 : Fort Wayne Pistons
Rebounds : 65 : Lion Rebels, Fort Wayne Pistons
Assists : 53 : Fort Wayne Pistons
Steals : 20 : Fort Wayne Pistons
Block Shots : 24 : Fort Wayne Pistons

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 37 : T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️)
Rebounds : 22 : F. Hearn (Linndale)
Assists : 12 : G. Izaza (Fort Wayne Pistons)
Steals : 5 : G. Izaza (Fort Wayne Pistons)
Block Shots : 9 : J. García de la Vega (VileOnes)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : G. Izaza (Fort Wayne Pistons) (20 Points, 2 Rebounds, 12 Assists, 5 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 36
Shooting Guard : T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) (37 Points, 4 Rebounds, 10 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 40
Small Forward : U. Jaén (Fort Wayne Pistons) (24 Points, 14 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 2 Steals, 5 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 47
Power Forward : P. Huddleston (Philly Dribble) (25 Points, 16 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42
Center : T. Armstead (Lion Rebels) (21 Points, 17 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 0 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 39

MVP of the evening
U. Jaén (Fort Wayne Pistons) (24 Points, 14 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 2 Steals, 5 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 47

The bad performance of the evening
M. Swenson (Żubr Białystok) (8 Points, 7 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -10

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : W. Bonner (Żubr Białystok) : 6 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : G. Reinhardt (Fort Wayne Pistons) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : I. Tabrizi (F.Day Internet Lovers Club), L. Melucci (F.Day Internet Lovers Club), T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️), W. Acevedo (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️), W. Bonner (Żubr Białystok) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : L. Baião (San Dominica Warriors), N. de Moraes (southpaw army), S. Aranda (Fort Wayne Pistons) : 5 Three points

The best performer : T. Armstead (Lion Rebels) : Rating : 18.5

The worst performer : M. Walker (Żubr Białystok), M. Swenson (Żubr Białystok), W. Bonner (Żubr Białystok) : Rating : 2.5

No storylines for Linndale because my daughter is in the hospital and her twin brother is having a difficult time dealing with it.

If Floyd Hearn and Kyle Knowles sell, we go full on rebuild. If they don't, we try to put more talent around them and train up our younger guys. No shot for playoffs this season. We're just hoping to play competitive games now. Gotta start somewhere; we're just not competitive at the level we expect.

Last edited by Speedtraps at 9/19/2023 11:19:53 PM

All the good and positive vibes your way man - hope your daughter bounces back quickly!

Thanks. Much appreciated. Went in last Wednesday, was supposed to be released Friday, but she decided she needed to further evaluate the stff at the hospital. I don't call her The Boss for nothing!

So far, the toys have not met with her approval because she keps chucking them at the staff, the food does not meet her approval because she pulled out her feeding tube. She's beng quite the hard case. I keep telling folks just because she's non verbal doesn't mean she can't communicate!

Day 8 (Tuesday 19 September 2023) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Miami Cleo 0 - Las Vegas High Rollers 50
Super Sonics 120 - 209’s MostWanted 112
Twotone Touloose 42 - Philly Dribble 110
Tasty Tardsicles 90 - Linndale 85
VileOnes 76 - Lion Rebels 89
Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️ 78 - San Dominica Warriors 123
Żubr Białystok 28 - F.Day Internet Lovers Club 112
Fort Wayne Pistons 72 - southpaw army 117

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 123 : San Dominica Warriors
Rebounds : 69 : southpaw army
Assists : 39 : F.Day Internet Lovers Club
Steals : 13 : San Dominica Warriors, F.Day Internet Lovers Club
Block Shots : 15 : Philly Dribble

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 38 : Z. Levin (Super Sonics)
Rebounds : 24 : F. Hearn (Linndale), B. Matos (F.Day Internet Lovers Club), S. Kunyan (southpaw army)
Assists : 11 : B. Matos (F.Day Internet Lovers Club)
Steals : 4 : T. Rumin (209’s MostWanted), V. Abat (F.Day Internet Lovers Club)
Block Shots : 5 : M. Farnsworth (Philly Dribble)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : C. Wui Kwong (Tasty Tardsicles) (35 Points, 6 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35
Shooting Guard : R. Singh (Lion Rebels) (14 Points, 10 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 26
Small Forward : V. Abat (F.Day Internet Lovers Club) (37 Points, 6 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 4 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 47
Power Forward : B. Matos (F.Day Internet Lovers Club) (20 Points, 24 Rebounds, 11 Assists, 3 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 46
Center : F. Hearn (Linndale) (14 Points, 24 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35

MVP of the evening
V. Abat (F.Day Internet Lovers Club) (37 Points, 6 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 4 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 47

The bad performance of the evening
D. Bunch (Twotone Touloose) (2 Points, 8 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots)C. Tharp (Żubr Białystok) (8 Points, 1 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -9

Triple-Double of the evening
B. Matos (F.Day Internet Lovers Club) (20 Points, 24 Rebounds, 11 Assists, 3 Steals, 1 Block Shots)

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : M. Coedo (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) : 7 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : K. Nádas (209’s MostWanted), L. Moseley (Twotone Touloose), D. Conaghan (Tasty Tardsicles), R. Reynolds (Linndale), Á. Maradona (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️), D. Le (Fort Wayne Pistons) : 5 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : D. Bunch (Twotone Touloose), A. Guilla (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️), V. Abat (F.Day Internet Lovers Club), B. Matos (F.Day Internet Lovers Club), W. Bonner (Żubr Białystok) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : T. Rumin (209’s MostWanted) : 8 Three points

The best performer : F. Hearn (Linndale), C. Wui Kwong (Tasty Tardsicles), T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) : Rating : 18.0

The worst performer : W. Brissett (Żubr Białystok), W. Bonner (Żubr Białystok) : Rating : 2.0

Much love and strength to your family, man!

Week Four Power Rankings & Notes
We've reached the very specific 36% of the way through Season 62. This week's update shows a team's post Week 1 ranking. Some big movement on the charts for a few teams. Let's get to it!

1. Tasty Tardsicles (Week 1 Rank: 7)
Tasty holds on to number one this week, edging out number 2 only because of tie breakers. A slight dip in EFFG was balanced out by a nice improvement in OPP EFFG pushing them to #1 in defensive ranks. Two road games this week with a beat down of Twotone coming before taking care of business at Linndale with a come from behind fourth quarter victory. They head home to face Philly before traveling again, this time to the 209.

2. southpaw army (2)
Back up to number 2 and just barely missing out with their league highest EFFG and second ranked defense with slight improvements on both sides of the court. They remain undefeated with the league high point differential after games against F.Day and Fort Wayne. They look to continue their streak on the road against Miami before a 1 v. 1 matchup against Super Sonics next Tuesday in what should be the game of the week!

3. VileOnes (11)
Vile has what should be the highest leap in these rankings since Week 1, moving from 11th up to 3rd, and while their efficiencies took a hit this week, they still managed to rank in the top 5 in both, landing them at third overall. Despite the two losses (Miami by 7 in what amounts to bad timing for Vile and 13 to the Lion Rebels after leading at the half), they look to be a force to be not taken on all willy/nilly. Up next comes the "suddenly last in the Big 8" Linndale followed by a trip to Philly in what could be a season placement defining week for them.

4. Lion Rebels (1)
While my squad's defense has held steady (lower 80's for OPP EFFG), it's the 26 point drop in their own EFFG that's been disappointing. But starting out against Vegas and Linndale followed up by San Dominica and Vile this week will eventually lead to a bottoming out, especially with the defense in this league. Next up comes the Zombies on the road before a trip to the since departed Zubr.

5. F.Day Internet Lovers Club (5)
Holding pat at number 5, Lovers Club has seen a slight improvement in EFFG, but still only rank at 12th but has improved similarly in OPP EFFG, pushing them up to the 3rd best defense which catapults them to 5th. It was quite the dizzying week for them, first falling to southpaw by 32, which saw them grant 140 efficiency while only attaining 73 themselves. Then they turned around and got their gift game against Bialystok with an 84-point victory seeing them net themselves 180 EFF and -20 OPP EFF. This week they take on Fort Wayne before hosting Miami's depleted roster that currently fields the well-known No One.

6. Super Sonics (3)
How do I have the 2nd highest team by record in the league all the way down at 6? Unfortunately for them, their walkover win against Miami doesn't do anything for their efficiency scores (and I gave up trying to account for walk-over wins after whitestok was still absent to start the season). What the efficiencies tell us is that while offensively they hold their own, defensively they're averaging allowing 98.3 per game, which is good for 8th this season, at this point. They're far better than the bad teams, but if they're going to knock out the rest of the great teams, their defense has to show out. Tuesday's 8-point victory over 209's is a good start and they'll get a chance to feast this weekend when they host Las Vegas before traveling to southpaw's canyon in that 1 v. 1 matchup.