Thursday, February 23, 2006
Week 2 Power Rankings
DIVISION I
1: Pool Fighters - Simply holding their #1 spot with a convincing 5-2 win over PoolFiction.
2: Pool Outlaws - Same for PO, as they whooped up on Jokers Alley.
3: DreamPool - Another league that won't move anywhere, despite the scare from Pool Masters. They deserve their spot.
4: Beer Ball Masters - Overtaking Pool Legends with their win. It wasn't a pretty win by any means, but a win is a win, is it not?
5: Pool Legends - PL goes to BBM's old spot, obviously. They simply had some bad breaks and choked away game 7.
6: Pool Masters - They move ahead of PFN simply because of the way these 2 teams lost. PM nearly pulled off an upset while PFN... Didn't.
7: Pool Fiction - Smoked by #1, but they move down like I said, thanks to PM giving DP a much harder time.
8: 8Ball Runners - Very tight (and controversial) win over IndianPool to move past them in the ranks. They stay below a couple winless teams because that's simply how the ranks work, but they'll move up by the end of the season for sure.
9: Indian Pool - They stay here despite the loss, thanks to that dickhead from JKR.
10: Jokers Alley - Someone got boxed for an aimer accusation AND the team got blown out. Respect points down bigtime. They get to sit in the cellar for now.
DIVISION II
1: UnitedPool - They leap-frog 1 and 2 in large part because of their blowout losses (yes 5-2 is a blowout in a 7-game series.) However, their match was only 3-2 until the 2 forfeits from SS.
2: Hot Shotz - Actually played a match and won as opposed to CKP (not their fault though.) they had a great win over BritPool, despite DQs on each side, but I wonder how long they can stay here.
3: XPool - Big upset as they win over former XPooler Judy and the Wild Angels. XPool still seems to have a lot in them despite losing some players to Pool Loverz, and they actually look like a top-3 team.
4: Cue Keepers - Now I've contradicted myself right? Well, not really. BNR had a win over #1 but they were #10, and I can't reasonably drop CKP down after a win, no matter how it came. So, they stay at #4.
5: Break And Run - Great win over #1 Nice Racks, 5-2, total blowout, done in 5. Let's see if this is BNR's season.
6: Wild Angels - Well they got blown out but at least it was against a higher-ranked team. It will be interesting to see if Season 6's success was a fluke or not.
7: Nice Racks - Allll the way down here because they got smoked hardcore by the cellar team. Same story for them as with Wild Angels, how do they rebound from this?
8: Straight Shots - They only came with 5 players but really put up a good effort with the now-#1 UnitedPoolers. If they had brought a full team and lost, it may be a different story.
9: Brit Pool - They lost, and brought a whole team. But for Jai being a shithead they don't get any love.
10: Pool Master - No-show. Wonder if they're even interested.
DIVISION III
1: EZ8 pool - Yes they won by forfeit but I'm not gonna take away #1 for that. Let's see them actually lose it, if they do.
2: Pool Loverz - Great comeback win over BA, but they got very lucky. Have to see how they do, but for lack of any actual matches they get to sit at #2.
3: Bearskin Eightballers - Forfeit win.
4: Blazing Cues - Forfeit win.
5: Lucky Shots - Forfeit win.
6: Breakers Alley - Lost a tight one to Pool Loverz, let's see if it's that typical week 1 close match or if they have a better chance here in D-III. Top 5 make it, and so far look at the no-shows!
7: Pool pals - No show.
8: Regul8ors - No show.
9: New Castle - No show.
10: Bad Ass Ballers - LOL. Good Riddance.