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WEEK 8 POWER RANKINGS
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- Created: Thursday, 09 October 2025 14:00
- Published: Thursday, 09 October 2025 14:00
- Written by Jeff Krol
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Welcome back to the final TSL Quarterback Power Rankings of the season!
Yes, unlike our way more productive colleague the Godfather, we don't write articles during the playoffs. Although we did produce a lot more content than the Sentinel this year (RIP), so we’ll pat ourselves on the back for that…
For playoffs, we like to sit back and just watch the show, the fireworks, the bloodbath, whatever you want to call it, without having to analyze anything. So, with this being our last article of the year, we've saved a lot for you. We have our final Top 25 Quarterbacks of the year and then our usual playoff division analysis where we look at each playoff race in detail to pick out any trends in the data we can find. Plus, some other stuff.
This is usually our longest article of the year with lots of time-consuming charts and graphs (although Power Rankings #100 was longer a few weeks ago!) so we skipped the individual QB write-ups this week and just included the Power Rankings themselves. You don't need us to tell you how good or bad your team's QB is at this point… your record speaks for itself!
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Division by Division Review of the TSL
For our final analysis of the season, we're going to show you the following:
- The breakdown of best offenses, defenses and net point differentials per division. We backed forfeits out of all of our numbers below (in case you’re wondering why the totals don’t match what you see in the Standings for some of these teams) and then we tried to color each team's data by their official jersey colors. Of course half of this league apparently uses the same colors, so it's not perfect
- A graph of average point differentials per game for each division with a similar "Favorites, Contenders, Pretenders" logic we've used in previous seasons (if you're winning games by an average of 7+ PPG, you're a Favorite in green; if you're losing by an average of 7+ PPG, you're a Pretender in red; all other teams are yellow in the middle; these are not OUR judgments on who falls into each category, it's strictly based on the math of your team's point differentials). For what it's worth, in the last ten seasons that we've been showing these graphs, we've had 36 eventual division champions classified as "Favorites", 24 as "Contenders", and exactly zero as "Pretenders". Favorites won 5 divisions last Spring, compared to only one contender.
- A quick twitter sized (or "X sized") recap of the division heading into playoffs, and then identifying which teams are "overrated" and "underrated" in each group. Note that these last two categories are based purely on what we see in the scores and stats, NOT our own personal feelings of players on each team (we might personally think Two Tuddies are overrated, but if the underlying numbers say their team is underrated, that's where we'll include them below) so TRY not to be offended thinking the "website is being mean". We're just reading numbers off a website, man. Relax.
And away we go!
Division 1
The Headline: Legends STILL the heavy favorites, Eyes Downtown have a real chance, everyone else are underdogs.
Underrated: We were tempted to take Frodo Swaggins as the most Underrated team in D1 based on point differentials. They're only a few points behind Sticky Bandits for third place in the division, and yet they're the fifth seed. So why didn't we? Every other team around them in the standings had the misfortune of playing Legends... while Frodo took the forfeit loss there (which of course we exclude from all of our numbers). Since Legends is beating teams by an average of 21 points per game, that game would have (presumably) put Frodo's numbers back in line with where a fifth place team SHOULD be. This doesn't make Frodo "overrated", it just means that they are where they should be. So we still need a "most underrated" team. No one really stands out in D1 this session, so we'll pick the Sticky Bandits, who played the last game of the season without their starting QB and lost it badly. If we throw out that game (assuming they do have Mike Thomas for playoffs, which of course they will) then Sticky Bandits' point differential per game jumps from 5.9 to 9.7... which would flip their color on the graph above from "contender" to "favorite".
Overrated: It's tempting to choose Unit Ha Ha here simply because they finished with the worst point differential in the division, while only finishing third worst in the standings, and that's the easiest way to quickly spot "overrated" teams that will tend to crash and burn in the playoffs. However the pick here is actually Freeballers, who used sub QBs for at least half of the season, including their most successful games right at the end. If we throw out their last three games (which had Buddy and Garrett, two of our top six Ranked QBs, throwing for Freeballers) their point differential per game drops from -14.4 to -21.4. They won't have Buddy or Garrett for playoffs, and their first round opponents are a team you might have heard of...
Division 2
The Headline: Four teams you could reasonably bet money on winning this championship, a fifth team capable of maybe one upset, and Grey Hair.
Underrated: They're the fourth seeded team in their standings, and yet they boast the best point differential in the entire division. Be honest, were you at all aware that Can't Touch This has the best point differential in D2? We all wrote them off a month ago when they started slowly, but they still have athletes and they still play well on both sides of the ball. They weren't even close to earning a first round bye, but would you really want to play them in the playoffs?
Overrated: The Malones were undefeated after five games and had all but locked up that first round bye. Then they suddenly had to start playing games against the top teams in their division, and the illusion that they were massive favorites kind of unraveled a bit. Three straight losses cost them a bye week, and probably some confidence as well (how could it not?). Can't Touch This, PWI and Jabronies are categorized as "favorites" in our chart above (+7 point differential per game) while Malones are only +3.3 PPG... which looks like the mark of an average team. They're still dangerous enough to scare every team they face in the playoffs, but maybe not as the "favorites" to win their division.
Division 3
The Headline: As always, one of the most even divisions in the TSL from top to bottom. Also, GirthQuakes.
Underrated: We look at point differentials all season long and we're rarely surprised by the end of year results. We were surprised this time. Was anyone else aware that Cunning Stunts are not only the best point differential per game in D3, but also the ONLY team to crack +7 PPG?? They finished in 4th place with a 5-3 record, but if not for a controversial ending to an ILF game several weeks ago, they COULD have been 6-2 which would have put them in first place, past the Wanderers on a tiebreaker! Yes, we know that the Wanderers would have tried harder in that last game if the #1 seed were actually on the line, but still... the stats say the Stunts are the best in their division, and they could have easily finished at the top of the standings too if the last minute of a game were handled differently. Honorable mention to D-Generation X Y and Z, who are in 5th place with the SECOND best point differential per game in the division. Maybe we'll get a Joey vs Travis finals and break the TSL ratings record?
Overrated: Easiest pick we'll make all day! Here is the full list of second place teams in the TSL with a negative point differential: Bullet Club. They're the only one. Here is the full list of second or third place teams in the TSL with a negative point differential: still just Bullet Club. And in fact there's only one other FOURTH place team with a negative point differential (hi, What A Dump!). This is, statistically, weird. And it means that Bullet Club is either VERY clutch in close games... or (more likely) they are not a "real" second place team, and will probably regress in the playoffs.
Division 4
The Headline: Four flawed contenders, two LONGEST of longshots... and Two Tuddies
Underrated: We don't have the data on who started at QB EVERY week... but we do remember PowerPuff Girls losing a doubleheader 83-17 without Kyle Conniff a few weeks ago. Throw out those two games, and PowerPuff Girls go from -1.1 net points per game to +11.6. That is an enormous swing. This is a very, very different team when they have their QB1, and we are assuming we are going to see him throwing on Saturday. If you're wondering whether or not a full strength PowerPuff Girls is capable of beating Two Tuddies, we invite you to go back and look at last season's D5 finals score. Yes, we know that Tuddies have improved since then, but if anyone is capable of stopping the undefeated Tuddy season, it might just be the ladies in tie dye.
Overrated: There don't appear to be any true overrated teams in D4 based on the standings and the point differentials. If we're forced to pick one (and yes, we force ourselves to do this) we'll take the Tuddies. They've done nothing wrong, won every game, and put up great numbers. We're just not sure their dominance as large as it looks at a glance. Let's throw out their games against the two worst teams in the division, and see how the rest of their schedule looked: 8 point win over Mike's Detailing; 3 point win over Ready to Retire; laughably big win over PowerPuff Girls when they were missing Kyle; solid 15 point win over Puckett; 2 point win over Puckett. They've won games when they've needed to, and they're the favorites for a reason. But that +21 point differential per game is an illusion. If Two Tuddies are going to win the championship, they're not going to do it by smoking teams by 20+ points.
Division 5
The Headline: Balls Deep, a few real contenders, a few teams just happy to be there.
Underrated: It's not by a lot, but Bridget & Quit It are the only team that stands out as "underrated" in D5 for a couple reasons. Their point differential is second in their division and marks them as a "favorite" despite them only being in third place (the other 5-3 teams are in the "contenders" category). Also as a gender team, they have a roster full of people that play in different divisions, and likely had several conflicts throughout the regular season when they didn't have their full roster available. That won't happen for playoffs, where we've been GUARANTEED no roster conflicts (at least, for this week). So we might (potentially) be seeing the strongest Bridget team ever on Saturday.
Overrated: Blitzkrieg is in second place with a point differential per game of just +2.4. The only second place team in ANY division with a worse point differential? Bullet Club, and their inexplicable negative points. Blitzkrieg looks like an average team on paper. Good enough to beat anyone, sure. But do we think they have the second best odds in the division? Would you put their chances over Bridget and Quit It, or even Not So Sticky? Probably not.
Division 6
The Headline: Flying Balls and Chargers destined for the finals; Blue Ballers good enough play spoiler; nine other teams praying for upsets.
Underrated: The conversation about D6 has mostly been about how it's the Flying Balls or Chargers division to win, and everyone else is just playing for the right to third place. And it's true that those have been the best two teams. But has there ever been a team in the history of the TSL that's winning their games by an average of 18.5 PPG and getting so little respect as a favorite to win their division? That's the position Blue Ballers find themselves in today -- way too good for the rest of the division, but considered "not quite on the top tier" with Flying Balls and Chargers. And maybe that's fair. They DID lose to Chargers by 37 points a few weeks ago. Then again, they only lost to Flying Balls by 10 points way back in week one, so maybe they're not as far off as people think?
Overrated: Three Tuddies are in seventh place in the standings. Respectable, almost right in the middle of a twelve team division. But they're ninth in points for, ninth in points against, and TENTH in point differential per game. Only in this massive D6 could a team average -11.9 PPG and still beat out FIVE other teams in the standings.
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Top Ten Best and Worst Lists for the 2025 Fall Season
The division analysis above is the real meat and potatoes of this article, but in case you're curious how you stack up against teams in OTHER divisions, here are the top ten (and bottom ten) teams in the entire TSL for offensive points per game, defensive points per game, and average point differential per game:
What did we learn from this?? The magic numbers for us are always 20 and 40. Nearly every team in this League averages between 20-40 PPG both offensively and defensively. If you're higher than 40 offensively or lower than 20 defensively, you're doing an amazing job. If you're lower than 20 offensively or higher than 40 defensively... you're probably not winning too many games. This season we had six teams crack the 40 point mark, down from eight in the Spring session, and up from two the previous Fall (the big swings every season probably have something to do with the weather. Congrats to Flying Balls, our Spring 2025 scoring champs.
So if Flying Balls were the BEST offense, who were the worst? This season we had seven teams (down from 10 last season) fail to make it to 20 PPG on offense. Those teams unsurprisingly went a combined 13-42-1 this season.
Then if we look at defenses, there were five teams (Two Tuddies, Balls Deep, Flying Balls, The Chargers, Irish Giants) that held opponents to under 20 PPG this session. There were two teams that allowed 40+ points per game and remarkably they tied for the Worst Defense title this Spring. Congrats (if that's the right word) to Puck Bunnies and Unit Ha Ha, who each allowed 40.3 PPG. Although that may seem like an achievement typically associated with shame, neither team truly embarrassed themselves this session. Unit Ha Ha had the guts to start in D1 as a brand new team and actually won three games! Puck Bunnies became the first true ALL girls team in TSL history (at least as far as any of us remember) and played with several brand new girls learning the game for the first time. There are many teams that should be hanging their heads in disappointment this season, but Unit Ha Ha and Puck Bunnies are not among them.
For teams on the "Worst of" lists above, if you're looking to cheer yourselves up, it's worth taking a second to remember last session's "Worst of All-Time" team, Show Me Your TDs, who finished the season with zero points scored, and 74.5 PPG scored AGAINST. No matter how bad your team was this session, we promise you, you were not THAT bad.
Besides the "40/20 Clubs", what else do we see from the best and worst units in the League? Flying Balls, Legends, Balls Deep and the Chargers were the only four teams in the League to make all three "Ten Best" lists for offense, defense and point differentials. There were only two teams to make all three "Ten Worst" lists, including Cobblestone (who made all three "Worst" lists last spring as well!) and Puck Bunnies.
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All-Time Championship Statistics
(note: much of the below is a Reprint from Power Rankings #100 a few weeks ago)
A few years ago we compiled a list of every TSL champion in League history and devised a ranking system to see who the "best teams of all time" were. This was exhausting to research and put together, but it's now very simple to update once a session, so that's what we've done here. The timing feels right to update you all on this now JUST before playoffs so we can remind you what you're chasing here... co-ed football immortality. Here are the current immortals... all 102 recognized champions in TSL history:
THAT part is objective - the champs are the champs, and we'd like to think history will remember their achievements for 1,000 years to come (history classes will likely debate what exactly the "Tommy Hughes Experience" was).
This next part though is subjective: we then attempted to compare the relative strength of each division's championships to come up with a ranking system (a D2 title is harder to win than a D4 title) and this is what we landed on:
- A D1 championship is our baseline since it's the best a team can do. Let's make that worth 100 points.
- A D2 title is worth, at BEST, 49% of that, since two D2 titles don't quite equal a D1 title (you can argue it should be LESS than 49%, but we've made the choice to weight lower divisions as heavily as reasonably possible here). 49 points for a D2 title.
- A D3 title should be worth 49% of THAT, so about 24 points for each D3 championship.
- Every subsequent division is worth 49% of the previous one, so D4 is worth 11 points, D5 is worth 5 points, and D6 is worth 2 points.
- Indoor championships aren't currently worth a point (though we may revise this in the future). With apologies to DILFS, Jelly Beans, Sticky Bandits, Eyes Downtown, Losing Streak and Friendship Club, Winter sessions are often used to make new teams and play with new people. No team should be penalized in the rankings for doing that instead of entering their usual squad. We'll give them credit for "number of titles", which they've earned, but zero points awarded. Indoor championships are abbreviated as "W:A" (Winter: A) and "W:B" on the chart below, to make it a little easier to read.
It's an arbitrary system of course, but it's the one we chose. So here is the updated list of your "greatest champions of all time" going into the Fall 2024 playoffs (active teams are highlighted below; split into two segments side-by-side to make font size more easily readable):
We always debate making a change to the math above so that subsequent championships in the same division would be worth less the second time around. After all, was it fair that Puckett kept improving their standings by winning D4 over and over? Shouldn't they have moved up before this session? But for now, we decided to leave it as is.
So where does that leave us today? Legends are tied with Public Enemy as the greatest team in TSL history, and one more victory for the (currently undefeated) team will put them alone in first place. Eyes Downtown could jump from 5th to 3rd with another win, and Sticky Bandits from 9th to 4th. Mavericks could jump into 9th place with a win, and Freeballers (if you can believe it) could jump to 10th.
Legends, Sticky Bandits and Puckett All-Stars are each tied with Public Enemy for the most total TSL Championships of all-time with five. If any of those three active teams win again this season (each seems possible!), they can set the new record.
Bottom line, people remember champions, not the teams who come in second place, so immortality can only be found by winning it all. Good luck!
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That's it for the TSL Power Rankings this season! We can't possibly make any other charts for you at this point (this was exhausting) and we doubt anyone has read this start-to-finish anyway.
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WEEK 7 POWER RANKINGS
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- Category: TSL QB Power Rankings
- Created: Monday, 29 September 2025 19:19
- Published: Monday, 29 September 2025 19:19
- Written by Jeff Krol
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Welcome back to the TSL Quarterback Power Rankings!
Here are your Top 20 QBs in the TSL today:
#1 Joey Batts - Legends / Cunning Stunts
Last Week: Did Not Play
Joey doesn't show up for one week, and Legends nearly blow it against winless Freeballers! Now THAT'S how you demonstrate your value...
#2 Bobby McConnell - Eyes Downtown
Last Week: Beat Frodo Swaggins 35-32
Eyes Downtown are in second place in D1, and they're clearly a great team... or are they? Eyes Downtown's record against teams with a losing record: 5-0. Eyes Downtown's record against teams with a WINNING record: 0-2. If they lose to What A Dump this Saturday (the last "winning record" team in their division) what will that say about Eyes Downtown's playoff chances?
#3 Mike Thomas – Sticky Bandits
Last Week: Beat Unit Ha Ha 51-18
It's difficult to make sense of the Sticky Bandits season. They have three monster wins, one narrow win over Eyes Downtown... and then three losses. They can finish as high as the #2 seed or as low as the #4 seed based on how games play out this Saturday.
#4 Garrett Beesing - Frodo Swaggins
Last Week: Lost to Eyes Downtown 35-32
Frodo Swaggins are in sixth place and guaranteed a losing record... but on closer reflection, are they really that bad? They've lost to Eyes Downtown by 2, What a Dump by 1, TIED What a Dump in another game, and, okay, they avoided Legends via a forfeit so who knows how that would have gone... but their only "big" loss this season is to Mavericks, by 12 points. We're not saying they're favorites... but they're not pushovers either.
#5 Joe Miano - Jabronies
Last Week: Beat Passing While Intoxicated 35-34
The Jabronies are alone in first place in D2.
The Jabronies are alone in first place in D2.
THE JABRONIES ARE ALONE IN FIRST PLACE IN DIVISION 2.
#6 Andy Strug – The Malones
Last Week: Lost to Passing While Intoxicated 44-38
On September 13th the Malones were undefeated and we were all ready to hand them the D2 trophy. Two weeks (and two losses) later, things aren't looking nearly as bright for them. Another loss to PWI this Saturday would drop Malones to third place and cost them a first round bye. Is this team REALLY capable of losing three in a row?
#7 Cody Stumpf – What a Dump
Last Week: Beat Mavericks 38-29, lost to Freeballers 25-24
What A Dump's only two losses this season are to undefeated Legends... and (previously) winless Freeballers. We did NOT see that coming. But hey, they beat the Mavericks and that's a quality win...
#8 Jordan Lawson - Mavericks / Scared Hitless
Last Week: Lost to What a Dump 38-29 (Mavericks), beat Grey Hair - Don't Care 38-25 (Scared Hitless)
Mavericks and Scared Hitless are both 3-4 entering the last week of the season. Both actually seem good enough to make some noise in the playoffs, but our GUESS is that the Godfather gives Scared Hitless slightly higher odds. Maybe?
#9 Frank Laudico - Wanderers
Last Week: Beat Buffalo Vice 52-46
The Wanderers have locked up the #1 seed in D3 with a win over Buffalo Vice. Their seeding is set, they aren't trying to keep an undefeated season going... they really have NOTHING to play for on Saturday against the Stunts. It'll be interesting to see how much effort they put into the game.
#10 Ryan Dougherty - Can't Touch This
Last Week: Did Not Play
No games for somehow in fifth place Can't Touch This this week.
#11 Buddy Lee – Passing While Intoxicated / Interdimensional Lightning Falcons
Last Week: Beat the Malones 44-38, lost to Jabronies 35-34
With Buddy Lee at QB, PWI can never be counted out. Against the top two teams in D2, Passing While Intoxicated came just TWO points away from sweeping them and grabbing a first round bye... which they can STILL get with a win over Malones next week. Weren't these guys just in D4 like two or three sessions ago?
#12 Matt Glowacki - Unit Ha Ha
Last Week: Lost to Sticky Bandits 51-18
Looking at point differentials in D1, if there's a line we can draw between "contenders" and "not contenders", it's probably somewhere between Frodo (-22 points on the season) and Unit Ha Ha (-129 points on the season). Unit Ha Ha reminds us a little bit of the Malones in that they're all great athletes... but Malones got to refine their game against D3 opponents before working their way, and Unit Ha Ha just threw themselves into the fire in D1.
#13 David Eickhoff - Grey Hair Don't Care / Ready to Retire
Last Week: Lost to Scared Hitless 38-25 (Grey Hair - Don't Care)
Grey Hair Don't Care needs a win against Jabronies on Saturday to avoid going 0-8 in the regular season. Their first matchup against Jabronies looked fairly close (they lost 41-28) so definitely not impossible... but who's betting against Jabronies right now the way they're playing?
#14 Mike Wolcott - Two Tuddies
Last Week: Beat Puckett All-Stars 22-20
The Two Tuddies have come a LONG way from D6. Whether it's next season or the season after that, we WILL be seeing this team in D3 in the near future, as that seems like their natural landing point. Tuddies have locked up the #1 seed and bye already, so they have nothing to play for this weekend against... winless Cobblestone. Our guess is that they win it anyway, and keep the undefeated season going.
#15 Damien Keller - D-Generation X Y and Z
Last Week: Beat GirthQuakes 31-12
Fuck it, we're just going to copy/paste this one again below: One of FOUR D3 teams that are knotted up at 4-3, the final game of the season will be huge for determining playoff standings (but not first round byes, because no one in D3 gets those anyway)
#16 Dylan Jaloza - Bullet Club
Last Week: Lost to Practice Squad 23-14
Fuck it, we're just going to copy/paste this one from above: One of FOUR D3 teams that are knotted up at 4-3, the final game of the season will be huge for determining playoff standings (but not first round byes, because no one in D3 gets those anyway)
#17 Brandon "B" Ford - Practice Squad
Last Week: Beat Bullet Club 23-14
Alright so maybe Practice Squad aren't dead yet... or maybe Bullet Club's negative point differential we talked about last week IS a real cause for concern for them? Either way, we've seen B get hot just in time for playoff runs before. Let's see what he's got in the tank this season!
#18 Paul Rath - Freeballers
Last Week: Did Not Play
Freeballers used sub QBs this week, and got their first W of the year... poor Paul.
#19 Mark Dalfonso - Mike's Detailing
Last Week: Beat Come From Behind 56-14
Mike's Detailing can't be ignored anymore. No, their defense isn't as good as the Tuddies, but if we take their current offensive points per game for the six games they've played so far and extrapolate that for seven games (like the rest of their division has played), Mike's Detailing would have 254.3 points... compared to the Tuddies 255. If anyone can keep up in a shootout for playoffs, it's these guys.
#20 Eric Mueller - Puckett All-Stars
Last Week: Lost to Two Tuddies 22-20
Puckett ALMOST slayed the giant on Saturday, and they've now played the Tuddies close TWICE this season. They are one of three teams in D4 that seem to have a real chance at holding a Championship trophy at the banquet this year (okay maybe FOUR teams, if we throw out PowerPuff Girls' losses with backup QBs this season).
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Fancy Statistics Section
Next week is our big "end of season graph-fest" so we'll just give you a little one this week.
Here are the average points per game scored per team, in each division:
Looks like D2 is the highest scoring division on average (thanks, Malones, PWI and Jabronies!) and D5 is the lowest scoring division on average (thanks, Mo' Chicken, Stir the Sauce, Pit Harade and Sausage McMuffins!)
D6 by the way WOULD be the lowest scoring division, if we excluded Flying Balls and Chargers. Those guys can SCORE!
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WEEK 5 POWER RANKINGS
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- Created: Monday, 15 September 2025 17:40
- Published: Monday, 15 September 2025 17:40
- Written by Jeff Krol
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Welcome back to the TSL Quarterback Power Rankings!
We exhausted ourselves with last week's 100th Power Rankings (how'd you like those Non-QB Ranking??) so this week we're going to phone it in more than usual.
Here are your Top Twenty QBs in the League with a Haiku about each.
#1 Joey Batts - Legends / Cunning Stunts
Last Week: Beat Buffalo Vice 62-46, lost to Wanderers 41-27 (Cunning Stunts)
Classic Joey Batts,
Legends are undefeated,
Stunts are okay too.
#2 Bobby McConnell - Eyes Downtown
Last Week: Beat Unit Ha Ha 50-21
Bobby not happy
Eyes Downtown are in third place,
Champions or bust!
#3 Mike Thomas – Sticky Bandits
Last Week: Lost to What a Dump 56-33
Poor Sticky Bandits,
they're undefeated no more,
with Legends this week!
#4 Andy Strug – The Malones
Last Week: Beat Scared Hitless 52-47
The Malones are back!
Can pretty much clinch a bye
with win this weekend.
#5 Garrett Beesing - Frodo Swaggins
Last Week: Beat Unit Ha Ha 45-38
Nice win for Garrett,
Frodo beats Unit Ha Ha.
Playoff dark horses?
#6 Cody Stumpf – What a Dump
Last Week: Beat Sticky Bandits 56-33
Big win for Cody
(though Kayla does all the work)
What A Dump 4 real!
#7 Joe Miano - Jabronies
Last Week: Did Not Play
No game for Big Joe
Jabronies are most improved
team in the whole league?
#8 Jordan Lawson - Mavericks / Scared Hitless
Last Week: Beat Freeballers 35-21 (Mavericks), lost to The Malones 52-47 (Scared Hitless)
People wrote them off,
but Mavs and Scared have not quit!
Beware for playoffs!
#9 Frank Laudico - Wanderers
Last Week: Beat Cunning Stunts 41-27, lost to GirthQuakes 35-33
Undefeated, no!
GirthQuakes ruin the party.
At least they beat Stunts!
#10 Buddy Lee – Passing While Intoxicated / Interdimensional Lightning Falcons
Last Week: Beat Grey Hair - Don't Care 25-0 (PWI), beat Practice Squad 45-27 (Interdimensional Lightning Falcons)
PWI
and ILF both got wins
Buddy must be good!
#11 Ryan Dougherty - Can't Touch This
Last Week: Did Not Play
No game for Ryan,
Can't Touch This having rough start,
must fix for playoffs!
#12 Matt Glowacki - Unit Ha Ha
Last Week: Lost to Eyes Downtown 50-21, lost to Frodo Swaggins 45-38
Two losses this week
What is a Unit Ha Ha?
(Their unis are sweet!)
#13 David Eickhoff - Grey Hair Don't Care / Ready to Retire
Last Week: Lost to Puckett All-Stars 28-22, beat PowerPuff Girls 38-9
D4 looking fine,
No wins yet though in D2
Does not look too great!
#14 Dylan Jaloza - Bullet Club
Last Week: Beat D-Generation X Y and Z 32-30
Four and one record,
but minus 3 points so far?
Are Bullet Club good?
#15 Damien Keller - D-Generation X Y and Z
Last Week: Lost to Bullet Club 32-30
D X Y and Z
are in the thick of D3,
Kellers win it all?
#16 Paul Rath - Freeballers
Last Week: Lost to Mavericks 35-21
Sorry Freeballers,
winning with new Q is hard,
maybe next season?
#17 Mike Wolcott - Two Tuddies
Last Week: Beat Puckett All-Stars 35-20, beat PowerPuff Girls 45-8
Tuddies own D4,
No one has even been close.
Three Tuddies, take note!
#18 Brandon "B" Ford - Practice Squad
Last Week: Lost to ILF 45-27
Squad is one and four,
B has won as underdog,
he'll do it again!
#19 Matt Kieta - GirthQuakes
Last Week: Beat Wanderers 35-33
Huge win for GirthQuakes,
Beating Wanderers no joke!
Can they build off this?
#20 Eric Mueller - Puckett All-Stars
Last Week: Beat Ready to Retire 28-22, lost to Two Tuddies 35-20
Puckett still real good,
One of three "real" contenders
to win this season?
Fancy Statistics Section
Come on, we're tired. We did all the graphs last week.
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WEEK 6 POWER RANKINGS
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- Category: TSL QB Power Rankings
- Created: Monday, 22 September 2025 18:01
- Published: Monday, 22 September 2025 18:01
- Written by Jeff Krol
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"TSL teams are always rising and falling in America" - Nathaniel Hawthorne, as quoted in the film "the Departed", then badly translated by the TSL QB Power Rankings Committee
Welcome back to the TSL Quarterback Power Rankings!
Can you believe that in Week 4 of the Fall 2019 season, the #4 QB in the Power Rankings was none other than Topper himself?? Even WE find that hard to believe, and we're the ones who ranked him!
Here are your Top 20 QBs in the TSL today:
#1 Joey Batts - Legends / Cunning Stunts
Last Week: Beat Eyes Downtown 46-32, beat Sticky Bandits 38-24 (Legends), beat Practice Squad 43-24 (Cunning Stunts)
The two highest teams in the D1 standings NOT named Legends are Eyes Downtown and Sticky Bandits. Joey beat them both on Saturday... and also threw in a win over Practice Squad to boot.
#2 Bobby McConnell - Eyes Downtown
Last Week: Beat Freeballers 38-15, lost to Legends 46-32
Saturday was Eyes Downtown in a nutshell: they dominate the lesser D1 teams, but they aren't quite on Legends' level yet either. They hope to be, come Championship Saturday, but Bobby will have to play better if they want to end their season on a win.
#3 Mike Thomas – Sticky Bandits
Last Week: Lost to Mavericks 43-37, lost to Legends 38-24
The Sticky Bandits have followed a three game winning streak with a three game losing streak, with most of their team apparently on Injured Reserve. Mike will have to find a way to elevate whoever is left if Sticky Nation wants to save their season.
#4 Garrett Beesing - Frodo Swaggins
Last Week: Did Not Play
No game for Frodo this week, although Garrett looked pretty good putting up 55 for PWI as a sub.
#5 Andy Strug – The Malones
Last Week: Lost to Jabronies 37-34
The Malones will NOT go undefeated it seems, and they'll have to wait another week to clinch that first round bye too. No, Andy does NOT fall below Joe in the Power Rankings just because of this game (remember, Malones beat Jabronies by 26 points last month).
#6 Joe Miano - Jabronies
Last Week: Beat the Malones 37-34
This feels like a good time to remind everyone that Jabronies were given the LOWEST odds of any team in D2 this season by the Godfather before the season started, and now they're tied for the best record in D2. We're not criticizing the Godfather by the way - we AGREED that Jabronies would be a huge underdog at the time.
#7 Jordan Lawson - Mavericks / Scared Hitless
Last Week: Beat Sticky Bandits 43-37 (Mavericks), lost to PWI 53-44 (Scared Hitless)
The Mavericks beat whatever's left of Sticky Bandits on Saturday to rise to 3-3 (.500 is pretty good for a first season in D1!) and Jordan also put up 44 points in a Scared Hitless as well (not his fault if his defense allows 53). Not a bad day. Mavericks remaining opponents are a combined 8-1-1 by the way so we're not betting on them to finish with a winning record, but staying at .500 is definitely possible.
#8 Cody Stumpf – What a Dump
Last Week: Did Not Play
We dropped Cody two spots for having a bye week apparently, which is ESPECIALLY unfair when you consider this: What a Dump is the ONLY team left in D1 that still has a shot of taking the #1 seed away from Legends. (Yes, it's unlikely, but not impossible!)
#9 Frank Laudico - Wanderers
Last Week: Beat Bullet Club 35-20
Wanderers locked up a crucial tiebreaker on Saturday with a win over the only other one-loss (well, now TWO-loss) team in D3. That means a win against Buffalo Vice this week will lock up the #1 seed for playoffs. If Wanderers have nothing left to play for on October 4th, do you think they'll let Sal QB that game?
#10 Ryan Dougherty - Can't Touch This
Last Week: Beat Grey Hair - Don't Care 43-6
Okay this is the Can't Touch This we expect to see. Scoring 40+ on offense, allowing just one score on defense. If this version of the team shows up for playoffs, no one will ever remember that they went just 3-5 or 4-4 in the regular season.
#11 Buddy Lee – Passing While Intoxicated / Interdimensional Lightning Falcons
Last Week: Did Not Play
No appearances by Buddy this week. PWI looked great in his absence. ILF did not.
#12 Matt Glowacki - Unit Ha Ha
Last Week: Did Not Play
No games for Unit Ha Ha this week.
#13 David Eickhoff - Grey Hair Don't Care / Ready to Retire
Last Week: Lost to Can't Touch This 43-6, Mike's Detailing 45-6
Eickhoff's teams were outscored a combined 88-12 this week. In our professional opinion as sportswriters, we would call that "not very good". Ready to Retire should be fine, but Grey Hair - Don't Care has two more chances (plus playoffs) to avoid a winless season. Can they topple Scared Hitless or Jabronies?
#14 Dylan Jaloza - Bullet Club
Last Week: Lost to Wanderers 35-20
Bullet Club is the only second place team in the entire TSL right now to have a negative point differential. There aren't even any THIRD place teams with negative point differentials. Does this mean they're not a great team... or does it mean that they find a way to win the close ones?
#15 Damien Keller - D-Generation X Y and Z
Last Week: Beat Interdimensional Lightning Falcons 30-0
That looked easy. DXYZ destroyed a Buddy-less ILF on Saturday to even their record back to 3-3. Anyone can win or lose any game in D3, where even the mighty Wanderers have fallen to the lowly GirthQuakes. If it comes down to veteran savvy for the playoffs, DXYZ have loads of that.
#16 Mike Wolcott - Two Tuddies
Last Week: Beat Come From Behind 51-12
There are four teams in the League with over 200 points scored, about 100 points against, and undefeated records (Legends, Two Tuddies, Balls Deep and Flying Balls). Two Tuddies might be the most dominant. It's one thing to kill a bad team here and there, but these guys are even killing their biggest rivals this season.
#17 Paul Rath - Freeballers
Last Week: Lost to Eyes Downtown 38-15
We can't see the future, but Freeballers are probably NOT going to beat Legends or What a Dump this week. But they CAN avoid a winless season by beating Unit Ha Ha on October 4th! Maybe that'll give them the confidence they need for playoffs... where they'll play either Legends or Eyes Downtown again in the first round...
#18 Brandon "B" Ford - Practice Squad
Last Week: Lost to Cunning Stunts 43-24
Practice Squad have scored the fewest points in D3 this session, and allowed the second most as well. Tough to win games that way. It seems like the game plan for this team is just "lose regular season games, unleash playoff B in October". Which, we've gotta say... is not a bad plan.
#19 Eric Mueller - Puckett All-Stars
Last Week: Beat PowerPuff Girls 31-17
Puckett stomped a (short handed) PowerPuff Girls team on Saturday to run their record up to 5-1. Only one team in D4 will get a first round bye, and Puckett can still take it. No one REALLY knows how these tiebreakers work, but we THINK they have to either beat Tuddies by more than 15 on Saturday (and then win on Oct 4th if Tuddies ALSO win on Oct 4th), OR beat the Tuddies by less than 15 on Saturday and hope that Tuddies lose to Cobblestone on the 4th (while winning themselves). Complicated, but not impossible.
#20 Andy Clark - Buffalo Vice
Last Week: Beat GirthQuakes 42-29
Buffalo Vice will finish their season with games against the current #1 seed and #2 seed in D3. Rough schedule! If they can win just ONE of those two games though, they'll finish .500, which is good enough to inspire confidence in a playoff run.
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Fancy Statistics Section
Not a "fancy stat" but some of the teams in this League have incredible uniforms and we want to recognize those now. Here are the Top Ten best (or most iconic) uniforms, logos etc in the league:
Honorable Mentions: Pit Harade, Freeballers, Interdimensional Lightning Falcons, Can't Touch This
10. GirthQuakes
9. Mavericks
8. Sticky Bandits
7. Scared Hitless
6. Cunning Stunts
5. Bullet Club (black & white)
4. Wanderers (tie-dye)
3. Unit Ha Ha
2. PowerPuff Girls
1. The Tuddiverse (Two Tuddies, Three Tuddies, Four Tuddies)
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THE 100th TSL POWER RANKINGS
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- Category: TSL QB Power Rankings
- Created: Thursday, 11 September 2025 12:29
- Published: Thursday, 11 September 2025 12:29
- Written by Jeff Krol
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- This week we are going to finally do what we often promise/threaten to do in our first article of every season, and rank EVERY STARTING QUARTERBACK IN THE LEAGUE. Sorry in advance to whoever comes in last.
- We're going to bring back (for one week ONLY) your HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL and UNIVERSALLY HATED Male and Female Non-QB Rankings.
- We're going to look at the greatest QBs of ALL TIME (this is a Quarterback Ranking article after all, right?)
- We're going to look at the greatest TEAMS of all time.
- We're going to rank every current team in the League (including yours!)
- We're going to break out all our usual stat tables and graphs from over the years.
- Chris Cole has the best average ranking and the highest percentage of #1 Rankings (56% of all weeks he was eligible). He's tied for the most D1 championships as well.
- Bro Kleckler has the second highest average ranking and second highest percentage of #1 Rankings (45% of all weeks he was eligible). When he was throwing for Tight Ends in Motion, he was the best QB in the League almost as often as not.
- Bobby McConnell has the highest "Total Point" value over the last six years, which means he was most consistently toward the top of the Rankings. He also has four times as many D1 championships as Bro Kleckler, which gives him a considerable edge there.
- Joey Batts' average Ranking is lower than the rest, but that's more a product of his time spent playing in lower divisions before Legends existed. He's tied for #1 all-time in D1 Championships won (with a chance to take the lead this season) and if we ONLY looked at his average ranking since the inception of Legends, it would be 1.64... just 0.02 worse than Chris Cole. And he can BEAT Chris's average Ranking if he stays at #1 for the next few weeks.
- Mike Thomas can't compete with the four QBs above him on average ranking, or highest percentage of #1 Rankings for eligible weeks, or even (outside of Bro) on number of championships won. Any argument for Mike would have to center around the fact that his teams have historically been less talented than Bro's, Bobby's or Joey's, and that Mike has been asked to do more with less, essentially taking a middling D3 team to the heights of D1 (which to be fair, no other QB on this list has done).
This next part though is subjective: we then attempted to compare the relative strength of each division's championships to come up with a ranking system (a D2 title is harder to win than a D4 title) and this is what we landed on:
- A D1 championship is our baseline since it's the best a team can do. Let's make that worth 100 points.
- A D2 title is worth, at BEST, 49% of that, since two D2 titles don't quite equal a D1 title (you can argue it should be LESS than 49%, but we've made the choice to weight lower divisions as heavily as reasonably possible here). 49 points for a D2 title.
- A D3 title should be worth 49% of THAT, so about 24 points for each D3 championship.
- Every subsequent division is worth 49% of the previous one, so D4 is worth 11 points, D5 is worth 5 points, and D6 is worth 2 points.
- Indoor championships aren't currently worth a point (though we may revise this in the future). With apologies to DILFS, Jelly Beans, Sticky Bandits, Eyes Downtown, Losing Streak and Friendship Club, Winter sessions are often used to make new teams and play with new people. No team should be penalized in the rankings for doing that instead of entering their usual squad. We'll give them credit for "number of titles", which they've earned, but zero points awarded. Indoor championships are abbreviated as "W:A" (Winter: A) and "W:B" on the chart below, to make it a little easier to read.
It's an arbitrary system of course, but it's the one we chose.
Here are the greatest teams of all time, updated with Spring 2025 Champions:
If you're skipping straight to the top of the list hoping to see who's #1 (like most people) you'll notice that we don't have a tie-breaking procedure in our math. That means that Public Enemy and Legends are both ranked at #1 right now in our standings.
Come on, what a cop-out. Are you serious?
Time for a crucial reminder though: NINETY NINE articles ago when we FIRST started doing our Power Ranking, we made a promise to you, our readers: there will never be a tie. It's too easy to say "these people are about equal" EVERY week and just start giving people ties, but that's no fun. We have always broken ties in our Power Rankings even when our Committee members were deadlocked, and this will be no different.
Legends vs Public Enemy: There must be a winner. So let's figure it out.
We're going to kill the whole "things are so much tougher now" vs "things were so much tougher back then" aspect to the debate right now. The older generation typically feels like their competition was "tougher", while the history of sports suggests that athletes are always getting faster and stronger every year. But let's not kid ourselves: These teams are not from two different generations. Public Enemy disbanded after winning the championship in Fall 2021. Legends were formed and crowned champions themselves in Spring 2022, with at least a few people on BOTH rosters during those two sessions. The competition they faced was VERY similar, so let's dismiss that aspect of the debate right now.
What about the state of D1 itself during each team's championship era? Some people will point to the size of the division as an indicator of strength of competition, but that's also misguided. Why does it matter how many teams were in D1? If there are a lot of teams, that MIGHT mean a lot of competition... or it MIGHT mean that the top talent was spread out throughout many teams, making each individual competitor weaker. Similarly, a small number of teams in the division might mean less competition (fewer teams willing to compete against the top D1 teams) or it might mean STRONGER competition (when Tight Ends in Motion and Eyes Downtown rosters merged, wasn't the result a stronger competitor than either team by itself?).
It's truly impossible to say one way or another who had "stronger" competition so we're going to make a very reasonable conclusion that the level of competition was about the same.
It also seems reasonable to compare their rosters and see which team looks stronger "on paper". Well, that's probably Legends, right? Public Enemy's best player was likely Mike Boccio, who ALSO played on Legends, so that's a wash. Do we really think Sean and Chris aren't better athletes than the next best guys on Public Enemy? Cheryl and Heather were great... but Heather ALSO played on Legends so she's another wash, and Maddie & Mel are, well, Maddie & Mel. So athleticism alone is going to be a point in favor of Legends.
What about their QBs? As we said in our All-Time QB Rankings above, Chris Cole was the GOAT... but if Joey Batts is the second greatest of all-time, then it can't be THAT much of a drop-off from Chris to Joey, right? A point to Public Enemy for sure, but not a big one.
In terms of total roster strength from top to bottom, we give the advantage to Legends. But athleticism on paper doesn't always guarantee championships. If it did, Legends would be working on their 8th straight title this season.
Do Public Enemy have the cohesion, the game plan, the intangibles, the Tommy Hughes effect, whatever you want to call it, to beat a team of "superior" athletes more often than not? Maybe. Of course we have no way of knowing the real answer, so let's look at it differently:
From Spring 2016 to Fall 2021, Public Enemy won 5 championships over 11 seasons. From Spring 2022 to Spring 2025, Legends won 5 championships over 7 seasons. If we believe the level of competition is more or less even (and we do), then do we believe Legends will win at least ONE championship over the next 4 seasons (including this one)? If we think they'd win even ONE more, then we're saying all things equal, against similar competition, that Legends will win more championships than Public Enemy over the same period of time. And yes, we do believe they will win at least one more.
So we're going to choose Legends as the greatest on-field team in TSL history... with an asterisk that it's still in doubt in many of our minds. There's only one way they can remove the asterisk, and that's by winning Championship #6. They're undefeated and they've won every game so far this season by at least three scores, so we may only be a couple months away from that, and then it'll be official in our standings. Until then, it isn't FACT, it's just our OPINION. For whatever that's worth.
Every Offense in the League Ranked Best to Worst, by Division
Every Defense in the League Ranked Best to Worst, by Division
Every Team's Point Differential in the League Ranked Best to Worst, by Division
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