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- Written by Jeff Krol
- Category: TSL QB Power Rankings
- Published: 28 September 2023
- Created: 28 September 2023
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Welcome back to the TSL Quarterback Power Rankings!
TWENTY FIVE Quarterbacks are ranked this week, so D5 will see a little more coverage than usual, and... you guessed it... a graph. Don't you love feeling like you're in 7th grade math class again?
#1 Bobby McConnell - Eyes Downtown
Last Week: Beat Sticky Bandits 43-35
The TSL's top ranked QB took down the (previously) second ranked QB and now has the best record AND the most points per game in the highest division. Not much else to say here. Bobby is the unquestioned #1 right now... but he's still only 1-2 against Legends this season.
#2 Jordan Lawson - Losing Streak / Mavericks
Last Week: Beat Legends 36-24 (Losing Streak), beat Cle-Avengers Assemble 31-20, lost to Practice Squad 40-33 (Mavericks)
Losing Streak bested Legends on Saturday and Jordan is now at his highest spot ever in the Power Rankings. Of course nobody ever dreams of being #2, but without another regular season game against Eyes Downtown this year, it would take a collapse on Bobby's part for Jordan to make it to #1. Between Losing Streak and Mavericks, Jordan has the 9th and 11th highest scoring teams in the TSL.
#3 Mike Thomas - Sticky Bandits
Last Week: Lost to Frodo Swaggins 39-30, lost to Eyes Downtown 43-35
The Sticky Bandits have now lost more games in the past three weeks than they have in any season going back to Fall of 2021. The roster is always more or less the same here, and they're still scoring 30+ points in all but one game this season. Tough to say why it isn't translating into wins, but either way, Mike drops another spot in the Power Rankings this week.
#4 Joey Batts - Legends / Cunning Stunts
Last Week: Lost to Losing Streak 36-24
The three-time world champion returned as QB of Legends for the first time this week, and promptly went 0-1 as their starter. Is he still the guy they'll turn to for playoffs, or has he lost the Legends starting QB gig? Either way, the Cunning Stunts are still the highest scoring team in the TSL, so he has that going for him.
#5 Jeremy "Hogan" Olson - Freeballers
Last Week: Beat Scared Hitless 42-32
Has a team ever turned around their season as quickly as Freeballers? These guys were 0-1 in the first three weeks of the season, and have ripped off five straight wins in the three weeks that followed. Freeballers have the best offense, best defense, and best point differential in D2. If they can get by Untouchaballs this week, they'll be huge favorites to take the #1 seed for playoffs.
#6 Garrett Beesing - Frodo Swaggins / BAADies
Last Week: Beat Sticky Bandits 39-30 (Frodo), beat Creekers 32-26 (BAADies)
There wasn't much rust on Garrett Beesing's arm on Saturday after taking two weeks off as he led Frodo to their first win of the season (and BAADies to their fourth, but that's less interesting). The consensus from many on D1 this session was "it's four teams and Frodo", but Garrett is already proving that wrong.
#7 Jeremy Burr - Untouchaballs
Last Week: Did Not Play
No game for Untouchaballs this week, with a Freeballers showdown looming on the horizon.
#8 Ryan Dougherty - Can't Touch This
Last Week: Lost to THREAD 34-33
Can't Touch This are 2-2 in their last four games after a red-hot start... and both of those wins came against 2-5 Scared Hitless. Are they the team that wrecked D2 in the first month of the season? Or are they the team that's struggling to pick up quality wins now? Tough to say. Their two losses have come by 1 point... and 40 points.
#9 Terrell Bolden - The Family
Last Week: Beat Wanderers 40-38
The Family are now in first place in D3 after a big win over Wanderers, and Bolden has scored 40+ points in all five of their wins. They also control their own destiny: if they close out the season with wins over Let's Get Reccked and Vaspian, they should take the #1 seed for playoffs. Of course that may not matter in D3, as the 8th seed right now belongs to the Wanderers, who were two points away from catching the Family last Saturday.
#10 Travis Cleavenger - Cle-Avengers Assemble
Last Week: Lost to Mavericks 31-20, beat Practice Squad 47-26
Cle-Avengers Assemble are 2-4 this season after beating Practice Squad and losing to Mavericks, and surprisingly that Mavericks game was their first "one score" game of the season. All of their previous wins and losses have been much more decisive.
#11 Mark Dalfonso - THREAD
Last Week: Beat Can't Touch This 34-33
The weirdest season ever continues, as THREAD is now 3-0 against the top three teams in their division... and 0-4 against the rest of it. Let us know if you can make sense of that, because we can't.
#12 Dylan Day - Scared Hitless
Last Week: Lost to Freeballers 42-32
We expected Scared Hitless to dominate D2 once they dropped down from D1, but they're 2-5 as the regular season draws close to an end. Are they going to remember they were a team that once had a shot at a D1 finals? Or are they going to hit rock bottom and go back to D3 in the Spring? Let's see how the next couple of weeks go.
#13 Frank Laudico - Wanderers
Last Week: Lost to The Family 40-38
The Wanderers are in last place in D3 a few short months after being 2 points away from winning the whole damn thing. Okay, "last place" in D3 is kind of meaningless because of all the parity top-to-bottom in this division, and the Wanderers stats are a bit skewed by one short-handed week. No one in D3 can be written off... but we wouldn't call them "favorites" right now either.
#14 Brandon "B" Ford - Practice Squad / 716
Last Week: Did Not Play
No games for B this week. The TSL's most loveable QB/Ref should be back next week we hope.
#15 Alex Buchlis - Let's Get Reccked
Last Week: Did Not Play
No games for Let's Get Reccked this week, but rumor is that Alex was an excellent ref during his bye week (we would do Ref Power Rankings, but think of all the hate mail we'd get).
#16 Andy Clark - Buffalo Vice
Last Week: Beat Travis Henry's Kids 49-41, lost to Father Baker 36-32
Buffalo Vice is settled into that "not quite Cunning Stunts, but better than most other teams in D4" groove right now. The only two teams they've played so far this season and haven't beaten at least once are the two gender teams in their division.
#17 Damien Keller - Keller Whales
Last Week: Beat Bullet Club 39-38
Keller Whales seem to have Bullet Club's number, but looking for other trends in D3 right now is pointless. Six of the eight teams in this division are winning or losing their games by an average of 2 or fewer points per game. That's crazy! Keller Whales are in 2nd place at 4-2 right now, but they're smack in the middle of this convoluted pack statistically.
#18 John Langley - Bullet Club / Travis Henry's Kids
Last Week: Lost to Keller Whales 39-38 (Bullet Club), beat TMA 24-18, lost to Buffalo Vice 49-41 (Travis Henry's Kids)
Since we don't count subbing games in the Power Rankings, Langley went 1-2 on Saturday with his only win coming against winless TMA. John has been okay this session, but we expected more from Bullet Club if we're being honest.
#19 T.J. Ferguson - Puckett All-Stars
Last Week: Did Not Play
No games for Puckett this week.
#20 Brian Orzechowski - Vaspian
Last Week: Lost to 716 27-12
Life without Drew isn't easy as Vaspian could only muster 12 points without their star receiver. They're still 4-2 though which is more than many expected for them at this point in the season.
#21 Buddy Lee - Passing While Intoxicated / Back That Pass Up
Last Week: Did Not Play
No Buddy sightings at the fields this week.
#22 Paul LoVullo - Come From Behind
Last Week: Beat Goatsack 52-7, lost to Cobblestone 46-30
Come From Behind showed no mercy against Goatsack this week with a 52-7 annihilation. When these guys are on, they're ON. A loss to suddenly spry Cobblestone dropped their record to 5-3 on the season, but if a full Come From Behind shows up for playoffs (for once), we assume they'll be able to hang with anyone in D5... maybe even GUCCI.
#23 Kelly Kane - GUCCI
Last Week: Beat Not So Sticky 46-6
GUCCI became the first team to complete their full schedule of 9 games this session, and we'd say it went pretty well. They're 6-3 and in first place for the time being... but they would be 6-1 if we threw out the two games they played without Kelly. This is the team to beat in D5.
#24 Darryl Carr - Cobblestone
Last Week: Beat Come From Behind 46-30
Ignore the start of the season. Cobblestone is 2-1 in their last three games, and two of those were massively short-handed when Darryl was playing with only two or three receivers. They're not the favorites in D5 because they lack consistency, but if their whole team shows up to play on the same day...
#25 Ethan Herbold - Interdimensional Lightning Falcons
Last Week: Did Not Play
No game for Ethan this week as ILF rolled to a 35-0 win with a sublist QB.
Fancy Statistics Section
This may come across as lazy. We don't care. We're repeating the Point Differentials by Team graph we did a few weeks ago when we said it was "too early to matter". Now it matters.
The REASON we're showing this again is to highlight how many teams are right in the middle now... or in other words, how many teams are barely winning or barely losing on average every week. The gold stripe in the middle is calling out all the teams that are winning or losing games by an average score of 7 points or less (about a touchdown). There are 33 of them in total, which means that 73% of the League is pretty competitive day to day. There are also six teams that are dominating their opponents by more than a score per game (13%) and six unfortunate teams that are losing by more than a score per game (also 13%).
Are you one of the dominant teams? One of the big losers? Let's find out!
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