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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.  Hell, even the Sentinel (Sentient?) has stepped up its game, while we rest on our laurels.

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 so we hope you enjoy it!

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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 and bogus ties (where teams just agreed not to play rainout makeup games) 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 38 eventual division champions classified as "Favorites", 28 as "Contenders", and exactly zero as "Pretenders".  Favorites won only two divisions last Fall though, compared to four contenders, so there’s always hope! 
• 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 Freeballers 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 the favorites, Malones are scary good, a few others hoping for some good luck.

Underrated:  When was the last time that Legends DIDN’T have the best point differential in the top division?  Malones lead that category in their first D1 season, and they lead offensive points per game by a mile (+13.75 PPG more than the next team).  Their defense is not AS great, but it’s hardly embarrassing.  If you ignored the names of all teams in D1 (and the “big names” on each roster) and had to pick a favorite just based on stats, it would the Malones.

Overrated:  What A Dump finished ahead of Mavericks due to their head to head win against them… but that’s about the only thing What A Dump won this session.  They’re last in points scored (by about a TD per game) and last in points against (by about a TD per game).  They also went through more subs than any other D1 team this session, which won’t help them in the playoffs.  The talent is undeniable, but for whatever reason the results haven’t been as strong as last Fall.

Division 2

The Headline:  Can’t Touch This massive favorites, Jabronies and Frodo hoping to play spoiler.

Underrated:  The division runs through Can’t Touch This, right?  They won every game except for two this season by 19 or more points.  The only exceptions were Jabronies (who they crushed 45-8 in the rematch) and Frodo, who they only beat by 4 points.  Frodo had a weird season, taking a tie against CTT instead of a rainout rematch, and then doing a “two for one” game against DXYZ.  If anyone has a chance to beat CTT, isn’t it Frodo?

Overrated:  It’s a stretch to call them “overrated” but because we have to pick someone, we’ll take fourth place Buffalo Vice (only because the stats say they should have probably finished fifth).  They were incredibly courageous to make the jump to D2 to help out the League, and they proved they weren’t “out of their league” in D2 with some close games.  But they’re not going to be winning this championship.

Division 3

The Headline:  ISH are the best team in D3, but the TSL’s best division has plenty of contenders with a fighting chance.

Underrated:  One of the first things we look for with “underrated” teams are point differential ranking vs standings ranking.  If a team finishes low in the standings, but their point differentials are much higher, then bingo, there’s your underrated team.  Not sure we’ve ever picked a team with a WORSE point differential to be our “most underrated”, but here it goes: BQI is our most underrated team in D3.  It’s a bit of a stretch, but our logic is: a) gender teams often suffer from their best players having conflicts throughout the regular season, and that won’t happen in the playoffs (i.e. we’re most likely to see the best version of BQI) and b) no one else really stands out as “underrated”, so it’s BQI by default!

Overrated:  Grey Hair – Don’t Care finished with a winning record, and a (slightly) negative point differential.  Their offense was average, their defense was average.  They’re a fine team, and they’ll be a tough out (just like everyone in D3, for the most part).  But there are four teams with a winning record, and only three of them strike us as real “contenders” at this point.

Division 4

The Headline:  Puckett, Mike’s and Coochie are D3 quality teams, and everyone else is hoping to win a game or two.

Underrated:  We were tempted to go with Tater Tots, who finished sixth in the standings despite having the third best point differential in their division.  They sound like a perfect candidate for an “underrated team”… until you realize that +112 of their total point differential came from beating down teams that finished with a losing record.  Nothing wrong with padding your stats against the bottom feeders, but Tots didn’t do nearly as well against the top teams, so we’re reluctant to proclaim them underrated (their 4-4 final record feels about right).  It’s boring to pick the “best” team, but let’s be boring: Puckett is probably the most underrated here.  They’re second to Mike’s Detailing in the standings, but they’re better than Mike’s in offense AND defense, with a wide lead in point differential.  Take away a Tater Tots massacre of Show Me Your TDs, and Puckett would finish with top offense AND top defense in the division. 

Overrated:  We’ll cheat and take three teams: the entire middle tier of D4.  PowerPuff Girls, Not So Sticky and Tater Tots are all very good teams… but they all feel like they should be playing a division below the top dogs.  This article isn’t about “feelings” it’s about stats, but the stats back up the feeling here.  Just look at the drop off in point differential per game between Coochie Monsters (+9.0 PPG) and PowerPuff Girls (+0.1 PPG).  With three STRONG favorites, it’s hard to imagine one of these other teams winning not one, not two, but three games to take home the championship.

Division 5

The Headline:  Four very good teams, and seven teams who have almost no chance at winning this championship.

Underrated:  Blue Ballers have the best offense in the division, the best point differential in the division, and their defense (while ranked fourth) is STILL allowing less than 20 points per game.  This is a great team… and they’re fourth in the standings, because they had one bad day on June 6^th where they lost a doubleheader.  We’re assuming that was an attendance issue, and that their full team is heavily underrated going into playoffs.

Overrated:  Mo Chicken finished in 7^th out of 11 teams with a 3-3-2 record… or did they?  They only played a league low five games this session, due to two forfeit wins and an agreed tie after the rainouts.  So they’re really 1-3-1 in five games played… with the worst point differential per game of any team still in the playoffs (SBG have already forfeited, we’re told).  It’s not Mo Chicken’s fault that other teams forfeited of course, but a .500 team, they were not.

Division 6

The Headline:  The TSL’s closest division top to bottom (by far) has no favorites, and almost anyone could win this championship (probably not Sticky Laces)

Underrated:  We have never, EVER had a division where each team in the standings was perfectly sorted by offense AND defense.  Take a second, look at the chart above.  TMA had the best offense and defense… Intentional Clowning had the second best offense and defense… etc etc.  Every team finished EXACTLY where you would expect them to.  Crazy, huh?  So no one is truly underrated or overrated here, but since we ALWAYS pick someone, here’s the call: Select is the most underrated team.  They finished with a +0 point differential and a 2-6 record.  That’s some REALLY bad luck, to lose all the close wins, and get two bigger wins to balance them out. 

Overrated:  Same logic as above, but Sticky Laces are the most overrated team, only because they share the same record as Select and Raw Milkers with a worse point differential than both of those teams.  They’re also the only team on our graph above to not be listed as a “contender” in the gold coloring. 

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Top Ten Best and Worst Lists for the 2026 Spring 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 two teams crack the 40 point mark, down from six in the Fall session, and eight from the previous Spring (likely due to terrible weather that makes throwing a football difficult).  Congrats to The Malones, our Spring 2026 scoring champs (their second scoring title).

So if the Malones were the BEST offense, who were the worst?  This season we had 12 teams fail to make it to 20 PPG on offense.  Those teams unsurprisingly went a combined 20-73-3 this season.  

Then if we look at defenses, there were 14 teams that held opponents to under 20 PPG this session.  On the other end of the spectrum, there were two teams that allowed 40+ points per game (the now defunct SBG, and What A Dump).  We never publish the opposite of the Scoring Champions (Defensive Champions?) but here are the best defenses going back a few years:

For teams on the "Worst of" lists in that Top Ten chart above, if you're looking to cheer yourselves up, it's worth taking a second to remember last Spring’s "Worst of All-Time" team, Show Me Your TDs (no relation to this year’s squad), 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?  Birds of War, Puckett, Can’t Touch This, ISH and Legends were the only five teams in the League to make all three "Ten Best" lists for offense, defense and point differentials.  There were only four teams to make all three "Ten Worst" lists, including Flying Balls, Two Tuddies, What A Dump, Show Me Your TDs (is that name cursed?) and SBG.

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All-Time Championship Statistics 

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 103 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 (which are no longer being contested as of 2026) aren't currently worth a point.  With apologies to DILFS, Jelly Beans, Sticky Bandits, Eyes Downtown, Losing Streak and Friendship Club, Winter sessions were 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 Spring 2026 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, by this system, the greatest team in TSL history, 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 have the most TOTAL TSL championships of all-time with six, but Sticky Bandits and Puckett All-Stars (both contenders this session) are only one behind with five each. 

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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