Week 19 Real Rankings

NOTES
- Just a note on the trade deadline. What a crazy couple weeks. 25 trades went down. I'll try to find a way to do an overview of all the action in the next week or so. I know our initial goal was just to delay the sell-off and avoid creating dead teams to maintain the integrity of the matchups, but it has also create this really interesting and intense two weeks of dealing. Good job everybody.

- Congratulations to Jason and Pierce for securing spots in the playoffs.

- Montezumas maintains the top spot in the rankings, but the margin is still narrow. The win was namely due to a matchup advantage over Prestige, who was last in the real ranks. Six games up, but there's two tough matchups left with Cowhide and the hot One Nut Wonders. Meanwhile, the Revenge have slipped the past few weeks with Real Ranks over 6.0 in Weeks 17-19. I'll need to do better than that.

- Moose had a tough week. While the Real Rank probably didn't warrant a 2-8, he was up against tough competition in the rebuilt One Nut squad and fell 2-8 and into 11th in the standings. That said, he doesn't have a tough road to climb back into the playoffs with 8th place only three games away and three sellers immediately in front of him.

- Lars secured the title of worst team this week and will owe an additional $30 next season, now sitting 68 games out of first with a .308  winning percentage, which is one of the worst showings in league history. Unfortunately, he also made zero trades during the open trading period, so next year isn't off to the best start.

- The playoffs should be most interesting. Currently, there are two teams who were sellers at the deadline (ring and Urban) who are in the top 8. The teams in 9th and 10th, Anal and Donkey, were also sellers.

- Keep those lineups up to date. We only have two weeks left in the regular season.

- Reminder that the number of balls you get in the lottery will be impacted by how you do in the playoffs. The winner of the consolation bracket will get the most balls and the best chance to get the first pick.