Week 18 Real Rankings

NOTES

Congratulations on your participation in the most eventful trade deadline in league history.  The action was nonstop Sunday night, with a total of 13 trades executed in the single day. In total, there were 27 trades during the open trading period -- also a new record. While it is mostly a biproduct of a process designed to control early selling, the open trading period has turned into one of the more exciting two weeks of the year.

With that, the Real Rankings are essentially useless! Really though, the performance of the team from week 3 is meaningless when trying to assess current teams. There were some massive changes to rosters and draftboard. While there appeared to be little interest in trading first rounders last year, four of them went to new owners this year, including Dan, who now has two.

One thing that is noteworthy is that even though there's some clear discrepencies between the Real Rankings and Actual Standings, the top 8 in the RR has the same constituents as the Actual. So that's something.

While the top teams jockey for position, it's time for the sellers to look back at all they've accomplished. Below is the updated draft scores, which changed at the very last minute as Moose send Khris Davis packing for a first rounder. It's interesting how many avenues there are to get toa great draft score. Napalm is evenly distributed in the first nine rounds while Watson's early work leaves him lacking in the first four rounds, but will be done drafting after the 14th as it currently stands. Mewanhile, Dan has three first rounders! Five teams with scores of 120+ is pretty crazy, though that will adjust with offseason trades.


There's 25% of the pot on the line for first place with three weeks and 30 "games" to go. Angry is sitting a game out of first, with Donkey sitting atop. Anal and LOC aren't far behind at 5 and 5.5 games, respectively.

Montezumas and Ring have an important matchup this week as they sit in 7th and 8th, respectively. Dagan is tied with Gibby, whose firesale has him about where he would like him. One Nut is surging though, with a big win over the Revenge and the third best real ranking over the last three. Jason is only two games away from Dagan/Gibby. Stroman is six games away, a very reasonable distance. The bottom line is at least of team out of Montezumas, Ring, One Nut, or Thor -- who were either a buy or non-seller -- will not be going to the playoffs. Potentially more if Stroman and Napalm can compete.

Still need money from Dave, Dan, Brian, Justin, Dagan, Shomphe - let's get this out of the way guys. I like to pay out as soon as possible once the playoffs end.

I'm trying to keep up with the trade reviews. Will try to have them wrapped up in the next few days.

And I reminder for teams that just sold off - you need to maintain a competitive roster throughout the remainder of the season. There is plenty of incentive for you to do this because your draft position improves based on how well you do. So keep it up.