So on last night’s podcast, I lied and said that power rankings have a lot of predictive value. This was based on some analysis I had done earlier in the season while looking at a smallish sample of data from last year. I checked out this season’s data this morning, and if you picked your matchups based on the higher ranked team, you were only right 50% of the time. That’s pretty terrible, the same as flipping a coin. Taking it further I decided to look at games were one team was ranked at least 6 spots higher than the other team and was only right 40% of the time. This season has had a ton of upsets so far, but that’s what makes it so great. Right?
Here’s an update on how each team has progressed in the power rankings:

And here’s each team’s power rank, playoff rank, and points rank:
|
Playoff Rank |
Power Rank |
Points Rank |
| Nellis A.F.B. Boomers |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Springfield Atoms |
2 |
1 |
1 |
| Dreadmetal Pumaskulls |
3 |
3 |
3 |
| Shelbyville Shittysauruses |
4 |
4 |
8 |
| The Fluffy Bunnies |
5 |
7 |
7 |
| Butthole Surfers |
6 |
5 |
5 |
| Philadelphia Shenanihads |
7 |
8 |
9 |
| Team GoInsanelyFast |
8 |
6 |
4 |
| Columbia Songbirds |
9 |
9 |
6 |
| Robot Unicorn |
10 |
10 |
11 |
| Giant Octopus |
11 |
11 |
12 |
| Randy Savage Macho Men |
12 |
12 |
10 |