Through Week 9
Power Rankings
Team names open that team’s page. Column titles open the week-by-week for that category.
| # | Team | Power Score | Record | Points | Breakdown | Coach Rating | Optimal Points Breakdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1– | 50 | 7-2 #1 | 1,257.9 #1 | 62.0 #1 | 89.9% #1 | 59.0 #1 | |
| 2– | 43 | 7-2 #1 | 1,139.9 #2 | 52.0 #2 | 88.9% #3 | 45.0 #4 | |
| 3▲ 1 | 36 | 6-3 #3 | 1,102.0 #4 | 43.0 #3 | 88.4% #4 | 42.0 #5 | |
| 4▲ 2 | 32 | 5-4 #4 | 1,127.1 #3 | 38.0 #6 | 87.0% #7 | 48.5 #3 | |
| 5▼ 2 | 29 | 4-5 #7 | 1,091.3 #5 | 43.0 #3 | 88.2% #5 | 36.5 #6 | |
| 6▲ 1 | 26 | 5-4 #4 | 1,051.6 #8 | 38.0 #6 | 81.8% #9 | 51.0 #2 | |
| 7▼ 3 | 24 | 4-5 #7 | 1,068.5 #6 | 39.0 #5 | 88.0% #6 | 35.0 #7 | |
| 8– | 20 | 2-7 #9 | 1,055.6 #7 | 36.0 #8 | 89.1% #2 | 32.0 #9 | |
| 9– | 18 | 5-4 #4 | 1,027.7 #9 | 34.0 #9 | 83.0% #8 | 35.0 #7 | |
| 10– | 5 | 0-9 #10 | 881.2 #10 | 20.0 #10 | 78.0% #10 | 21.0 #10 |
The race
1st at the top — a line going up is a team climbing.
Only Ladds has led every week of the season. Music City Miracles has climbed from 10th to 2nd without dropping a place all season. Cam Ward of the State has slipped from 3rd to 8th.
Rank through the season
1st at the top — a line going up is a team climbing.
Only Ladds (John Bregger) — wk 1: #1 · wk 2: #1 · wk 3: #1 · wk 4: #1 · wk 5: #1 · wk 6: #1 · wk 7: #1 · wk 8: #1 · wk 9: #1
How Power Score works
Every team gets ranked (1 = best) in five categories. Each category rank earns points toward a Power Score — the best team in a category earns the most points, the last-place team earns the fewest — and those five point totals are added together and ranked again for the final order above. Higher Power Score is better.
- Record — Real wins, losses, and ties against each week's actual opponent.
- Points Scored — Total points scored, week by week.
- Breakdown — “All-play” wins: each week, a team is credited a win for every other team it outscored that week (a tie counts as half a win), regardless of who it actually played.
- Coach Rating — The share of the season's best-possible lineup score that the manager's actual start/sit decisions captured — all their started points over all their available points. Weeks count for what they were worth, so a big week matters more than a small one.
- Optimal Points Breakdown — The same all-play calculation as Breakdown, but using each team's optimal lineup score instead of what was actually started, to measure roster strength on its own.
Click any category above (in the table header or this list) to see the week-by-week numbers behind it.
Tracked week by week but not part of the Power Score:
- Scoring Distribution — How many players a team’s points actually came from — spread across players rather than across weeks, which is what Consistency measures. Built from each started player’s share of the team’s score, shown as an “effective contributors” count: a team scoring evenly across four starters reads 4.0, while one reading 2.4 got its points from about two and a half people however many were in the lineup. Bench points are excluded, because they never counted toward the real score. Neither end is straightforwardly better — leaning on a star wins weeks and is one injury or bye from losing them.