ACKL Power Rankings Round 2

Well the ACKL is off to a bang and the start of the year has brought us a full 10 GM's showing up to play the game this year. As per the norm we have a couple of usual names at the top of our list and a couple of new surprises that this year has brought. One thing that has been learnt, is that anything you thought you knew last year is worthless and that any constant surprises have been mitigated by yet again another year of bad coaching. But alas if you own Chris Bosh you now have a guy who gets 15 and 6... ummm, don't worry Jason Thompson wins the award with his 5 and 5... Yup another year where nothing makes sense and the 3 time defending champion looks like he'll go four time. So let's get down to business.

1. Skittles and Roses (1)

After a crushing defeat of last year's finalist, he is having a bit more of a difficult week with some mysterious listeria infection. But nothing to worry continues to be smooth sailing with little injuries.

2. Kingscourt Jester (3)

Team is playing like it is possessed at having another fantastic season, the hope is this will continue and at the moment it looks like. Now will someone tell Gay that he got paid last season and he can relax again.

3. Gucci's Gangster (6)

Looks to be a force to be reckoned with this year. Griffin looks solid and the rest of his squad has the highest of fashion senses going into the year. Has easily taken care of business in the first two weeks and ran over Kahn's team in week one. Watchout for the hitman squad.

4. Halifax Rainman (7)

Last time I called them team Old, but alas after two weeks I have to give some respect, has been playing teams really tough and making everyone realize that he will try to contend. Good victory over the meat the last week and another solid performance this week.

5. The Khan Artists (2)

Hasn't found the traction yet in the new season. Has got players doing their thing, and others wondering if they will do there thing this year. Plenty of time in the year to be right in the thicket and watch things grow, but at the moment it is a team going backwards.

6. Indian Burial Curse (4)

Another team going backwards, though making multiple moves to try and fix it, but draft circa 2010 has been a disaster from beginning to end. Will he find the components to make things work, and will the injury bug stop biting all his players one by one.

7. Mystery Meat (5)

The GM is back and the squad is off to a slow start. D12 being one of the slowest of them all in terms of rebounds and such. But give it some time and patience and he could be a very feared team at the end of the year.

8.Broken Ankle Rehab (8)

Good win the first week, then ran into an angry GM the second week, finding himself on the losing end as his team just doesn't have the depth and raw talent up top to make it work yet, but a more competitive squad than it was last year with the addition of Wall.

9. Future Dunk (9)

The rebuilding seems to be working, good talent has been found, it is just going to be a long long year in the end. Though the schedule can only get easier from here on out.

10. OCT (10)

 The team should be used to being in this spot, cause it looks very unlikely that it will be moving anytime soon. Something about having Hibbert as your 5th best player tells you that something may be wrong. Patience and making sure to get value out of the older guys to rebuild is the major goal here.

ACKL Finals... Day 1 Pre-Breakdown

The finals are upon me once again in the wonderful fantasy format of sports. Now I know most won't be interested, but I wanted to break down the fantasy numbers pre-day and then post day to see how well the average predictors are, and whether or not you can find an actually statistical advantage from it all or not.

So how I'm going to break it down, I'm going to forget percentages... that's a crap shoot stat that I don't have time to try figure out as the week is going, I'm worried about the other 8 categories that go on in my fantasy format, I'm going to tally each person's starting roster for that day, and make a prediction based on last week's average stats... I could go monthly, but I've chosen to use the nearest stat and too see how far off some players are, in terms of hot and cold streaks. Anyways just something to scare those that wish to look at the stats.

Day 1
HH Roster 3 PTM PTS OREB REB AST STLS BLKS TO
- Stephen Curry: 2.3 19.7 1.0 4.7 9.3 1.3 0.7 3.7
- Andre Iguodala: 2.3 22.7 1.0 7.0 7.7 3.0 0.7 4.0
- Deron Williams: 2.0 17.0 0.0 2.3 14.3 1.0 0.7 3.3
- Lebron James: 0.3 30.7 0.7 9.7 7.3 1.3 0.7 3.0
-Gerald Wallace: 0.5 15.0 1.8 9.0 2.3 0.8 0.5 1.8
- Antawn Jamison: 1.3 13.3 1.0 9.7 1.3 0.7 0.7 1.0
- Luis Scola: 0.0 18.8 2.5 8.0 2.3 1.3 0.3 2.3
- Jason Thompson:0.0 17.0 2.3 7.3. 0.7 0.3 1.3 1.7
- John Salmons: 1.8 19.8 1.0 3.8 4.8 1.0 0.3 2.0

Kobe's Lineup
- Jrue Holiday: 1.0 15.0 0.3 2.3 5.7 1.0 0.0 4.0
- Chase Budinger: 3.0 19.3 0.8 4.5 2.0 0.3 0.3 0.3
- Taj Gibson: 0.0 14.0 5.7 13.7 1.0 0.7 2.3 1.0
- Joakim Noah: 0.0 11.0 4.0 11.3 2.7 0.3 1.3 0.7
- J.J. Hickson: 0.0 12.0 4.0 11.0 1.7 0.3 1.7 1.3
- Andray Blatche: 0.0 23.0 3.3 8.3 6.8 2.8 1.0 2.8
-H-heem Thabeet:0.0 1.7 1.7 6.7 0.3 0.3 2.3 1.7
- Paul Millsap: 0.0 13.7 3.0 9.0 2.7 0.7 1.7 1.7
- Shaun Livingston: 0.0 12.0 0.5 3.3 5.3 0.0 0.8 2.5


Matchup numbers(predicted)

Category	Kobe(pred)	actual	HH(pred)	actual
3PTM	4.0	2	10.5	11
PTS	121.7	103	174	198
OREB	24.4	12	11.3	7
REB	70.1	52	61.5	37
ASTS	28.2	26	50	41
STLS	6.7	4	10.7	4
BLKS	11.4	9	5.2	3
TO	16.0	11	22.8	10

So after night one the matchup should be 4-4, and then add percentages in there, which usually gets split, so after night one the matchup should be 5-5. Not much to seperate both squads, and really should make for an entertaining continuation on the week. I'll update it hopefully tomorrow after the actual results come in and we can see how widely off the predicted stats are.