Derby News Network Power Rankings - May 2011
Intro article: DNN Releases May 2011 Power Rankings
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1 W | 2011 1-0 2010 15-1 |
5/7 vs Rose City | In their first flat-track action of 2011, last year's champs only seemed to be getting better, holding last year's 4th place Philly to single digits in the first half on their way to a dominating 183-32 win. That extends their current flat-track win streak to 10 games, and they'll face off against two contenders from their West region this month when they take on Rose City on the 7th and Bay Area on the 21st. | ||||
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2 W | 2011 2-0 2010 15-2 |
5/21 vs Texas | No action or movement since big wins over Detroit and Montreal in February, but the 2009 champs get back in motion with games against Texas and Rat City (5/28) this month. | ||||
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1 E | 2011 1-0 2010 12-1 |
5/21 @ Charm City | Landed the second-highest point total of their history when they steamrolled Steel City last month, 275-31. This month sees their fourth meeting with regional rival Charm City -- Gotham won each of their 2010 meetings by about 140 points. | ||||
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3 W | 2011 4-0 2010 9-3 |
5/8 vs Rose City | Got revenge for a narrow 2010 loss to Philly by defeating them 143-89 in April, marking Denver's third win this year over a top-ten team (they've also knocked off Rose City and Rat City). | ||||
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5 W | 2011 4-1 2010 9-6 |
5/7 @ Rocky Mountain | Only a narrow 14 point loss to Denver mars an impressive early season run for Portland's crew -- Bay Area, Rat City and Detroit have all gone down to solid losses against them. They'll try their luck against reigning champs Rocky Mountain in Denver this weekend. | ||||
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4 W | 2011 1-1 2010 12-7 |
5/14 @ Ventura County | On the strength of a hard-fought 103-92 win over Rat City, San Francisco's team shoots right back into the top ten after spending the post-Championships period out of it after a first-round loss to Texas. | ||||
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6 W | 2011 2-4 2010 9-6 |
5/21 vs Texas | Seattle's girls drop one spot after the loss to Bay Area and round out a top 7 that features 6 teams from their West region. They'll defend their home turf against Texas on the 21st and travel to battle Oly on the 28th. | ||||
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1 NC | 2011 2-0 2010 7-6 |
5/22 @ Minnesota | The perennial North Central champs dominated Brewcity in a non-sanctioned first official test of the WFTDA's experimental no-minors ruleset, 232-27. Though it's tough to draw much of a conclusion from that alone, they stay at #8 by switching places with a Philly team that appears to have lost a step since a very strong 2010 season. They'll take on Minnesota in a rematch of last year's North Central championship at Midwest BrewHaha on May 22. | ||||
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2 E | 2011 6-4 2010 15-6 |
5/7 vs Texas | Philly has kicked off their season with a lot of activity, but their results have been much spottier than that of the the 2010 Philly team, which cruised on a 11-0 run from March to September. In April, they needed the full 60 minutes to edge out longtime regional rival Charm City 132-124, lost by 54 points to Denver (whom they'd beaten by 13 last year), and suffered the biggest blowout of their history against Rocky Mountain, 183-32. They lose one space to Windy City and another as Bay Area passes them both on the way up. | ||||
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3 E | 2011 5-1 2010 10-8 |
5/8 vs Texas | Baltimore is coming off a very busy three-city, two-continent stretch that saw them squeak by Detroit (2 points), barely lose to Philly (6 points) and then sweep three games over Montreal, Steel City and London on three consecutive weekends. They hang on the edge of the top 10, passed by rising Bay Area. | ||||
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1 SC | 2011 2-0 2010 8-5 |
5/14 @ Boston | The 2010 South Central champs got their 2011 season off to a powerful start in April by booting previous #24 Nashville from the top 25 with a 202-82 win and following up the next day with a 224-73 triumph over Atlanta. Passed by Bay Area on the way up and Detroit on the way down, they hold steady at 11. KCRW hits the road for some Eastern Region competition in May, taking on Boston and Providence on the 14th and 15th. | ||||
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2 SC | 2011 7-0 2010 7-8 |
5/7 @ Philly | Although Texas beat Houston on consecutive days in February by 126 and 118 points, Houston managed to score a bit of a moral victory in April by losing on consecutive days by 50 and 54 points. Still, along with a slightly bigger win over Cincinnati (149-61), Texas extended a 7-0 record on the year. Things get tougher this weekend, when they try to move back into the top ten with a Mid-Atlantic trip to take on Philly and Charm City. | ||||
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3 NC | 2011 3-6 2010 11-3 |
5/7 vs Naptown | Detroit charged up the charts earlier this year with narrow losses to Windy City (19 points), Philly (6 points) and Charm City (2 points), but a somewhat confusing April saw them smash last year's Championships-tourney team Madison 205-53 but have much closer outcomes against then-unranked Chicago Outfit (145-102) and long-struggling Grand Raggidy (130-74), teams that didn't even make the North Central top 10 last year. For now Detroit slips back down a couple notches back below Kansas City and Texas, but this weekend's action against steadily rising regional rival Naptown ought to provide a telling data point. | ||||
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6 E | 2011 4-4 2010 12-4 |
5/14 @ Cincinnati | Steel City was in all of the most exciting games at London's Anarchy in the UK tournament, beating out Montreal and London and taking tough Charm City deep into the second half before being decimated by penalties. They did come back home to a huge rout from East juggernaut Gotham (275-31), but their performance against Charm City brings them to their highest-ever ranking at #14. | ||||
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5 E | 2011 9-3 2010 13-5 |
5/21 vs Maine | After shocking the derbyverse with upsets over Rat City and Boston early in the year and hitting a high of #13, Montreal seems to have at least temporarily settled back down into middle-level contender status in the East after losing a close one to Steel City (144-121) and running out of gas (and players) against Charm City, 207-85. This month finds them going up against another regional up-and-comer when they take on Maine at home. | ||||
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2 NC | 2011 4-0 2010 9-3 |
5/21 @ Brewcity | Before April Minnesota had been cruising through 2011 with three 100+ point victories in a row -- the most impressive being the first, over last year's Final 12 team Madison -- but in April Naptown came to town and gave them a serious scare before Minnesota pulled it out 111-95. This month, Minnesota has two games at the Midwest BrewHaha -- one against hosts Brewcity and one against Windy City, the team that finally stopped their surprising rampage through last year's North Central tournament in the championship match. For the moment, they drop one slot as Steel City moves up. | ||||
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6 NC | 2011 7-1 2010 13-5 |
5/7 @ Detroit | The Indianapolis team is a big mover this month. Although they finished 6th in last year's North Central tournament, last month they suddenly revealed themselves as a serious threat for a top-three finish in their region, narrowly losing to last year's #2 Minnesota (111-95) and solidly handling last year's #4 Cincinnati (167-94). As the hosts of this year's NC tournament, it seems clear that they're on a mission to make the hometown crowd proud; all told they're 7-1 on the year with all of their games against regional rivals. This weekend, they try to further buttress their case with a visit to Detroit. | ||||
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5 NC | 2011 2-2 2010 10-5 |
5/14 vs Steel City | A busy five-week, four-game series for Cincy started well with big wins over Nashville and Fort Wayne, but they were solidly handled on a trip to Texas and then were on the business end of a rude surprise from Naptown at the end of the month. They lose two spots to Steel City and Naptown, and only get a couple of weeks to rest before getting right back into it on consecutive weekends with Steel City on the 14th and Jet City on the 22nd. | ||||
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4 E | 2011 2-2 2010 5-9 |
5/14 vs Kansas City | After maintaining a solid grip on 3rd or 4th place in the Eastern region for about a year and a half, the Boston Massacre finds themselves losing or barely holding their ground against a small army of up-and-coming East teams in 2011. Montreal upset them in February, Steel City came within an eyelash in March and Maine -- a team that didn't make the East top 10 last year -- gave them a tough fight in April before losing 113-84. In May, Boston aims for an inter-regional win when the South Central champions Kansas City come to town. | ||||
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8 E | 2011 5-0 2010 7-7 |
5/21 @ Providence | Lancaster, PA's team had a very disappointing run at last year's East Region tournament, entering at #9 and losing all three of their games, but they're undefeated since then, though none of their wins have been over highly-ranked opponents. Their result against Maine, though -- a 156-104 win in March -- is particularly interesting in light of Boston's narrower 113-84 win in April. In June, they'll get a chance to go head to head with Boston at ECE, but before that they'll have a chance to extend a current 6 game win streak against two more East Region opponents, Providence and Connecticut, on May 21 and 22. | ||||
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- | 2011 0-3 2010 3-2 |
8/12 vs Rocky Mountain | Although they were not able to pull out a win against Charm City, Steel City or Montreal at their long-awaited Anarchy in the UK event, the sharpness of their learning curve brought them all the way to a late-game tie with Steel City in the event's final game before they finally succumbed; overall, the totality of their performances marked them as a clear threat to the lower levels of the top 25. However, their next WFTDA matchup won't be until August and then against the very toughest the sport has to offer, 2010 champs Rocky Mountain. | ||||
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9 NC | 2011 2-1 2010 7-5 |
5/14 vs Tri-City | After over a year of hovering around the edges, the Outfit finally debuts in the Power Rankings on the back of a decent performance against Detroit (losing 145-102) and a total domination of North Star (202-81). They continue to pursue an aggressive schedule that will see them play three games in May and three games in June -- although all of those games are against lower-ranked opponents, the decisiveness of their April win over current #7NC North Star suggests that the Outfit is solidly on their way to their first North Central tournament. | ||||
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6 SC | 2011 9-0 2010 12-5 |
5/14 vs Tucson | The Lincoln, Nebraska crew has been quietly amassing a 10-game winning streak since getting schooled 251-50 by Texas during last year's South Central tournament -- but, somewhat like Dutchland's similar streak, a lot of those wins have come against rebuilding, struggling or relatively new teams. However, the consistency added to an April win over cusp team Brewcity (last month's #25) finally edges them into the top 25. | ||||
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9 E | 2011 5-2 2010 5-3 |
5/21 @ Montreal | The Port Authorities have been showing some new fire since a influx of new blood from regional powerhouse Gotham. Last year's action ended late with a very close game against steadily rising Naptown, and in March they acquitted themselves well against a similarly rising star in the East, Dutchland. However, it's their 113-84 loss to perennial Eastern contender Boston that pushes them into a Power Rankings debut here. | ||||
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4 NC | 2011 0-2 2010 3-9 |
5/21 vs Naptown | Judging solely by Madison's 2011 results -- 100+ point losses to both Minnesota and Detroit -- they currently seem like a team in serious danger of falling off the radar, but their 2010 season results (where they didn't win their first game until July but still made it to the 12-team WFTDA championship tournament) makes it hard to write them off just yet. Still, with the top of the the North Central region tightening, Madison needs to get a win in May or they'll be taking a precipitous fall through the region -- they take on regional rivals Naptown and Brewcity on the 21st and 22nd and have no other regional games before the end of the rankings quarter. | ||||
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| E | WFTDA East region |
| W | WFTDA West region |
| NC | WFTDA North Central region |
| SC | WFTDA South Central region |
Comments
YEAR OF THE OUTFIT!
doing the damn thing.
Outfit! Outfit!
doing the damn thing.
17
....and it feels SO good!
sacred
i'm excited to see sacred on the bubble, not because they're doing awesome, but because a few of us placed informal bets about how beating jet would(n't) affect our power ranking. we were right on the money that jet would come off and we'd be placed "on the bubble".
oh wait, i think i'm supposed to be upset though right? "how dare you not put sacred on for beating a formally power ranked team? grrr! arrrg!" oh wait no, now i'm just being a pirate.
thanks, dnn!
I hope Sacred makes it on the
I hope Sacred makes it on the list soon!
aye!
Sacred has been KILLING it this year.
I'll place a bet we see them float off the bubble after ECE.
Seriously, the tornado
was insane. I really really love the Carolina Rollergirls. I hope we get a rematch sans natural disasters and acts of god soon!
No Coast!
Congrats to the whole No Coast team! Very much deserved.
Undefeated, actually
#23 No Coast on a 10-0 run since last year's NC tournament and a win over previous #25 Brewcity
Shouldn't No Coast be ranked higher, since they went undefeated at the North Central tournament? Or is that offset by them also being winless?
True, but we also deduct
True, but we also deduct points for not showing up.
Fixed; thanks for the catch!
Huh? No Coast was in the SC
Huh? No Coast was in the SC tournament, not the NC tournament. And we won 3, lost 1 (to Texecutioners) in that, and have been undefeated since :)
quick correction
London's listed game against Glasgow in June is actually our B team. Next outing for the A team is Rocky Mountain (eek).
If the WFTDA Q2 rankings reflect this then Xmas will have come early! We've got everything crossed for Regionals. If only we could get a couple more games in... :(
Denver Next
Denver will be playing Rose City this Sunday!!!
Denver weekend
Denver will be playing Rose City this Sunday!!!
Thats a closed bout I think.
I'm considering putting a lampshade on my head and standing in the corner hoping no one notices that I snuck in.
But seriously, I've been wanting to see that match up forever. Should be a hell of a weekend around these parts.
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J
RMRG Barnacle
We are in need of lamps, so
We are in need of lamps, so that might work.
Maine
YAY! So happy for MRD. :) Amazing work this season.
TXRG takes on the Top 10
Check the monster of a schedule the Texas Rollergirls have this month!!!! Getting ready for nationals...
Sat. 5/7 @ #9 Philly
Sun. 5/8 @ #10 Charm City
Sun 5/15 in beautiful downtown Austin, TX vs. #3 Denver
Fri. 5/20 @ #5 Rose City
Sat. 5/21 @ #2 Oly
Sun. 5/22 @ #7 Rat City
That my friends is a serious 3 weeks of competition!!!!!
TX2 KILL3
<3 Big Tom
Not serious
That's not a serious schedule for a month, that's an INSANE schedule for a month.
One correction
Texies play Denver in Austin on July 17. The game on May 15 is a home team game - Hustlers vs Hell Marys, Hotrod Honeys v Honky Tonk Heartbreakers.
Yeah I screwed up, go
Yeah I screwed up, go figure...to much chainsaw exhaust fumes sucked up into my face!!!
That makes it even more
That makes it even more insane. "Hey girls, 6 bouts vs top 10 teams in one month isn't really enough. Let's take some time right in the middle there to beat the crap out of each other."
I will be watching in slackjawed awe. I mean, derbygasmic ecstasy.
another minor correction
Thanks for considering us #3 in your heart, but we're not officially ranked there :)
#3 or #4 who cares really....
#3 or #4 who cares really.... ;^) We'll be seein' ya in Austin soon!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMw4gppNeIs
CONGRATS NO COAST!
You girls have really been a power house this year and your hard work is showing, so glad to see you get the respect you deserve!
Go Maine!!!!
So so proud of our Port Authorities!!!!
nooooo coaaaast!
well deserved! nebraska is no joke!
WHAT???
WHAT??? IT'S AN OUTRAGE, I WHAT??? IT'S AN OUTRAGE, I TELL YOU!!!
(Since nobody has said it yet.)
I have to say that this is probably the first Power Rankings I have significant disagreements with.
Steel over Boston? No Houston, no Sacred, no Jet? And No Coast over Houston?
I disagree! Sorry my West Coast bias is probably showing.
Still, poor Nashville, from Championships to oblivion in six months, my, this sport changes fast.
WHAT??? IT'S AN OUTRAGE YOU
WHAT??? IT'S AN OUTRAGE YOU TELL ME!!!
bubbly is my favorite drink
Aw, shucks, Southbay. Thanks for the props.
Alas, it's true, Houston has only skated against one Power Ranked team this year even though No Coast and Houston were at the same Franky Panky tournament back in March. We had larger point spreads against two of the same opponents, but it's not the same thing as actually going tête-à-tête. Aye, the rub! And yeah, we had a great four battles with the Texies at two tournaments so far this year.
We won't get our chance to skate another PR'd team until July, but oh, what a lovely month of amazing bouts that will be. More on that later... until then, we'll continue tipping that big ole glass o bubbly with our crawfish and bbq for the nod.
Oblivion...
Maybe, We'll see at the end of the season when I may be giving you a shout out from the championships. KC is #1 in SC, no doubt, and Texas is likely #2. Who is # 3 is yet to be determined.
OUTFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!!!!~1
first off, i'm so excited that the outfit is on the power rankings, i could squeal. actually, i did kind of let out a squeal at work when i first saw this yesterday! we've been working our butts off and it's really starting to pay off. love, love, love my team! :)
as far as our aggressive schedule is concerned, we're playing 6 bouts in a one month timeframe.
we're playing:
5/14 tri-city @ home
5/21 ohio and arch rival @ brew ha ha
6/4 omaha @ omaha
6/5 no coast @ no coast
6/18 nashville @ nashville
we're also continuing our schedule beyond Q2, playing arch again at home, burning river at home, steel city in pittsburgh, and brew city at home. add all those in addition to a big handful of closed scrimmages we've set up with other teams that are non-sanctioned so our whole charter can get the experience playing at this level, and we've got a pretty tough season. Chicago Outfit! NC regionals! we're coming to get ya! :)
Ranking B Teams?
So this could come across as arrogant, but that's not my intent (plus, I'm just a fan...so it's OK to be arrogant about your team, right?)...
Has there ever been any thought to ranking "B Teams" within the Top 25? If a team had enough bouts against "A Team" competition, could it happen?
I'm thinking specifically of the Rocky Mountain Contenders (who just beat Rose City's B-Team by ~100 points). They beat Arch Rival (#10 in NC) earlier this year and play Silicon Valley (#11 in the West) later this month.
I'm not arguing (yet) that they should be in the top 25...just wondering if that would be a possibility if their results justified it.
fun but impractical
Oof, who would want to be in charge of making sure one league's "B" team didn't contain "too many" moonlighting "A" team skaters? Each league manages their "B" team lineups very differently, and sometimes it changes season-to-season or even bout-to-bout.
Referencing player rankings within a league, is the 'B' team #15-#28? #10-#24? #21-#35? #?-#? Without strictly chartered B Team rosters, there hardly seems any way to make it fair to any "A" teams pushed aside...
Rocky's B team--The Contenders
Is soooo good. Honestly, I'd rank them #16 in the power rankings. I play against them every week, so I know what they can do. They can make Fight Club look bad sometimes.
In this last bout there was only one skater from Rocky who played in both the A and B games against Rose. We have very little crossover between the two teams. But I see what you're saying Calvin. It could definitely skew the teams.
Thought of, yes. Answer, no.
DNN has decided, a couple of years ago, against ranking teams other than A teams in the Power Rankings.
B teams
B Team Rosters change from league to league. I see some of the best skaters in the country skating on bteam rosters for many reasons. Some injury rehab, others are trying to avoid ring dust & some have just stepped down from the demanding A team attendance requirements for a part of the season...
B teams should never be ranked of questioned. The B team is used to learn & play in a demanding enviroment without affecting standings.
A Bteams win loss record should not count at all.. Who cares... Let the girls play, grow & run over one another to make it to the big show on an A Team.....
Mt T. (Rev Al Mighty)
london
please explain how london can loose 3 games but raise 1 spot in the rankings
yours confused
Back to the FAQ
"If two given teams meet tomorrow, which one do we think is more likely to win?"
As we've discussed in previous rankings threads, there's a significant difference in the way we process a blowout in which the losing team was out of the game early and a loss in which the losing team still had a shot relatively deep into the game. Certainly that's subjective, but that's the nature of any non-algorithm based rankings system.
That being said, in this specific situation, London is not really "going up" ... their movement this month is more a side effect of Jet City and Madison dropping past them on the way down.
Jet-Lag
Does where the bout is located factor in? A few time zones and a bit of jet-lag could make all the difference in a close bout.
movin on up
cuz they scheduled over their heads and exceeded expectations dude