2022 Power Rankings-Week 9

## Introduction

Welcome to a special time travel edition of LOC Power Rankings! I haven't missed a week of writeups since 2013 and I don't plan on starting now! So let's try to get all caught up on the action over the last three weeks. I'll just put blinders on and pretend weeks 9 and 10 haven't happened yet. I'm sure that'll be simple, right?

## Matchup Recap

* Duck Punchers claims an outright grip on 1st place by splitting the October double-header series with RIPDab (8-10). **Next Matchup: N/A**
* Bell of the Ball gets back on track by winning the Glory Bowl matchup against Mattness (6-4). **Next Matchup: N/A**
* Pain Train avoids total collapse with a much-needed win against a reeling momma said (10-7). **Next Matchup: Week 12**
* Papa's Posse finishes off his best October in franchise history with a win against Paddock 9 (6-10). **Next Matchup: N/A**
* The Shotti Bunch wins his first double-header of the season with a dismantling of Sweet Dee (12-3). **Next Matchup: N/A**

## Stat Chat

* This week, both The Shotti Bunch and Duck Punchers hit the record for scoring over 200 points in 100 regular season games. Since Shotti did so in one fewer season, he takes the cake for "first" to break the record while Duck officially goes into the books as "second."
* Duck Punchers logs his 11th season with 6 or more wins, which leads the league.
* Mattness is the top scoring last place team through eight weeks in LOC history.
* Despite being 4th in scoring, Mattness is on the cusp of setting the record for most blowout losses in a single season. They logged their 4th in week eight, all against different opponents.
* Mattness passes ma ma momma said for third most weeks in last place (19).
* This is just the second time in league history that there are six 4-4 teams (2019).
* Ma ma momma said has not broken 170 points against Pain Train since 2019.
* Dating back to 2017, Papa's Posse has now followed a five game losing streak against Paddock 9 with a three game winning streak.
* Sweet Dee has now lost a record 18 double-headers. The second most is Papa's Posse, with 14.

## Team Records By Month

Updated thru 11/2/22 (need to update win% for september)

October was a tough month. While the 2-6 Mattness got both their wins in October, they still saw their overall October win% drop. In fact, most teams were knocked down a peg in the overall records for October. Shotti took the biggest hit, dropping from 0.727 to 0.694 after going 2-3.

The teams that improved? Papa's Posse was 3-2 in the month of October, a vast improvement over their 14-34 record coming in to the month. Sweet Dee, who went 2-3, actually saw their record improve from .205 to .227. And The Stupid Idiots jumped from a .500 career performer in October to 0.519 thanks to their 3-2 showing.

## Above and Below

Mattness and Paddock continue to climb up this ranking system despite being trapped at the bottom of the food chain.

## Absolute Standings

### Combined Absolute Standings

Papa moves from 7th to 3rd while Shotti moves from 5th to 2nd. Dee moves 3rd to 7th, momma moves from 4th to 8th. Mattness and Pain Train have no movement.

## Power Rankings-Week 9

Wow, heading into week 9 already. It hasn't happened yet but we're almost there! Should be an exciting week where I'm sure I will win.

### 1(1). Duck Punchers

Kyle Pitts finally had a good day!...On the bench. But it doesn't matter. How about 45.75 from Foreman vs. 53.41 combined from Nate's entire flex trio? It was a good combined effort this week from Duck as he is close to locking in the first playoff spot.

### 2(2). The Shotti Bunch

You have to give credit to Shotti for drafting Hopkins with the 76th overall pick. He has 27 targets and 22 receptions in his first two games. The Hopkins/Brown duo competes with Waddle/Jefferson for the best pair of WRs on a roster this season.

### 3(4). The Stupid Idiots

This was around the time last season that Stupid Idiots began putting it all together. Of course, last season's version of "putting it all together" was buying Tyreek Hill from Sweet Dee. This year, no purchase necessary. Idiots made the most of their limited draft capital and has a team in place to make a repeat playoff run. Now the question will be if they can sustain health through to the playoffs.

### 4(3). RIPDab

Would probably be lower if I wasn't confident that they were about to beat the brakes off of Mattness in week 9. RIPDab continues to underperform and is likely to sneak into the playoffs with an underwhelming squad of pathetic characters. At the very least, they have Cooper Kupp and Dallas Goedert, two fully healthy players that should be enough to carry this team moving forward.

### 5(5). Pain Train

The kind of unconvincing win that gets under the skin of teams like 3-5 Paddock and 2-6 Mattness, each of whom outscored Pain Train by over 30 points but took L's in their respective matchups.

### 6(8). Papa's Posse

This team looked dead in the water until the most poetic reception in NFL history. A week after Paddock 9 forced a trade through for Devin Duvernay, DJ Moore took it personally and stabbed P9 in the heart with a 62-yard TD with juts 23 seconds left in regulation. He was so happy that he had beaten P9 into the grave that he took off his helmet to celebrate and cost Carolina the win. with DJ now happy on a new team (in LOC), Papa has a promising trajectory to a bubble spot in the playoffs.

### 7(6). Sweet Dee

It wasn't the worst October. It was just another bad October. It's a joke, but it's sort of not, when we talk about the September Boom for Sweet Dee. What could the leading factors for this be? My thought is that the league low roster moves every season could mean any players that need replacing mid-season often don't get swapped out, leading to poor performances as it gets deeper into the year. Plus, by drafting vets like Woods, Robinson, Edmonds, you open the door for older players to fade after starting hot. In any case, another year of disappointment looks to be in store.

### 8(7). ma ma momma said

This bitch. Don't drop 258 on my head only to drop 166 the following week to a weaker team. Momma has now beaten Sweet Dee (4 wins), Papa (4 wins) Paddock 9 (3 wins), and Mattness (2 wins) while losing to everyone from 1st-5th place.

### 9(9). Multiverse of Mattness

Over 90 points from Tua and Waddle combined. 23 points from Nick Folk. Nearly 30 from Stevenson. It doesn't matter. However well Mattness plays, the team he's against will just do better. It's one of those seasons.

### 10(10). Paddock 9

Is P9 once again falling into the trap of doing too much? He's once again leading the league in roster moves by a tremendous margin and his knee-jerk trade to get rid of DJ Moore so far is not paying off and has cost him a win. At 4-4 instead of 3-5, Paddock 9 would be sitting in...oh shit, still 9th place. But tied for 3rd!

## Matchup of the week

I don't know why but I have a gut feeling about Pain Train VS. Shotti. Two 4-4 teams, both with some doubts swirling around their playoff hopes but each coming off important wins. Pain Train has yet to string together back-to-back victories in 2022 but will eventually need to get on a roll if they hope to avoid an event similar to 2012, when Why am I doing this snuck in at the last moment and Pain Train was left out to dry. After starting 2-9, Pain Train has won five of the last six games against Shotti. Their 18th matchup in week 9 will be just the third time that the pair are meeting in November.

Updated through 10/30/22