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WEEK 8 POWER RANKINGS

Details: Category: TSL QB Power Rankings; Created: Wednesday, 21 October 2026 19:00; Published: Wednesday, 21 October 2026 19:00; Written by Jeff Krol; Hits: 101

Welcome back to the final TSL Quarterback Power Rankings of the season!

Yes, unlike our way more productive colleague the Godfather, we don't write articles during the playoffs. We like to sit back and just watch the show, the fireworks, the bloodbath, whatever you want to call it, without having to analyze anything. So, with this being our last article of the year, we've saved a lot for you. We have our final Top 25 Quarterbacks of the year and then our usual playoff division analysis where we look at each playoff race in detail to pick out any trends in the data we can find. Plus, some other stuff.

This is usually our longest article of the year with lots of time-consuming charts and graphs so we hope you enjoy it!

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Division by Division Review of the TSL

For our final analysis of the season, we're going to show you the following:

The breakdown of best offenses, defenses and net point differentials per division. We backed forfeits out of all of our numbers below (in case you’re wondering why the totals don’t match what you see in the Standings for some of these teams) and then we tried to color each team's data by their official jersey colors. Of course, half of this league apparently uses the same colors, so it's not perfect
A graph of average point differentials per game for each division with a similar "Favorites, Contenders, Pretenders" logic we've used in previous seasons (if you're winning games by an average of 7+ PPG, you're a Favorite in green; if you're losing by an average of 7+ PPG, you're a Pretender in red; all other teams are yellow in the middle; these are not OUR judgments on who falls into each category, it's strictly based on the math of your team's point differentials). For what it's worth, in the last eleven seasons that we've been showing these graphs, we've had 40 eventual division champions classified as "Favorites", 32 as "Contenders", and exactly zero as "Pretenders". Favorites won only two divisions last Spring though, compared to four contenders, so there’s always hope!
A quick recap of the division heading into playoffs, and then identifying which teams are "overrated" and "underrated" in each group. Note that these last two categories are based purely on what we see in the scores and stats, NOT our own personal feelings of players on each team (we might personally think PWI are overrated, but if the underlying numbers say their team is underrated, that's where we'll include them below) so TRY not to be offended thinking the "website is being mean". We're just reading numbers off a website, man. Relax.

And away we go!

Division 1

The Headline: Three favorites, two teams hoping to spoil the Finals party, and two looking forward to next season.

Underrated: The second ranked team in the D1 standings has the highest point differential… and they’re also undefeated with their starting Quarterback present. Eyes Downtown is ALREADY +15.6 on the season (fourth best in the TSL), and that number would jump to +23.5 (second best in TSL, and the best non-gender team) if we throw out the games Bobby didn’t make. This is the most underrated team in D1, if not all of TSL.

Overrated: It’s tough to call them “overrated” because they’re third in point differential and third in the standings, but Sticky Bandits finished +76 total points on the season… on the strength of a 65-6 win over Frodo’s backup’s backup QB. They’d actually STILL be third in point differential even without that game, but they’d be +2.4 PPG instead of +9.5, and that’s a pretty big difference.

Division 2

The Headline: Junior Eyes Downtown vs Junior Freeballers, plus three other good teams, and the Junior Lightning Falcons.

Underrated: The final standings were exactly in the order one would predict from their point differentials, so no major over or underrated teams here. We’ll take Let’s Get Reccked as the most underrated purely because of momentum – when a team starts 0-3 and finishes 5-0, you’d like to think “those guys figured out some stuff!”

Overrated: Let’s copy/paste the one above, but with a twist: The final standings were exactly in the order one would predict from their point differentials, so no major over or underrated teams here. We’ll take Bullet Club as the most overrated purely because of momentum – when a team starts 4-0 and finishes 0-4, you’d have to think “those guys are falling apart!”

Division 3

The Headline: Grey Hair overwhelming favorites, Stunts have a fighting chance. Three and a half other teams are also in this division.

Underrated: We’ll say Grey Hair – Don’t Care are the most underrated team in this division, simply because the gap between Grey Hair and Stunts (8.5 PPG) is about the same as the gap between Stunts and Mike’s (9.4 PPG) and yet Grey Hair is only being talked about as a favorite, not a MASSIVE favorite (which they are). If we had to bet on division winners, this one would be our second most confident behind Victorious Secret.

Overrated: The NUMBERS say that Cobblestone is underrated, because they’ve forfeited half of the season (yes, half of the season) but they haven’t done that badly when they’ve played. Maybe this means they’re not as bad as they look! Unfortunately, there are no subs for playoffs (not that they seem to use legal subs anyway) so unless they have a miracle turnaround for attendance over the next couple of weeks, Cobblestone will be playing shorthanded. We don’t like those odds, and they’re somehow our most overrated team even at 0-8.

Division 4

The Headline: The TSL’s best division this season is WIDE open, and 8 of 10 teams have a real chance of winning it all.

Underrated: Easy choice here: it’s PowerPuff Girls. They’re tied for second in their division in point differential, but they’re fifth in the standings? That’s exactly what we look for in “most underrated” teams. They had ONE bad game against Greater Value Tater Thots, and their other three losses were by 6, 1 and 1. They might lose in the playoffs at some point, but NO one is going to crush them.

Overrated: Flying Balls lost only two games this season against five wins (and a tie) which is usually the record of a great team. So why is their point differential only +2 PPG? That looks more like the mark of an average team that won some close games, than a team that was one win away from the top seed in their division.

Division 5

The Headline: Victorious Secret wins, someone else comes in second.

Underrated: It’s Victorious Secret. They won by +27.3 PPG. That is not competitive, that is “we are too good for this division”. They might win D4 in the Spring too. Nothing more to add here!

Overrated: Pit Harade finished 4-4 with the second worst point differential in the division, and it’s enough to put them in our red “pretender” category at -9.3 PPG. And if you throw out a seemlingly flukey 42 point win over 716ers, they’d actually be -16.6 PPG… fourth worst in the entire League. We aren’t betting on them going to the Championship game.

Division 6

The Headline: Three very good teams could win this division. The other five will not.

Underrated: Like D2, each team finished EXACTLY in the order that you’d predict based on their point differentials (this is actually pretty rare, by the way) so no one majorly overrated OR underrated here either. We’ll take Select as our most underrated team though, based on the strength of their games against the other top teams. Yes, they lost to Raw Milkers (everyone did) but only by one score. Their only other loss was by 3 points to Irish Giants back in August, and they avenged it with a 12 point win a few days ago. They’re not the front-runners (Raw Milkers have earned that right) but they’re not far off.

Overrated: We hate to pile on to a struggling team, but we’ll take Blitzed and Confused as our “most overrated” here. They’re -28.8 PPG, which is the worst in the TSL, and should have given them an 0-8 record. Instead they’re somehow 1-7 after beating Cat-Tastrophe by 8 points in the middle of the season. To win a championship though, they’ll likely have to beat two out of Raw Milkers, Select and Irish Giants… and they were outscored 14-130 in those three games.

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Top Ten Best and Worst Lists for the 2026 Fall Season

The division analysis above is the real meat and potatoes of this article, but in case you're curious how you stack up against teams in OTHER divisions, here are the top ten (and bottom ten) teams in the entire TSL for offensive points per game, defensive points per game, and average point differential per game:

What did we learn from this?? The magic numbers for us are always 20 and 40. Nearly every team in this League averages between 20-40 PPG both offensively and defensively. If you're higher than 40 offensively or lower than 20 defensively, you're doing an amazing job. If you're lower than 20 offensively or higher than 40 defensively... you're probably not winning too many games.

This season we had six teams crack the 40 point mark, up from two in the Spring session. Congrats to Victorious Secret, our Fall 2026 scoring champs:

So, if Victorious Secret were the BEST offense, who were the worst? This season we had seven teams fail to make it to 20 PPG on offense. Those teams unsurprisingly went a combined 11-44-1 this season.

Then if we look at defenses, there were five teams that held opponents to under 20 PPG this session. On the other end of the spectrum, there were also five teams that allowed 40+ points per game. Here are your Defensive Champions from the last several years:

For teams on the "Worst of" lists in that Top Ten chart above, if you're looking to cheer yourselves up, it's worth taking a second to remember the "Worst of All-Time" team, Show Me Your TDs who finished the season with zero points scored, and 74.5 PPG scored AGAINST. No matter how bad your team was this session, we promise you, you were not THAT bad. They will live in infamy.

Besides the "40/20 Clubs", what else do we see from the best and worst units in the League? Victorious Secret, Grey Hair – Don’t Care, Eyes Downtown and Select were the only four teams in the League to make all three "Ten Best" lists for offense, defense and point differentials. There was only one team to make all three "Ten Worst" lists (sorry Blitzed & Confused!).

If you’re noticing a lot of great offensive numbers (or poor defensive numbers) for D1 teams, you’re not alone. Four of the top ten best offenses in the League (and six of the top 14) belonged to D1 teams… as did four of the five worst defenses, which makes sense. In fact, here’s each division’s average score per game per team, which confirms exactly what you already suspected about where the best QBs were:

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All-Time Championship Statistics

A few years ago we compiled a list of every TSL champion in League history and devised a ranking system to see who the "best teams of all time" were. This was exhausting to research and put together, but it's now very simple to update once a session, so that's what we've done here. The timing feels right to update you all on this now JUST before playoffs so we can remind you what you're chasing here... co-ed football immortality. Here are the current immortals... all 104 recognized champions in TSL history:

THAT part is objective - the champs are the champs, and we'd like to think history will remember their achievements for 1,000 years to come (history classes will likely debate what exactly the "Tommy Hughes Experience" was).

This next part though is subjective: we then attempted to compare the relative strength of each division's championships to come up with a ranking system (a D2 title is harder to win than a D4 title) and this is what we landed on:

A D1 championship is our baseline since it's the best a team can do. Let's make that worth 100 points.
A D2 title is worth, at BEST, 49% of that, since two D2 titles don't quite equal a D1 title (you can argue it should be LESS than 49%, but we've made the choice to weight lower divisions as heavily as reasonably possible here). 49 points for a D2 title.
A D3 title should be worth 49% of THAT, so about 24 points for each D3 championship.
Every subsequent division is worth 49% of the previous one, so D4 is worth 11 points, D5 is worth 5 points, and D6 is worth 2 points.
Indoor championships (which are no longer being contested as of 2026) aren't currently worth a point. With apologies to DILFS, Jelly Beans, Sticky Bandits, Eyes Downtown, Losing Streak and Friendship Club, Winter sessions were often used to make new teams and play with new people. No team should be penalized in the rankings for doing that instead of entering their usual squad. We'll give them credit for "number of titles", which they've earned, but zero points awarded. Indoor championships are abbreviated as "W:A" (Winter: A) and "W:B" on the chart below, to make it a little easier to read.

It's an arbitrary system of course, but it's the one we chose. So here is the updated list of your "greatest champions of all time" going into the Fall 2026 playoffs (active teams are highlighted below; split into two segments side-by-side to make font size more easily readable):

We always debate making a change to the math above so that subsequent championships in the same division would be worth less the second time around. After all, was it fair that Puckett kept improving their standings by winning D4 over and over? Shouldn't they have moved up before this session? But for now, we decided to leave it as is.

So where does that leave us today? Legends are, by this system, the greatest team in TSL history, alone in first place. Eyes Downtown is currently tied for third, and would be alone in third place with another win. Sticky Bandits could jump from 9th to 5^th, and Freeballers could jump to 10th.

Legends have the most TOTAL TSL championships of all-time with six, but Eyes Downtown and Sticky Bandits (both contenders this session) are only one behind with five each.

Bottom line, people remember champions, not the teams who come in second place, so immortality can only be found by winning it all. Good luck!

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That's it for the TSL Power Rankings this season! We can't possibly make any other charts for you at this point (this was exhausting) and we doubt anyone has read this start-to-finish anyway.

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WEEK 7 POWER RANKINGS

Details: Category: TSL QB Power Rankings; Created: Wednesday, 14 October 2026 19:39; Published: Wednesday, 14 October 2026 19:39; Written by Jeff Krol; Hits: 151

Welcome back to the TSL QB Power Rankings!

We always talk about how stats aren’t meaningful until later in the season, and it’s SO TRUE. Some teams have easy schedules, some teams have one blowout win that inflates their numbers. There’s always some kind of asterisk with each team. “Yeah, they look pretty good BUT…”

We have SEVEN OUT OF EIGHT weeks in the books now though, and the asterisks are done. We KNOW how good you are, and the excuses don’t hold water anymore.

That said – here are the best QBs in the League:

The first thing you’ll notice is that Darryl isn’t on the list. Shocking, right?

The top four don’t change this week, because nothing happened to MAKE them change. Bobby went undefeated. Joey beat Mike. Ryan beat Frodo. Yawn.

Buddy Lee put up some MAJOR points with PWI this week, and while he lost to Eyes Downtown with Freeballers, he was able to settle for a tie with Sticky Bandits. 2-1-1 was a good enough day for him to move up in the Rankings.

The Malones got killed by Legends and Eyes Downtown this week. The result wasn’t surprising given the strength of schedule, but when was the last time the Malones were held to 24 points in ONE game, let alone across a doubleheader?

GHDC defeated Cunning Stunts again and finished with a perfect record in D3. They are now GUARANTEED both a first round playoff bye AND a semifinal matchup against a team with a losing record. If only I’d Rather Be Golfing were taking notes…

BQI had their lowest offensive output since Game One of the season, as many of their players had conflicts with Eyes Downtown. Would we penalize Bridget in the Rankings for not winning without her stars? Of course. Lucky for her, the QBs directly beneath her ALSO lost this week, so she holds on to the #9 spot.

What’s going on with Bullet Club? They were undefeated and in first place, and have since dropped three in a row. Victorious Secret won by forfeit, which meant that somehow with 8 teams in D5, we did not have a SINGLE D5 game played on Saturday.

Let’s Get Reccked started 0-3 and, admittedly, we all wrote them off as a disaster. Since then they are 4-0 and looking like a legitimate contender for playoffs. Seth is knocking on the door of Top Ten QB status right now.

D-Generation XY and Z are a good team, but still a hair below most other D2 teams it seems. Their point differential says they’re about as good as Bullet Club, and maybe they are (they’ve certainly had enough playoff success that we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt). The only D2 team that REALLY seems to be struggling…

… is the System. Their defense is about average, but that offense is averaging less than 20 PPG. You’re not going to win many games like that.

Practice Squad and Greater Value Tater Thots combined for 103 points (and two wins) on Saturday. We all know the story on B’s teams – late bloomers that peak for playoffs. Thots could D4. Practice Squad COULD win D3… if Grey Hair Don’t Care didn’t exist.

Flying Balls are now in the hunt for the D4 1-seed. Coochie Monsters actually control their own destiny (they’ll take the 1-seed with two wins on Saturday) but Flying Balls will likely finish 6-1-1 this season for the 2-seed if they handle business against a suddenly collapsing NSS (whose QB Rick Recckio has reportedly gone AWOL).

PowerPuff Girls are just in fifth place in the D4 standings after dismantling Blue Ballers, but they’re still #1 in points per game. Offense isn’t the issue here! If the Girls (we can say that, it’s part of their team name!) can get some stops, this will be the team no one wants to play in the Playoffs).

Poor Buffalo Vice! They’re 2-5 this session… and their two wins came against Cobblestone forfeits. Much of the fun of playing football is leaving the field victorious, and they’ve been denied that so far this season. Could they win a playoff game? Of course. But we don’t see them winning three.

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And now, in defense of our quarterbacks everywhere, let’s take a look at the defenses of the TSL. Who’s making their QB look good? Who’s making their QB look bad??? Let’s find out.

What stands out?

We always say that the GREAT defenses hold teams to under 20 points per game, and the HORRIBLE defenses allow more than 40 (almost every other team falls in between).

The GREAT defenses this session are Coochie Monsters, TMA, Raw Milkers and Irish Giants.

The HORRIBLE defenses this session are Freeballers, Can’t Touch This, The Malones, Frodo Swaggins and Buffalo Vice. Four of those teams, you’ll notice, are in D1. That makes sense – it’s hard to face people like Joey Batts, Bobby McConnell, Mike Thomas and Ryan Dougherty every week.

Another way to look at it instead of comparing versus arbitrary 20 ppg/40 ppg targets, is which defenses are best and worst against the rest of their own division. For example, D1 defenses are all allowing 33 PPG or higher… except for Eyes Downtown, who are under 23 PPG! They almost made the 20 PPG Club DESPITE their strength of schedule. Grey Hair Don’t Care similarly is allowing 22.6 PPG in a division where everyone else is allowing 32+, and TMA is allowing just 14.7 PPG in a division where everyone else is 22+. No wonder these teams are all doing well!

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That's it for the TSL Power Rankings this week! Next week is our season ending BIG ARTICLE, so we’re saving all the graphs and charts for that one.

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WEEK 5 POWER RANKINGS

Details: Category: TSL QB Power Rankings; Created: Monday, 28 September 2026 20:14; Published: Monday, 28 September 2026 20:14; Written by Jeff Krol; Hits: 251

Welcome back to the TSL QB Power Rankings!

We didn’t have a lot of movement in the Power Rankings the last couple of weeks… but you’ll see a LOT of it this time around. Who’s on the rise, who’s on the decline? Let’s find out!

Let’s talk about D1 first. Here’s a graph of every D1 team’s Points per Game, so you understand what is happening in this division:

Has there EVER been such a parity with scoring? FIVE teams are separated by just 1.4 points per game! How are you going to rank these QBs when they’re all putting up the same points?

For starters, we should mention that Eyes Downtown’s PPG rise to 38.0 when we throw out the two games that Bridget threw for them. Yes, 38.0 is still a hair below five other teams, and it feels crazy to rank the SIXTH best scorer in his division as the #1 QB in the League. But he’s also still undefeated in games he has played, which none of the other QBs above him can say, and still the reigning League champion, so the #1 spot was surprisingly easy.

After that, it’s anarchy. We had Joey Batts, Ryan Dougherty and Mike Thomas as the #2-#4 in all of our votes, but no one agreed on the order. It’s splitting hairs to talk about their points per game, since they’re virtually identical. Joey got the slight nod in the end because he’s 1-0 against the other two (having beaten Can’t Touch This and not yet played Sticky Bandits) and because the Stunts are the highest scoring team in the League. Ryan got the SMALLEST edge over Mike for the #3 spot, because their head to head scoring in the two games they played each other (which they split) was 81-77. And then Mike comes in #4. But obviously this is nitpicking, and all of these QBs are in the same tier.

What about Rhace?? He’s actually the HIGHEST scoring QB now in all of D1 and we have him ranked sixth! Yes, his team is 1-4, and that’s a lot of why he’s ranked where he is. It doesn’t seem fair to punish him for his team’s defense (which is FAR and away the worst in D1) but that’s kinda what we’re doing, right? Another argument against ranking him higher is that their offensive numbers are significantly propped up by dropping 84 points against Frodo this week (and one game should not dictate how good a team is).

We’ll back up and mention we have Buddy at #5, who is in the same tier of scoring as the other top D1 guys, but like Rhace his record isn’t nearly as good. Yes, his defense has a lot to do with this, but Freeballers have actually allowed FEWER points than Can’t Touch This’s defense, and yet they have two fewer wins to show for it.

To make a long story short, D1 is crazy, everyone is great, and you’re welcome to argue the order of any of these guys. All seven D1 QBs are in our Top Seven this week, and if you think “that probably happens all the time, you guys always favor the D1 QBs”, well, guess again. If anyone wants to do some homework and go back and find the last time the Top Seven QBs were all from D1, we’ll buy you a sandwich at the bar. This might be the first time ever.

So that’s D1. We have a D2 QB as our #8, but Jordan Lawson didn’t play this week, and Bullet Club lost their first game in his absence. His value is proven!

David Eickhoff isn’t in D2 but maybe he should have been. Grey Hair Don’t Care are just stomping the rest of D3 right now. They actually have a chance to clinch the #1 seed this week (with a little help from Practice Squad) with two weeks to go. And I’d Rather Be Golfing has been competitive the last two weeks as well.

BQI barely held off Damien Keller and D-Generation XYZ this week in an impressive win, but unfortunately our voters preferred Rhace and David so Bridget drops a couple spots despite the win. It happens!

Seth Molisani has the weird distinction of being the ONLY QB in the Top Twenty outside of Bobby McConnell to not move up or down in the Power Rankings this week. Yes, he won, and yes, Let’s Get Reccked are looking better every week. But beating a backup QB isn’t the signature win he needs to jump up in the Rankings just yet.

The System continued their difficult season with another loss and a game-stopping injury. We’re not sure what the game situation was before it was called, or if The System had a chance to come back, but either way they’re sitting at 1-5 right now and last place in D2. Do they have the talent to right the ship? Absolutely, when Joe gets hot, he gets HOT.

The next two QBs flip spots this week as Mark Dalfonso beat B head-to-head in a battle of D3 contenders. Mike’s Detailing has a winning record in their first season in D3, which is pretty impressive! B on the other hand suffered his first loss with Greater Value Tater Thots, and his fourth loss with Practice Squad.

Is Rick Recckio a better QB than Andy Clark? We’re not sure. Buffalo Vice is 1-4 in D3 and Not So Sticky is 5-0 in D4. Not So Sticky has also scored (barely) more points per game than Vice. These two are about even right now, but wins and losses do matter, so we gave a slight edge to Recckio.

Flying Balls have been “flying” under the radar a bit in D4 with a 1-1-1 record that had them pegged as a mediocre team. It’s funny how a doubleheader win completely changes the story there, and now they’re in second place in the division. Veteran Matt Glowacki is doing a great job with a new cast of receivers.

PowerPuff Girls dismantled Skeleton Crew this week, so that was an easy decision to flip Kyle and Sal in the Power Rankings. With respect to Balls Deep, I’d Rather Be Golfing and Two Tuddies, there are seven teams that we could see winning this division, and PPG and Skeleton Crew (despite losing records) are two of those contenders.

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Here’s a good old fashioned “points per game, per team, per division” graph we do at least once a season. How’s your team holding up??

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That's it for the TSL Power Rankings this week! If you have any thoughts about QB rankings, or you want to make sure we know who's throwing for your team, please feel free to contact our good friend This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. You tell him, he'll tell us.

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WEEK 6 POWER RANKINGS

Details: Category: TSL QB Power Rankings; Created: Tuesday, 06 October 2026 16:48; Published: Tuesday, 06 October 2026 16:48; Written by Jeff Krol; Hits: 187

Welcome back to the TSL QB Power Rankings!

Eyes Downtown vs Can’t Touch This!

Malones vs Freeballers!

Sticky Bandits vs Frodo Swaggins!

BQI vs Bullet Club!

PWI vs Let’s Get Reccked!

Grey Hair Don’t Care vs Mike’s Detailing!

Cunning Stunts vs Practice Squad!

Unlike last week (which was missing a lot of firepower with teams going on bye weeks) this week was FULL of action. How did the Power Rankings shake up? Let’s find out!

Bobby put up 59 points to stay undefeated on the season with a huge win over Can’t Touch This. Did you think you’d see a new #1 QB this week? Get real.

There was no Legends game this week but Cunning Stunts are still undefeated since Week One, which is pretty encouraging. All eyes will be on Field 2 at 2 pm this week (we really couldn’t flex that to Field 1?) to see if Stunts can avenge their only loss to Grey Hair Don’t Care. If they can’t, should we even bother having a D3 playoffs? It’s Eickhoff’s to lose, and Joseph Battaglia is the strongest competition he’s got.

Mike doesn’t RISE in the Power Rankings for beating the snot out of a Garrett-less Frodo Swaggins (Topper probably could have Qbed the Bandits to that win… probably). He rises in the Power Rankings by default, as Ryan Dougherty takes that big loss against Eyes Downtown.

The Malones are BACK! With apologies to Rhace, who scored 84 points last week and promptly got benched, Andy is one of the top QBs in the League, and the Malones are a different team with QB1. Imagine finishing with a high seed in D1 and your reward is facing Strug-to-Malikye??

Freeballers and PWI are two of the coldest teams in the League right now, and it feels like forever since either has gotten a quality win. Does Buddy have a plan for the playoffs, or is it just “scramble scramble scramble, rocket launcher, lose because his team has no defense”?

Garrett stays on the Power Rankings despite his injuries. The good news is, his backups probably aren’t a threat to his job security it seems?

We love Mark Dalfonso as a QB, but it’s going to be tough to climb the D3 standings as long as David Eickhoff and GHDC are in their way. Mike’s are very good, but Grey Hair are just in a league of their own right now (literally – they should be D 2 ½).

BQI annihilated Bullet Club in their rematch from earlier this season. Maybe they ARE the team to beat in D2 like everyone predicted.

That BQI game didn’t go very well for Jordan, but Victorious Secret outlasted Blitzkrieg in a game that might have determined the #1 seed in D5. V.S. control their own destiny for the top seed, and their remaining opponents are a combined 7-11-1.

DXYZ and Let’s Get Reccked both won their respective games to keep Damien and Seth JUST on the fringe of the Top Ten. All of these D2 teams (except maybe The System) are GOOD teams, but looking at the point differentials in the division it’s just tough to give any of them too great a shot against BQI in the playoffs.

B went 1-2 on Saturday as Practice Squad lost to the Stunts, Tater Thots blasted I’d Rather Be Golfing, and then the magic ran out against Flying Balls, who are surprising many (but not us) with their huge improvement this season. Matt Glowacki is the real deal! If you want to improve your team, get a stud QB!

Not So Sticky suffered their first loss of the season, which wasn’t THAT surprising (they’d been winning, but not by a lot). Also not surprising is that the Blue Ballers handed them their first loss. The Ballers have youth on their side (which Not So Sticky does not) and Phil is fantastic. And we like his hat.

Poor Buffalo Vice keeps getting forfeit wins vs Cobblestone. All told, Vice has played only three games this session, and had three forfeit outcomes as well. They probably just want to play football!

Stop us if you’ve heard this before – PowerPuff Girls defeat Two Tuddies, in the League’s most one-sided rivalry. Have the Tud Buds EVER beaten the Girls?

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Let’s take a look at the best of the best, and the worst of the worst! Here are your Top Ten Offenses, Defenses, and Point Differentials (+/-) through six weeks this season:

What stands out?

Victorious Secret, Grey Hair – Don’t Care and Select are the only three teams on each of the “best of” lists. Blitzed and Confused is the ONLY team on each of the “worst of” lists (which is highly unusual, we should point out).

Also unusual: five of the top ten highest scoring teams are in D1 (and Freeballers, by the way, were #11) and three of the OTHER five highest scoring teams (BQI, Victorious Secret and Cunning Stunts) are full of D1 talent. “But wouldn’t you expect the most competitive teams to score the most?” Not really – they ARE going against the best defenders too. Usually these Top Ten lists are fairly even with divisional representation.

It’s worth pointing out that the first name on the “Worst Defenses in the TSL” list is Legends. Aren’t they typically the BEST defense in the League? Yes, it’s obviously a product of their schedule (they’ve only played the 9^th, 9^th, 8^th and 11^th best offenses in the league so far) but it’s still strange to see them out of the Top Ten, let alone among the bottom ten. Our guess is that this doesn’t last.

Are the Malones the most fun team in the League to watch? Fourth in scoring, second to last in defense! Sit on their sideline for thirty seconds and you’re bound to see someone score.

Three of the top six Best Point Differential teams play in D6! Those playoffs are going to be a riot (unless you’re one of the other five teams…)

Show Me Your TDs League records of 0 PPG scored and 74.5 PPG allowed seem safe for another season. Phew!

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WEEK 4 POWER RANKINGS

Details: Category: TSL QB Power Rankings; Created: Tuesday, 22 September 2026 18:17; Published: Tuesday, 22 September 2026 18:17; Written by Jeff Krol; Hits: 283

Welcome back to the TSL QB Power Rankings!

Remember when we used to start off each article with some famous quote, sports related or otherwise? Man, we’ve evolved a lot over the years, and yet some things always remain the same:

We are the ONLY official source of QB Power Rankings in the TSL
Week Four brings you the first meaningful graph of the year

So let’s get to it! Here are the top TWENTY QBs in the League (we’re getting into a lot of D4 players by now) and our first “point differential by team by division” graph of the season (we’ll do another in Week 8 as well):

What stands out about the Action from Week Four? 7 of our top 9 QBs didn’t play this week! That’s crazy. No Mike Thomas, Ryan Dougherty, Garrett Beesing, Buddy Lee, Jordan Lawson or Rhace Colon this week (and Bobby McConnell still out for another week – we love you Bobby!). No Damien Keller, no Kyle Conniff… Was this even TSL football???

Joey Batts was out there though, kicking ass and guiding his teams to two of the top six highest scoring offenses in the LEAGUE. Why is he not higher in the Rankings again?

Bridget Masiello won again for BQI, which people keep pointing out is basically just Eyes Downtown with Bridget QBing. We know that’s not exactly true but… when Bridget QBs for Eyes Downtown, it DOES look like basically the same team, right?

David Eickhoff blasts his way into the Top Ten this week with a convincing win over Buffalo Vice and a much closer win over Two Tuddies. We don’t expect I’d Rather Be Golfing to win the D4 title this season, but can anyone NOT named Cunning Stunts upset Grey Hair Don’t Care in the playoffs?

The System is a combination of Jabronies and ILF, but somehow looks weaker than BOTH of those teams did. Maybe it’s a testament to the quality of D2 this session, but things aren’t coming as easily for Joe Miano and company this session.

Let’s Get Reccked picked up their first W of the season! Someone recently said “these guys are too talented to lose every game”… oh, that was us. We were right!

Practice Squad is 2-2 and Greater Value Tater Thots are 3-0. Why is B not rated higher than this? Usually he waits until late in the season to really lock it in, but he’s hitting that extra gear early this Fall.

Mike’s Detailing is doing fine in their first session in D3, which we figured they would. Mark’s a champion and he knows what he’s doing with a young squad. But there’s a gap between the top couple of teams and the rest of the division, which they’ll have to figure out come playoffs if they want to be any more than a semifinal loss to the top teams.

Buffalo Vice is a victim of an unfortunate schedule this season – they took a forfeit win over Cobblestone, and had to forfeit a game against Mike’s Detailing, which means the only teams they’ve really played have been Practice Squad (lost by a point) and Grey Hair Don’t Care (lost by, uh, more than a point). This makes it difficult to evaluate how Andy is doing so far!

Not So Sticky is undefeated and Ricky Recckio is somehow in our Top Twenty QBs, which doesn’t feel right. But he just beat Sal Augugliaro and Skeleton Crew head to head, so he must be doing something right!

Speaking of Sal, after years of playing WR1, he looks like he’s adjusting well to the QB1 role. No, this is not the Wanderers of old (for better or for worse) but they’re 2-2 and they actually have the best point differential per game in D4 this session. This should be a real contender come playoffs, especially as Sal continues to develop throwing the ball.

Flying Balls are just 1-1-1 this session as they break in a new roster with new faces, but keep an eye on their veteran QB presence to steady the ship as the season goes on. Matt Glowacki is good, and if he can gel with these receivers, the Balls might make some noise come playoffs.

Fancy Statistics Section

What do we always say? “You're not getting any fancy statistics out of us until at LEAST Week Four, and even then we'll tell you the sample size is too small to be meaningful.”

Well, week four is here! So here’s some “read into this if you want, but keep in mind some teams have only played three games” statistics for you!

This is the point differential of every team in the league, division by division. Green is good (you’re winning games by a lot!) and red is bad (you’re losing games by a lot!).

What stands out in each division?

D1 is mostly dominated by “how much has each team beaten the Malones by so far”. These guys were DOMINATING this graphic last season, remember?

D2 looks like three contenders, and three “other teams”. Bullet Club, BQI, PWI… are you picking any other team to win the division but these three?

D3 is exactly what you would have guessed it is – Grey Hair Don’t Care and Cunning Stunts running wild, with four other teams served up for the slaughter.

D4 probably has the most real contenders right now. None of these teams are really blowing away the competition, and even the middling teams can talk themselves into having a decent shot of a playoff run.

D5 is Victorious Secret and then everyone else.

D6 has three great teams, but are Irish Giants really as good as they look? They have only played two games: a 3 point win over a contender, and a 50 point win over a brand new team. They’re good, but maybe not THAT good.

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