PIFF Highlights and All-Stars 08 Week 3

*I will post this each week in the comments section on the Yahoo league page, and I will also post it at http://pirateislandsff.blogspot.com/ *

The third week in the PIFF is over and we are starting to see some separation between the teams in the standings. The most interesting game this weekend was the Ampersands pulling off a narrow win over the Plankers. Since I have Stat Tracker I got updates to the score as the Monday Night game was going. The lead in the PIFF game switched back and forth a couple of times until J. Cotchery finally got a big catch to put the Golden Squiggles up for good.

Game of the week from last week: The game to watch from last week was the Red Burns playing the Red Hot Vampirates. The Piratalieans were able to take a convincing win and move on to 3-0, in large part do to Franky G. at running back.

Team to raise the sails: Davin's Pillagers notched a score of 35 points this last week, well above the rest of the scores for the league, the next closest was the Vampirates with 26. There wasn't one player on the Pillagers that scored more than 6 points, however, all but one player on the team scored. So the huge score was due to a team effort rather than one player getting hot. The Pillagers look like they are a solid team.

Davey Jones Team: The ailing Eldars once again post the low score for the week. The team looks like they have depth on the bench, but the players are just too inconsistent to know who should be played and who should be benched.

Brawl of the week: All eyes will be turned to the great match up we have in week 4 between the Sparrow Island Maties and the Pirataly Vampirates. Both teams are 3-0 and both teams have been winning their games by a comfortable margin. It will be interesting to see how things go during the first week of byes.

All-Stars Week 3:

Pos   Player       Pts Team
QB    D. Brees     10  Eldars
RB    M. Turner    14  Rebels
WR1   B. Marshall  7   Snotknockers
WR2   T. Houshman. 6   'Nites
TE    K. Boss      3   'Nites
K     J. Carney    4   Vampirates
DEF   Baltimore    4   Rebels
DB1   R. Mathis    6   Plankers
DB2   E. Reed      6   Maties
DL1   J. Abraham   6   Vampirates
DL2   J. Peterson  5   Pillagers
Coach Davin        100%Pillagers

Total All-Stars:
5 Ninja Isle Eldars
4 Netthuania Nites
4 Svinksland Pillagers
3 Berry Isle Rum Runners
3 Pirataly Vampirates
3 Kreplachistan Rebels
2 Tea Republic Steepers
2 Harbor Coast Red Burns
2 Tsukestan Picklers
2 Scotslandi Kilters
2 Sparrow Island Maties
2 Snotvia Snotknockers
1 Ambersandia &s
1 Takawokonia Plankers

New for this week I have figured up a power ranking, which is based on the method for finding a p-value in non-parametric statistics (for the couple of you that knows of such things)

PIFF Power Rankings (Rating -closer to 1 is better):

1. Snotvia Snotknockers    (.8205)
2. Pirataly Vampirates     (.8205)
3. Sparrow Island Maties   (.6667)
4. Svinksland Pillagers    (.6667)
5. Kreplachistan Rebels    (.6667)
6. Netthuania Nites        (.5385)
7. Harbor Coast Red Burns  (.5128)
8. Tsukestan Picklers      (.4359)
9. Tea Republic Steepers   (.4359)
10. Berry Isle Rum Runners (.4103)
11. Ambersandia &s         (.3590)
12. Takawokonia Plankers   (.2564)
13. Scotslandi Kilters     (.1795)
14. Ninja Isle Eldars      (.0256)