ABL 2022/23 Power Ranking Week 4

Hello and welcome to my first Power Ranking for the 2022-23 season ABL season (and first EVER, actually). I will endeavour to post one weekly throughout the season and future editions may include brief series previews, if time allows 😣

You can find out a little bit about how I compile my Power Ranking towards the end of the post.

Power Ranking - Week 4

Team	Power Ranking Points
Brisbane Bandits	40.5
Perth Heat	31.25
Auckland Tuatara	28.75
Melbourne Aces	26.25
Geelong-Korea	21.5
Adelaide Giants	17.5
Canberra Cavalry	13.25
Sydney Blue Sox	10

Actual Overall W%

Team	W%	Rank Diff.
Brisbane Bandits	0.833	0
Adelaide Giants	0.583	+4
Perth Heat	0.583	-1
Auckland Tuatara	0.545	-1
Melbourne Aces	0.455	-1
Canberra Cavalry	0.417	1
Geelong-Korea	0.364	-2
Sydney Blue Sox	0.182	0

Thoughts

• The Power Ranking confirms that the Brisbane Bandits are rightfully the team to beat this season (whoo!). 

• We can see the Adelaide Giants are winning at a pace that is unsustainable when taking into account their play on the field, so look for them to regress in the coming weeks. 

*Though, it must be mentioned that they did play a game against Geelong-Korea in which they conceded 23 runs, so that has messed up their pyth. win % and their overall pitching lines. Give it a couple more weeks for the numbers to normalise.

• Also -  Sorry, Blue Sox fans 😬

Power Ranking - A Primer

My Power Ranking is a simple points-based ranking system. Points are awarded based on the following categories & the team's rankings within the league in these categories - 

• Actual Win %

• Pythagorean Win %

• Starting Pitching

• Offense

• Bullpen

• Defense

The maximum number of points a team can score is 42 and the minimum is 5.25. 

I may include points for recent performance in future posts.

Hello! (First Blog Post)

 Hello & welcome to my sports blog.

A little bit about myself - I'm a sports fan in Australia who loves sports stats (mainly baseball). Though, I admit my overall mathematical proficiency is lacking, despite my love of stats 😞 Outside of my sports fandom, I'm a mature-age university student hoping to complete a Bachelor's degree, majoring in History. I'm also a musician, currently in the process of forming a new band after my last one disbanded.

In regards to my sports fandom, I grew up loving football (soccer) and I was also a cricket fanatic. I loved watching & playing both of those sports. Then in 2013, I got roped into following baseball by a friend and I have been mad for it since. It was because of baseball that I got into sports statistics. And in recent years, I've started branching out into following other sports, but I've since fallen out of love with soccer & cricket.

Here is a list of sports teams/sports that I now follow:

• Oakland Athletics (MLB)

• Hiroshima Carp/Seibu Lions (NPB - casual fan)

• Brisbane Bandits (Australian Baseball League [ABL])

• SF 49ers (NFL)

• San Jose Sharks/Montreal Canadiens (NHL)

• The Malaysian National field hockey team (The 'Speedy Tigers'!)

• Rugby Union (casual fan)

Now regarding what I'll blog about - I actually conceived this idea of a blog as a way to 'archive' the stats and records from the ABL. Baseball Reference & the ABL website do have stats but only season-to-season and team-by-team stats - I haven't found any website where you can actually sort through career stats/season leaders. So I will endeavour to provide that for the people 😤

While providing an archive of ABL stats is my main motivation, I also envision doing brief weekly previews of the ABL rounds and seeing how the teams match up head-to-head. I also want to do posts that relate to all of the other sports teams that I follow (during the ABL offseason most likely), so this blog may eventually contain a little bit of everything for everyone 😬

This is mainly just going to be a side-project/hobby for me as I do have other things to attend to, but I will try to post once a week (two if you're lucky). And again, I just want to put it out there that I'm no math whiz nor am I much of a writer - I'm just some guy who enjoys sports & the numbers associated with them, and hopefully some people find what I end up posting about half-interesting 😌