WEEK 4 POWER RANKINGS

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Created: Tuesday, 22 September 2026 18:17

Published: Tuesday, 22 September 2026 18:17

Written by Jeff Krol

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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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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 2 POWER RANKINGS

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Created: Tuesday, 08 September 2026 14:53

Published: Tuesday, 08 September 2026 14:53

Written by Jeff Krol

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Welcome back to the TSL QB Power Rankings!

What's the first thing you notice in this week's ranking?

Not a lot of change this week!  People often ask us "why don't you shake things up more?" 

While that might be more interesting, it wouldn't be as accurate, and we strive to give you accuracy above all else.  Let's see why there was so little movement this week:

• The #1 QB in the League won his game.  Did you think Bobby was going to drop?
• The #2 QB in the League won his game and scored 41 points, but against a struggling opponent.  Did you think Mike was going to rise or drop?
• The #3 QB in the League won his game and scored 47 points.  Did you think Joey was going to rise or drop?
• The #4 QB in the League tied Frodo Swaggins then lost by one point with PWI.  Buddy can't rise if he didn't beat anyone, and he shouldn't drop below Ryan because he has a better record AND more points scored.
• The #5 QB in the League lost his second consecutive game after scoring 43 points... and those games were against Sticky Bandits and Legends.    Ryan can't rise if he didn't beat anyone, and he can't drop if he keeps scoring points against great opponents.
• The #6 QB in the League went 0-1-1 on Saturday, but nearly beat the #1 Ranked QB of the defending D1 champions.  Garrett didn't win a game so he can't rise, and he didn't lose to anyone who isn't ranked #1 in the League, so he can't drop either!
• The #7 QB in the League is now the only undefeated QB in D2, and the only people ahead of him are D1 Quarterbacks who are playing great.  Jordan can't rise, he shouldn't drop!
• It's not until we get to 8th vs 9th that we see any movement, as Bridget Masiello beat the System on Saturday.  True, Joe Miano was not present (John Langley subbed for the System), but we hold that against him and give credit to Bridget for both attendance and the win.
• And finally, D-Generation XYZ scored 44 points and won, so Damien can't move up (he lost to the person above him) and he shouldn't move down.

It might seem dull, but that's why you're not seeing a lot of movement this week!  Don't worry, upsets are coming (they're never far away) and the Power Rankings WILL be shaken up soon, we wouldn't bet against it.

Fancy Statistics Section

Yeah, right.  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 (yes, we're going to copy/paste this line next week too, so get used to it)

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 3 POWER RANKINGS

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Created: Monday, 14 September 2026 17:39

Published: Monday, 14 September 2026 17:39

Written by Jeff Krol

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Welcome to the TSL QB Power Rankings!

This week we have the top FIFTEEN quarterbacks in the League, as well as a “League-wide Team Power Ranking” that we tried and liked a couple seasons ago, where we’ll rank every team in the League from best to worst.  That means your team WILL be in this article somewhere, even if you don’t have a Top 15 QB.

Enjoy!

We were assuming that Bobby McConnell vs Mike Thomas would be for the #1 spot in the Rankings, but Bobby wasn’t able to attend last week, so we’re defaulting to the QB that won that last head-to-head matchup.  The defending D1 champion doesn’t lose his spot when he’s still undefeated this season!

Thomas doesn’t get to move up in the Power Rankings this week, but the Sticky Bandits are the only undefeated team left in D1, so he gets a big boost in the Standings at least. 

Are we all sleeping on Legends right now?  It feels like we’re all sleeping on Legends.  They’ve won 6 of the last 9 championships and their only loss this season was to Eyes Downtown when they were short-handed.  Does anyone feel like this is NOT the team to beat in D1?

Ryan, Garrett and Buddy all fall into the next tier of QBs, and honestly you can take your pick who you like the most (we were heavily split on this).  This is the strongest D1 has ever been (since we started ranking QBs at least) from top to bottom.

The top two point differentials in the League belong to Victorious Secret (+104) and Bullet Club (+73).  What do they have in common?  If you said “they should be playing in higher divisions” we would accept that answer, but “Jordan Lawson is their QB” is ALSO a correct answer. 

Bridget reccked Ricky on Saturday, and almost beat an undefeated D1 team as well.  That’s a good day at the office.

The Malones haven’t been as dominant without Andy Strug… but they haven’t been push-overs either.  Malones vs Can’t Touch This was a D2 classic revisited in D1 last week, and both teams looked strong.  Is it because they’re two second tier D1 teams on the same level?  Or are they just great athletes finding their way in a new division or with a new QB?  We’re not sure he’s on Andy’s level (yet) but Rhace had the offense moving last week.

The System has played BQI and Bullet Club in the past two weeks, and lost both games with 14-16 points scored and 34-37 points against.  We’ll give them credit for consistency, but they’d probably like to actually WIN these games against top D2 teams at some point.  We wonder if Joe Miano misses all his Jabronies talent right now…

DXYZ were apparently somewhat short handed on Saturday, which doesn’t help Damien’s ranking.  But other than their miracle playoff run last Spring, they’re 2-9 in their last 11 regular season games.  Saving it all for playoffs, maybe?

I’d Rather Be Golfing feels more like a project than an actual contender, but David Eickhoff’s other team Grey Hair – Don’t Care looks like a powerhouse in D3 right now.  They also look like they’d have been competitive in D2!  Is this their division to lose?

Let’s Get Reccked are the only winless team in D2 at the moment, but they’re too talented to stay that way.  They’ll break through with a win eventually, but do they have a chance at the championship?  Seth is a TOP level athlete… but D2 is too stacked to give these guys much of a chance unless they make some changes.

Mark Dalfonso is tough to rank at the moment, because Mike’s Detailing has one loss against the top seeded team in their division, one “this is kind of a forfeit” win against Cobblestone, and one “this is definitely a forfeit” win against Buffalo Vice.  How good are they?  We have no idea!  Much of Mark’s ranking right now is how good he has been in recent sessions (which was, of course, very good).

Buffalo Vice took a forfeit loss this week… and they had a forfeit win against Cobblestone in Week 1.  So like Mike’s Detailing, they’ve only played one real game, which they lost by a point to Practice Squad.  So why is Andy on our Top 15 and not B?  Believe us, we were split on this one.  With greater sample size, the better QB will be obvious eventually!

Team Power Rankings

Is every team in your division better than every team in the division below it?  Could you beat any of the teams in the division above you?  We’ll never know, since there are no Crossover games scheduled this session, but it’s fun to think about!  This is our attempt at ranking all 45 teams in the League, based on three weeks of action.  Our only rule we tried to follow was that we couldn’t rank a team higher than another team ahead of them in their own division’s standings (in other words even if you think Legends are better than Eyes Downtown, we still can’t rank Legends higher because Eyes Downtown are above them in the standings). 

Here it is!

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.”  Week Four is NEXT WEEK though, so you’re only 7ish days away from your first stat dump of the season.  It’s only a week, you can wait!

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 1 POWER RANKINGS

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Created: Monday, 31 August 2026 16:18

Published: Monday, 31 August 2026 16:18

Written by Jeff Krol

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Welcome back to the TSL Quarterback Power Rankings!  If you've read our article in the past (if for no other reason than to complain about how wrong we are) then you’re familiar with the concept – every week we share our rankings for the Top QBs in the League and discuss who’s trending up and who's trending down.  We on the QB Power Rankings Committee are not what you'd call "great writers" (or even "very good" writers... check out the Godfather if you want better writing) so we typically lean heavily on graphs and stats instead... at least, we do after a few weeks, when there's significant enough data to bother sharing.  In our season opening articles we also make a few predictions for the session and re-print an explanation of how these Power Rankings work, which we've copied and pasted almost verbatim from previous articles.

So a little Q&A to refresh your memories:

“There are 45 teams in the TSL this season!  Are you going to show rankings for all 45 starting QB’s every week?”

Not even close.  At minimum, the Top Ten will be shown EVERY week.  We always expand as the season goes on, so you'll see a Top 15, Top 20... last season we got to a Top 25, so we do try to be inclusive.

“Is this going to be heavily biased towards the higher divisions?”

In a word: yes.  The purpose of a Power Ranking is to highlight the absolute best in the League, and for the most part the best are competing AGAINST the best.  We will absolutely be acknowledging the performances (good and bad) of Quarterbacks in the lower divisions as well, but it's rare that a lower division QB will crack the Top Ten or Fifteen, and that's the way it should be.  Generally speaking, if you don't like your ranking, our advice is to try moving up a division next session.  The better your competition, the more credibility you earn for beating it.

"Are gender team QBs treated differently in the Rankings?"

Not really.  A team's a team, and although gender team scores tend to be a little higher (every TD = minimum 8 points) we don't see much difference.  It takes skill to win with men; it takes skill to win with women.  The biggest knock on gender teams is that they tend to play in lower divisions and as we said above, we do factor THAT into our rankings.

"How are you ranking backup QBs if they come in and play better than some other team's starter?"

Generally, we're only ranking one QB per team, even if you've got a player on your bench that you think could be a successful starter elsewhere.  And for teams with unreliable QBs who don't show up often enough for us to even KNOW who the starter is, we often leave them out of our rankings entirely... as they say, the best "ability" is "availability".  If you want to get ranked, show up and play as often as you can.  

"I'm new to this League and people don't know me yet!  How do I get ranked when I'm still an unknown?"

For starters, you should play really well.  If you're scoring a lot of points, we WILL notice you.  There are several new teams this session, so we probably DON'T know who you all are yet.  We no longer have our own email address, so if you want to tell us about your QB, why not email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and introduce yourself?  And please, please be patient.  If you're the highest scoring team in the League in Week 2, that doesn't mean we're anointing you as the next Bobby McConnell just yet.  Keep at it, play well, and we promise eventually we will recognize you.

“So you’re only ranking QB’s… what about the rest of us?”

Oh, we didn’t forget about the rest of you.  In addition to the QB Rankings, we will do our best to put out other rankings that the rest of you can enjoy – best team offenses, best team defenses, best referees, best male receivers, best female receivers, best at bar …  ranking anything is always fun.  Unless we rank you last, of course.  

“You keep saying ‘we’.  Who is writing this?  Who determines these rankings?”

Don’t worry about who’s writing this.  Let’s be honest: If you knew who was on our Committee (there's a few of us), you would incessantly whine to them about why you or your QB should be ranked higher every week.  Anonymity is key for journalism THIS important.  

And that's how the Power Rankings work.  We expect it's going to be an incredible season, with 45 teams battling for TSL supremacy.  Our official bold predictions for this year (with the benefit of one week already being in the books, of course): 

• Freeballers will make the D1 Finals… and get destroyed by somebody (we’re not guessing who).
• Currently winless BQI will win D2, and everyone will lose their minds about how their roster is “too good”.
• Cobblestone, who have already forfeited one game, will forfeit at least two more this season (also, they will not win the D3 championship).
• The lowest seeded champion will come from D4 this session.  We don’t know who it is, but someone’s going to surprise us in that division.
• Victorious Secret lose no more than one game in the regular season… and none in the playoffs.
• Irish Giants vs Select will be our D6 finals game.

But what do we know?  We went 2 out of 6 on last season's bold predictions:

• Bullet Club wins the D3 championship, going on a playoff run when teams are less likely to have schedule conflicts. [They “lost” to the Stunts and didn’t make the championship game.  What could have been…]
• PowerPuff Girls finally run out of steam, and fail to make their third consecutive Finals appearance (let alone win). [We were right.  They lost to Not So Sticky in the quarterfinals – there were just too many elite girls to replace in one season]
• Blue Ballers win their second division in a row, taking home the D5 championship. [Come on, that was a BOLD prediction, and we nailed it!]
• The D4 finals will be Coochie Monsters vs Mike's Detailing, with no prediction on the winner. [If Mike’s had had their starting QB for playoffs we might have been right!  But the finals were Coochie Monsters vs Balls Deep, and half right doesn’t count]
• Can't Touch This continue their tradition of dominating the regular season, and losing in the playoffs... to Jabronies this time. [Again, half right doesn’t count.  CTT did exactly what we said they’d do… but they lost to D-Generation XYZ instead]
• Intentional Clowning beat Select in the D6 Finals. [Congrats to TMA, our actual D6 champions!  Intentional Clowning rage quick the league, we assume, after watching Brent McKenzie take home the championship]

So there you go.  Let's get to the first QB Power Rankings of the Fall 2026 Season.  

As always, we do NOT overreact to one week's worth of games in our first Power Rankings of the season.  You also might not see MANY new people yet because we need a larger sample size to see how some of these changes play out.  Sorry if you don't like it, but if people are good enough, their stock will rise quickly and we'll get them Ranked over the next few weeks.  

Here are your Top Ten starting QBs in the TSL:

Here are some quick hits on your Top Ten QBs in the League:

• Last we saw of Bobby McConnell in our final rankings of Spring session he was 3-4-1 and had fallen to an unbelievable sixth in our Power Rankings.  Since then he has beaten Freeballers, Legends, Sticky Bandits and Legends on an epic 4-0 run.  Yes, his receiving corps has improved with Drew Butler coming back from injury, but this is a well-deserved #1 Ranking right now.
• The Sticky Bandits made the D1 finals last session, lost to our current #1 Ranked QB, and started this season with 48 points and a win.  Easy #2 for Mike Thomas.
• When was the last time Legends lost two games in a row?  Have they ever?  Combine this with the Stunts loss on Saturday and Joey might have what, four losses in a row?  Impossible.  Still… he’s not falling out of the top three just yet.
•  If anyone’s going to knock Joey off his Ranking this season (and the two above him as well) it’ll be Buddy Lee.  Freeballers and PWI have the highest points per game in D1 and D2 respectively.  How is Buddy not #1?  Well… a win over the Strug-less Malones (can we say they’re “Strug-gling”?) isn’t the signature win that beating Eyes Downtown would be.  We’ll see if Buddy keeps it up against the top tier teams before we declare him the League’s best.
• Ryan Dougherty somehow DROPPED one spot in the Rankings since last Spring, despite scoring 43 points against the D1 Runner-Up team in their debut in the League’s top division.  Opposing teams won’t be able to hurt Ryan’s spot in these rankings as much as his own team’s defense, if they keep losing shootouts.
• No game for Garrett Beesing this week, Frodo’s return to D1 will have to wait a little longer.
• Mavericks are no more, but Jordan’s still winning with multiple teams.  Bullet Club and Victorious Secret are both undefeated in their new divisions, and both teams are expected to be among the favorites (Victorious Secret especially)
• Jabronies or the System, it doesn’t matter much to Joe Miano what his team is called, he is winning either way.  29 points isn’t enough to grab the headlines, but beating the D2 Runner-Up team from last Spring has to mean something!
• How good are BQI?  How good is Bridget?  Is she a top ten QB in the League?  Or does she benefit from throwing to Josh Schultz (and soon Charles Emdin) repeatedly?  They’re off to a 0-2 start, but we don’t read too much into that.  Our guess is by the end of the season, they’ll be among the favorites to win D2, but even among our own Committee we’re fairly divided on where that credit belongs.
• DXYZ is off to an 0-1 start… but they went 1-7 last season and made the championship game.  Does regular season mean anything, or are they just holding back their best for the brightest spotlights?  Either way, Damien is very good, and in our opinion, the tenth best QB in the League today.

Fancy Statistics Section

Yeah, right.  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 (yes, we're going to copy/paste this line next week too, so get used to it)

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.  

What's YOUR ranking?