My how time flies! We are already at the halfway point of the season, and the league races and overall power rankings are really starting to take shape. Here are links to the April and May power rankings where I gave the history of these rankings and explained the methodology.

Without further ado, the FanGraphs points league team rankings (1,340 teams):

Top 10 FGPTS Teams by Pace LgNum TeamName Points PPG PIP pGP pIp PACE 194 The Murder Boners 11,797.2 6.45 6.26 1,938 1,500 21,888 81 20,530 or Bust 11,422.2 6.39 6.14 1,938 1,499 21,588 430 Britton Yu Crazy Diamond 11,423.0 6.32 6.05 1,944 1,500 21,361 198 Blue Suede Schus 11,131.8 5.92 6.57 1,944 1,433 20,922 240 Miguel’s Caballeros 11,082.0 6.09 6.53 1,944 1,387 20,899 248 Piedmont Boll Weevils 11,338.6 6.42 5.80 1,944 1,442 20,847 207 King Kang 10,976.6 6.02 6.04 1,944 1,495 20,734 389 Smelly Pirate Hooker 10,955.0 6.03 6.31 1,940 1,427 20,705 52 Durham Tobacconists 10,958.0 6.22 5.93 1,897 1,500 20,693 32 The Yastrzemskinators 11,169.0 6.14 5.79 1,944 1,493 20,582

The #1 FGPTS team remains this same this month, but there was a fair bit of shakeup within the rest of the top ten. Last month ten teams were on pace to beat the FGPTS record of 20,530, and this month eleven teams are on pace to do so! I think it’s fair to say that the record will be broken by at least one team in 2016. Offense continues to surge as we reach the summer, with all FGPTS teams averaging 5.30 Pts/G, up from 4.92 Pts/G last year and 5.13 Pts/G just last month. Pitching continues to be down, with an average Pts/IP of 4.96 compared to 5.14 Pts/IP in 2015.

Here are the FGPTS league power rankings (112 leagues):

FGPTS League Power Rankings lgNum LgName AvgRk Rnk+ 649 Brinksmanship 439.6 134.6 347 MVP Baseball 2005 444.8 133.9 532 A Small Sample 474.5 129.4 93 ottobros 478.6 128.8 195 Wins Above Figgins 495.5 126.3 504 KyGentlemensClub 509.3 124.3 380 Don’t Be Chi 521.4 122.5 90 UZR Friendly 539.1 119.8 671 MLB 2k16 539.1 119.8 530 Ottoneu Champions 542.8 119.3

As a reminder, the AvgRk column represents the average overall rank of all teams in the league, with 672.48 representing the average league. The Rnk+ column basically scales the AvgRk against 672.48, so that the 134.6 Rnk+ of Brinksmanship means that the teams in that league are ranked 34.6% higher than you would expect from a perfectly average league.

Up next, the SABR league team power rankings (225 teams):

Top 5 SABR Teams by Pace LgNum TeamName Points PPG P/IP pGP pIp PACE 301 SABRmagician✨ 10,849.5 6.21 5.91 1,944 1,390 20,284 331 Yeah Jeets 10,717.7 6.22 5.51 1,944 1,476 20,225 456 The Folies-Bergère Barmaids 10,563.2 6.00 5.65 1,944 1,500 20,139 37 The Naturals 10,652.3 6.10 5.44 1,944 1,500 20,018 412 Surplus or Minus 10,518.1 6.03 5.60 1,944 1,455 19,873

And the top five SABR leagues, using the same method I did for the FanGraphs points leagues (19 leagues):

SABR League Power Rankings lgNum LgName AvgRk Rnk+ 25 Super Serious Fantasy Baseball 85.7 125.2 159 Cooperstown – The Jack O’Ryan Memorial League 96.8 115.5 571 Effectively Wild (Dynasty) 98.8 113.7 186 Fantasy By the Book – An OttoNeu Experience 100.0 112.6 164 B. Selig Blue Ribbon Glee Club 103.0 110.0

Up next are the two rotisserie ottoneu formats, starting with the traditional 5×5 leagues. To calculate the top teams, I treated the entire population of teams as one big league, and gave every team points for every category based on where they ranked against every other team (499 teams):

Top 10 5×5 Teams LgNum TeamName R HR RBI SB AVG IP WINS SV K ERA WHIP POW 326 NY Swallows 611 185 596 79 0.275 864.0 67 69 887 2.95 1.13 454.4 87 Wally 31 632 164 611 81 0.292 797.2 54 96 811 3.22 1.12 451.7 56 Blue Whales 617 171 590 95 0.290 807.0 58 77 783 3.23 1.13 450.7 101 Beam Me Up, Piscotty 606 171 579 90 0.276 773.0 51 97 815 3.02 1.09 441.0 174 LIMA Planners 597 178 608 82 0.272 852.0 65 96 876 3.29 1.17 440.8 491 Meekrats 574 148 586 91 0.282 783.2 59 106 811 2.89 1.09 435.7 678 Free Tony Bosch 580 172 580 80 0.286 810.0 49 69 817 3.06 1.12 424.4 680 Magazine Husbands 623 162 595 77 0.285 805.2 60 67 740 3.13 1.15 423.3 461 Boise Boats 591 171 588 67 0.273 786.0 53 108 834 3.22 1.13 421.1 328 Say It Ain’t So Sano! 644 175 589 79 0.281 859.1 63 46 1000 3.44 1.21 419.3

And the 5×5 league rankings based on the same average team ranking method as previously discussed (42 leagues):

5×5 League Power Rankings lgNum LgName AvgRk Rnk+ 495 Ultimate Foul Balls 188.8 125.2 450 Hughes Your Daddy 200.8 120.4 225 Hard Core Baseball 206.6 118.1 540 $100 Old School Hardball 206.8 118.1 569 Mark Convoys Pepper Palace 214.1 115.2 328 Old School Hardball* 217.9 113.7 672 Church of Baseball 218.0 113.6 642 5×5 Champions 218.5 113.4 139 FanGraphs Experts League 221.8 112.1 580 You Gotta Be Bleeping Me! 222.2 112.0

Last, but not least, here are the rankings for the top teams in ottoneu 4×4 (224 teams):

Top 5 4×4 Teams LgNum TeamName R HR OBP SLG IP K HR9 ERA WHIP POW 34 Zeezils 622 176 0.354 0.487 886.1 1010 0.90 3.30 1.16 203.0 317 Master of the Domain 584 170 0.366 0.514 771.2 816 0.90 3.25 1.14 201.3 72 Gas House Gorillas 609 157 0.361 0.475 740.2 882 0.88 3.10 1.06 199.3 16 Cal Rikken 590 192 0.345 0.481 823.0 949 0.89 3.14 1.15 198.0 1 Last Years Leftovers 572 182 0.345 0.493 810.2 857 0.82 3.33 1.11 194.9

And the rankings for the top 4×4 leagues (19 leagues):

4×4 League Power Rankings lgNum LgName AvgRk Rnk+ 123 Wendy Peffercorn Fantasy Baseball League 94.3 117.5 645 Surplus or Scrub 94.4 117.5 1 original ottoneu 94.6 117.3 366 For Centaurs Only… 95.7 116.4 670 90% Mental 102.6 110.3

Feel free to leave any comments or questions about these rankings!