Week 2 Rankings, 2012

A low turnout at the polls leads to some…weirdness. Read on to find out more!

12. Yakety Sacks (Jaron)
Average Ballot Position: 11.0 (0)
Yahoo Power Ranking: 9
Standings: 12
W-L: 0-2
Well, this is a shocker. It’s been a terrible start to the season for the Yaks, who have a dubious two-week streak as the league’s low scorer.

11. Obese Geese (Steve E.)
Average Ballot Position: 10.3 (0)
Yahoo Power Ranking: 6
Standings: 11
W-L: 0-2
The Geese are also off to a rough start, and have had the league’s toughest schedule, to boot. High scoring opponents explains two losses, but doesn’t explain 65 points last week.

10. Cactus watch out! (Steve S.)
Average Ballot Position: 9.5 (0)
Yahoo Power Ranking: 8
Standings: 9
W-L: 1-1
The Cacti snagged their first win over the team ranked directly ahead of them (how’s that happen?), and they get the struggling Geese this week. Two wins in a row, perhaps?

9. Minions (Chris)
Average Ballot Position: 9.3 (0)
Yahoo Power Ranking: 12
Standings: 8
W-L: 1-1
After a shocking upset in week 1, the Minions regressed a bit in week 2. So, of course it makes perfect sense that they move up in this poll; wait..what? Goes to show how poorly the bottom teams have been doing.

8. Chi Don't Dance (Luke)
Average Ballot Position: 8.3 (0)
Yahoo Power Ranking: 11
Standings: 10
W-L: 1-1
Chi managed to grab one of those relieving wins that every team seems to get once or twice a season, where the team performs poorly but the opponent is even worse. They’ll want to turn things up a notch to dig out of this early season hole.

7. Z Power (Andy G.)
Average Ballot Position: 7.5 (0)
Yahoo Power Ranking: 4
Standings: 6
W-L: 1-1
The Z’s pulled out a stunner, taking out the favorite by a mere 38 fractional hundredths. Not much love in these rankings for that feat yet, because surely that won’t happen again. Could it?

6. Sack Attack SuperPAC (Danny K.)
Average Ballot Position: 5.3 (0)
Yahoo Power Ranking: 3
Standings: 7
W-L: 1-1
One week after a strong showing comes an unequivocal disaster. Like so many other teams right now, the question is which performance is the aberration?

5. The Schmuckernators (Jason)
Average Ballot Position: 4.5 (2)
Yahoo Power Ranking: 7
Standings: 1
W-L: 2-0
Somehow became the most polarizing team in the league right now. Have a tremendous victory, and drop 3 spots in the rankings?! The results thus far say this team is really good, the projections are not sold, and the voters are split!

4. Stars (Dan B. H.)
Average Ballot Position: 4.3 (0)
Yahoo Power Ranking: 5
Standings: 5
W-L: 1-1
Take a tough loss but performed well and thus they held their spot. Now they get a great opportunity to take down one of the remaining undefeated!

3. MutantMennoMarauders (Brett)
Average Ballot Position: 4.0 (0)
Yahoo Power Ranking: 10
Standings: 2
W-L: 2-0
The surprise of the league, bar none. After eking out an unimpressive week 1 win, the Marauders blasted their week 2 opponents. You might say they shot the Geese right out of the sky. Now, to see if they can keep the positive momentum.

2. Bacon Cheeseburgers (Andy K.)
Average Ballot Position: 2.5 (0)
Yahoo Power Ranking: 2
Standings: 4
W-L: 1-1
The Cheese righted the ship with a thoroughly impressive dismantling of the SuperPACs. Now that’s how a preseason favorite should perform.

1. ChalicePastryCarnage (Adam)
Average Ballot Position: 1.8 (2)
Yahoo Power Ranking: 1
Standings: 3
W-L: 1-1
Another solid showing but tripped up at the finish line. They may have slipped in the standings, but not here in the rankings. Their matchup with the Schmucks this week is clearly the tastiest early season matchup and should be a real treat.