And with that, the 2021 regular season in the books! Before we officially kick of the 2021 playoffs, here's a quick power rankings recap. For the most part, the rankings matched our final statistics except for two teams - Jammers and Gang Green. Before we move into playoff and consolidation brackets, an interesting visit back to the season to see how one of these teams ended up solidly in the playoffs and the other, out (despite winning last year's championship).
The Jammers officially finished the season 3rd in the standings with a decidedly solid 8-6 record while Gang Green finished 8th with a 6-8 record. However, taking a closer look, Greg's team averaged more than 10 pts scored each week as compared to Lei's team and the final standings with one in the playoffs while the other playing in the consolidation brackets were basically a result of two matchups.
For Greg, it was their week 6 matchup against the Monkeys and their week 13 matchup against Mastermind. Gang Green combined for nearly 280 points in those two weeks but simply ran into bad luck and lost to juggernaut weeks. On the flipside, the Jammers were able to eek out wins in weeks 9 and 11 despite scoring only 99.65 and 103.9 pts respectively. Both crucial wins in the stretch run that flipped their record to 8-6 when they could've 6-8. Lei won both games by less than 2 points. Nuts.
Each lucky win (and unlucky loss) made a huge difference. And with that - the final power rankings for 2021.
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