USCL Ratings and Power Rankings: Week 5 (2009)

Power Rankings After Week 5. Remember...

• Team record and game points contribute 55% to the ranking.
• Records of opponents contributes 35% to the ranking.
• Records of opponents' opponents contribute 10% to the ranking.
  

1 -	New Jersey	1.000
2 -	Seattle	0.947
3 -	San Francisco	0.903
4 -	New York	0.893
5 -	Boston	0.861
6 -	Miami	0.834
7 -	Dallas	0.726
8 -	Arizona	0.714
9 -	Tennessee	0.712
10 -	Philadelphia	0.662
11 -	Queens	0.654
12 -	Baltimore	0.648
13 -	Chicago	0.627
14 -	Carolina	0.510

New York ahead of Boston? But Boston is 4.0 - 1.0 and New York is even at 2.5 - 2.5! How can this be?

Let's look at the raw totals... (never mind the scale, just look at the numbers).

BOSTON
Team Record: 140
Opponents' Record: 68
Opponents' Opponents Record: 105

NEW YORK
Team Record: 108
Opponents' Record: 136
Opponents' Opponents Record: 87

Conclusion? New York's schedule was twice as difficult as Boston's!

Let' hear from you Boston Blitz fans and players! Should the weaker opposition you faced overwhelm your excellent record, and put you below the New York Knights? What do you Knights players and fans think?

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Here is the USCL Rating List, after Week 5. Remember...

• Players must have played in 2009 to be on the list
• Players must have played three lifetime games in the USCL
• Color played makes a difference in calculating expected score from a game - having white essentially adds 72 points to your rating
• Drawing when your team wins is worth 2/3 of a point (instead of 1/2) and drawing when your team loses is worth 1/3 of a point.
  

Rank	Rating	Name
1	2640	Jaan Ehlvest
2	2638	Hikaru Nakamura
3	2616	Sergey Erenburg
4	2615	Larry Christiansen
5	2604	Julio Becerra
6	2600	Boris Gulko
7	2576	Dean Ippolito
8	2576	Joel Benjamin
9	2574	Marko Zivanic
10	2571	Jacek Stopa
11	2568	Gregory Serper
12	2560	Giorgi Kacheishvili
13	2540	Alejandro Ramirez
14	2539	Yuri Lapshun
15	2539	Eugene Perelshteyn
16	2535	Josh Friedel
17	2532	Pascal Charbonneau
18	2529	Alex Lenderman
19	2512	Marc Esserman
20	2511	Leonid Kritz
21	2509	Alex Stripunsky
22	2505	Bruci Lopez
23	2497	Slava Mikhailuk
24	2491	Irina Krush
25	2490	Levon Altounian
26	2474	Sam Shankland
27	2462	Alex Shabalov
28	2461	Blas Lugo
29	2459	Jorge Sammour-Hasbun
30	2459	Dmitry Schneider
31	2458	Daniel Ludwig
32	2456	Mackenzie Molner
33	2454	Eli Vovsha
34	2452	Rogelio Barcenilla
35	2451	Jesse Kraai
36	2450	Andrei Zaremba
37	2446	Thomas Bartell
38	2443	Keaton Kiewra
39	2438	Denis Shmelov
40	2435	Jan van de Mortel
41	2435	Larry Kaufman
42	2434	David Pruess
43	2431	Tegshsuren Enkhbat
44	2422	Jonathan Schroer
45	2421	Sergey Kudrin
46	2419	Florin Felecan
47	2415	Angelo Young
48	2412	John Bartholomew
49	2411	Bryan Smith
50	2408	Mark Ginsburg
51	2407	Nikola Mitkov
52	2405	John Donaldson
53	2400	Oleg Zaikov
54	2397	Mehmed Pasalic
55	2391	Jay Bonin
56	2385	Eric Rodriguez
57	2382	Shinsaku Uesugi
58	2376	Yaacov Norowitz
59	2374	Vadim Martirosov
60	2370	Robby Adamson
61	2366	Ron Simpson
62	2364	Ron Burnett
63	2364	John Bick
64	2357	David Adelberg
65	2354	Victor Shen
66	2354	Matthew Herman
67	2351	Peter Bereolos
68	2349	Aviv Friedman
69	2344	Michael Lee
70	2341	Yian Liou
71	2323	Daniel Naroditsky
72	2315	Eric Tangborn
73	2315	Ilya Krasik
74	2306	Todd Andrews
75	2296	Jon Burgess
76	2295	Josh Sinanan
77	2294	Ray Kaufman
78	2285	Bayaraa Zorigt
79	2281	Kavinayan Sivakumar
80	2272	Katerina Rohonyan
81	2269	Craig Jones
82	2261	Nelson Lopez
83	2256	Tsagaan Battsetseg
84	2250	Danny Rensch
85	2228	David Justice
86	2217	Leo Martinez
87	2211	Andrew Ng
88	2207	Elizabeth Vicary
89	2207	Alejandro Moreno Roman
90	2159	Shaun Smith