Well, hello there. I am Matt Williamson. Belly up to my bar. Let's have a little chat about my power ranks.

And I will say, first off, we're rocked you by ZipRecruiter. I will tell you more about them momentarily.

But I will say for the first time in a long time that we've done power ranks, I actually feel kind of confident about them.

You know, like, that I think that we're basically... we've done power ranks. I actually feel kind of confident about them.

You know, like, that, I think that we're basically at the halfway point.

Speaking of which, I kind of owe you guys a halfway point MVP, rookie of the year,

coach the year, all those things.

Maybe I'll incorporate that with Twitter Thursday.

Maybe we'll do that. Um, anyway,

anyway, um, I feel kind of confident about the power ranks that I think the line of demarcation's getting a little clearer as to who's good, who's really a contender, who's true middle of the

road. And of course, things will change. I've been doing this a

long time and I never want to pretend like we know, you know, but I think we have strong

indications. One thing, and there's a lot of change in the power ranks this week, too. So,

one thing I did, you know how sometimes I'll add a little note. I also wanted to do turnover differential.

So basically anyone that's real strong or real weak in the turnover differential department.

And how I deciphered that after looking at all 32 teams was anyone that was plus four or better or minus four or better. Those ones in the middle

I'm not even going to bring up. Kind of like how we do with other things. You know, like who are the

best, who are the worst, you know, who are the top, you know, 33 percent, who's the bottom 33

percent, whatever, top 25 percent, bottom 25 25% the middle people I don't care that much

about and I figure most teams played eight games so a plus four it's a pretty strong indication

a minus four is a pretty strong indication get what I'm saying well the brownies are minus 12

they're the worst in the league, and they're still 32nd.

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