OPL Power Rankings: Split 1, Week Seven

Howdy all, and welcome to Snowball Esports’ weekly OPL Power Rankings. These will be hot off the press each ~~Monday~~ Tuesday this week, serving only the hottest takes fresh out of the oven that was the last week’s games. Our panel, as always, are our contributors: Reece, Andrew, Callum, Swifty, and former SIN Gaming coach Bencel.

A quick note on power rankings: Power Rankings are different to how one would traditionally rank teams. Normal rankings are a bit more based on ability than results. In a traditional ranking if one team beat another you could still rank them lower if you thought they were still worse than the team they beat. Power Rankings are by definition recency-biased and results-focused and are more of a snapshot of how a team looks right now than how they have looked throughout the year or how they project overall. A bad loss may see a team drop below a team most would see them as being better than. A string of losses can see a team tumble down the rankings.

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Andrew Wray
Reece Perry
Callum Matthews
Swifty
Bencel

Want more detail as to why our panel put the teams in the order they did? Click below for more thoughts from each pundit.

Andrew Wray

DW / ORD / CHF / LGC / AV / BMR / SIN / TTC

This week didn’t exactly change much other than you have to be really excited for ORD vs CHF – feels like the Chiefs are really breathing down their neck. Other than that the Bombers are finally finding their feet but it’s a case of too little, too late as it will take a miracle to make the gauntlet.

Let Andrew know what you think of his power rankings on Twitter @AWray7

Reece Perry

DW / CHF / ORD / LGC / AV / BMR / SIN / TTC

I nearly put BMR above SIN last week, call me old sentimental for having not done so. Now there can be no doubt, though it was a competitive, enjoyable series. You should have expected Chiefs to comfortably handle Legacy, but the degree to which they have done so was an absolute statement series from Australia’s Boys in Blue. (Not to be confused with the US Boys in Blue in EnVyUs). There is no gap between AV and LGC these two teams are as close in relative strength as any other two teams in this list, including CHF and ORD.

Let Reece know what you think of his power rankings on Twitter @LoLTies

Callum Matthews

DW / ORD / CHF / LGC / AV / BMR / SIN / TTC

Let Callum know what you think of his power rankings on Twitter @CDMLoL

Swifty

DW / ORD / CHF / LGC / AV / BMR / SIN / TTC

Only change this week is Bombers moving up one spot after their win against SIN. They’re starting to really come together as a team and it’s great to see. I personally think ORDER can take a series win against Chiefs right now but a potential Legacy upset this weekend may change my mind.

Let Swifty know what you think of his power rankings on Twitter @Swift_y