OPL Power Rankings: Split 1, Week Eight

Howdy all, and welcome to Snowball Esports’ weekly OPL Power Rankings. These will be hot off the press each Monday, 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 / CHF / ORD / LGC / AV / BMR / SIN / TTC

GAUNTLET HYPE ANYONE? Lets ignore positions 6-8 they’re dead and buried now for playoffs lets get around this top 5.

I am incredibly excited for this years gauntlet outside of AV who can make an impact but probably not be consistent enough to win it, it’s up for grabs for the top 4 teams. While Dire Wolves are yet to drop a series, they have dropped games and at times looked shaky, as the saying goes if it bleeds you can kill it and that’s the mentality everyone will be going into the gauntlet with, on any team’s day they’ve got a great shot at coming out on top.

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

Reece Perry

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

I, as the resident CHF #2 Overlord, would like to welcome my new compatriots. What took you so long? Rest of the list remains unchanged. Legacy close a bit of a gap to ORD but not as much as the result suggests. I don’t consider that result to be repeatable – but I hope Sybol proves me wrong.

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

Callum Matthews

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

A shuffle between teams in the two to four bracket has occurred largely due to how teams have appeared against each other in recent weeks with only ORD CHF left to play in the last week. CHF appear to be a class above LGC and ORD currently, with LGC and ORD appearing to be quite close together.

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

Swifty

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

This week Legacy exposed some chinks in the armour of ORDER that no other team but Dire Wolves had taken advantage of so far. It will be interesting to see how ORDER fare against a Chiefs team next week that continues to show strong, decisive play. Bottom side of the ladder remains the same with Sin moving up one spot after their surprisingly close series against Avant.

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