How does the League Ranking System work?

The League Ranking System is based on awarding points to a team based on the strength of the teams which they have defeated.  Defeating a higher ranked team will result in more points while beating a lower ranked team will result in lesser points.  To show how this works, we'll use last year's results to rank the teams from last year.  First, we arrange the teams in their order of finish, with the A teams being ranked over the B teams.  Then each team is assigned an initial point value.  Since there were 16 teams last year, the top team, Most Wanted, is assigned a value of 16.  We decrease the value by 1 for the next team, giving Coral Reefers a value of 15, and so on until USA is assigned a 1.  This is the first line in the table below.

Next, each team gains points based on their wins.  Looking at the 3 and 4 rows, Most Wanted beat Coral Reefers 3 times, giving them 45 points (3 wins x 15 points).  Their three wins vs. Vipers gives them 42 points, since Vipers are worth 14 points.  This continues until all their wins are been given a point value and sum in the total points column.  Most Wanted won 15 games, worth a total of 177 points.  We then use the same method to get the total points earn for each team in the league.

The next thing the system does is figure out the maximum number of games played in the league.  This is so we can compare the total point values based on number of games played.  Coral Reefers scored 195 points, but played 3 games more than Most Wanted, who scored 177 points.  But by dividing the Total Points by the Ratio of games played to maximum games played,  we can Normalize the Total Points as if each team played the same number of games.  

Adding up the total wins and losses find that Wild Bunch played a total of 26 games.  Since Most Wanted played in 22 games, their Ratio of Maximum is 22/26, or 0.85. (They played in 85% as many games as Wild Bunch)  Coral Reefers played in 25 games, so their Ratio of Maximum is 0.96. (They played in 96% as many games as Wild Bunch)  We then divide this Ratio into the team's Total Points to get their Maximized Total Points.  In this example, we can surmise that had Most Wanted playing in 26 games, they would have earned 208 points, since their 177 / 0.85 becomes 208, while Coral Reefers would have earned 203 points if they played 26 games. ( 195 / 0.96 = 203)   

The last step is to Normalize the Maximized Total  Points to a scale of 1 to 100.  The highest Maximized Total Points is assigned a value of 100 and the rest are Normalized to this number.  For instance, Most Wanted's 208 becomes a normalized value of 100.  Coral Reefers' 203 is divided by Most Wanted's 208 and Multiplied by 100 to give a Normalized Point Value of 98.