Cricket Gold Coast Power Rankings: Coast’s most dominant cricket teams of season 2021/2022

A new mathematical formula has revealed which Gold Coast cricket teams are punching above their weight on the ladder - and which teams are not.

The Bonogin Bulls fifth grade team have climbed their way back to first overall on the Gold Coast Bulletin’s power rankings, having last held pole position five weeks ago.

The Bulls dropped to a season-low fifth place after losing their first match to Runaway Bay but have been perfect in the weeks since to mount their climb.

First grade leaders Surfers Paradise climbed one position to sit 13th overall, behind a slew of dominant fifth and sixth grade teams.

POWER RANKINGS WEEK 11

POWER RANKINGS WEEK TEN

FIFTH grade competition leader Southport Labrador has jumped to top spot in The Bulletin’s weekly power rankings as former leaders, PBC third grade, endured a precipitious five-spot fall.

Southport (2938) now boasts a 120 point gap to fifth grade rivals Bonogin, who climbed three spots into second courtesy of a six-wicket win over Mudgeeraba Red at the weekend.

For the first time this year, no team sits above the 3000 point barrier. For context, seven teams sat above 3000 when the power rankings debuted in week five.

Sixth grade Bonogin Gold has moved six spots in two weeks and now sits snugly inside the top four with a score of 2613.

Their closest rivals, Runaway Bay, become the latest entrant into the top 10 by also moving up six spots from 15 to nine.

And though Kookaburra Cup leaders Mudgeeraba Nerang rebounded from the December 4 loss to PBC by knocking off fellow finals aspirants Helensvale on Saturday, their ranking still took a dramatic hit.

The first grade pacesetters dropped from third a fortnight ago to 12.

Meanwhile, the biggest risers over the past fortnight both come from PBC.

The Kookaburra Cup side, bolstered by its win over Mudgeeraba, rocked up 18 spots to 17 overall, while PBC’s sixth grade side rose 17 places to 32.

Going in the other direction are Helensvale fourth grade (25 to 43) and Mudgeeraba Red (31 to 47).

POWER RANKINGS WEEK EIGHT

RUNAWAY Bay’s first grade team has tumbled 10 places down the Bulletin’s weekly power rankings after a horror start to the club’s Kookaburra Cup one day campaign.

A month ago the Seagulls were first grade’s top side, fourth overall in Gold Coast cricket, with an undefeated record and a power score of 3215.

With the latest rankings update Bay’s power score has dipped below 2000 for the first time this season to rank 20th of all clubs and third among first grade.

A six-wicket defeat to Palm Beach Currumbin, having surrendered all 10 wickets for 72, saw the Lions take the largest stride forward of any club.

PBC leapfrogged Burleigh’s first graders with a 10-rank jump from 45th to 35th.

Burleigh’s comprehensive defeat to Surfers Paradise saw that side dip from 30th to 42nd, the biggest slide on the Gold Coast this weekend.

The Bull Sharks’ conquerors cracked the power ­rankings top 20 for the first time this season and now trail the grade’s undefeated leaders Mudgeeraba Nerang by 14 ranks.

Washouts ensured the top five ranks were unchanged.

POWER RANKINGS WEEK SEVEN

IN three weeks Palm Beach Currumbin’s third grade team has climbed from sixth of 73 local cricket teams to first overall in the Gold Coast ­Bulletin’s power rankings.

The Lions are one of six remaining unbeaten teams in Gold Coast cricket, riding hot since a round two clash with Helensvale (4-2-1) was abandoned.

In six innings the Lions have conceded just 24 wickets, tied with Mudgeeraba’s first grade team as the fewest dismissals across any grade.

A five-wicket victory over Coomera Hope Island on Saturday saw the team’s power ranking grow from 3127 to 3144, as defeats to Bonogin’s fifth grade team and Runaway Bay’s sixth grade team saw them drop to fifth and sixth place respectively.

Broadbeach Robina’s first XI was the district’s biggest improver in week 7, launching an unmatched 13 positions up the rankings leaderboard with an 86-run Kookaburra Cup ­victory over Queens.

Mudgeeraba’s fifth grade Red side dropped 12 positions, from 17th to 29th overall, after losing to Southport by 10 ­wickets.

POWER RANKINGS WEEK SIX

BONOGIN Valley Bulls in fifth grade have leapfrogged Mudgeeraba Blue in fourth grade to claim the mantle of the Gold Coast’s most dominant senior cricket team.

The Bulls survived a nailbiter against winless PBC Colts to take top spot after a depleted Mudgee Blue outfit were skittled for just 60 by Coomera Hope Island.

The six-wicket defeat sent the Bushmen to fourth overall, a testiment to how dominant the team had been entering week six with four dominant wins.

Helensvale Pacific Pines’ first grade team suffered the biggest shift of the week, plummeting down the board from 12th of 73 teams to 29th, after losing to Surfers Paradise.

Queens second grade and Helensvale’s fourth grade teams both fell 16 places, to 29th and 53rd overall.

Mudgeeraba Nerang’s second grade team were the biggest improvers, climbing from 36th place last week to 20th.

Broadbeach Robina’s fouth grade team, boosted by Scott Robson’s 209 not-out, climbed 14 spots to sit 12th overall.

POWER RANKINGS WEEK FIVE

MUDGEERABA’s fourth grade Blue team is the most dominant team in Gold Coast senior cricket after five weeks, according to a power rankings formula devised by the Gold Coast Bulletin’s cricket writers.

The formula weights factors including wickets taken and lost, runs scored and conceded and wins, draws and losses to mathematically level the playing field between 73 senior teams.

Mudgee Blue has scored more than double their runs conceded (1093 for, 542 against) and taken 39 wickets while losing 26, for a win-loss-draw record of 4-1-0 to reach a Bulletin Power Rankings score of 3825.

Second-ranked Bonogin fifth grade are 337 points behind while third-placed Surfers Paradise third grade trail Mudgee’s high-flying fourth graders by 578 points.

Runaway Bay is the leading first grade team with a Power Rankings score of 3215 to sit fourth overall despite its second place position on the Kookaburra Cup ladder to Helensvale - who sit 12th.