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MLP 2025 Power Rankings 2.0

We are about to begin a stretch of 3 straight weeks of MLP tournaments. MLP Austin will be happening on

Drama is good for the sport of the pickleball. Storylines that go beyond the on-court action is what keeps a

Is MLP back or what? We’ll have plenty to get to as the week goes along and we’ll have takeaways

We are unabashedly proponents of the team format being the best format to watch in pro pickleball. That has not

We have never done any kind of power rankings as NML, but it seems like it would be a missed

Authored by Gritty – as a caveat for this post, this is a question that the two of us fundamentally

We are already getting to that point in the pickleball season where events are bleeding into each other. We had

The floodgates on Trade SZN was supposed to be opened after the Challenger draft was completed. However, we are now

Since 2023 when the Challenger and Premier divisions were implemented, we have probably enjoyed following the Challenger division more than

Another year. Another draft. It was more of a reset considering the tenuous keeper situation that was created by MLP, which

2026 MLP Playoffs Round 1 – 4 Takeaways – Zane Goes In-Zane – NML Pickleball on Winners and Losers of the 2026 MLP DraftAugust 18, 2026
[…] expressed basically the same sentiment at draft time earlier this year about what a missed opportunity it was for…
MLP Playoffs Quarterfinals – 5 Takeaways – Flash Mogging – NML Pickleball on Where NML Was Right and Where NML Was Wrong – 2026 MLP EditionAugust 18, 2026
[…] Flash Mogging – When we wrote our “Where NML Was Right and Where NML Was Wrong” column after the regular…
admin on 2026 MLP Playoffs Round 1 – 4 Takeaways – Zane Goes In-ZaneAugust 12, 2026
Ya exactly. We need to normalize not being so easily offended by our opponents. Zane is good for MLP and…
admin on 2026 MLP Playoffs Round 1 – 4 Takeaways – Zane Goes In-ZaneAugust 12, 2026
It seems people don’t want to have that Sliders issue or energy, which makes sense for teams. But not for…
Jason Peery on 2026 MLP Playoffs Round 1 – 4 Takeaways – Zane Goes In-ZaneAugust 11, 2026
What Zane did is no big deal. Casey and Dekel got beaten by Zane and JLG in that game. They…