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Dallas’ men (Auggie Ge on the Left and JW Johnson on the right) cruised through this weekend and made a statement with their win over Columbus.<\/p>\n
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Major League Pickleball<\/a> (MLP), presented by DoorDash, was back in action this past weekend at the Barnes center in San Diego, and we saw some big upsets and major surprises throughout the weekend as the MLP standings start to take shape ahead of the playoffs.<\/p>\n Key links for tracking the event this weekend, which feature livestreams from the primary courts at the facility on MLP\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a> and on PickleballTV.com<\/a>. I also have data-centric links at the bottom of this recap.<\/p>\n Transaction Recap & Player News<\/p>\n Ahead of the San Diego Event, we had a handful of trades and the final waiver wire period. The official trade deadline is 7\/20\/26, but we went ahead and covered the transactions in a separate post earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n As I\u2019m writing this, more trades are being announced; we\u2019ll cover them in next week\u2019s posts.<\/p>\n Premier League Group Stage Match Recap<\/p>\n Day 1 Observations<\/strong><\/p>\n Day 2 Observations<\/strong><\/p>\n Day 3 Observations<\/strong><\/p>\n Group Stage Results<\/p>\n At the end of the group stages, here were the standings, which drive the final day\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n Event Standings Results <\/p>\n For 2026, the final day features the Event Standings matches, where the winner of Group A players the Winner of Group B, the 2nd place teams play for 3rd, the 3rd place teams play for 5th, and so on. Here\u2019s a review of those final matches.<\/p>\n 2026 League Team Standings Update post Event<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the teams who made notable moves up or down the season Standings in this event. Because of imbalanced schedules, we\u2019ll use Points per Match to determine the \u201cstandings\u201d in this analysis.<\/p>\n MLP Standings (pts\/per event) post San Diego Week 7. The Teams highlighted in yellow were active this weekend, while the rankings in yellow represent significant standings changes after this event.<\/p>\n Todd Boss<\/p>\n Player Stats Analysis for the Weekend<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a quick look at the players who played best (and worst) this weekend.<\/p>\n What did we learn this weekend?<\/p>\n What were our top three Takeaways from the competition this weekend?<\/p>\n Media Pick\u2019 Em Contest Update<\/p>\n We have a slew of influencers and members of the traditional pickleball media participating in a season-long pick\u2019em contest. Here\u2019s the link to track the competition<\/a> online, and I\u2019ll be tweeting out the pick matrix and updates, so follow me on Twitter <\/a>if interested.<\/p>\n MLP Media Pick\u2019em Competition Weekly Summary: Dallas\u2019 win destroyed most of the boards; only HeyShay picked them and she wins the week easily. Nico the Lefty, god help us, moves into first place for the season.<\/p>\n MLP Media Pick’em Contest post Week 7.<\/p>\n Todd Boss<\/p>\n Next up on the Pickleball Calendar? According to my Master Pickleball Schedule<\/a>, MLP moves right into Week 8 of 9 in Chicago this coming weekend, as a number of teams will finish out their 2026 slate.<\/p>\n MLP-specific stats mentioned herein come from PickleKey.com<\/a>, which has done a great job collecting detailed MLP player data for the league and went through an off-season re-design that includes a slew of new ways to slice and dice the data.<\/p>\n My colleague Erik Tice at the Dink<\/a> (who does double duty as the GM for the California Black Bears) is back to maintaining his Public MLP Data sheet<\/a>, which has all sorts of awesome data. <\/p>\n\n
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