{"id":487945,"date":"2021-09-26T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T01:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=487945"},"modified":"2021-09-26T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T01:03:11","slug":"as-third-isl-season-wraps-up-power-balance-is-same-as-it-ever-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/as-third-isl-season-wraps-up-power-balance-is-same-as-it-ever-was\/","title":{"rendered":"As Third ISL Season Wraps Up, Power Balance Is Same as It Ever Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As Third ISL Season Wraps Up, Power Balance Is Same as It Ever Was<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ISL regular season has ended, and as much as the league is changing the sport of swimming, one thing remains naggingly constant.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see if you can spot it. Here are the finalists in each of the first two seasons of the league:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong>: Energy Standard, London Roar, Cali Condors, LA Current<\/li>\n<li><strong>2020<\/strong>: Cali Condors, London Roar, Energy Standard, LA Current<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And after 10 matches of the 2021 season, the <a href=\"https:\/\/isl.global\/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pmd_qu2Rmj.Z391RqKC7kZmtMexGYHdqSeEkNNFuwJkYHjA-1632670792-0-gqNtZGzNAdCjcnBszQlR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">league standings<\/a> are as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Energy Standard 16<\/li>\n<li>Cali Condors 15<\/li>\n<li>London Roar 13<\/li>\n<li>Toronto Titans 12<\/li>\n<li>LA Current 11<\/li>\n<li>Aqua Centurions 10<\/li>\n<li>Team Iron 8<\/li>\n<li>Tokyo Frog Kings 6<\/li>\n<li>DC Trident 5<\/li>\n<li>NY Breakers 4<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>By some measures, Toronto sneaking into fourth place might rank as variety. By others, the LA Current plummeting from fourth to fifth in a season where it hasn\u2019t had superstar <strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong> is really just more of the same. With the playoffs to come, and Toronto\u2019s lackluster showing in Match 9, there\u2019s no guarantee that the Energy-Cali-London-LA blockade will be broken when the league rolls into Eindhoven for its playoffs in November.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Konstantin Grigorishin<\/strong> doesn\u2019t seem like someone all that concerned with parity, and the insistence on it seems to be a particular hang up of American sporting leagues, with their redistributive drafting bent. But there\u2019s a fine line for the league to walk moving forward. Coherent identities and philosophies are great, but at some point, swimmers on the New York Breakers and DC Trident have to see their enthusiasm wane as a constant punching bag in the team standings.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth first looking at the positives. Teams have, over two or three seasons, crafted unique identities, and those can certainly fluctuate as the fortunes of the nations on which they\u2019re based do. Italy has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympics-how-federico-burdisso-and-italy-became-one-of-the-games-top-swimming-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a historic Olympic showing<\/a>? Good for Aqua Centurions. Japan struggles under the pressure of hosting the Tokyo Games? All the worse for the Frog Kings. You saw the cost to the London Roar last year without their Australian contingent and the surge in the Toronto Titans off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/by-any-measure-a-historically-successful-olympics-for-swimming-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the success of Canada at the Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the imbalance is unavoidable. As long as the American talent is largely split between four franchises and the college system excludes a large portion of that talent pool (particularly as the stars on the women\u2019s side skew younger as in Tokyo), there\u2019s going to be a deficit incurred by someone. The move to widen the impact of distance swimmers has been a boon to teams at the bottom of the standings last year like Toronto (via <strong>Alberto Razzetti<\/strong> and <strong>Summer McIntosh),<\/strong> the Breakers (<strong>Abbie Wood<\/strong> and <strong>Brendon Smith<\/strong>) and the Trident (<strong>Bailey Andison<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>But the scoring system of ISL is inherently top heavy. Having solid, middle-of-the-pack depth is useless if another team\u2019s superstar steals the jackpot. It\u2019s even more pronounced in the relays. If you lack sprint depth (that\u2019s Tokyo and New York), then skins hold little promise for you.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves the only obvious remedy to be a redistribution of star swimmers. ISL has been reticent to do that; in some cases \u2013 like <strong>Siobhan Haughey<\/strong> moving from D.C. to Energy Standard \u2013 it\u2019s retrenched the star power of teams. The ability to attract athletes is, to some degree, in the hands of each program, and it\u2019s incumbent on the franchises to do that, financially and otherwise. But when you see, as is a regular occurrence, one team like the Condors or Energy Standard able to produce the top four or five scorers or seven of the top 10 in a match, there\u2019s a clear imbalance.<\/p>\n<p>ISL is generating excitement in the sport. 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