Who were the best players in the PUL this season and at Championship Weekend?
July 9, 2026 by Paul Würtztack in Analysis
Welcome to Better Box Score Metrics, our analytics column focused primarily on semi-pro statistics and discovering new ways to use data to explore ultimate. It is anchored by EDGE, which we can summarize as converting goals, assists, blocks, turnovers, and yards gained into one metric, while accounting for the scoring and turnover environment.
The PUL’s Championship Game pitted DC Shadow, the leagues’ leader in breaks, against a Philadelphia Surge team that never posted less than a 76 percent hold rate in six regular-season games. In the “something’s gotta give” match-up, Philly gave. DC halved Philly’s hold rate to 39 percent, breaking them 11 times on the way to their 2nd consecutive PUL title in an unexpected 20-10 blow-out win.
Unlike Championship Weekend in the WUL, where Seattle’s Jamie Kauffman and Cheryl Hsu (MVP and OPOTY, respectively) had huge semis and finals performances, no player on either DC or Philly posted twice on the weekend leaderboard (Table 1). For DC, this was largely the result of having a D-line score more than the O-line in both games, a fitting outcome for a team this deep. Box-scores for all players at Championship Weekend are shown in Table 2.
PUL Championship Weekend Analytics
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