Major League Table Tennis (MLTT) in USA

Bay Area - Lashin 7-2, Tao 5-4, L Zhang 2-1, Godhwani 1-5, T Zhang 1-8

Portland - Kou Lei 6-0, McDonald 5-4, Knight 3-3, Vila Ortiz 3-3, Xia 1-5, Sung 0-3

Seattle - Cao 6-0, Kumar 7-2, Sareen 5-4, Hagberg 3-3, Diaz 0-3, Qi 0-3

Texas - Kasamura 6-3, McBeath 5-4, Rebetez 3-3, A Wang 2-4, Naresh 1-5

I don't know but I thought that was done the traditional way - each coach chooses the entire lineup in advance, without knowing the opponent's?

1. Portland Paddlers 2W 1L  (38 pts)

2. Texas Smash 2W 1L (33 pts)

3. Seattle Spinners 1W 2L (30 pts)

4. Bay Area Blasters 1W 2L (25 pts)

It's shown at the very end of this article:

If a team has 1-0 lead, the first two players play the first three points but would also play the Golden Point. 

If one team starts with a 5-0 lead, then it would be the players sent out fifth who would play the Golden Point, if necessary.  

I guess the advantage for the coach that goes second would be knowing what matchup he or she would want in the Golden Point, should it come to that.

I think it's fine the way it is to just let the coaches figure out what's best for their team.  If you have a strong female player who can get some points vs. a male player in a 4 point game, then that may strategically be a better option to have her play vs. an opposing male player.  For example, iirc Matilda Ekholm split her 4 points w/ Jeremy Hazin.  There's a bit of unpredictability with just 4 points so ratings matter less unless they are too far apart.

From the Match above, even though Kou Lei sweeped all his matches 6-0, it still came down to the wire, and they lost.

3 single clashes(every game worth 1 point), 1 doubles clash(every game worth 2 points?), and the 5th and final clash, is a tag team of everyone on the team first to 21 points(worth 6 points?). 

So.. huge chance for upsets, I like it! Also huge fan of seeing women play with men!

Manu Ginobli, an NBA Hall of Famer, is part of the ownership of the Florida Crocs.

And Dima Ovtcharov is part of the ownership of the Princeton Revolution.

How cool is that?!!

You really need to understand what you are criticizing and how the ratings are developed but there are similar anomalies on French ratings as well.  I am 100% okay with Kou Lei being rated higher than Angles based on the matches I have watched over the past 2 years.   If Angles is that much better, he will show it as he plays more in the US.  The ITTF especially the new system is not always a reliable measure of player strength and in times past when ITTF was used to override USATT in the US Open as is required for ITTF events, it resulted in horrible seedings and lots of upsets.  Korbel got his rating after beating either Iba Diaw or Thiago Monteiro and then losing 3‐4 to Kou Lei in the final in Chicago.  Maybe he shouldn't be ranked that high one regular basis but for that one event, the man was on fire.

In any case ratings are not a big for this league.  But maybe when Angles and Kou Lei play if they do, we will see whether the rating disparity is as big as you seem to think.  It is easy to forget that Kou Lei was top 20 in the world.   Korbel and Kou Lei, even if they are not playing internationally now, reached ranking levels in TT that Angles never did.  

The Princeton Revolution's Alexander Chen and Mathieu de Saintilan faced each other in the Pro B (second division) last week; the chopper won 3-0.

And yet another Princeton man, Ievgen Pryshchepa, also plays Pro B.

Kou Lei and Enzo Angles have actually played each other before: