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#1 Australia
As a coach, Colin Batch may not have had the level of success that his former teammate Ric Charlesworth did with the kookaburras - but the era of one team dominating world hockey seems to be coming to an end.
Even so, few nations can hope to match what the Australians have achieved in the modern era and the consistency of the Aussies in the inaugural Pro League was there for all to see.
With a mindboggling 12 wins in 16 matches, the three-time World Champions remained head and shoulders above the rest and ended up as deserving winners.
The Aussies also won back the top spot in the FIH rankings which they had lost to Belgium earlier thus reaffirming the fact that they were indeed the best.
A narrow struggling shootout win against India in the finals of the 2018 Champions Trophy may have exposed a few chinks in the armour and the Aussies looked less-than-convincing in the World Cup as well, but the Pro League performance earlier this year has sounded a warning a bell that the kookaburras are back where they belong.
A second successive Pro League win ahead of the Tokyo Olympics seems to be a distinct possibility for the indomitable Australians with Pro League award winners Aran Zalewski, Blake Govers, and Tyler Lovell leading from the front.
