User blog comment:LionRed/Blackbeard Commanders???/@comment-94.68.179.234-20130408134226

Gonna say it again here (even if I cannot prove I have said it before since I am an AWC).

Categorizing the captains according to strength is a baseless speculation, which is contradicting how Whitebeard Pirates were divided. Oda said that all the WB commanders were on the same level of power and there is not a single clue proving that the higher the division the lower the power of its commander.

I agree that BB pirates follow the same style, so I absolutely disagree that they follow the order you proposed. As DP said, I would place them as commanders in order of appearance. Although I'm not expecting to see Sanjuan Wolf as commander. He could be Teach's personal battleship or a special unit who travels with Teach's first ship.

In the end, we already can make a safe assumption who is the strongest commander of Blackbeard. He is Shilliew, because he is gonna match up with Zoro. Is he the first fleet commander? No, hence fleets are not divided by their captain's strength.