Week 11 Playoff Update

Thanks for Haydn for keeping things going in my work-induced absence. I'll probably forgo my usual posts this week, but I wanted to provide an update to the most important part... the playoffs.

Left Division

• Drow: Back in the drivers seat after Beavers' loss last week but this is still anyone's division to win. If it stays this close, the final week's match-up with Mimes will be huge.
• Mimes: Three consecutive games against winning records to close out the season.
• Beavers: A game back, but only have one really hard game left to play and hold the tie-breaker over Drow.

Middle Division

• Bill: If Bill wins two of the next three games, he'll win the division.
• Malleus: Haydn beat Bill earlier this season, so if he can pull to within one game before their season ending re-match, he's got a shot at the division.

Right Division

• Flannel: Only a half-game ahead, they play an almost identical schedule to Capo and finish the season hosting Capo.
• Capo: If Capo can stay with Flannel to the end, he can take the division with a win in that final game.

Wild Card
Since no one has clinched a division yet, there are a lot of teams that could be wild cards. Also, no one has clinched a play off spot as far as I can see. So to keep it simple, the below avoids the three teams currently leading their divisions.

• Mimes: At 8-3 there is almost no chance they miss the playoffs, but they are also just a likely to be a division champ as a wild card. One more win should clinch at least a wild card.
  
• Beavers: At 7-4 Beavers are also in really good shape to make the playoffs as at least a wild card.
• Capo: Right this second, Capo sit a half-game ahead of Malleus for the final wild card spot. They also could win their division.
• Malleus: While they still have a shot at the division, Malleus is only a half-game out of the last wild card spot.
• Ramjets: Just eliminated from contention for their division crown last weekend, Ramjets must win this week to stay in the wild card hunt.

Really Important Upcoming Games

This week

• Capo @ Ramjets: If Ramjets lose, they are eliminated from playoff contention. If they win they live to fight again next week.
• Bill @ Drow: Paradoxically, if the season ended today this game would be for the #1 seed in the playoffs.
• Malleus @ Mimes: Any battle between two potentially playoff bound teams is big at this stage of the game.

Next Week

• Beavers @ Mimes: Mimes first of two games against their division champion rivals.
• Flannel @ Ramjets: If Ramjets beat Capo the week prior, this will be another win or go home game for Ramejts, although they might start needing help at this point.

Season's Final Week
This could be a schedule makers wet-dream: three games between the top two teams in each division with the division championship on the line.

• Capo @ Flannel: If they stay within one-half game over the last two, then this game decides the division champ.
• Mimes @ Drow: This could get a lot more complicated because Beavers are also still in the mix, but its still very possible that the division will hinge on this game.
• Malleus @ Bill: If Malleus can pull to within 1 game of Bill over the course of the last two weeks, then they can win the division here because they already beat Bill previously and so would win the tie-breaker if they beat Bill again to tie him atop the Middle Division.