With one month of games left in the regular season, the postseason is shaping up pretty vividly. The top six teams are in control of their destinies: Pawnee and Manitoba (both at 7-2) need only one more win to punch a playoff ticket, while the six win teams Deputy, Islanders, and Phoenix will clinch their spots by splitting their remaining games. Hill Valley's claim on the six seed is more tenuous at 5-4, but they too control their own destiny.
Below them Saskatoon heads up a quartet of four win teams. The Sasquatch have had four wins for five weeks now, their epic collapse purely the result of misfortune: The team has been competitive in each game, just on the wrong side of the result. Toronto's 4-5 record is very much indicative of the team's uneven (and seemingly careless) construction- two or three easy drops, and the team could have fielded a full lineup this week. Malibu and New York have hung tough this season, but will need their last month to be their best month if they're going to make a run of things... now is the time to get hot.
Behind them are the accursed Lead Farmers, who may have faced the toughest onslaught in League history- I need to crunch the numbers, but their misery seems legendary, coming off an improbable last second loss to Phoenix that drops them to 3-6. They're grouped with Savannah and South Park- barring an improbable run in the late stages, the Cows will be the first Champion in League History to miss the playoffs in their title defense.
In last, Oakwood. Forever bungling things just enough to secure the loss. Going into a must win game with less than a full roster is suicidal: there were ten linebackers on the wire that could have won the game for the Drivers, who instead carried three cornerbacks. Sad!
Week 9 Matchups
- PAW 233: Back on track at the top of the power output and the standings: a juggernaut offense with no weakness
- ISL 218: Still waiting for their WR corps to live up to its billing, the RBs have carried the load admirably
- DVH 213: Week in, week out, the Van Halens are rocking; 188+ in seven of nine weeks is remarkably consistent
- MDB 205: Team's second best output on the year came in a week where their worst score would have still won
- MMC 204: The Crew respond to their poor power ranking by putting up back to back 200+ games
- PHX 196: Third time this season the Uprising have squeaked by with a victory margin of less than five points.
- SAV 196: Great games from best players, but byes and a weak supporting cast leads to another defeat
- SAS 195: Losing streak runs to five but will not have chance to break franchise record ten in a row from 2014
- HCM 193: Was positioned to win until Jimmy Graham MNF happened. Grit is only exceed by their misfortune
- NYF 170: The Finest have left some part of their optimum lineup on the bench every single week this year
- HVM 170: An ugly win is worth as much as a 299 point opus; maybe more, if you expect better days ahead
- SPC 165: Besieged by injuries, Cows first taste of LB adversity has them poised to miss Consolation Bowl
- OAK 158: Winnable matchups are usually won by the more opportunistic team; Oak falls to 1-8
- LTP 118: Pitiful showing drops the team under .500 and critically weakens their tiebreak potential
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