In a superfluously bad season for records and scoring, here is the lay of the land heading into the final week of the regular season, and it looks a lot like no mans land between the trenches of WWI.
1. Slytherin Football Club (40) 8-4: Rich controls his own destiny in locking up a Dixon Division Championship and a bye. If he beats The Bast this week after having had a potential Super Bowl preview victory of Noaer last week, he's in like Flynn.
2. Vanquishing Legion (40) 8-4: The Dean of Tuesday & Co, the Chief of Staff himself, has had quite the season. He's the highest scoring team in the division, is tied in overall record, owns the tie breaker in headed-to-head over Rich, but had a strange start to the season which has him one game out in his division record of Rich. Travis needs a win and Rich to lose to claim the division.
3. My Diggs Small (10) 7-5: The highest scoring team in the league has been on skid row lately despite putting up some points. He's dropped 4 of the last 6 games, but if he manages to beat a very salty and dangerous Junior-led squad, he'll claim another division crown.
4. Part Time Models (10) 7-5: "jUsT mAkE tHe pLaYoFfS." Well, he did already after coming up 1 point shy of his sixth straight win. He needs to beat Jeff's meat this week, and Noaer will have to take an L for AG to stand atop the division race.
5. Sons of Apathy 7-5: Jordan has finally climbed back into the playoffs after a shocking and inexplicable three year absence. The last time he made the playoffs, he won his 4th TCFL Championship. He did so without the help of a division title as well. Is he setting up for part deux?
6. Quagmire Crackerjacks 6-6: Bobby B has won 4 of his last 5 games and has quietly snuck back into .500 territory with his record after the big comeback win last night over AG. Unfortunately, it's not enough for him to overcome losing 5 of his first 7 games with three very good teams already having clinched playoff spots. Bobby is just 2 seasons removed from a TCFL title, so he'll back in short order.
7. Legion of Roon 5-7: This season has been one to leave out of the history books for Roon. He's dropped 4 of his last 5 games in poor to mediocre performances. It happens to coincide with Ja'Marr Chase's injury, which is unsurprising. The top-heavy division has teams 1-3 all claiming 3 of the top 4 point-scoring spots in the league. His situation is simple in the JMTP mantra, win and wrap it up. He can still lose and make the playoffs, but The Bast will have to take it in the teeth as well.
8. The Bast Abides 5-7: Rice squares-off with the league's #1 team where he needs to win, and Roon to lose to limp into the playoffs.
9. Dakless 4-8: He's dangerous. Very dangerous. He ends the season playing a contextually meaningless game insofar as playoffs, but he could end the year with 6 wins, a real feat for where he started the season and so momentum to carry into season 20.
10. Flying Squirrel 3-9: The wins have been sparse, but shocking. He played spoiler very well all year. Now begins the rebuild process.
