The Hughes News: Almost There

Man, how annoying is that GIF? LOL, But it does a good job pointing out that we are at Week 14 of our 45th season. And there are still spots to be filled.

That was a wild and fun Monday Night game. In the Hughes we had two come-from-behind wins to cement shots at division titles (although neither the Holes nor the Bombers had all that far to come back from going into the game). For a bit there it seemed like Nick Chubb had gone on break and I'm guessing he had Jimmy sweating. The game was so entertaining I was almost able to block out Troy Aikman. Almost. That fucker NEVER shuts up. Jeez.

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Okay, back to the things at stake this weekend. First of all, we know the six playoff teams. The Bombers, Flyers, Pirates, Blizzard, Nationals, and Holes are in. Period. No other team can get a Wild Card much less a division title. Things have played out so that each division will have a Wild Card qualifier. Let's look at each division and see what's possible.

Lombardi: The Bombers and Flyers are both 9-4 and split their two meetings. If both win or both lose the division goes to the team with the highest-scoring season. The Flyers hold a 29.14 point lead currently.

Kuhlmann: Portland is 8-5, the Bliz are 7-6. Portland won the Week One matchup and take the division with a win this weekend. A Blizzard win sends this division to the points-scored tiebreak. Portland leads in points scored by 33.74 through 13 weeks.

Barenholtz: The Nationals and Holes are 9-4. They meet this week with the winner taking the division.

Note that the point margins shown above are unofficial as I tabulated them as the final gun went off on Monday night. Sometimes that get tweaked overnight.

Tiebreak reminders... In all cases head-to-head is the first tiebreak with points scored in all games (PPG) the second tiebreak. I haven't given any thought to how the seeds will fall given the weekend possibilities but there isn't any way for the Blizzard to get a bye (the #1 or #2 seed). They'd be #3 as Kuhlmann champs and #6 as Kuhlmann runner-ups since the other wildcards would have nine wins minimum.

Here's a quick and dirty list of the other teams' head-to-head wins and losses for determining seeds:

Flyers beat Portland, lost to Nats and Holes

Bombers beat Nats, lost to Pirates and Holes

Pirates beat Bombers, lost to Nats, Holes and Flyers

Holes beat Bombers, Flyers and Pirates

Nats beat Pirates and Flyers, lost to Bombers

That's all I have for the moment. I might post something later in the week.