 | Your Junk my Happy Zone | |
| by Brandon Corbett |
Coming your way this week is the start of the head-to-head race for the fourth and final playoff spot. At 15-9 with a magic number of three and four games to play against the seventh and eighth place teams, Holy Balls all but have the first wild card slot in their pocket - barring a complete and embarrassing choke job, of course. On the other hand, the second wild card slot is wide open. The Westside Warriors have a magic number of six and are three games ahead of the Ducks, which sounds like a nice cushion. However, four of both teams eight remaining games will be played against one another. Two weeks, two teams, two series, just one spot to fill.
On Sunday, the home stretch starts off with a sprint! Westside and the Ducks meet at 3 pm at the Swamp in Trenton as the start of a two series day for both teams. With increasing amount of interest, here are the situations the results could put us in: a Westside sweep pushes their magic number down to two; a split drops the magic number to four, while keeping the Ducks three games back; a Ducks sweep brings them to one game behind and, more importantly, keeps the elimination number at six with six games to play.
Those six games obviously include the back half of the head-to-head series. For the Ducks the other four games will all be played against King Friday. The Warriors have King Friday for two themselves, as well as two with the Wicked Aces down in Whiteford. That makes the non-H2H portion of the schedule tougher on Westside, but they do come in with a little breathing room. Below is a graphic that both sums up the position in which each team sits and gives us the chance for some nice fore and four(th playoff spot) wordplay:
On Sunday, the home stretch starts off with a sprint! Westside and the Ducks meet at 3 pm at the Swamp in Trenton as the start of a two series day for both teams. With increasing amount of interest, here are the situations the results could put us in: a Westside sweep pushes their magic number down to two; a split drops the magic number to four, while keeping the Ducks three games back; a Ducks sweep brings them to one game behind and, more importantly, keeps the elimination number at six with six games to play.
Those six games obviously include the back half of the head-to-head series. For the Ducks the other four games will all be played against King Friday. The Warriors have King Friday for two themselves, as well as two with the Wicked Aces down in Whiteford. That makes the non-H2H portion of the schedule tougher on Westside, but they do come in with a little breathing room. Below is a graphic that both sums up the position in which each team sits and gives us the chance for some nice fore and four(th playoff spot) wordplay:
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