Late last night something occurred to me. The playoffs are not out of the question. Right now the standings in our league look like this:
Hamilton 3-0
Stephens 3-0
Washington 2-1
Robinson 2-1
Franklin 0-3
Lindbergh 0-3
As ridiculous as it sounds, we still have a shot. The top three teams in each of the four leagues advance to the playoffs, and with two games left, we can still scratch our way from last place all the way into the third spot if things break right for us. Here’s the not-too-unlikely scenario:
Hamiton and Stephens are locks for the first two spots, and we’ve already lost to both, so we need them to keep winning. We play Washington next week, so if we beat them and they lose to Hamilton in the final week, they’ll be 2-3. Robinson (which is a bad team) finishes with Hamilton and Stephens, two likely losses which would also put them at 2-3. If we can somehow beat Washington next week and then beat a Franklin team which will probably come in at 0-4, we would put ourselves in a three-way tie for third at 2-3. From there, things get dicey. Since the three tied schools would all have split with each other, we would have to go to the next tie-breaker, which is points allowed in those head-to-head contests, and who the hell knows how that would turn out. But we’ve got a shot. I realize how ridiculous it is for the coach of a team that hasn’t won a game to be calculating playoff possibilities. Perhaps the boys’s optimism is rubbing off on me.
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