The War Room (D3) – Week 7 – FlagPlus Football League

The end of the regular season is creeping up on us and many teams wait in anticipation of the elimination rounds. For some other teams on the bubble, the next few weeks will be a tedious task of ensuring they are not those lost fallen souls who do not qualify for the winter’s survivor series. The following weeks will be dedicated to informing those of you in division three of the playoff picture and all the mathematical mess it entails. I will take a step back from recapping the games, as most people just check the site, box score and statistics and draw their own conclusions. So without further ado, I shall present to you the playoff picture as it stands now, the power rankings and the strength of remaining schedule for the teams in division three.

If the playoffs started today….

Conference A:

1. D3 Hybrid

2. Falcons

3. Tennessee Studs

4. Swat

5. Walk On’s

6. Top Sauce

7. Rage

8. Red Rebels

Conference B:

1. Ruff Ryders

2. D-Boys

3. GPK

4. G-Men

5. Titans

6. AMB Eagles

7. Choppers

8. Wildcats

Strength of Remaining Schedule: From Hardest to Easiest, using remaining opponents win record and standard deviation of their winning standard. Teams in Bold denote teams which would be in the playoffs if they started today.

Team: Remaining Teams Wins

Football for Dummies: 16
Doggone Bawlclub: 15
GPK: 14
Squad: 14
KGP Champs: 13
Alliance: 12
Titans: 12
Spartiates: 12
Walk Ons: 12
G- Men: 12
Ruff Ryders: 12
Top Sauce: 11
Tennessee Studs: 11
Choppers: 11
VR6: 10
Swat: 10
Dip: 10
Souljahs: 10
Motrin: 10
Red Rebels: 9
Bomb Squad: 9
Wildcats: 9
Rage: 9
89ers: 9
Falcons: 8
Bandits: 8
Ballerz: 7
Ball or Fall: 6
D-Boys: 6
Amb Eagles: 5
Rude Bwoys: 3
D3 Hybrids: 3

Analysis:

Teams in playoffs who need to watch out:

GPK, Walk On’s, GMen, Tennessee Studs and Choppers

Teams who could get in due to ease of schedule:

Rude Bwoys, Bandits and Dip

Chances of Undefeated:

D3 Hybrids > Ruff Ryders > Titans

Power Rankings:

1. D3 Hyrbids: Watching these guys pick apart a team is impressive and I see them posing serious problems to Ruff Ryders or Titans in the finals. Lots of speed on their team.

2. Ruff Ryders: Continue to roll and its due in part to a great receiving corps, might not be seriously tested until the playoffs.

3. Titans: A big dark horse for the conference B champion, excited to see them play the Ruff Ryders. Big Hype building around this team and their QB.

4. D-Boys: They play in the weakest division ever made, but at least they are on top of it. (Easy schedule ahead and its smooth sailing into the playoffs)

5. Falcons: Good productive win last week, basically locked up the division. Now let’s see if they get their groove on or fall off the tracks in the last three games.

6. Tennessee Studs: Still top Dawg in a suprisingly tight division, can they hold off the Rage?

7. GPK: Good teams find a way to win, and this team will need to find a bunch of ways to win against their remaining opponents.

8..Walk On’s: Tough loss to the Falcons, let themselves down in the second half. Not an easy road of games ahead either. Time to step it up a notch.

9. Rage: A streaky team is a dangerous one, especially with a QB as talented as Rage’s Serge Brousseau.

10. Swat: Gino DiFazio’s team has assumed the division lead, hope he can find other receivers than S. Haney in the playoffs or else they will be one and done.

Castleton’s Random Thoughts of the week:

1. Moe Khan: Thinks I have a 1.9% chance of catching a pass of 25 yards? Well, if you were an investigative reporter such as myself instead of your local high school newspaper writer you would know I average 19 yards a catch and am now motivated to grab those extra 7 yards to surpass your statistics.

2. Rehan Starwar: Should be the official WEPL host and then we can be on PBS too (due to his Politically correct demeanor). And then Moe And I could answer the phones asking for pledges. Daron can demonstrate the nice little FlagPlus paper weight you get with a 1000$ donation.

3. Nincheri: Leave the poor guy alone will yah? Yes, he is a Monarch, that’s a tough enough thing to deal with!

4. Carmine Pollice: Nice to see your defensive skills aren’t all gone, now only if you could get the memo about running with the interception.

5. Youtube: I’m going to open a thread called “The Rob O’Grady Musical irrelevance page” and you can all go there to post token folk songs about random things.

6. Playoffs: Hope to see every team playing all their games down the line this year, I know it’s hard to keep focused but there are awards and all star nominations to bust ass for.

This Tune if for You:

Mercy Mercy Me by Marvin Gaye dedicated to most of the zero win teams out there and a couple one win teams too.

Go your own way by Fleetwood Mac dedicated to Paul Kamel for putting himself back at QB after the debacle vs DIP.

Just my imagination by Temptations dedicated to the Rage who must be wondering at their own chances of making the playoffs.

You not like me by 50 Cent dedicated to Daron Basmadjian on his hosting ability vs Moe Khan’s.

Long Distance by Brandy dedicated to Andre Knights and Mike Mcnair who seem to connect from long distance on every game.

Quote of the week:

After a Carmine Pollice interception:

“Nice Pick Carm, but you should have took it all the way” I say.

“Not with those 80 year old legs he won’t” says Marc Paliotti, former FPF scorekeeper making his triumphant return to the Catalogna Soccerplexe on Saturday night.