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For anyone wanting to try to calculate this for themselves, here's how I do it.

First, it's impossible for a 9-loss team to make the playoffs, so 9 losses gets an automatic X. It also helps if you hold off on doing the calculations until several games have been played.

Basically, you need to pay attention to 2 teams: first place and 9th place. It doesn't matter who is there, all that matters is the respective records. Calculate how many more wins the first-place team will need to make it so the 9th-place team can't catch them, and you have the first-place team's magic number. So when I did the initial calculations, the 10-win Hitmen needed 12 total wins to clinch a playoff berth, giving them a magic number of 2. (If the 9th-place team won out, they'd have won 11 games.)

After the next game, the 9th-place team had lost a game while the Hitmen had won. This gave the Hitmen the clinch, because the 9th-place team was no longer capable of winning more than 10 games, and the Hitmen had 11.

Once you've established that threshold, every other team's magic number depends on the most number of wins 9th place can possibly get. A win lowers your magic number, and a loss by 9th place lowers your magic number.

Quick update time. 3 games remain. Lots of developments in the East.

Eastern Conference

1 Atlanta Hitmen 0 <-- Clinched playoff berth
2 Vermont Icestorm 0 <-- Clinched playoff berth
3 Da NOLA Brah!!! K&B Purples <-- Clinched playoff berth
4 Manhattan Massacre <-- Clinched playoff berth
5 Reamstown Ramrods <-- Clinched playoff berth
6 Atlanta Samurai 2
7 Nashville Psychotic Smilies 2
8 Rhode Island Wolves 3
9 Montana Grizzlies 4
10 Destin Pigskin Pimps 4
11 Detroit Destroyers X
12 Georgia Dawgs X
13 Nashville Longshots X
14 Washington WarDogs X
15 Bowdoin Polar Bears X
16 South Texas Skull Crushers X

Western Conference

1 Waller Knights 0 <-- Clinched Playoff Berth
2 Wala Wala Drunken Shriners 0 <-- Clinched Playoff Berth
3 Dallas Orangebloods <-- Clinched Playoff Berth
4 Putnam Co. Keg Tossers 2
5 Tucson Warriors 3
6 Florida Free Ballers 3
7 Phoenix Elves 4
8 Austin Outlaws 4
9 Seattle Grand Cru 4
10 Los Angeles Sharks 5
11 Orlando Moon Doggies 5
12 Oakland Plunderers X
13 Buffalo Blues X
14 Green Bay Spartans X
15 Tulsa Giants X
16 Black Sox Ninjas X

those don't count tie breakers right?

Those assume tie breakers aren't necessary. It's possible to get a playoff berth without reaching 0. Reaching 0 simply means there's no way you're not in the playoffs.

Sweet PLAYOFF BOUND! Now if we can seal up the 4th spot to get a home game i will be excited

every home game= a new section of your stadium

Well we are looking to finish off the 3rd level sections to complete our stadium. Already have the rest of the 2nd level to be built in the offseason.

Originally posted by enoch101
every home game= a new section of your stadium

Didn't Bort announce that the away team also get 1/2 of the amount the home team make that game?

i think thats just for the superbowl.

No Bort clearly states, that the away team will rob the hometeam during halftime.

Originally posted by chrisway
No Bort clearly states, that the away team will rob the hometeam during halftime.

I better invest in some bullet proof vest and AKs then.

Let's not forget that the bottom 2 teams in each conference are relegated to BBB. Right now, any team with 3 or fewer wins is in jeopardy.

Also, the top 4 teams in each conference clinch a first-round home game, top 2 clinch second-round home games, and the 1st place team gets home field throughout.

No team has clinched any home field advantage yet, though that's likely to change after the next game.

LA Sharks are still in it - despite losing by 24 to Dallas yesterday and getting our running game shut down, we scored 13 on their defense, and put up some good passing numbers as well. All in all, we managed to not get embarassed by the Orangebloods, so I think this speaks well to our chances to beat Oakland tomorrow and have a real shot at getting into the playoffs at 9-7. Not sure how the tiebreakers (if needed) will shake out, but it certainly would be an accomplishment to finally make the post-season for the first time.

My understanding is that the tiebreaker goes head-to-head --> total points scored --> point differential --> coin flip.

I haven't worked out all the tiebreaker scenarios yet. I'll do that after Game 15.