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Friday, July 02, 2004

The playoff picture

What a pretty protrait the players are painting here, with the playoffs a few short weeks away, now's where the fun really begins. So where is your league in this mess? Well this upcoming week 10 may very well decide the AL Atlantic champions, when Poolfiction hosts Poolfighters tuesday night at 7:00. Of course because of the Head to head tiebreak rules, the winner here has priority in the seeding over the other. If PFN wins, they will have identical match records with the Fighters, if they maintain that, they're gonna be the AL Atlantic Champions, but PF should easily be the 3rd seed (The top 2 seeds go to the Division Champs). In the next few weeks however, this 3-way tie in the AL Central will get broken up quite a bit. Keepers, Elite, and Straightshots all tied at 6-3. Week 12 8BE takes on the Straightshots, and the Keepers have the simple task of taking on Breakers Alley. But week 13, StraightShots and Cuekeepers, may very well decide that 2nd seed in the AL Playoffs. But the winner of the Tuesday 7pm match this week, will be the #1 seed in the American league playoffs, no doubt about it.
Now as far as the other leagues, well the playoff leagues SHOULD BE Cue Keepers, 8Ball Elite, Straightshots, Poolfighters, Poolfiction, and Happy Pool, and I believe Keepers and Fiction will be the top 2 seeds in the American League. Poolfiction by the way looking to be the #1 seed in the AL for the 2nd straight season.

Now in the National League, Outlaws will easily win the NL Mountain, the face Trupoolers at home, Champion Pool Shooters in Side Pocket, Break n Run at home, And Pool Hustlers in IL2. Outlaws will be 12-0 going into week 13, no league has ever gone undefeated, I think the Hustlers will make sure that stays true. But either way they'll lead Black Silver even if they tie at 12-1, because of the Outlaws winning a few weeks ago against BS. Hustlers have a good piece of ground to make up because Smoking Cues have priority over them in a Tiebreaker. If PH wants to win the Pacific, they have to win at least 2 more, to make it a lot harder for SC to keep up with them. The top 2 seeds in the National League will be Outlaws and Hustlers, with BlackSilver 3rd, Smoking Cues 4th, Poolmasters 5th, and Trupoolers, since they have priority over CPS in 6th. If CPS wants any playoff hopes at all, they need to really work hard, it would really be a heartbreaker to see them work as hard as they did last season and still not reach the playoffs, especially because of the shafting PIF gave them by not showing up to face the Pimps in week 12 last season. But those are my playoffs picks write em down on a notepad, use it as toilet paper, but remember who said it.