(S22) - PT4 - Road to Glory

[Mysa]

I haven’t had a lot of time to look around the league to asses who might win in the DSFL playoffs, but in each division it seems as though there is a clear primary contender from each conference: Tijuana in the SFC South, and Minnesota in the NFC North. The Myrtle Beach Buccaneers should have been the primary competition for the Luchadores in the South – they’re one of just three teams in the entire D-League with a positive point differential, and it’s clear as day (+51); their game-end results this season are mind-boggling at best and unfair at worst, as they’ve won just four games on the season so far. The Birddogs, a 6-4 team with a -14 point differential who’s gone .500 in the conference, likely wouldn’t have an extremely important home-field advantage should they face off against Tijuana in the playoffs.

Over in the North, things are somehow stranger in the standings but clearer in terms of likely winner. The Grey Ducks have a whopping +86 point differential – the best in the league – but are just 6-4, an odd mirror to the Birddogs. It seems exceedingly likely that they’ll come out on top of the conference with some four games to go. And we’ll get a preview of one possible championship matchup in Week 11, when the Luchadores host the Grey Ducks. As unlikely as it sounds, they could also end up dropping a couple of their last four games; their schedule includes games against the positive Buccaneers and Luchadores both, even if they have some (arguably) easier games against the Royals and Sea Wolves in the process.

Make no mistake: Tijuana and the Grey Ducks may be our frontrunners, but the 'Any Given Sunday' tagline doesn't apply to professional football without reason.