Following Week 14, we've finally reached the point where we'll see 4 games a week each week till the playoffs arrive. We've also reached another milestone: this is the first week since the Argonauts' 50-point Week 2 loss that they're not on the bottom of the ratings, as the REDBLACKS have overtaken them. That's what happens when you lose 29-5 against a bad Lions team, in what I had labeled a must-win game for Ottawa last week.
At this point, BC is the only team guaranteed to have a losing record. It's still a solid 3-way race to the bottom, with Ottawa appearing to have the best chance to get that top draft pick.
If tanking is a thing in the CFL, I'd imagine it'll still have to wait a couple weeks to kick in; as long as they haven't been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, these three teams should keep trying to win and maybe one can still sneak in.
I've probably said too many times over the past several weeks that anything can happen. It's mostly a response to those who remind me that computers don't play these games, football teams do ... as if I didn't know that.
The point of my blog is to show that, while anything technically can happen, there are ways to analyze what is most likely to happen, given what we've already seen. And based on what we've seen this year, we have a group of six teams likely to make the postseason and a group of three likely to miss it.
No ties to break this time, so the most notable thing is the Eskimos in the East Final in the current projections.
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