Last Week's Look at the Playoff race



I’m not sure about the other teams but at the FC Cincinnati game this weekend, the ribbon boards were filled with playoff ads. Now we only have 5 home games left but now I don’t have to feel like I’m too early with my playoff picture each week. This week’s games proved to be interesting in where the teams find themselves. Let’s start off with the big three storylines:

Richmond joins the cellar A small gap appears for the playoff spots The top three teams & Charleston

With their 3-0 loss to Pittsburgh and 3-0 loss to Bethlehem, the Kickers continue their bad form. A quick look at the bottom of the table shows us that Richmond, while continually in the bottom three, has finally slipped out of the true playoff contention. They are now currently sitting on 57 points possible which means they are tied with the Atlanta in that category. They now sit 12 points out of 8th place (and 11 PP), the good news is they play Toronto this week. Speaking of which Toronto they only have 17 points to drop before they are eliminated from playoff contention.

Remember last week how the fight for 8th was packed with 5 teams? Well right now there are currently 7 teams within 3 points of 8th place. When we look at the points possible table teams from 5th place Nashville (70 PP) down to 11th place Tampa Bay (65 PP) While there are now more teams in contention, there is a small gap between 8th place NYRBII (68 PP) and 9th place NCFC (66 PP). The Baby Bulls do have a bit of separation now, even with their games in hand but any points dropped by these 7 teams could change things up drastically.