Playoffs! You Kidding Me? Playoffs?!!!!

OK, folks. Since the last TTFFL update, our standings have consolidated a bit, making for an interesting stretch run. I am assuming here that it will require seven wins to make the playoffs but it does seem like there is a chance that a 6-8 team could sneak in.

Top Tier

Suspended Atomnation (8-3). Like famished sharks, these guys continue devouring everything in their path. Last week, they captured Weekly High honors again. I believe that is four times now, along with about four second place finishes. Atom actually has the most "Points Against" in the league. But, as Sparky Anderson might have said, "It don't matter." Weekly points leaders don't care what the guy scores.

Motor City Kitties (8-3). Yeah, they're good, too. Travis Kelce in the second round might be the best pick in the draft.

Status: I believe it is almost mathematically impossible for either of these teams to miss the playoffs. Meanwhile, they have a big edge in the quest for a first-round bye. 

Second Tier

Leviathans (7-4). They will live and die by the tie between Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs. Just no more talk of Tommy John surgery, please, says Levi.

Lights Out (7-4). Very quietly, Lights Out has strung together a six-game winning streak. That is tied for the longest winning streak since 2018, when ~AirMex won eight straight. 

Status: One more win will almost surely get these guys into the playoffs. Even with an 0-3 finish, they'll have a shot.  Both are in bad shape on the tie-breaker with the top tier teams, so it will likely require a 3-0 finish for either to capture a bye.

Third Tier

Detroit KneeBiters (6-5). The Knees lit up the scoreboard early in the season but have struggled lately. 

Air Apparent (6-5). The historically bad status of their draft was cemented over the weekend, when third-round selection (and total bust) Kyle Pitts was put on IR.

Status: Both of these teams are running on fumes, but have good chances to eke their way into the playoffs. Two wins will almost certainly do the trick. One win and a prayer might, as well.

Fourth Tier

Golden Grahams (5-6). These guys are second in the league in points. With the Kubicek rule in place, that might not matter.

Orion River Horses (5-6). A tough loss to B Cain in Week 11 put a dent in the Horses' playoff hopes.

Status: It'll almost certainly require at least two out of three for these guys to make the playoffs, and even that would be cutting it close.

Fifth Tier

Los Diablos (4-7). They recovered nicely from the Monday Night Heartbreaker of Week 8, with a Weekly High and another victory to make a win streak. But, then, they ran into the eviscerator known as Atomnation.

B Cain (4-7). You can kind of see it coming together for B Cain. Some of those big name players starting to live up to expectations. A two game winning streak. Maybe there will be some magic ... 

Merrill's Marauders (4-7). Well. The defending champion Marauders Just. Can't. Quite. Get. On. Track. Last week, they outplayed the KneeBiters in ever phase of the game, except one. KneeBiters' QB: 35 points, Marauders' QB: 2 points.

Status: It's not over till it's over. The fifth-tier crew will almost certainly need three-game winning streaks and a little luck to make it in. But it's entirely possible.

Sixth Tier

Eagles Super Bowl Champs (2-9). This might be the best 2-9 team we've ever had. The Eagles picked up Weekly High honors in Week 10. And if they hadn't left their QB position empty two weeks earlier, that likely would have been a third straight win. Eagles have got themselves the newly emerged best QB in fantasy football, plus Dalvin Cook, Aaron Jones, DeAndre Hopkins, and more. But they will have to fill out their line-up to maximize their chances of improving their record.