Final regular season game. You knew by the final week, it would still come down to tie breakers.
East Division: The division winner in the East is simple, Dragons vs Thunder Choads. The winner of this game is the East Division Champion.
Central Division: Buckwheat has earned the Central Division Champion as of week 12. Congrats!
West Division: The West is between One Angry Gook and Grease Slappers. Both teams are 6-6 with OAG having the tiebreaker over Grease. If there both OAG and Grease win or lose, the title is OAG's. The only combination for Grease to win the division is for OAG to lose, Grease to win.
Wild Card Seedings: This is going to be a mess this year with so many having the same overall record. When two teams are tied, it's so easy to determine the winner. Add in three or more teams and there are many additional rules that come into play.
Official League Rules: 7.3 Tie Breakers
Wild Card Tiebreaker Setup – 5 Teams
- Overall Winning Percentage
- Head to head results – 2 teams only **
- Most overall points scored
- Reverse Points Allowed
- Power Rank
- Coin flip
** Use winning percentage rule #3 – If 3 teams are involved, in order for ‘Head to Head’ to be in effect, each of the tied teams must have played all of the other tied teams at least once.
** Use ‘Division Best’ rule – only the best remaining team in each division is compared against one another to determine wild card seedings.
As of week 12, five teams are tied with a 6-6 record, only four of the five will make the playoffs. With week 13 being the final regular season game, I do believe seven or more wins will guarantee a playoff spot. If you have only six wins after this week, you'll need a bit of luck on your side that the tie breakers fall in your favor.
Potentially there could be six teams with a 7-6 record. One team would be a division winner, the remaining five would be wild card teams. The good news is, there would be four teams with a 6-7 record or less who would make up the Beer Bowl. We don't live in a perfect world, so I don't expect it to be any easier when the playoff bracket is finalized.
On to the rankings....we have a new number one ranked team!
| RANK (prev) | TEAM | REC | COMMENT | |
 | 1 (3) | Dragons | 7-5-0 | The Dragons keep winning and are now the team to beat in the East. Dragons are also in the running for the Robert Conrad Award. |
 | 2 (1) | Crippled Monkeys | 6-6-0 | It is what it is....tough week to face 'Buck Buck and Buck Buck again'. I wonder if that saying is still funny after week 12? |
 | 3 (2) | Dynasty | 6-6-0 | A good week, just not enough to win. Should get it done next week and cruise into the playoffs. |
 | 4 (5) | Thunder Choads | 7-5-0 | The win wasn't pretty, but the overall team health is good, the bench put up great numbers and this team should fair well going into the playoffs. |
 | 5 (7) | Pimp Juice | 6-6-0 | Laurence Maroney, 87 yards, 2 TD's, lead the RB's in points scored in Week 12 for this team. I know, how can you sit LT and Gore? |
 | 6 (4) | Grease Slappers | 6-6-0 | The up and down season for Grease continues and their starting to get dinged by injuries. |
 | 7 (9) | Rutting Bucks | 5-7-0 | Their getting the job done between the starters scoring 127 and the bench that scored another 101 points. I wouldn't want to face this team when they are rolling. |
 | 8 (6) | Stickboy | 6-6-0 | Stickboy's slide continues as he desperately needs Roethlisberger back in the line up for any chance of winning. Plus relying on Rock Cartwright to carry the running game isn't helping. |
 | 9 (10) | One Angry Gook | 6-6-0 | Turned it around in week 12, but is in a bind for healthy players. |
 | 10 (12) | Big Daddy | 5-7-0 | Living on a prayer.... |
 | 11 (8) | The Stud Stable | 4-8-0 | Couldn't overcome the injury to Ronnie Brown and will look to rebuild in 2010. |
 | 12 (11) | Buckwheat | 8-4-0 | I've lost that lovin' feeling, Whoa, that lovin' feeling, I've lost that lovin' feeling, Now it's gone...gone...gone...wooooooh. |
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