4.5 Flight A – Greenhill/Rossouw remains the only undefeated
team but Samuell Grand/Hanna has surged into second place. These two haven’t played yet but SamGrand has
a two match lead in the loss column so they could lose to Greenhill in the
season ender and still finish second if they take care of the Eldorado team
(2-4). The race for third pits three
teams all with three losses; McKinney/Jett, T Bar/Fikes and
Brookhaven/Bartlett. Brookhaven still
has Greenhill left, so they should be out.
That leaves McKinney and T Bar in the hunt. T Bar has 1-5 Greenhill/Ohl while McKinney
has 3-3 Brookhaven/Bartlett left. Both are tied on lines won but McKinney holds the
head to head tie breaker over T Bar so it’s down to the wire here and every
line counts.
4.5 B – This flight has also become a two horse race with
both Brookhaven/Harllee and JCC/Reiman still undefeated but everyone else
having at least two losses. They have
yet to play each other so that should decide the flight. The race for third has Oak Creek/Herget-Clark
at 5-2 and Lifetime/Arcaria at 4-2. They
have yet to play each other but OC finishes with winless Greenhill/Tucker while
Lifetime finishes with 2-4 Lakes/Way. So two
head to head tilts to decide city playoffs, QT (not called QT anymore) and
sitting home.
4.5 C – SpringPark/Aguilar is the only undefeated team but
they finish wish second place and one loss Oak Creek/Probadi. SP holds a substantial line lead though so
first should be theirs. Second and third
then comes down to 5-1 OC, 4-2 Village/Valentin and 4-2 T Bar/McColpin. Advantage to OC here. They do have to play SpringPark but they
finish with winless Greenhill/Alzuro. T
Bar is a line back of Village but they do have the easier finishing schedule.
As a reminder, the QT level of the playoffs is all three second place teams and either the best third place team or the fall W/C winner in a four team round robin format. Third place in flight A can finish no better than three losses. Flight B has a great chance to have a two loss third place team if Oak Creek/Herget-Clark can beat Lifetime/Arcaria or if Lifetime beats both Oak Creek and Lakes/Way. Flight C has two chances to finish with a two loss third place team. Best numerical odds at the moment is Village/Valentin with 21 line wins through six matches. Since Greenhill/Rossouw has the fall W/C and they are winning flight A, it looks like the best third place team will advance to QT this season.
Looks like QT winner will join 3 top first place teams in cities. It will most likely be Greenhill/Rossouw, Brookhaven Harlee, JCC Reiman and Springpark Aguilar. Who is the favorite to win out of this group?
ReplyDeleteWho cares, bring on the 8.0 & 9.0 mixed. It's all that matters anyway.
DeleteI have to say it's a close race between Harlee, Reiman and Aguilar. I don't think Rossouw has enough weapons. Reiman has solid singles....but nothing great at doubles. Harlee has the potential to be very solid at doubles, but lacking at singles. Aguilar is looking to be the most balanced team from singles and doubles.
DeleteKelly, Kelly, Kelly signing up next week.
ReplyDeleteYou be ready for showdown.
DTA here I come.