The Playoffs are Set!

by Alana Klein

Highlights of the Week

• Oceanside Stealth @ Michigan Arsenal
  • In what has unfortunately been the story for Oceanside the entire season, they hung close (to a very good team) but just could not come away with the W. Michigan looked good in what was essentially a warm-up for the playoffs.
    
• Beaumont Renegades @ Minnesota Monsters
  • Beaumont put up a valiant fight, but the Monsters came out victorious … enabling Washington to sneak into the playoffs.
    

Into the Record Books

• Not exactly a record but, the two teams combined for fewer points (82) than Michigan scored on its own last weekend (86). (Note to self: Hire an intern for next season who can look this kinda stuff up.)

Interesting Fact/Stat of the Week

• The fact that Michigan started the season 1-5 and had the 5-seed wrapped up with a game to go is absolutely WILD.
  

PLAYOFFS?! Now we can talk about the playoffs!

First round

• (4) Kentucky @ (5) Michigan
  • Saturday, July 25th, 4 PM
• (6) Washington @ (3) Minnesota
  • Sunday, July 26th, 7 PM

Semi-finals

• Lower seed @ (1) Nashville
  • Sunday, August 2nd, 4 PM
• Higher seed @ (2) Albany
  • Saturday, August 1st, 4 PM

Arena Crown Championship

• Will be played @ home stadium of highest remaining seed
  • Weekend of August 8th

AF1 All-Star Game

• Oceanside, CA
  • Sunday, August 16th

Final regular season standings

Rank	Team	W-L	Pct.	Net PPG
1	z-Nashville	11-1	0.917	25.08
2	y-Albany	9-3	0.750	13.75
3	x-Minnesota	8-4	0.667	4.58
4	x-Kentucky	7-5	0.583	-3.00
5	x-Michigan	6-6	0.500	0.67
6	x-Washington	5-7	0.417	-6.00
7	e-Beaumont	4-8	0.333	-9.33
8	e-Oceanside	1-11	0.083	-13.17
	Oregon	1-8	0.111	-18.44

*NOTE: This table was entirely coded by hand!

That’s right! No AI was used!