CFL '13 Playoffs - Semi-Finals!
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So for those of you who don't regularly follow me and are just jumping in now, this is how the CFL 2013 Playoffs look right now. Edmonton and Winnipeg are both eliminated, they're at the bottom of the image crossed out. Teams playing in the Western Division are on the left side, teams playing in the Eastern Division are on the right side. In the Western Division Home field advantage is given to team above in the picture. Thus Saskatchewan is hosting B.C. and whoever wins there will be hosted by Calgary. In the Eastern Division this is reversed (for symmetry!). Thus Hamilton hosts Montreal and the winner from that game will be hosted by Toronto.
Above each team in the playoffs are two numbers:
1) The first number is how the team fared throughout the season in terms of total points "Scored For" in comparison to total points "Scored Against". In the case of Calgary they scored 549 points over the course of the season and had 513 points scored against them, thus 36.
2) The second number (in brackets) is how each team fared against who they are currently playing against. Again, as an example, Montreal outscored Hamilton 86 to 60 in the three games they played against each other and so Montreal has (+26), Hamilton (-26).
Below each team is the cumulative season performance number I've been using in my power rankings to give you another idea of how each team might potentially do against each other. If you want to know how each team did over the course of this season, you can go here for the current season or here for past seasons as far back as 2007 (though you'll have to do a lot of clicking to get that far back).
Finally, based on my cumulative rankings, here're a couple percentiles for you to mull over:
Chance each team will have of making it into the Grey Cup
From the East
Toronto - 57.04%
Hamilton - 22.11%
Montreal - 20.86%
From the West
Calgary - 59.59%
Saskatchewan - 23.00%
B.C. - 17.41%
and...
The Likelihood of each Grey Cup matchup
Calgary v Toronto - 33.99%
Calgary v Hamilton - 13.17%
Saskatchewan v Toronto - 13.12%
Calgary v Montreal - 12.43%
B.C. v Toronto - 9.93%
Saskatchewan v Hamilton - 5.08%
Saskatchewan v Montreal - 4.80%
B.C. v Hamilton - 3.85%
B.C v Montreal - 3.63%
As far as predictions go, Calgary is in the Top Dog spot as their QB situation is comfortable with the best yardage RB behind them; Hamilton is likely the Dark Horse as despite having a somewhat up and down season they've got enough steam to push that engine through, and; Montreal is the underdog, because while technically in it, with a QB that has been doing good things with few starts, they are not likely to pan out when facing the top coaching heads playing tactical chess with each other. Nothing again Jim Popp, he's just a better G.M. overall then Head Coach.
So I hope this proved to be entertaining! We'll see how it all pans out in a couple of weeks!