Standings: Looking towards next season

The regular season is coming to a close. Our division was competitive, but not quite like last season when everyone had wins and losses and it took until the final week to sort everything out. Gang Green has already won the division. Even if they don't win their last game, Little Urban Achievers won't catch them, because it would go to the second tie-breaker, which is goal differential. Gang Green has a substantial lead.

Second place will go to Armory. Again, Little Urban Achievers can catch them, but it will come down to goal differential and LUC will have to win by two goals against us, and I wouldn't take that bet.

Gang Green will go to the First Division. The winner of the playoffs will also likely go up, unless Gang Green also wins the playoffs, in which case probably Armory as the second place finisher in the regular season will go. I'm sure they'd take the opportunity and run with it.

At the bottom of our division, Quicksilver and Prism will go down.

We'll have up to four new teams in the division next year. Coming down from First Division will be the commissioner's team, DC Divided - and then either Taz Devils or the Flirts, who both face must wins in their last game versus Hoover FC (they play the same opponent on separate days) to avoid relegation. First must be pretty darn competitive because the Flirts are solid all around and Sanjay's team was a playoff team last season. We've played all of the teams that could be relegated and have been competitive against each. However, they manage to get the best of us overall so we can look forward to hard fought games.

It's not clear who will come up from the Third Division. Tsunami won the division yet again and will have the option to return. The older players on the team will want to stay in Third, since they didn't like their experience in the Spring when they were in Second with us. They had some rough games and are in it for the purely recreational aspect despite their skills. Yet they have some youngsters like Lisa and Alyssa who will want to return to Second. Which contingent will win out? The mighty Roland and DC Thunder finished a close second. They could take Tsunami's promotion spot or claim their own through the playoffs. Two Left Feet also looks good and might make a deep playoff run. They were disorganized when we played them several seasons ago so clearly they've reorganized and gotten better.

Standings for this week:


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Rank	Team		W	L	T	GP	PTS	GF	GA	GD	GDA
1		Gang Green	5	0	2	7	17	28	10	18	2.6
2		Armory	5	1	2	8	17	25	13	12	1.5
3		Itchy & Scratchy	5	2	1	8	16	22	16	6	0.8
4		Little Urban Achievers	4	1	2	7	14	19	9	10	1.4
5		Celtic	3	2	2	7	11	19	18	1	0.1
6		The Diplomats	3	3	1	7	10	19	13	6	0.9
7		Lost Tourists	3	5	0	8	9	16	18	-2	-0.3
8		Goleros	1	3	3	7	6	19	22	-3	-0.4
9		Quicksilver FC	1	7	0	8	3	8	30	-22	-2.8
10		Prism	0	6	1	7	1	8	34	-26	-3.7