Playoff picture
26 August 2023
Playoff race going into final week of the regular season
Playoff spots secured
- Vienna Vikings (Eastern conference winner, bye to semifinal, home advantage)
- Stuttgart Surge (Central conference winner, ranked #3, home advantage in wild card round)
- Rhein Fire
- Frankfurt Galaxy
Western conference
Galaxy needs win vs Fire > +24 to clinch Western conference and bye to semi final.
Either Galaxy or Fire will be ranked #4 and, hence, have home advantage in Wild Card round.
Wild card spots
Four teams are still in the race for two spots. Two teams will be qualified in the following order:
- Thunder if they win vs Sea Devils
- Panthers if they win at Enthroners
- Raiders Tirol if they win at Milano Seamen and (1) or (2) not happening
- Thunder if they lose and either (2) or (3) not happening
- Panthers if the lose and Raiders lose
This assumes there are no extreme point margin wins.
- Raiders would need to catch up 72 points for Panthers and 122 points for Thunder if both (Raiders+Panthers or Raiders+Thunder) win/both lose.
- Ravens would need to win and catch up 102 (Panthers and Raiders lose) or 152 points (Thunder lose and Raiders or Panthers lose).