Wild cards better off staying home?

[jcompton-Orlando]

Just browsed the history files. Out of the 36 times a team has reached the FWL bowl, only four of those times has the team been a wild card playoff entrant. And of those, only once has the wildcard team actually won the title (season 12, Montreal over Amsterdam.)

Not too shocking, since winning the championship as a wild card almost assuredly means having to win three straight road games (very, very rarely does that #4 seed win its first-round game)--and a team capable of winning three straight road games over playoff-grade teams probably isn't finishing in wild card position.

But still.

[Paul-London]

Got your figures wrong there

Amsterdam were the wildcard team last year and beat 10-4 London then 10-4 Berlin on the road before beating 10-4 Mexico on the road in the FWL Bowl.

But yeah overall its very rare but amazing final run by Amsterdam last year to win those 3 straight games

[jcompton-Orlando]

Hmm. Then the "history" files at http://www.fwl.org.uk/history.htm can't be trusted for this sort of thing, as it credits Amsterdam with a first-place finish.

[Paul-London]

Good point ! I'll amend that, i have to do history.htm by hand so obviously that was a big mistake by me.

Well found !

For standings i always use stand17.htm , stand18.htm etc etc