Fancy predicting who will reach the play offs?

This is the current SL table

[codeTeam P PD PTS
1 St Helens 20 279 32
2 Leeds 20 212 30
3 Huddersfield 20 162 26
4 Hull KR 20 90 25
5 Wigan 20 85 20
6 Harlequins RL 19 40 20
7 Wakefield 20 2 20
8 Warrington 20 -32 20
9 Castleford 20 -47 20
10 Catalans Dragons 19 -67 16
11 Hull 20 -100 16
12 Bradford 19 -110 13
13 Salford 19 -210 12
14 Celtic Crusaders 20 -304 6
[/code

Can you pick your top 8.....Who's first!

Leeds
saints
Giants
HKR
Wire
Cas
wigan
Cats



That is my prediction a lot of it is based on Injury problems.
saints and quins are having a bad time so i see them dropping. cas have their players back so i see them moving up. Wire will be hard to beat and i see catalans getting better.

depending on results in CC that will have an impact. Any team getting to the final may end up with a worse position than i have predicted as the two finalists will be reserving resources for that.

1-Saints
2-Leeds
3-Giants
4-Hull kr
5-Wire
6-Wigan
7-Castleford
8-Quins

Would someone mind explaining the play-off format this year? Cheers

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Thanks for that - nice and straight forward then!

Massive incentive to finish in the top four then - lets hope we can keep up the recent form and stay there.

big incentive to finish in top 4....didnt realise you get two bites at the cherry!

No I didn't either. Huge isn't it? I had heard something about the top placed side getting to pick their opponents but didn't realise it was for the Semis - that's very interesting too. I'd see that as quite a large motivation for both for the opponents picked for the semi (fancy playing us do you? We'll show you sort of thing) and for the team they play in the final (didn't fancy playing us in the semi did you?). Mind games flying all over the place!

so if we finish 3rd/4th we wont be at home in our first play off game as i thought... if we lose i would think in our second game we would be at home though

Also we may have to beat Leeds or Saints twice to get to the final!

Leeds
St Helens
Huddersfield


Hull KR
Warrington
Wigan
Castleford
Wakefield

St Helens
Leeds
Giants
Hull KR
Warrington
Castleford
Wigan
Quins

Jeez I hope you guys are right.

3rd would be, well, a brilliant finish for us.

One more win puts Huddersfield Giants into play-offs



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Might be my maths but have we confirmed as in the play off's, OS say we are, is it due to some teams having to play each other thereby someone dropping points.



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The only team outside of the 8 who can catch us is Quins who also have a game in hand but those teams below us including Quins have to play at least one game against one those below us so mathmatically yes we are confirmed and one more win will confirm it further!

Catalans have 6 games left and 12 points behind so could also 'catch us', I know it's highly unlikely that we lose all our games but stranger things have happened.

Yeah I noticed that when I'd finished writing plus they have the so called easier run in ie 4 games against those below them, but they do have Saints away for their final game.

We need to win at least one of our remaining games and yes it would one big shame if we had a big downward turnaround with a loss at our penultimate against Celtic.