An amazing round of upsets and one of the sloppiest weeks of games in league history leaves the Layhill and Wheaton Forest divisions with frontrunners carrying losing records. This is bad, bad news for the middling wild-card hopefuls. Each division winner gets one of six automatic berths, but because the Wheaton Forest (Washinton Post) and Layhill (Associated Press) leaders are below .500, as many as eight teams could be vying for just one last wild-card slot, thus increasing the number of wins necessary to get the berth.

	CNN's Bill Tipper awaits the throw that does a little ear buzz against the Express runner.

Could a 10-6 record (with tiebreakers) leave some teams at home during the playoffs?

This could happen because the two sub-.500 division winners would likely hold the last two seeds. That means more victories are required to land seeds 9 and 10. We saw this in 2002, with NewsChannel 8 winning the Veirs Mill with an 8-10 mark, leaving 12-6 U.S. News at home. Now, could double disbelief occur?

Saturday's results continued a seasonlong trend of last year's playoff teams suffering unexpected defeats. Post.com, The Gazette, AP and National Press Club were swept. Now, Atlantic Video, Discovery Channel, CBS News and Washington Times (all 4-4) are in the hunt, boosting multiple wild-card possibilities for the Aspen Hill, Burning Tree and Capitalview/Homewood divisions.

The other headlines of the week are Team Video, WTTG and CNN remaining undefeated at 8-0; USA Today is clearly back on track, registering another sweep; AOL posting two shutouts (causing us to thumb the league history books); WRC having a strange split; Dow Jones coming thisclose to a sweep; and big cheers for WUSA and the Express for unexpected victories.

In fact, a lot of unexpected things happened. There were 10 slaughter-rule games, believed to be a league record for one week. There were four shutouts. The Layhill teams went 0-8.

Now, with the hated Dawg Days of June approaching--with four weeks of games in five weeks--desperation is fast approaching for some playoff hopefuls. For those with records between 5-3 to 3-5, you need wins. As many as you can get. Someone is gaining on you. And there's likely only room for one or two of you.

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