Scenarios, Scenarios! Get yer D-backs scenarios here!

We’re entering the final series of the season! Well, that is, if you don’t include the teams that still are finishing up their last series, or the Mets and Braves, who will finish it on the Monday after the season...

Especially given the extra complexities of that doubleheader (that might not even get played?), I wanted to think through the various scenarios. When could the Diamondbacks clinch before the doubleheader?

I started on a sheet of scratch paper, calculating some various things out. For instance, the Diamondbacks can clinch before the doubleheader if one of two things happen:

They match or exceed the average performance of the Mets and Braves put together.

They go 1-2, the Mets go…