It has been a long and arduous season. There has been ups and downs, periods of great jubilation; periods of tribulation. That is what happens when a league campaign stretches from March through to November. It is not possible to sail through it unaffected.
And so, as the playoff hunt intensifies and the league’s collective gaze shifts to the prospect of a postseason filled with hope, possibility and unruly excitement, it would be disastrous for any team, after all the work that they have put in to get this far, to fall short now.
There are approximately six games remaining for each team — not everyone has played the same number of games.