With the prospective finalists playing off against each other in Round 7, there was a bit of a change in each team’s finals prospects, and a bit of a change in the ranking order here. The Adelaide Crows – who had been looking ominous – were stopped in their march quite sharply by an impressive Melbourne team, putting them on the edge of the top four. Brisbane squeaked past Collingwood, as tipped last week although the tip would have been different if it had been known the match would be played in Victoria, placing those two teams on almost equal footing.
This week the big matches are Brisbane against the Kangaroos, Fremantle against Melbourne, and Adelaide against the Bulldogs. The tips are that the former teams, all in the top four, will comfortably solidify their places there, but few viewers will complain if the matches are as tight as the ‘mini-finals’ we had last Sunday.
[A technical note: I’ve extended the amount of games that the rankings are calculated over back to a team’s past seven games. I’ll slide this forward progressively to nine matches over the remainder of the year.]
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