The best and worst scenarios for your team after NRL Round 17 👇
Parramatta's tense win over the Warriors all but settled the top four and top eight for 2020, but the finals dream is still technically alive for three teams looking from the outside in.
The Wests Tigers' last-gasp Lottoland win keeping their own hopes flickering while confirming Manly's exit from this year's finals hunt, while any of the top seven can still finish in the top four and the Titans formally removed themselves from wooden spoon calculations.to work out the best- and worst-case scenario for each team, NRL.com has applied a methodology of all games being decided by a 12-point margin.
This allows a streak of upsets to have a real effect on the ladder, but a ladder move requiring a differential swing of hundreds of points over the final three rounds has not been taken into account.Did enough to beat the Broncos and have the minor premiership in their grasp, although they can still drop as low as third.Gritty win over the Rabbitohs formally confirmed their top-four finish. Can still finish first but would need Penrith to lose a couple of games.
Realistically they had to beat the Cowboys to keep their season alive but mathematically that extra-time loss wasn't quite the final nail in their 2020 coffin – they just need to win all three and have the Sharks lose all three to sneak into eighth.Finals hopes are now gone on the back of a late collapse against the Wests Tigers.
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