The season's final quarter kicks off from Saint Arnold Stadium, where the Anderson Brewmeisters host the Sims Stereco in an Eastern Division battle. The Brewmeisters are coming off a home loss to the Naughty Figs, who in turn won the Eastern Division crown as a result. The Stereco were never really a player in the division race, but they are coming off a highly impressive rout of the Abstract Machines and are clinging to very faint playoff hopes.

Sims destroyed the Machines last week thanks to huge games from Drew Brees, Kellen Winslow, Brandon Jacobs, and the Jets defense. After losing twice to the Brew Krew in 2007 by a combined 114-0 score, the Stereco certainly need all the big plays they can get. They managed to score against Anderson in Week 5, but still fell short. Can Sims use last week's effort as a springboard into the playoff hunt? The Brewmeisters certainly seem to be ripe for the picking. Their performance against the FIgs – in which they scored a single point from their three-person receiving corps – was the lowest of the week and their second-lowest of the season. Can the Brew Krew right the ship in time for another playoff run?

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The Naughty Figs will take the field as Eastern Division Champions for the first time when they host Pirk's Wicked Oil Profiteer$ in an interdivisional matchup. A few weeks ago, this game was set up to be a battle of division leaders. But while the FIgs closed in on a divisional crown, Pirk dropped two straight to fall a game back of the charging Bock Boys.

All told, the Profiteer$ have now dropped three of their last four games, including last week's painful 45-44 home loss to the Hellions. The defense shoulders most of the blame for the skid. In those three recent losses, Pirk's defensive units totaled – I kid you not – three combined points. In severe contrast, it lit up the Raze for 17 points in that one win. P.W.O.P. will need more production from their D if they're to get past Wild Card Week for a second consecutive season. As for the Figs, they're sitting pretty, having just swept the season series with the Brewmeisters en route to claiming their first Eastern title. They have a two-game lead over the Western leader for the No. 1 seed, so the only immediate thing to play for is history. Can they become the league's first 12-1 team?

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Jody's Colossal Waste of Time just got punched in the gut – twice – and must now head out to Purgatory Field to meet up with the feisty Irwin Hellions. It's bad enough that Jody was rolled up by The Pimps 59-37 last week, but then the C.W.O.T. lost their division champion status to the Figs with three games still to go in the regular season. The good news is that their next win will clinch a playoff berth. Getting that in the Hellhole may be a tall order though, as Jody is merely 1-4 in an opponent's home stadium this season.

Then again, the flip side of Jody's road woes are the Hellions' troubles at home. Once dominant at the Hellhole, Irwin has dropped three straight home games. A one-point victory over Pirk in Oil Town last week has kept alive the Hellions' hopes of returning to the playoffs for the first time since 2005. They've already matched their win total from each of the past two seasons, but they'll still need a win or two more to punch their official playoff ticket.

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A possible Draft Bowl preview comes to us from En Fuego Field, where the 2-8 Piana Raze host the 2-8 Pimps in the week's final interdivisional contest. Both clubs sit all alone in their respective division's cellars, but The Pimps have actually shown some life of late. Having just crushed Jody in Week 10, the Feathered Ones have won two of their past four. Piana, meanwhile, has gone 0-4 over that same span and is in danger of making its first DB trip since 2002.

Kurt Warner and Adrian Peterson have led the mini-resurgence for The Pimps, each having twice posted double-digit point games over the last two weeks. Although not in the playoff picture, they get to take their shot at each of the other three outside teams (Piana, Sims, Machines) and hopefully build on their recent success to close out their season. The Raze only wish they had one stud QB and one stub RB to hang their hat on. Too many poor choices have doomed the Raze for ten weeks; hard to believe that may change now.

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For the first time since Week 5, the Game of the Week is an all-Western affair, as the division-leading Thomas' Bock Boys visit the sub-.500 Abstract Machines. No team has been hotter than the Bock Boys, who are riding a five-game winning streak that has catapulted them back atop the division. The Machines had just eeked back into the playoff picture with a pair of road wins before being shocked by the Sims Stereco at home last week.

After a sluggish 1-2 start, the Boys management sent a message to the team by dealing away receivers Randy Moss and Calvin Johnson. They got practically nothing in return (an implosive Derrick Anderson and gimpy Carson Palmer), but the team responded nonetheless, winning six of their past seven games. Now all alone in first place, the Bock Boys will get every chance to successfully defend their division title by finishing out against the fourth, third, and second place teams in West, respectively.

The Machines have to be wondering what hit them last week. A Stereco team that hadn't done much of anything all season long finally woke up and took it out on the unsuspecting Machines, pummeling them 46-20. The loss dropped the AMs back on the wrong side of the playoff cutoff, and they'll need to rally to extend their playoff streak. They've beaten the Boys once already this season but have failed to ever record a season sweep. There's no better time to make some history like the present.

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