Updated final home and away ladder simulations appear below.

Time for another look at how this year's finals might play out.

Updated final home and away ladder simulations appear below.

So far this season the simulations have ended at the conclusion of the home and away season. Today we'll extend the simulations to include the entirety of the Finals series.

Updated final home and away ladder simulations appear below.

Updated final home and away ladder simulations appear below.

Updated final home and away ladder simulations appear below.

Updated final home and away ladder simulations appear below.

Updated final home and away ladder simulations appear below.

Updated final home and away ladder simulations (and quite a bit more this week) appear below.

Updated final home and away ladder simulations (and quite a bit more this week) appear below.

Updated final home and away ladder simulations appear below.

Updated final home and away ladder simulations appear below.

Updated final home and away ladder simulations appear below.

Time to dust off the code that simulates the remainder of the home and away season to see, at this very early stage, how it assesses the teams are faring.

The Cats' and Giants' victories on the weekend mean that 30 of the last 36 Preliminary Finalists will have been teams that have had the double-chance, and also that we'll have 1st v 2nd in one of the Prelims, and 3rd v 4th in the other.

And then there were six ...

With the end of the home and away season we now confine ourselves to simulating only the remaining 9 games that make up the Finals series by applying the methodology as described in this blog.

In this week's 50,000 simulations of the remaining round of the 2017 AFL season, four teams saw material changes in their Top 8 chances, and four more saw their Top 4 chances change by more than 5% points.

Nine teams saw material changes to their Top 4 and/or Top 8 chances this week as the likely final ladder became just a little clearer, at least in parts.