Obviously not the result that anyone expected nor the one that Investors wanted this week - and, frankly, not quite the Grand Final that I think the season deserved. Congrats to the Hawks regardless - they were maybe the best and certainly one of the two best teams all season.

Almost all of MoS thinks the Swans will win on Saturday.

So comprehensive was Sydney's win over the Roos and so faltering the Hawks' over Port Adelaide that MARS has seen fit to elevate Sydney's Rating above Hawthorn's for the first time this season.

On Friday night the Swans won, by enough to cover the Line market spread but by too much to land the more optimistic of our SuperMargin wagers. And then on Saturday evening the Hawks won, but only just, and not even by enough to land the less optimistic of our SuperMargin wagers. So it goes.

With two short-priced Home team favourites this week, Investors were never going to face the same level of wagering activity that they endured or enjoyed (you choose which) last weekend.

Just minor adjustments to ChiPS Ratings this week, with no effect on team Rankings, and some slightly more significant adjustments to MARS Ratings that swap Port Adelaide into 3rd and Fremantle into 4th, which seems entirely apt given last evening's Semi Final result.

Two upset victories by the Roos and Port Adelaide knocked more than 5c from the price of the Recommended Portfolio this week as Investors saw no collects from a full round's wagering for the first time this season.

In Finals series of years past, MoS' wagering has been generally subdued, so this week's flurry of activity by all three Funds on the two available contests came as a surprise.

ChiPS this week felt that the Hawks, Swans and Power did better than could be expected in their respective wins, and that the Dons were also overachievers despite going down to the Roos. Consequently, it lifted the Ratings of these four teams and dropped those of their opponents by equal amounts. MARS, however, as it usually does, rewarded all four winners with Ratings increases.

Despite a restricted schedule of just four games and tightened bet size restrictions, the three MoS Funds combined this weekend to produce the 8th-best return for a single round - the 3rd-best since Round 14 - and only the second 100% ROI of the season, the other coming way back in Round 1 when the Head-to-Head Fund snared the upset Giants' win over the Swans, and the Margin Fund bagged two collects.

Though the aggregate amount wagered has, as expected, declined markedly this week - a combination of fewer games to bet on and a further ratcheting down of the Fund parameters that control individual bet sizes - Investors still find themselves with an interest in every game.

Only four team's ChiPS' Ranking changed as a consequence of Round 23 results, none of them by more than a single place.

While a loss wasn't the ideal way to finish the home-and-away season, with only nine more games on which any of the Funds can be profligate, the fact that the loss was a relatively small one virtually assures Investors of a profit for season 2014.

The Head-to-Head Fund has again this week, as it did in Round 21, reacted to an increase in a team's Head-to-Head price by opting out of a wager. This week the team was Carlton, on whom the Head-to-Head Fund fancied a lash when it made its first assessments for the week as the Blues were being offered at $2.90. But, come Tuesday when the Blues had drifted to $3.15, the Head-to-Head Fund decided to look elsewhere.

Probably the most significant Ratings development this week was that MARS now Ranks the Swans above the Hawks while ChiPS is steadfast in its preference for the Hawks over the Swans.

Talk of its demise sparked the Margin Fund into a rare show of form this week, its 3 from 12 correct bucket selections - which could easily have been 4 but for a couple of late Saints goals - adding over 10c to its price. It still sits about 65c in the red, however, so its resurrection is far from complete.

Sunday will be a quiet day for Investors since two of the three games on that day carry no bets and the third bears just a couple of SuperMargin wagers, which are beginning to feel like donations to the TAB Bookmaker's retirement fund.

ChiPS certainly punishes teams that fail to perform as it expects.

After two successive weeks of losses, both the Head-to-Head and Line Funds returned to profitability this week, the Head-to-Head Fund landing its sole bet on Freo to record a 6c profit and the Line Fund guessing correctly on four of five occasions to record a profit of about the same size.

Those two profits, paired with the Margin Fund's now-customary loss - this week of 6.5c despite a successful call in the Dons v Eagles game - lifted the Recommended Portfolio by 3.7c for the week, leaving it now up by 7.7c on the season.

If you're not a fan of SuperMargin wagers - and, let's be honest, who is? - this weekend might be one where you're better off doing something other than tracking the fate of MoS wagering.