The Curse of the Home Eastern Final

[ArgoRavi]

I feel like the worst way to end your season is losing the division final at home but it's something we Argos fans know only too well.

Since 1984, the Argos are only 4-7 hosting the East Final. They won in 1991, 1996, 1997, and 2017 but lost in 1984, 1986 (second game of two-game total point series), 1988, 2005, 2007, 2013, and 2021.

They got off to decent to good starts in 1984, 1986, 2005, 2013, and 2021 but had poor second halves in all of those games. Worse still, the losses in 1984, 1986, 2013, and 2021 were against Hamilton.

I wish I had an explanation as to why home East Finals have been so difficult for the Argos but I don't.

[Stevoman]

Hardest one to win...

[Will]

To be fair, if we're going to start with 1984 we might as well throw 1982 and 1983 in there which brings the record to 6-7. A deeper dive might be to look at one at each team's record in divisional finals over the same period of time and see how the Argos compare to the each of them.

Hosting the division final obviously means that the Argos finished 1st in the division that year, but in how many of those 'loss' years was the team truly dominant. I note that with the exception of 1988 (14-4) the teams that lost only had won 11 games at the most. Suggests some inconsistencies right?

This does relate to the theme I suggested in another thread, the frustration that the Argos can't seem to get the same psychological edge in these important games that Hamilton gets.

[Brian45]

To be fair, if we're going to start with 1984 we might as well throw 1982 and 1983 in there which brings the record to 6-7. A deeper dive might be to look at one at each team's record in divisional finals over the same period of time and see how the Argos compare to the each of them.

Hosting the division final obviously means that the Argos finished 1st in the division that year, but in how many of those 'loss' years was the team truly dominant. I note that with the exception of 1988 (14-4) the teams that lost only had won 11 games at the most. Suggests some inconsistencies right?

This does relate to the theme I suggested in another thread, the frustration that the Argos can't seem to get the same psychological edge in these important games that Hamilton gets.

2013 was a huge disappointment although that game had 35,000 fans which is crazy to fathom now. Every crazier was the loss in 2005 we had I believe 44,000.