RCB can still reach the playoffs! See full equation

• Poor performance of RCB in IPL 2024
  
• RCB has lost 7 out of 8 matches
  
• RCB is currently at the bottom of the points table
  

The RCB team has again reached the same stage in the IPL, where it is far from winning the title, but the danger of reaching the playoffs is also looming. The team has lost 6 consecutive matches and is currently at the bottom of the points table. However, even after this, she is still not out of the race to be in the top 4 of IPL. But now it is almost impossible for RCB to go to the playoffs.

RCB lost by 1 run

RCB, captained by Faf du Plessis, lost by 1 run against Kolkata at the Eden Gardens. This is the team's seventh defeat in this year's IPL. That means the team has lost half the matches of the league. Rajat Patidar and Will Jacks stitched a close 102-run partnership after the initial shock as RCB chased down the target of 223 runs set by KKR. But the team could not win the match.

RCB will qualify for playoffs

Royal Challengers Bangalore is not yet officially out of the race for the playoffs. However, the truth is that even if the team wins all its remaining 6 matches from here, there is no way to reach the top 4. This is because now 10 teams are playing in IPL for the last three years. Any team has to win at least 8 matches to finish the league stage in the top 4. Which the RCB team cannot do now.

Equations have changed in the last three years

Talking about IPL from 2018 to 2021, the team going to the playoffs that year had 14 points. In the year 2019, Sunrisers Hyderabad had qualified for the playoffs with just 12 points. But now the picture and equations have changed. Since 10 teams have entered the IPL, 16 points have become necessary. But if RCB team wins all its remaining 6 matches then it will have 14 points. If two or more teams have the same 14 points and there are only 3 teams with more points then RCB may have a chance. This means that there is a possibility of RCB reaching the playoffs only when some new equations are created, which perhaps are not visible at the moment. What happens next remains to be seen.