I wonder how different the poll results would look if this was done prior to July 1st. That's when the season really started. I'd have said make the playoffs then to be successful and that starts with making the right offseason moves to look like a team capable of making the playoffs come october 1st. If we're sitting here now looking at the roster and saying there's no way this team can make the playoffs, it doesn't change where I set the bar of success, it just means the first 3 months of the "season" are already trending towards an unsuccessful result before the games even begin. It's less to do with the performance expectations of the current roster of players, and more to do with failing to assemble a roster of players where an expectation of playoffs would be reasonable.