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The NFL uses strength of schedule as a secondary tie-breaker for divisional rankings and playoff qualification, and as a primary tie-breaker for the NFL Draft. While the NFL has 32 teams, each team plays only 17 games against 14 other teams. [5]
y – 2. Buffalo Bills (10-3), AFC East champions: That potentially pivotal tiebreaker against the Chiefs isn't worth a whole heckuva lot if the Bills can't keep up with the reigning champs ...
A win in a game against an NFC North opponent doesn't just help a team's overall record; it's also a major step toward winning a potential tiebreaker for the division title. NFL PLAYOFF PICTURE ...
The first-place teams in each conference met in the NFL Championship Game after the season. There was no tie-breaker system in place; any ties in the final standings of either conference resulted in playoff games in 1941, 1943, 1947, 1950 (2), 1952, 1957, 1958, and 1965. Since the venue and date of the championship game were often not known ...
The Bills will win the AFC East and clinch a top-four seed in the NFL playoffs if: Bills win (vs. 49ers) AND Dolphins lose (at Packers) NFL MOCK DRAFT: QBs Shedeur Sanders, Cam Ward crack top five
A one-game playoff, sometimes known as a pennant playoff, tiebreaker game or knockout game, is a tiebreaker in certain sports—usually but not always professional—to determine which of two teams, tied in the final standings, will qualify for a post-season tournament. Such a playoff is either a single game or a short series of games (such as ...
The next tiebreaker is common opponents (which would be even), followed by strength of victory, which is difficult to calculate at this point, but Detroit appears to have the edge in this scenario.
In certain sports, a magic number is a number used to indicate how close a front-running team is to clinching a division title and/or a playoff spot. It represents the total of additional wins by the front-running team or additional losses (or any combination thereof) by the rival teams after which it is mathematically impossible for the rival teams to capture the title in the remaining number ...