Playoff Positions After Week Three

NFC
First Round Bye
1) Packers (5) (Strength of Victory > Lions; Winning % > Cowboys)
2) Cowboys (6) (Conf winning % > Buccaneers; head to head over Redskins)


Division Winners
3) Buccaneers (11) (Division % > Saints Conference winning % than 49'ers)
4) 49'ers (4) (Best winning % in division)


Wild Cards
5) Lions (2) (Better winning % than Redskins)
6) Redskins (1) (Head to Head win over Giants)


The Rest in Order:
7) Giants (12) (Better Conference winning % than Saints)
8) Saints (3) (Better winning % than Seahawks)
9) Seahawks (15) (Better Conference winning % than the Bears)
10) Bears (7) (Greater Strength of Schedule than Cardinals)
11) Cardinals (10) (better net conf combined points ranking than Falcons)
12) Falcons (8) (Greater Strength of Victory than Eagles)
13) Eagles (9) (Greater Conference Winning % than Panthers)
14) Panthers (13)(Greater winning % than vikings)
15) vikings (14) (better net conference combined points ranking than Rams)
16) Rams (16)


Big game next week:
Lions at Cowboys

AFC
First Round Bye
1) Bills (6) (better winning % than Texans)
2) Texans (2) (better conf winning % than Raiders; better div % than Titans)


Division Winners
3) Raiders (3) (greater Strength of Schedule than Ravens)
4) Ravens (1) (better division winning % than Browns)


Wild Cards
5) Titans (8) (Greater Strength of Victory than Patriots)
6) Patriots (1) (Greater Strength of Victory than Browns)


The rest in order:
7) Browns (12) (Better Conference winning % than Jets)
8) Jets (5) (Greater Strength of Victory than Steelers)
9) Steelers (13) (Greater Strength of Victory than Chargers)
10) Chargers (9) (Better winning % than Bengals)
11) Bengals (11) (Better conference net ranking in combined points than Jaguars)
12) Jaguars (12) (Better Conference winning % than Broncos)
13) Broncos (10) (Better winning % than Chiefs)
14) Chiefs (15) (Greater Strength of Schedule than Colts)
15) Colts (16) (Better confernce net ranking in combined points than Dolphins)
16) Dolphins (14)

Use a larger font next time for these old eyes. :)

I was going to, but the explanations kept spilling onto the next line. Sorry if you had to hit the view/zoom button or the page/zoom button.

I was reading it on a huge screen.....much easier on a tablet.

Obligatory "So we're still in control of our own destiny!" comment.

WTF is going on in the AFC? Buffalo, Houston, and Oakland are the top 3 seeds. New England is staring at a long road trip ahead of them in January. Cleveland sits atop the Jets, Steelers and Chargers. The Colts might be in the Andrew Luck sweepstakes.

Is this a signal of impending armageddon?

Holy cow Cheese, c'mon please, one more point size larger? If you ditch the monospaced font for something like Arial, Helvetica or Times New Roman, I think it'll fit.

The Redskins are still ruining my playoff predictions!

The following applies only to the NFC:

-The Saints have the easiest Strength of Schedule remaining .410

-The Eagles have the toughest Strength of Schedule remaining at .564

- The Bears have had it rough in the early going but later on they have a cupcake schedule. Remaining Strength of Schedule is .487

-The Packers have it relatively easy now until the bye week then it gets tougher. Remaining Strength of Schedule is .436. The Packers have the 2nd highest Strength of Victory .444. The Cowboys Strength of Victory is .667(OT at 49'ers, and MNF Redskins)

-The Packers, Cowboys, and Lions are undefeated in the Conference. Only the Packer have 3 Conference wins.

- 2 of the Lions wins are against 0-3 Chiefs and 0-3 vikings. The Lions remaining Strength of Schedule is .538

- It doesn't matter how bad the NFC West is, one of them is likely hosting a playoff game against a wild card team.

BTW I like the odd numbered weeks because there are no .500 teams.

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Holy cow Cheese, c'mon please, one more point size larger? If you ditch the monospaced font for something like Arial, Helvetica or Times New Roman, I think it'll fit.

The Redskins are still ruining my playoff predictions!

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Using Firefox? Press 'ctrl +' to increase font size. Don't need the shift key if you're using the + key on the regular keyboard.

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Thanks, but I had already zoomed it. What I found out was that there is an option to just increase text size, which was nice.

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Obligatory "So we're still in control of our own destiny!" comment.

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Dam you, what am I supposed to add to this thread now!

Hope the vikings win a couple just so they don't get Luck.

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Thanks, but I had already zoomed it. What I found out was that there is an option to just increase text size, which was nice.

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Do you mean by selecting the 'zoom text only' option, or is there another way?

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Dam you, what am I supposed to add to this thread now!

Hope the vikings win a couple just so they don't get Luck.

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Was that your comment originally? I couldn't remember who I stole it from!

Love the rankings Cheez, they make me laugh right now. You must have done some research to find out all the tie-breakers. Can you explain what "Better conference net ranking in combined points than xxx" means?

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Love the rankings Cheez, they make me laugh right now. You must have done some research to find out all the tie-breakers. Can you explain what "Better conference net ranking in combined points than xxx" means?

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http://www.nfl.com/standings/tiebreakingprocedures

1. Head-to-head, if applicable.
2. Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the conference.
3. Best won-lost-tied percentage in common games, minimum of four.
4. Strength of victory.
5. Strength of schedule.
6. Best combined ranking among conference teams in points scored and points allowed.
7. Best combined ranking among all teams in points scored and points allowed.
8. Best net points in conference games.
9. Best net points in all games.
10. Best net touchdowns in all games.
11. Coin toss.

It is # 6 on the list above. You look at the points scored ranking within the conference (1-16) and add that ranking to the defense score allowed ranking (1-16). The combined number is compared.

For example the Dolphins and the Colts. The Dolphins are 13th in points scored and 12th in points allowed for a combined ranking of 25.

The Colts are 14th in points scored and tied for 15th in points allowed for a combined ranking of 29. The Dolphins are combined ranking is higher.

So the Dolphins and the Colts are tied at 0-3 and both are 0-2 in the conference. They do not have 4 common games. Neither has Strength of Victory because they haven't won. Their Strength of Schedule is tied. Then you look at the combined rankings.

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http://www.nfl.com/standings/tiebreakingprocedures

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Thanks. Most of the others are pretty self explanatory, 6 and 7 I had heard of but didn't understand. It would have to be pretty crazy for it to get past #6...

Is Strength of Schedule a fixed number, based on last year's records, or does it change based on the W-L so far this year of opponents that have been played?

Strength of Schedule and Strength of Victory change every week and almost after every game.
Strength of Schedule is the average win/loss record of opponents played this season.
Strength of Victory is the average win/loss record of teams defeated this season.

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Do you mean by selecting the 'zoom text only' option, or is there another way?

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In Firefox, under the View->Zoom menu, there is a Zoom text only option. When its checked and you zoom/unzoom, only the text on the pages changes. Its a nice feature.