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Introducing Upshot’s N.F.L. Playoff Simulator (4th Edition)
By JOSH KATZ and KEVIN QUEALY OCT. 12, 2017

For most of you, it may be too early to start thinking about whether your team will make the N.F.L. playoffs, and that’s just fine.

It’s only Week 6, after all, and you may be thinking about the fact that, excluding the possibility of ties, there are 766 sexdecillion different ways the season could end, a number much larger than an educated guess for the number of stars in the universe.

But for some of you, it’s never too early. We understand that feeling. That’s why we’re bringing back our interactive N.F.L. playoff simulator. The fourth edition of the simulator is built for one purpose: to help you explore the paths to the playoffs for every team in the N.F.L. — revealing which games are most important to your team’s chances.

We estimate that the 5-0 Kansas City Chiefs have the best chances at a playoff berth, at 93 percent, while the 0-5 Giants and Cleveland Browns are already as low as 1 percent.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/upshot/introducing-upshots-nfl-playoff-simulator-4th-edition.html?