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S197 wrote: I find this incredibly stupid, how can ATL, who we beat, have the tiebreaker over us?

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

Because it's a three way tie.

The odds of Atlanta beating Jacksonville, Carolina and New Orleans are pretty slim. The Falcons have lost, what, 6 in a row? I expect the Jaguars to beat them this weekend.

Mothman wrote:The odds of Atlanta beating Jacksonville, Carolina and New Orleans are pretty slim. The Falcons have lost, what, 6 in a row? I expect the Jaguars to beat them this weekend.

exactly. i also don't see seattle losing two out of three down the stretch either. they play the browns at home(manziel at qb), rams at home (keenum at qb) and on the road vs arizona who will probably have nothing to play for. i think they are pretty much locked in to the #5 spot.

Seattle is a 15 point favorite over the browns
Carolina is a 4 point favorite over NYG
Jacksonville is a 3 point favorite over Atlanta, as the home team that basically means it's a pick um.

HardcoreVikesFan wrote: Interesting. I wonder how they discern the .96% chance at winning the Super Bowl? If anything, making the playoffs should at least give the team, theoretically, a 16.66% at winning the Super Bowl. Then again, analytics is what is it.

Theoretically, that would be the odds of getting to the Super Bowl (1 out of 6), not winning it. Since there are 12 teams in the playoffs, to win the Super Bowl the odds would be 1 out of 12 which would be 8.33%. But that would also have to assume that all the teams have an equal chance of winning it, which of course is not true. .96% chance of winning the Super Bowl sounds about right to me (maybe even less).