Playoff Predictor Thread

[JerseyJungle]

@HSVLion

@Spartansd

KC-Dallas-Seattle

So if the Lions beat Dallas they are 2-1 and the Eagles are 2-2 against that crew

There’s also the Vikings and Bucs (who we both beat).

So if we beat Dallas and the Vikings again we are 5-1 against those teams and the Eagles would be 4-2.

This is why losing to Minnesota eliminates our tiebreaker advantage should the Eagles drop one of their last two as well. We would both be have the same record (12-5), the same conference record (8-4), and the same record against common opponents (4-2).

Per @JerseyJungle, the next tiebreaker is “strength of victory”, which is essentially the combined record of all the teams you’ve beaten. The Eagles would win that tiebreaker.

They would win that SOV tiebreaker today, but maybe not when all plays out. Its too early to tell who would win that tiebreaker, but the Eagles have a seven game lead over us at the moment. Sounds bad but its not, here’s why:

Eagles strength of wins - 55-65. Lions strength of wins - 48-72. excluding common opponents (it doesn’t matter if you do or don’t exclude them).

If we beat the Cowboys and lose to the Vikings, our SOV of 48-72 becomes 58-78 adding in the Cowboys 10-6 record. If the Eagles beat the Cards and lose to the Giants thier 55-65 SOV also becomes 58-78 adding in the Cardinals 3-13 record.

Both at 58-78 – Tie.

So it would depend on how our unique wins (Atlanta, Green Bay, Carolina, LV, LAC, Chicago, NO, Denver) finish up versus their unique wins (New England, Washington x 2, LAR, Miami, Buffalo, AZ, NYG

What I don’t know for sure is if you beat a team twice, do you count their record twice? Eagles beat the Redskins twice who have a 4-11 record. I’m assuming that the official tie breaker procedures would count their record twice - one for each win.