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NFL Week 17 Playoff Implications: Someone Has To Win The NFC South

  With just one week remaining in the NFL regular season, the playoff implications are fairly straightforward, and running thousands of simulations of Week 17 outcomes may seem like computational overkill. But the playoff field is far from settled, particularly the seeding, so a simulation model can still be helpful in sorting out the probable […]

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NFL Week 14 Playoff Implications: The Chargers Have A Pulse

UPDATE (Dec. 5, 2:45 p.m.): The interactive tables above have been updated to include the results of Thursday’s DAL-CHI match-up, and that game has been removed (the text of the article has not been updated). The San Diego Chargers’ playoff chances, once as high as 75 percent, were on the verge of dropping into single […]

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NFL Week 14 Playoff Implications: The Chargers Have A Pulse

  UPDATE (Dec. 5, 2:45 p.m.): The interactive tables above have been updated to include the results of Thursday’s DAL-CHI match-up, and that game has been removed (the text of the article has not been updated).   The San Diego Chargers’ playoff chances, once as high as 75 percent, were on the verge of dropping […]

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NFL Week 10 Playoff Implications: A Big Week For Miami And Detroit

NFL Playoff Implications, our weekly guide to what games matter, and whom they matter to, returns for Week 10 of the NFL season. For an explanation of the methodology, see here. UPDATE (Nov. 8, 11:36 a.m.): The interactive tables above have been updated to include the result of Thursday night’s CLE-CIN match-up, and that game […]

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NFL Week 10 Playoff Implications: A Big Week For Miami And Detroit

NFL Playoff Implications, our weekly guide to what games matter, and whom they matter to, returns for Week 10 of the NFL season. For an explanation of the methodology, see here. UPDATE (Nov. 8, 11:36 a.m.): The interactive tables above have been updated to include the result of Thursday night’s CLE-CIN match-up, and that game […]

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