I think, and don’t quote me because the computer runs 67 million scenarios so I can’t pencil out each one to find it, but I think if the Rams win the NFC West (which the Packers beat) then there could theorectically be a party at 11-6 that the Packers could lose the tiebreaker on. I think (same caveat) that is the only way an 11-6 Packers team could miss out, if the Rams win the West.
But, realistically, an 11-6 Packers team would go to the playoffs.
The NFC South is trying to do that in reverse…
Short answer on SFF: San Francisco Forty Niners. Their actual name. https://www.pictorem.com/452859/1972%20San%20Francisco%20Forty%20Niners%20Art.html
Long answer on the 3-letters: Some of the data sources out there as well as some of the sports outlets use these 3-letter abbreviations, so I roll with it primarily because the Commodore64 reports are in sorta-table format, and to have some rows with the team name being two letters and others three letters kinda throws off the flow of reading it.
If there was one thing that my crappy analysis and lame videos/podcasts that I do on all this was going to elicit the most heated response for, I did not forsee this being it. But thus is life.
Well, I’m calling them realistically in, so there’s that. I won’t mention that I also drafted Daniel Jones and Kenny Pickett as my QB in most of my ff leagues to not discredit my word. Wait, I wasn’t mentioning that.
Thank you very much for the kind words, mucho appreciated.
Yeah, I almost want to do some internet searching to see what’s the highest win totals for top two teams in a division, imagine if the Cowboys hadn’t lost to the lowly Cardinals.
Agreed. Big game this week is DEN v HOU, somebody 7-5 and somebody 6-6. If IND, PIT, and CLE all win that would likely nudge the “likely” number back up to more solidly 10 and raise the chances that isn’t even good enough.
From strictly being obsessed about playoff races view, it is the best. All four teams realistically in playoff and division contention, compared to the two team races for much of the other divisions.
It is never, never, never ever too early to talk playoff race.
Yeah, it’s a tricky one that isn’t likely.