Strength of Schedule – Final

Written by Chris Kolb | Posted on 3 January 2010

 

Topics: NFL News


With the final week of the regular season in the books, calculating each team’s strength of schedule becomes a simple, but tedious task of adding up the wins/losses of each team’s opponents and dividing it by 256 (16 teams x 16 wins/losses for each).

The SOS is important for draft positioning, as it’s the first tiebreaker the NFL uses to determine where each team picks and we all know how critical that can be. Lucky for you, I’ve sat down and done the math so you can just take a quick look at where your favorite team lines up if you’re wondering where they’ll draft in April.

Bear in mind that I worked out all of these calculations tonight, and while I’m almost certain they’re all correct, I may have added up one or two wrong, so I’ll be sure to compare my list to the one the NFL releases tomorrow. But for now, enjoy and feel free to hit up the draft section for our latest mock drafts and player analysis.

Rank Team Win Loss Tie Pct.
1 Miami 143 113 0 0.558
2 Tampa Bay 142 114 0 0.554
3 Tennessee 138 118 0 0.539
4 Carolina 138 118 0 0.539
5 New York Giants 137 119 0 0.535
6 Oakland 135 121 0 0.527
7 Denver 135 121 0 0.527
8 Detroit 134 122 0 0.523
9 Baltimore 134 122 0 0.523
10 St. Louis 133 123 0 0.519
11 Kansas City 132 124 0 0.515
12 Buffalo 132 124 0 0.515
13 New York Jets 132 124 0 0.515
14 New England 132 124 0 0.515
15 Cleveland 131 125 0 0.512
16 Houston 129 127 0 0.503
17 Atlanta 129 127 0 0.503
18 Chicago 127 129 0 0.496
19 Jacksonville 127 129 0 0.496
20 Washington 126 130 0 0.492
21 Cincinnati 126 130 0 0.492
22 Dallas 125 131 0 0.488
23 Pittsburgh 125 131 0 0.488
24 Philadelphia 124 132 0 0.484
25 Seattle 122 134 0 0.476
26 San Francisco 122 134 0 0.476
27 Indianapolis 121 135 0 0.473
28 San Diego 116 140 0 0.453
29 Arizona 114 142 0 0.445
30 Minnesota 113 143 0 0.441
31 Green Bay 113 143 0 0.441
32 New Orleans 109 147 0 0.426

 

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Chris Kolb is the founder of NFL News & Rumors and is currently the lead writer for the site as well. A passionate fan of both the Kansas City Chiefs and the Boston Red Sox since his childhood, Chris has been writing extensively since 2005. His work has been featured on Fox Sports, KFFL, Arrowhead Addict, and Associated Content.

  • Hmmmmmmmmmm

    This is interesting, but it seems a bit flawed as a measure of how great the opposition a particular team faced was. For example, given that New Orleans was 13-3, most of its opponents had an additional loss on their schedule caused by New Orleans itself. Detroit, on the other hand, gave each of its opponents an extra win. If those wins (and the two losses Detroit caused) were subtracted out, Detroit would have a SOS of exactly .5, or 18th on the table without adjusting any other teams. An adjusted table would probably look something like this (not terribly different, but for the sake of obsessing about statistics):

  • Hmmmmmmmmmm

    1 Miami .558
    2 Tennessee .542
    Carolina .542
    4 Tampa Bay .538
    New York Giants .538
    6 Denver .529
    Baltimore .529
    8 New England .525
    9 New York Jets .521
    10 Oakland .517
    11 Buffalo .508
    Houston .508
    Atlanta .508
    14 Detroit .500
    Kansas City .500
    Cleveland .500
    Cinncinnati .500
    Dallas .500
    19 Philadelphia .496
    Indianapolis .496
    21 St. Louis .492
    Chicago .492
    Jacksonville .492
    Pittsburgh .492
    25 Washington .475
    San Francisco .475
    27 San Diego .471
    28 Seattle .463
    29 Minnesota .454
    30 Arizona .450
    Green Bay .450
    32 New Orleans .442

    Note: I'm basing this on the table in the article; thus it incorporates any errors in it as well as any additional errors I may have made.

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