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 |