NFL Update After Week 13

NFL Update After Week 13

Each team has four games left in the 2011 season – aside from what was mentioned in last week’s story; nothing else was locked in following last week’s games. 

There was only 1 change to teams making the playoffs and that is the NY Jets are now projected to be the #6 seed in the AFC following their win at Washington, overtaking the Cincinnati Bengals who were pasted in Pittsburgh. 

Seeding wise there were a few changes: BAL, who was trailing PIT by 0.27 projected wins as of last week has now surpassed PIT and has a 0.03 projected wins edge, giving them the #1 seed.  Keep in mind, which I should have last week, BAL has the tie-breaker over PIT following their season sweep of the series so with that in mind BAL has a bigger projected wins gap then what the pure numbers show.  In the NFC we saw a small change with DET & CHI flip-flopping spots with DET now at #5 while CHI slips to #6 – most of that move was based on me downgrading the Bears a notch following last week’s debacle, and how I project them to play with Caleb Hanie now under center.

These projections are solely based on projected wins, and do not take into consideration tie-breakers which will obviously occur especially when we are talking < 1 win variance within these projections.

Here are the latest projected standings:

ROUNDED
AFC East	Wins	Loss		NFC East	Wins	Loss
NE	11	5		DAL	9	7
NYJ	9	7		NYG	8	8
BUF	7	9		PHI	6	10
MIA	6	10		WAS	6	10
AFC North				NFC North
BAL	12	4		GB	15	1
PIT	12	4		DET	9	7
CIN	9	7		CHI	9	7
CLE	5	11		MIN	5	11
AFC South				NFC South
HOU	12	4		NO	12	4
TEN	9	7		ATL	8	8
JAC	5	11		CAR	6	10
IND	1	15		TB	5	11
AFC West				NFC West
DEN	10	6		SF	12	4
OAK	8	8		SEA	7	9
SD	7	9		ARI	7	9
KC	6	10		STL	3	13
Playoffs				Playoffs
#6 NYJ @ #3 NE				#6 CHI @ #3 NO
#5 PIT @ #4 DEN				#5 DET @ #4 DAL
#1 BAL				#1 GB
#2 HOU				#2 SF