The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker? Notes and assumptions: No possibility of future tie games. Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end of the season,
NFL Tiebreakers
2020 NFC tiebreakers after Week 16
2020 AFC tiebreakers after Week 14 (and Raiders-Chargers)
2020 NFC tiebreakers after Week 14
2019 AFC tiebreakers after Week 16
The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker? Notes and assumptions: No possibility of future tie games (except where indicated). Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end
2019 NFC tiebreakers after Week 16
The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker? Notes and assumptions: No possibility of future tie games (except where indicated). Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end
2019 AFC tiebreakers entering Week 15 (plus BAL-NYJ)
2019 NFC tiebreakers entering Week 15
2019 NFC tiebreakers entering Week 14
Untying the standings: the history of the NFL playoff tiebreaker systems
From 1920 to 1931, there was no championship game and the league championship was formalized by a vote of owners at their spring meetings. Unofficially at first, the tiebreaker for the championship favored the latest head-to-head meeting between the tied teams, and presumably working back to an earlier matchup if