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:
- At most 1 more tie game.
- Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end of the season, NOT as if the season ended right now.
- Tiebreakers that don’t affect playoff berths or seeding are ignored.
- Division ties are broken first.
- If three or more teams are tied, apply that tiebreaker, not the two-team tiebreaker.
- Strength of victory is the combined winning percentage (essentially, the number of wins) of the teams a team has beaten. It has nothing to do with point totals.
NO has clinched the NFC West and the #1 seed. DAL, CHI, NO, and LAR have clinched their divisions. SEA has clinched a playoff berth. NYG, WAS, GB, DET, TB, ATL, CAR, ARI, and SF are mathematically eliminated.
The complete tiebreaker rules are here.
Jump to East | Interdivisional ties 2-way • 3-way
NFC East
| If these teams tie | at | tie goes to | based on |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAL-PHI | 9-7 | DAL | head-to-head |
Interdivisional ties
2-way ties
| If these teams tie | at | tie goes to | based on |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHI-MIN | MIN | head-to-head | |
| PHI-SEA | 9-7 | SEA | conference record |
| MIN-SEA | SEA | head-to-head | |
| CHI-LAR | 12-4 | CHI | head-to-head |
| NO-LAR | 13-3 | NO | head-to-head |
3-way ties
| If these teams tie | at | tie goes to | based on |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHI-MIN-SEA | 9-7 or 8-6-2 | SEA |
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