2025 NFC tiebreakers after Week 15

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 (DAL and GB only appear in tiebreakers between themselves).
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. (Example: the only way CHI and DET wind up with the same record at the end of the season is if DET beats CHI in Week 18.)
Tiebreakers that don’t affect playoff berths or seeding are ignored, as are tiebreakers that can’t happen. (Example: If PHI and SF each have 10 wins, PHI wins the NFC East but SF does not win the NFC West.)
If the tie for the last wild card team is at 9-7-1, GB must be included in the tiebreaker.
Division ties are broken first. If CHI, DET, and SF all finish 10-7, break the NFC North tie between CHI and DET first, then break the tie between the CHI-DET winner and SF.
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.
NYG, WAS, MIN, ATL, NO, and ARI have been eliminated.

The complete tiebreaker rules are here.

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NFC North

If these teams tie	at	tie goes to	based on
CHI-DET		DET	head-to-head

If these teams tie	at	tie goes to	based on
TB-CAR		TB	common opponents
TB-CAR-ATL	8-9	CAR	head-to-head

If these teams tie	at	with these things happening	tie goes to	based on
LAR-SEA		LAR beats SEA	LAR	head-to-head
LAR-SEA	13-4	SEA beats LAR, SF	LAR	common opponents
LAR-SEA	12-5	SEA beats LAR; loses to SF and LAR beats ARI	LAR	division record
LAR-SEA	12-5	SEA beats LAR; loses to SF and LAR loses to ARI	LAR	common opponents
LAR-SF	13-4	LAR beats SEA, ARI	LAR	common opponents
LAR-SF		LAR beats exactly 1 of SEA, ARI and SF beats SEA	SF	division record
LAR-SF	12-5	LAR beats exactly 1 of SEA, ARI and SF loses to SEA	LAR	common opponents
LAR-SF		LAR loses to SEA, ARI	SF	division record
SEA-SF	12-5	SEA beats SF	SF	division record
SEA-SF		SF beats SEA	SF	head-to-head
LAR-SEA-SF	12-5	LAR beats SEA and SF beats SEA	SF	SEA eliminated on head-to-head division record
LAR-SEA-SF	12-5	LAR beats SEA and SEA beats SF	LAR	head-to-head
LAR-SEA-SF		SEA beats LAR	SF	head-to-head

If these teams tie	at	with these things happening	tie goes to	based on
PHI-CHI			CHI	head-to-head
PHI-DET			PHI	head-to-head
PHI-TB			PHI	head-to-head
PHI-CAR	10-7	PHI beats BUF	CAR	conference record
PHI-CAR		PHI loses to BUF and CAR sweeps TB	CAR	common opponents
PHI-CAR	9-8	PHI loses to BUF and CAR splits with TB	?	strength of victory
PHI-LAR	12-5		PHI	head-to-head
PHI-SEA	12-5		PHI	conference record
PHI-SF	12-5	SF beats IND, CHI	?	strength of victory
PHI-SF	12-5	SF beats IND; loses to CHI	PHI	common opponents
PHI-SF	12-5	SF loses to IND	SF	conference record
DAL-GB	9-7-1		GB	conference record
CHI-LAR			CHI	conference record
CHI-SEA			CHI	conference record
CHI-SF		CHI beats SF	CHI	head-to-head
CHI-SF		SF beats CHI	SF	head-to-head
DET-LAR	11-6		LAR	head-to-head
DET-SEA	11-6		DET	conference record
DET-SF			SF	conference record

If these teams tie	at	with these things happening	tie goes to	based on
PHI-CHI-LAR	12-5		PHI	conference record
PHI-CHI-SEA	12-5		PHI	conference record
PHI-CHI-SF	12-5	CHI beats SF	CHI	head-to-head
PHI-CHI-SF	12-5	SF beats CHI, IND	PHI or SF	CHI eliminated on conference record strength of victory
PHI-CHI-SF	12-5	SF beats CHI; loses to IND	SF	conference record