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, NOT as if the season ended right now. (Example: the only way CAR and TB wind up with the same record at the end of the season is if TB beats CAR 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 11 wins, PHI wins the NFC East but SF does not win the NFC West.)
- 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.
- DAL, NYG, WAS, MIN, ATL, NO, and ARI have been eliminated.
- PHI has clinched the NFC East.
- CHI, SEA, LAR, and SF have clinched playoff berths.
The complete tiebreaker rules are here.
Jump to South | West | Interdivisional ties 2-way • 3-way
NFC South
| If these teams tie | at | tie goes to | based on |
|---|---|---|---|
| TB-CAR | TB | common opponents | |
| TB-CAR-ATL | 8-9 | CAR | head-to-head |
NFC West
| If these teams tie | at | with these things happening | tie goes to | based on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAR-SEA | 13-4 | SEA beats SF | LAR | common opponents |
| LAR-SEA | 12-5 |
|
LAR | division record |
| LAR-SEA | 12-5 | LAR loses to ARI | LAR | common opponents |
| LAR-SF |
|
SF | division record | |
| LAR-SF | 12-5 |
|
LAR | common opponents |
| LAR-SF | LAR loses to ARI | SF | division record | |
| SEA-SF | SF | head-to-head | ||
| LAR-SEA-SF | SF | head-to-head |
Interdivisional ties
2-way ties
| If these teams tie | at | with these things happening | tie goes to | based on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHI-CHI | CHI | head-to-head | ||
| PHI-CAR | 10-7 | CAR | common opponents | |
| PHI-LAR | 12-5 | PHI | head-to-head | |
| PHI-SEA | 12-5 | PHI | conference record | |
| PHI-SF | 12-5 | SF beats IND | PHI | common opponents |
| PHI-SF | 12-5 | SF loses to IND | SF | conference record |
| CHI-LAR | CHI | conference record | ||
| CHI-SEA | CHI | conference record | ||
| CHI-SF | 12-5 | CHI beats SF | CHI | head-to-head |
| CHI-SF | SF beats CHI | SF | head-to-head | |
| DET-SF | 10-7 | SF | conference record |
3-way ties
| 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 | SF | conference record |
