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NFL - Week 9 of 18

AFC Losing Magic Numbers

How close is your team from being eliminated from winning a certain playoff spot? A Losing Magic Number is the number of games a team must lose to guarantee losing a given playoff spot. Click a team name to proceed to the team playoff picture page.

AFC Losing Magic Numbers
Record Divisional Winners Wildcard No
Playoffs
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POs
Team DivisionDiv W L T GPi
Games Played
17 game season
1*
First Round Bye
2**
First Round Home Field
Advantage
3**
First Round Home Field
Advantage
4**
First Round Home Field
Advantage
5 6 7 8
Colts South 7 2 0 9 7 8 8 8 8 MW MW MW
Broncos West 7 2 0 9 7 8 8 8 8 MW MW MW
Patriots East 7 2 0 9 7 8 8 8 MW MW MW MW
Steelers North 5 3 0 8 6 7 8 9 9 9 9 MW
Bills East 6 2 0 8 7 8 9 9 9 MW MW MW
Chargers West 6 3 0 9 6 7 7 7 8 8 MW MW
Jaguars South 5 3 0 8 6 7 8 8 8 9 9 MW
 
Chiefs West 5 4 0 9 5 6 6 6 7 7 8 MW
Texans South 3 5 0 8 4 5 6 6 6 7 7 MW
Ravens North 3 5 0 8 4 6 6 7 7 7 7 MW
Bengals North 3 6 0 9 3 5 5 6 6 6 6 MW
Raiders West 2 6 0 8 3 4 4 4 5 6 6 MW
Browns North 2 6 0 8 3 4 5 6 6 6 6 MW
Dolphins East 2 7 0 9 2 4 4 4 4 5 5 MW
Jets East 1 7 0 8 2 3 4 4 4 5 5 MW
Titans South 1 8 0 9 1 2 3 3 3 4 5 MW
  • Notes
  • ^ means the team will finish better than this spot
  • X means the team cannot win this spot
  • numeric indicates the number of games that must be lost to guarantee losing this spot
  • "MW" indicates the team Might Win the spot despite losing all of its remaining games
  • *  denotes first round bye in the playoffs
  • ** denotes first round home field advantage in the playoffs