For the rankings, we are ignoring the season-ending CAR@NO game. Rankings are determined using the beatpaths variant, but the vanilla rankings are in parentheses.
| Rank | Team | Notes | Last Week | BeatPower |
1 |
 |
(Beat KC) A quality win enables Indianapolis to pull ahead of San Diego. (1) |
2 |
96.6(27/29 – 0/29) |
2 |
 |
(Bye) San Diego slips on the bye. (2) |
1 |
98.2(27/28 – 0/28) |
3 |
 |
(Bye) (3) |
3 |
92.3(22/26 – 0/26) |
4 |
 |
(Bye) Denver hired a very well-respected defensive coordinator this week… seems like it should be an improvement. (8) |
4 |
91.4(26/29 – 2/29) |
5 |
 |
(Beat NYJ) New England holds steady after the victory. (4) |
5 |
88.9(24/27 – 3/27) |
6 |
 |
(Bye) Cincinnati is helped a lot by the beatflukes variant. (18) |
6 |
81.5(21/27 – 4/27) |
7 |
 |
(Bye) (12) |
7 |
80.8(20/26 – 4/26) |
8 |
 |
(Bye) (9) |
8 |
70.7(19/29 – 7/29) |
9 |
 |
(Beat NYG) Depending on the variant, Philadelphia is ranked ahead of New Orleans. (6) |
9 |
90.5(17/21 – 0/21) |
10 |
 |
(Bye) (10) |
10 |
71.4(13/21 – 4/21) |
11 |
 |
(Bye) (13) |
11 |
72.9(16/24 – 5/24) |
12 |
 |
(Bye) Even with the NO victory canceled out, Carolina did end up looking like one of the better teams in the league… although just barely. (16) |
12 |
74.1(19/29 – 5/29) |
13 |
 |
(Bye) (25) |
13 |
66.7(18/27 – 9/27) |
14 |
 |
(Lost to NE) The Jets look a lot better in the vanilla variant. (5) |
14 |
62.1(17/29 – 10/29) |
15 |
 |
(Bye) (14) |
15 |
53.4(15/29 – 13/29) |
16 |
 |
(Bye) (21) |
16 |
50.0(14/30 – 14/30) |
17 |
 |
(Lost to IND) Kansas City was never considered a highly ranked AFC team and shouldn’t really have been in the playoffs. (15) |
17 |
44.4(12/27 – 15/27) |
18 |
 |
(Bye) (22) |
18 |
40.0(11/30 – 17/30) |
19 |
 |
(Bye) (23) |
19 |
36.2(10/29 – 18/29) |
20 |
 |
(Beat DAL) Seattle looks a lot better in the vanilla variant, ranked higher than both New Orleans and Chicago. (7) |
20 |
33.3(9/30 – 19/30) |
21 |
 |
(Bye) (24) |
21 |
33.3(7/27 – 16/27) |
22 |
 |
(Bye) (11) |
22 |
40.9(7/22 – 11/22) |
23 |
 |
(Lost to SEA) (19) |
23 |
66.7(6/15 – 1/15) |
24 |
 |
(Lost to PHI) (20) |
24 |
23.2(6/28 – 21/28) |
25 |
 |
(Bye) (17) |
25 |
26.8(7/28 – 20/28) |
26 |
 |
(Bye) (30) |
26 |
22.4(6/29 – 22/29) |
27 |
 |
(Bye) (26) |
27 |
16.1(5/31 – 26/31) |
28 |
 |
(Bye) (28) |
28 |
12.9(4/31 – 27/31) |
29 |
 |
(Bye) (27) |
29 |
9.7(3/31 – 28/31) |
30 |
 |
(Bye) (29) |
30 |
6.5(2/31 – 29/31) |
31 |
 |
(Bye) (31) |
31 |
0.0(0/30 – 30/30) |
32 |
 |
(Bye) (32) |
32 |
0.0(0/30 – 30/30) |