Playoff Scenarios (non-cardinals, of course)

[Billy Flynt]

NFL playoff scenarios
NFL playoff clinching scenarios for Week 17.


AFC East
• New England has clinched division title.

• N.Y. Jets can clinch a playoff berth with:
1. A win or tie
Or
2. A Cincinnati loss or tie and a Jacksonville loss or tie
Or
3. A Cincinnati loss or tie and a Tennessee win
Or
4. A Denver loss and a Jacksonville loss

AFC North
• Baltimore has clinched the division title.
• Baltimore can clinch home-field advantage with:
1. A win and a San Diego loss
• Baltimore can clinch first-round bye with:
1. A win or tie
Or
2. Indianapolis loss or tie

• Cincinnati can clinch a playoff berth with:
1. A win and a N.Y. Jets loss
Or
2. A win and a Denver loss and a Kansas City win


AFC South
• Indianapolis has clinched the division title:
• Indianapolis can clinch first-round bye with:
1. A win and a Baltimore loss

• Tennessee can clinch a playoff berth with:
1. A win and a Cincinnati loss or tie and a Denver loss and a Kansas City win

• Jacksonville can clinch a playoff berth with:
1. A win and a N.Y. Jets loss and a Cincinnati loss or tie and a Tennessee loss or tie


AFC West
• San Diego has clinched division a first-round bye.
• San Diego can clinch home-field advantage with:
1. A win or tie
Or
2. Baltimore loss or tie

• Denver can clinch a playoff berth with:
1. A win or tie
Or
2. A Kansas City loss or tie

• Kansas City can clinch a playoff berth with:
1. A win and a Cincinnati loss or tie and a Denver loss and a Tennessee loss or tie

NFC East
• Dallas and Philadelphia have clinched playoff berths.


• Dallas can clinch division with:
1. A win with a Philadelphia loss or tie
Or
2. A tie with a Philadelphia loss


• Philadelphia can clinch division with:
1. A win
Or
2. Dallas loss
Or
3. A tie with a Dallas tie



• N.Y. Giants can clinch a playoff berth with:
1. A win and clinch strength of victory tiebreaker over Green Bay
Or
2. A win with a Green Bay loss or tie
Or
3. A tie plus a Green Bay loss or tie plus a St. Louis loss or tie plus an Atlanta loss or tie and a Carolina loss or tie
Or
4. A Green Bay loss plus a St. Louis loss plus an Atlanta loss and a Carolina loss

• N.Y. Giants clinch strength of victory tiebreaker over Green Bay if:
1. Detroit or Minnesota lose
2. Any two of the following results occur: Arizona loss, Miami loss, San Francisco loss, Carloina win, Houston win, Tampa Bay win.



NFC North
• Chicago has clinched the division and home-field advantage in the NFC.

• Green Bay can clinch a playoff berth with:
1. A win plus a NY Giants win + GB clinches strength of victory tiebreaker over NYG
Or
2. A win plus a NY Giants loss or tie plus a St. Louis loss or tie
Or
3. A win plus a NY Giants loss or tie plus a Carolina win
Or
4. A win plus a NY Giants loss or tie plus an Atlanta win
Or
5. A tie plus a NY Giants loss plus a St. Louis loss plus an Atlanta loss or tie plus a Carolina loss or tie

• Green Bay clinches strength of victory tiebreaker over N.Y. Giants if: Arizona, Detroit, Miami, Minnesota and San Francisco all win and Carolina, Houston and Tampa Bay all lose.

NFC South
• New Orleans has clinched division and a first-round bye. loss.



• Carolina can clinch a playoff berth with:
1. A win plus a NY Giants loss or tie plus a Green Bay loss or tie
Or
2. A tie plus a NY Giants loss plus a Green Bay loss plus a St. Louis loss or tie plus an Atlanta loss or tie

• Atlanta can clinch a playoff berth with:
1. A win plus a Carolina loss or tie plus a Green Bay loss or tie plus a NY Giants loss or tie
Or
2. A tie plus a Carolina loss plus a Green Bay loss plus a NY Giants loss plus a St. Louis loss


NFC West
• Seattle has clinched the division.



• St. Louis can clinch a playoff berth with:
1. A win and N.Y. Giants, Carolina and Atlanta all lose or tie.
Or
2. A tie and N.Y. Giants, Carolina, Atlanta and Green Bay all lose.


• Arizona, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Oakland, Miami, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay and Washington have been eliminated from playoff contention.

My favorite scenario is GB and NYG both win and the crazy strength of schedule tiebreaker! There is one guy at the league office who gets paid millions to figure this out.