2026 season
Division race predictor
Pick every remaining game and see who wins each division,
who takes the wild cards and how the 7 seeds fall — with the
league's own tiebreakers applied, step by step.
Pick a conference
How it works
Every game starts on the favorite — the betting line where one
exists, otherwise the better team by The Gridiron King's efficiency margin plus home
field. Change any pick and the division standings, the tiebreakers and the
projected playoff bracket all recompute. Your picks are saved in
this browser. To send them to somebody, use Copy share link — the address
bar itself does not carry them.
Where this tool stops. Head-to-head,
division record, common games and conference record all follow from your picks, so
those steps are computed as written. The league's last six steps rank teams on points
scored, points allowed, net points and net touchdowns, and end in a coin toss — a
pick sheet carries a winner, not a score, so none of those can follow from it. When a tie
reaches one, the page says so and shows the order it used instead.
Common games are counted over conference
opponents only. The rulebook counts every common opponent; two clubs in the same
division share most of their schedule, so this is a large subset of the real
answer rather than the whole of it, and it is named here rather than left to be
discovered.
The procedure above is the NFL's own published playoff tiebreaking procedure. It is printed here rather than summarised so you can check this tool against the rulebook instead of trusting it.