The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs now stand 12-1 after amassing a 19-17 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers.
4 weeks stay within the 2024 NFL season, wherein Kansas Metropolis will play the Cleveland Browns in Ohio, face the Houston Texans at house and end the season on the highway towards the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Denver Broncos.
Let’s check out the group’s present playoff image. As we all the time do, we’ll use the New York Instances playoff calculator to assist us work out what to anticipate. Extra particulars about the way it works are included on the finish of the article.
The Chiefs’ playoff image
Because it stands proper now, Kansas Metropolis has clinched a playoff berth, has gained the AFC West, has a 72% probability to win the only AFC bye (up from 47%) and holds a 13% probability to win Tremendous Bowl LIX (up from 11%). Within the AFC, the Buffalo Payments nonetheless have the perfect probability to win the Tremendous Bowl (19%). Within the NFC, the Detroit Lions (21%) have the perfect probability.
These modifications in Kansas Metropolis’s playoff outlook occurred as a result of in Week 14, the Chiefs defeated the Chargers, the Los Angeles Rams beat the Payments and the Steelers knocked off the Browns. The Baltimore Ravens, Texans and Broncos all had their bye weeks.
The playoff calculator permits us to govern the outcomes of any remaining video games to see the way it modifications issues.
How the Chiefs could make the playoffs
In Week 13, the Chiefs clinched a playoff berth for the tenth consecutive season.
How the Chiefs can win the AFC West
With their win over Chargers on “Sunday Night time Soccer,” the Chiefs locked up their ninth consecutive AFC West title. Kansas Metropolis can have a minimum of one postseason sport on GEHA Discipline at Arrowhead Stadium.
How the Chiefs can get a first-round bye
Kansas Metropolis nonetheless controls its personal future for the highest seed. Because of the Rams’ surprising defeat of the Payments on Sunday, the group can clinch the highest seed just by profitable any three of its final 4 video games.
They’ll additionally clinch by profitable any two of their final 4 matchups — so long as each Buffalo and Pittsburgh every lose a minimum of one in all their remaining video games.
This implies the Chiefs might clinch the No. 1 seed earlier than the Christmas Day sport towards the Steelers. In Week 15, the (10-3) Payments play the (12-1) Lions in Detroit, whereas the (10-3) Steelers are on the highway towards the (11-2) Philadelphia Eagles. If each the Payments and Steelers drop their Week 15 video games, the Chiefs might clinch with wins over Cleveland and Houston.
If Buffalo beats Detroit on Sunday, the Payments are left with house matchups towards the New England Patriots and New York Jets earlier than closing the season on the highway towards the Patriots. Barring a Buffalo loss in a kind of AFC East showdowns, the Chiefs must win three of their final 4 to say the highest seed.
The underside line
Because of Sunday’s massive effort from the Rams, the Chiefs have a considerably simpler path to the No. 1 postseason seed — and the outcomes of two Week 15 video games might make it even simpler. However each of them can be performed after Kansas Metropolis’s sport towards the Browns, which kicks off at midday Arrowhead Time. As all the time, the Chiefs should stay targeted on their very own enterprise.
Concerning the New York Instances playoff calculator
The calculator begins with an Elo score (and betting market info) for every NFL group. This information is used to find out the relative energy of each group. That, in flip, is used to determine the likelihood that every group will win every of its remaining video games. The rest of the season is simulated tens of hundreds of occasions — and the outcomes of those projections give us the possibilities quoted on this article.
