NFL Playoff Predictor 2024: Scenarios and Brackets

Welcome to the NFL playoff bracket predictor, which allows users to input their predictions on a week-by-week basis and formulate the playoff bracket accordingly. Use Sportskeeda’s NFL Playoff Predictor tool to enter your predictions for the upcoming games and have a look at who your favorite team(s) may come up against in the first round of the NFL playoffs.

How Does Sportskeeda’s NFL Playoff Predictor Work?

The NFL playoff predictor bracket is the result of an algorithm that takes into consideration all the selections made by the user. The NFL playoff picture predictor tool gets updated after the current week’s games are completed. Thus, it will first show you what the current playoff bracket would look like if the regular season were to end at that moment.

Then, based on your inputs, the tool will take all the permutations and combinations involved with the seeding of playoff teams to provide you with the final output.

How to use NFL Playoff Predictor? (Step-by-step guide)

Step 1: Predict your favorite team(s) results by manually entering the score or clicking on the ‘Simulate’
button.

Step 2: Pick from one of three options for NFL predictions:

Option1: Remaining games of Week 1
Option 2: Remaining games from Week 1 onwards
Option 3: All remaining league games

Step 3: Scroll down to check out final standings and the order for the 2025 NFL Draft

Step 4: Download an image from the NFL Playoff Simulator’s results and go wild with your
predictions on social media.

Read more about Mock Draft Simulator.

NFL Playoffs Tie Breaker Rules

Almost every NFL regular season ends with two or more teams having the same record after week 18 of the regular season. However, as there are only 7 spots in the playoffs per conference and with the 4 division leaders taking the top 4 spots, three places are up for grabs.

The remaining teams with the best records qualify with the last three spots per conference but almost every year the tie-breaker rules come in for those teams who have the same win-loss record to determine which teams will go through. The tie-breaker works in the following way.

Scenario one - Tie-breaker between two teams (for seeding purposes):

1. Head to Head - The best win-loss-tie record of the teams against each other.

2. Best win-loss-tie percentage in games played within the division.

3. Best win-loss-tie percentage in common games played by each team.

4. Best win-loss-tie percentage in games played within the conference.

5. The strength of victory in all games.

6. The strength of the schedule in all games.

7. The best-combined ranking amongst conference teams in points scored and points allowed in all games.

8. The best-combined ranking among all teams in points scored and points allowed in all games.

9. Best net points in common games.

10. Best net points in all games.

11. Best net touchdowns in all games.

12. If no winner can be decided even after all the previous steps, then the final option is left to fait via a Coin toss.

Scenario two - Tie-breaker between three or more teams (for seeding purposes):

It is to be noted that if two teams remain tied after the elimination of the other teams after any step, then the tie-breaker will restart from step one of the two-team tie-breaker rules. If three teams remain tied after the fourth team is eliminated during any step, the tiebreaker restarts from step one of the three-team format.

The same 12 steps and order of the two-team tie-breaker are now followed for three or more teams to decide the seeding of teams with the same record.

What Is Sportskeeda’s NFL Playoff Predictor Tool?

This NFL playoff bracket predictor is a tool that allows you to select the teams that you feel will win the upcoming matches on a week-by-week basis. At the end of all the selections from now until week 18, the tool will give you the results based on your entries. These results will show you what the final NFL Playoff picture will look like.

The tool comes with options to navigate between the upcoming weeks and to simulate results as well. It will offer you various options for simulating and based on your selection, the system will predict the winners. The simulation can be paused at any time and changes can be made, even after the simulation has concluded.

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