NFL playoff simulator
Playoff Playground lets you pick the winner of every game left on the 2026 schedule and see what it does to the playoff race, instantly. It runs the rest of the season 10,000 times, applies the NFL's real tiebreakers, and lets you fill in the bracket all the way to the Super Bowl.
Make your own picksPick any game and watch every team's odds update instantly, with real NFL tiebreakers.
Open the simulatorWhat you can do
- Pick games week by week, or tap 🎲 to let the model simulate them with a full drive log.
- See every team's odds to make the playoffs, win the division, get the No. 1 seed and win the Super Bowl, updated with each pick.
- Clinching and elimination: magic numbers, elimination numbers and exactly which results next week would clinch or eliminate a team.
- Make it happen: one tap picks the fewest wins a team needs to guarantee a playoff spot, the division or the No. 1 seed.
- Playoff bracket: seeded with real tiebreakers, pick or simulate each round.
- Game simulator: any matchup played snap by snap up to 10,000 times with starting QBs, injuries and weather.
- Weekly power rankings and playoff odds for all 32 teams.
How the odds work
Each team gets a power rating that blends the betting market, this season's results and preseason expectations, plus a play-by-play matchup sim built on every snap of the season. Ratings turn into a win chance for every game, and each simulated season is seeded with the full NFL tiebreaker order. Read the full methodology.