Comparison of DVOA and NFL-Forecast Playoff Predictions, after week 11

I’m going to do these comparisons between Mike Harris’ playoff predictions  based on DVOA power ratings and my playoff forecasts for the remainder of the season. I think they will provide a basis for determining the predictive value of the DVOA based power ratings in comparison to power ratings based on wins and losses only.

 I’ve decided to use the playoff predictions based on the standard DVOA, rather than the Donovan McNabb adjusted version. Every team suffers injuries, and I don’t think you can consider an injury to one player in the whole league on an ad hoc basis. I also discovered that in week 10 I had mistakenly entered a Viking win over Green Bay, that was making my projections for the Vikings overly optimistic and to a lesser extent, penalizing the chances of the Packers. I fixed that in this weeks projections, but I haven’t gone back and fixed week 10 projections.

                         Division Championship   Playoff Odds
Team                DVOA       NFL-F          DVOA       NFL-F
NewEngland      97.80%      89.76           98.40%      94.18
NYJets              1.90%       10                8.40%       28.48
Miami               0.10%       0.14             0.40%       1.32
Buffalo              0.00%       0.1               0.30%       2.36
                                                                             
                        Division Championship   Playoff Odds
Team                DVOA       NFL-F          DVOA       NFL-F
Indianapolis       95.70%      99.34           99.50%      99.94
Jacksonville       4.20%       0.66             59.20%      32.16
Houston            0.00%       0                  0.00%       0.14
Tennessee        0.00%       0                  0.00%       0.02
                                                                             
                        Division Championship   Playoff Odds
Team                DVOA       NFL-F          DVOA       NFL-F
Baltimore          98.50%      96.64           99.10%      98
Cincinnati         1.10%       2.62             10.20%      18.94
Pittsburgh         0.30%       0.74             1.80%       1.76
Cleveland          0.00%       0                  0.00%       0.24
                                                                             
                        Division Championship   Playoff Odds
Team                DVOA       NFL-F          DVOA       NFL-F
SanDiego          87.00%      62.6             99.60%      96.82
Denver              11.80%      31.96           88.60%      90.72
KansasCity       1.10%       5.44             33.70%      34.92
Oakland            0.00%       0                  0.00%       0
                                                                             
                        Division Championship   Playoff Odds
Team                DVOA       NFL-F          DVOA       NFL-F
NYGiants          43.20%      62.2             89.40%      82.2
Philadelphia      8.00%       29.46           54.90%      27.92
Dallas               48.60%      8.34             93.60%      61.42
Washington       0.00%       0                  0.50%       0.54
                                                                             
                        Division Championship   Playoff Odds
Team                DVOA       NFL-F          DVOA       NFL-F
Chicago            100.00%    99.94           100.00%    99.98
GreenBay         0.00%       0.04             7.50%       2.72
Minnesota         0.00%       0.02             4.60%       14.9
Detroit              0.00%       0                  0.00%       0.02
                                                                             
                        Division Championship   Playoff Odds
Team                DVOA       NFL-F          DVOA       NFL-F
NewOrleans       51.50%      43.04           70.20%      75.84
Carolina            44.60%      43.84           62.50%      70.46
Atlanta              3.80%       13.12           7.60%       29.66
TampaBay        0.00%       0                  0.00%       0.42
                                                                             
                        Division Championship   Playoff Odds
Team                DVOA       NFL-F          DVOA       NFL-F
Seattle              69.60%      72.32           72.50%      82.16
SanFrancisco    11.00%      21.64           12.60%      33.42
StLouis             19.20%      6.04             23.40%      18.34
Arizona             0.00%       0                  0.00%       0

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