Simple AFC Tiebreaker Chart, 2014, After Week 16

Notes and assumptions: No possibility of further tie games (CIN is excluded from the table). Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end of the season, NOT as if the season ended right now. (Example: KC and SD can only finish tied if KC beats SD next week.) Tiebreakers that don't affect playoff berths or seeding are ignored.  (Example: If BUF and IND both finish 10-6, IND wins the AFC South, but BUF doesn't win the AFC East.) Division ties are broken first.  (Example: If BAL, SD, and KC all finish 9-7, break the SD-KC tie first.  Then apply the tiebreaker between BAL and the SD-KC winner.) If three or more teams are tied, apply that tiebreaker, not the two-team tiebreaker. Strength of victory is the combined winning percentage (essentially, the number of wins) of the teams a team has beaten. It has nothing to do with point totals. Locked berths: none. Clinched division and #1 seed: NE.  Clinched divisions: IND, DEN. Clinched berths: PIT, CIN. Eliminated: NYJ, TEN, JAX, OAK, CLE, MIA, BUF. Eliminated from division: HOU, SD, KC, BAL. The complete tiebreaker rules are here. AFC Division Tiebreakers after Week 16: Tied Teams Record Winner Why? BUF-MIA 9-7 MIA conference record BAL-PIT 10-6 PIT conference record KC-SD 9-7 KC head-to-head AFC Wild Card and Seeding Tiebreakers after Week 16: Tied Teams Record Winner Why? NE-DEN 12-4 NE head-to-head BAL-SD SD head-to-head BAL-KC 9-7 KC conference record PIT-IND 11-5 PIT head-to-head PIT-DEN 11-5 DEN strength of victory PIT-SD 10-6 PIT conference record IND-DEN 11-5 DEN head-to-head BUF-BAL-HOU 9-7 HOU head-to-head BUF-BAL-SD 9-7 SD head-to-head BUF-BAL-KC 9-7 KC conference record MIA-BAL-HOU 9-7 HOU conference record MIA-BAL-SD 9-7 MIA conference record MIA-BAL-KC 9-7 KC BAL eliminated on conference record; head-to-head BAL-HOU-SD 9-7 HOU BAL eliminated on head-to-head; conference record BAL-HOU-KC 9-7 HOU conference record PIT-IND-DEN 11-5 DEN IND eliminated on head-to-head; strength-of-victory BUF-BAL-HOU-KC 9-7 HOU conference record MIA-BAL-HOU-KC 9-7 HOU conference record