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Updated strength of schedule

Browns, Chargers about to play easier schedules

If you’re a fan of strength of schedule, the Browns and Chargers look like teams to emphasize in the second half of the season. Their schedules project to be the easiest over the next nine weeks.

This is using current wins-loss records and considering games through Week 16 (most fantasy seasons are over by Week 17, so those games have been left out of the calculations).

The Browns’ next eight games are against teams that so far have gone a combined 18-34-1. That’s the worst. The Chargers are the only other team whose opponents have won fewer than 40 percent of their games.

Other teams with easier schedules including Kansas City, Chicago and Las Vegas.

The Jaguars, 49ers and Jets, meanwhile, project to play the hardest schedules going forward.

STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE (Weeks 8-16)
TeamWLTPct
Cleveland18341.349
LA Chargers21360.368
Kansas City21310.404
Chicago21290.420
Las Vegas25330.431
Miami26321.449
Pittsburgh26322.450
New Orleans27331.451
Tampa Bay24290.453
Dallas23273.462
Seattle29331.468
Carolina25270.481
Washington25271.481
Green Bay28301.483
Houston25261.490
Baltimore26260.500
Cincinnati26260.500
Denver29290.500
New England31290.517
Arizona27251.519
Detroit31280.525
Philadelphia29240.547
Minnesota33270.550
LA Rams29230.558
Buffalo28220.560
Atlanta29220.569
NY Giants30222.574
Tennessee33241.578
Indianapolis34220.607
NY Jets31200.608
San Francisco33200.623
Jacksonville33180.647

It is also useful at this point to look at what teams have seen already. The Colts, Jaguars and 49ers – all teams that going forward should play hard schedules – so far have played the league’s easiest schedules. They’ve benefited from easier schedules (and that’s about to change).

The Raiders, Texans and Broncos, meanwhile, so far have played the hardest schedules.

On this one, you’re looking at combined records of opponents in other games. With the Steelers, for example, their opponents show at 16-17-1. Their actually combined record is 16-23-1, but the 0-6 record in games against the Steelers is disregarded. If you leave in teams’ own games, then teams with winning records appear to play harder schedules. (The Jets are 0-7, for example, so their opponents would start seven games over .500, even if they weren’t actually all that good.)

STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE (Weeks 1-7)
TeamWLTPct
Indianapolis11231.329
Jacksonville13231.365
San Francisco15241.388
Seattle13200.394
Miami14200.412
Green Bay14190.424
Arizona17230.425
Tennessee15180.455
Dallas19220.463
LA Rams19221.464
LA Chargers16181.471
Atlanta18200.474
Pittsburgh16171.485
Cincinnati19200.487
Chicago20200.500
Minnesota16160.500
NY Giants20201.500
Philadelphia20200.500
Washington20201.500
Buffalo20190.513
Cleveland19182.513
Kansas City19180.514
Detroit18160.529
Carolina21180.538
NY Jets21180.538
Baltimore22182.548
New England19130.594
New Orleans19130.594
Tampa Bay22150.595
Denver20130.606
Houston23140.622
Las Vegas22120.647

—Ian Allan

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