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The NFL will announce its schedule at 7 pm eastern tonight – they’re doing it in Prime Time on their NFL Network channel. I imagine it will be released slowly – probably week by week (anything to try to keep as many eyes on their channel for as long as possible).
There also, no doubt, will be discussions of which teams have the hardest and easiest schedules. Below are the tabulated numbers for each team, based on how opponents performed last year.
STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE FOR 2009 (W-L-T)
Based on team’s win-loss records from 2008.
W L T Pct.
105 149 2 .414 Chicago
107 148 1 .420 Minnesota
109 146 1 .428 Green Bay
110 144 2 .434 Pittsburgh
111 143 2 .438 Baltimore
113 143 0 .441 Arizona
113 142 1 .443 San Francisco
114 140 2 .449 Cleveland
117 139 0 .457 Seattle
119 137 0 .465 Cincinnati
119 137 0 .465 St. Louis
119 136 1 .467 Detroit
122 132 2 .480 Denver
122 132 2 .480 Oakland
123 131 2 .484 San Diego
123 131 2 .484 Kansas City
125 129 2 .492 Washington
129 126 1 .506 Houston
130 126 0 .508 Tennessee
131 125 0 .512 Indianapolis
132 124 0 .516 Jacksonville
131 123 2 .516 Dallas
134 120 2 .527 NY Giants
137 119 0 .535 Philadelphia
142 113 1 .557 New Orleans
145 110 1 .568 NY Jets
146 110 0 .570 Buffalo
148 107 1 .580 Tampa Bay
150 105 1 .588 Atlanta
151 105 0 .590 New England
151 104 1 .592 Carolina
152 104 0 .594 Miami
STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE FOR 2009 (Points)
I’m not a big fan of it myself. I looked into it last year and concluded that it’s far more meaningful to weigh schedules in terms of wins and losses. But below is the strength-of-schedule information based on defenses. Seattle, for example, projects to play the easiest schedule; its 16 opponents, on average, allowed 23.8 points per game last season.
Points
23.8 Seattle
23.6 San Francisco
23.3 Arizona
23.3 Minnesota
23.3 St. Louis
23.2 Green Bay
23.1 Chicago
22.9 Washington
22.2 Baltimore
22.2 Tennessee
22.1 Pittsburgh
22.1 Indianapolis
22.1 Detroit
22.1 NY Giants
22.1 Oakland
22.0 Philadelphia
22.0 Jacksonville
21.8 Cincinnati
21.8 Cleveland
21.6 Houston
21.6 San Diego
21.6 Dallas
21.5 New Orleans
21.5 Kansas City
21.2 Tampa Bay
21.2 Buffalo
21.1 Carolina
21.1 Atlanta
21.0 New England
21.0 Denver
20.9 NY Jets
20.5 Miami
—Ian Allan
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