For the last several weeks, our N.F.L. playoff simulator has explored every possible scenario, letting fans daydream about improbable outcomes. Normally, there are so many ways a season can end that we use very large numbers to describe them. But now the postseason possibilities have winnowed enough that we can depict each team’s possible postseason paths as the branches of a tree. We’ve included the trees for every team not yet mathematically eliminated.

Source: New York Times December 26, 2020 18:22 UTC