Touchdown Theory

Team Ratings

How the teams rate.

Per-play quality ratings for every team's offense and defense, measured across the season. They describe how strong a team has been, not how any single game will go. Positive is better on both sides of the ball. Live game projections are not published yet.

Ranked by net rating
RankEliteGoodAveragePoorBad
TeamNet ratingOffDef
1LA
+0.129
17
2SEA
+0.123
82
3NE
+0.090
55
4BUF
+0.080
215
5HOU
+0.073
221
6JAX
+0.061
116
7GB
+0.046
322
8PHI
+0.044
169
9DEN
+0.043
188
10DET
+0.040
913
11IND
+0.037
617
12KC
+0.023
1212
13LAC
+0.022
249
14CHI
+0.016
1021
15SF
+0.012
724
16BAL
+0.007
1418
17TB
+0.004
1716
18MIN
-0.003
283
19ATL
-0.007
2114
20PIT
-0.016
2019
21NYG
-0.022
1326
22NO
-0.029
2711
23DAL
-0.033
432
24CAR
-0.044
2523
25ARI
-0.050
2325
26WAS
-0.061
1530
27CLE
-0.064
324
28MIA
-0.065
2627
29CIN
-0.067
1929
30LV
-0.109
3120
31TEN
-0.122
2928
32NYJ
-0.156
3031

Rank sits beside each team, 1 to 32 by net rating. Off and Def are league rank on each side of the ball, colored from strongest to weakest. Teams with the same rating share a rank. On wider screens a bar runs from league average at the center, green for above and red for below, scaled to the strongest rating that season. Ratings are fit once per completed season, so the two most recent completed seasons are shown. These are historical team ratings, not a projection for any upcoming game.