updated: 12/10/24

NFL Strength Wins/Pain of Losses

We thought the College strength of wins/pain of losses was so interesting we decided to do one for the NFL and see the results. How it’s devised is if you beat an opponent you get credit for all their wins over their opponents. If you lose you get all their losses.

Strength of Wins

In this first chart below you can see Strength of Wins. Detroit in the #1 spot. Detroit has wins over LA Rams, Arizona, Seattle, Dallas, Minnesota, Tennessee, Green Bay (twice), Houston, Jacksonville, Indianapolis and Chicago and gives them a total of 87 Foe Wins.

Here is the Complete list of Strength of Wins with rank: Games Played thru 12/16/24

  Strength of Wins
    Combined  
Team SU Wins Foe Wins Rank
DETROIT 12 87 1
KANSAS CITY 13 76 2
PHILADELPHIA 12 75 3
BUFFALO 11 74 4
MINNESOTA 12 65 5
LA Rams 9 65 5
BALTIMORE 9 65 5
GREEN BAY 10 61 8
PITTSBURGH 10 59 9
TAMPA BAY 8 53 10
SEATTLE 8 49 11
HOUSTON  9 48 12
ATLANTA 7 44 13
DENVER 9 40 14
ARIZONA 7 40 14
LA Chargers 8 38 16
WASHINGTON 9 35 17
SAN FRANCISCO 6 33 18
INDIANAPOLIS 6 30 19
DALLAS 6 29 20
MIAMI 6 24 21
CLEVELAND 3 22 22
NEW ORLEANS 5 21 23
CINCINNATI 6 19 24
NY JETS 4 18 25
CHICAGO 4 18 25
TENNESSEE 3 18 25
NEW ENGLAND 3 14 28
JACKSONVILLE 3 12 29
LAS VEGAS 2 12 29
NY GIANTS 2 11 31
CAROLINA 3 9 32

 

Pain of Losses

This next chart we will go over is the Pain of Losses. Here if you lose to an opponent you get credit for all their losses. At the top you will see New England. New England has foe losses vs Seattle, NY Jets, San Fran, Miami, Houston, Jacksonville, Tennessee, LA Rams, Miami, Indianapolis and Arizona for a total of 87 foe losses.

Here is your complete Pain of Losses Chart with rank: Games Played thru 12/16/24

Pain of Losses
    Combined  
Team SU Losses Foe Losses Rank
NEW ENGLAND 11 87 32
NY GIANTS 12 73 31
CLEVELAND 11 72 30
TENNESSEE 11 69 29
LAS VEGAS 12 67 27
CAROLINA 11 67 27
JACKSONVILLE 11 62 25
NY JETS 10 62 25
CHICAGO 10 54 24
NEW ORLEANS 9 48 23
MIAMI 8 47 22
DALLAS 8 46 21
CINCINNATI 8 39 20
INDIANAPOLIS 8 37 19
SEATTLE 6 34 18
SAN FRANCISCO 8 33 15
ATLANTA 7 33 15
TAMPA BAY 6 33 15
LA Rams 5 31 14
BALTIMORE 5 30 13
HOUSTON  5 29 11
PITTSBURGH 4 29 11
ARIZONA 7 28 10
WASHINGTON 5 25 9
LA Chargers 6 24 8
DENVER 5 22 7
BUFFALO 3 15 6
PHILADELPHIA 2 13 5
DETROIT 2 9 4
GREEN BAY 4 8 3
MINNESOTA 2 7 2
KANSAS CITY 1 3 1

 

Overall Wins and Losses

In this last chart below you can see the overall wins and losses. At the top you have Kansas City. At the bottom you have Carolina.

Here is the Overall Wins and Losses Chart with %: Games Played thru 12/16/24

Overall 
       
Team Wins Losses %
KANSAS CITY 87 3 96.7%
MINNESOTA 65 7 90.3%
DETROIT 76 9 89.4%
GREEN BAY 61 8 88.4%
PHILADELPHIA 75 13 85.2%
BUFFALO 74 15 83.1%
BALTIMORE 65 30 68.4%
LA Rams 65 31 67.7%
PITTSBURGH 59 29 67.0%
DENVER 40 22 64.5%
HOUSTON  48 29 62.3%
TAMPA BAY 53 33 61.6%
LA Chargers 38 24 61.3%
SEATTLE 49 34 59.0%
ARIZONA 40 28 58.8%
WASHINGTON 35 25 58.3%
ATLANTA 44 33 57.1%
SAN FRANCISCO 33 33 50.0%
INDIANAPOLIS 30 37 44.8%
DALLAS 29 46 38.7%
MIAMI 24 47 33.8%
CINCINNATI 19 39 32.8%
NEW ORLEANS 21 48 30.4%
CHICAGO 18 54 25.0%
CLEVELAND 22 72 23.4%
NY JETS 18 62 22.5%
TENNESSEE 18 69 20.7%
JACKSONVILLE 12 62 16.2%
LAS VEGAS 12 67 15.2%
NEW ENGLAND 14 87 13.9%
NY GIANTS 11 73 13.1%
CAROLINA 9 67 11.8%