by Aaron Schatz

(Note: Special Teams DVOA below is now corrected.)

Once again, it is time for postseason DVOA ratings. As always, the following rules apply:

All 32 teams are ranked, whether they made the playoffs or not.

Teams are ranked in order of weighted DVOA, not total season DVOA. Since weighted DVOA is meant to lower the strength of older games, these ratings do not include Weeks 1-4, and Weeks 5-10 are somewhat discounted.

Teams which did not play in the wild-card round are treated as if they had a bye week. (That includes both the 20 non-playoff teams and the four teams with byes.)

As I did last year, I'm including full-season DVOA as well as weighted DVOA in this table, but it's almost the same as it was a week ago. Adding one game into a sample of 17 doesn't usually change things very much, especially when you are only doing it for eight teams.

The wild-card round really doesn't change much with weighted DVOA either. Although we didn't have any close games, we didn't have any ridiculous blowouts on the order of last year's Kansas City 30-0 victory over Houston. New England is still No. 1 by a good amount, and this week the last of the four Brady suspension games drops out of the weighted DVOA formula. Pittsburgh and Dallas are currently second and third despite a lack of any adjustment for these teams sitting starters in Week 17, although the Steelers did pass the Cowboys with their strong wild-card performance. Green Bay also moves up and now ranks No. 1 in weighted offensive DVOA.

You might notice that seven of the eight remaining teams have a higher weighted DVOA than full-season DVOA. Seattle is the only team left that played better earlier in the season than in the last few weeks.

You will find DVOA matchup pages for the four divisional games on the FO Premium page. Snap counts should be updated with information on the wild-card round by this evening. And if you have a team in the Football Outsiders 2016 Playoff Fantasy Challenge, you can check out your team right here. Scores for this will also be updated later tonight.

FO's wild-card round players for Madden 17 Ultimate Team will be announced in a separate post on Tuesday.

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If you are new to our website, you can read the explanation of how DVOA is figured here. As always, positive numbers represent more points so DEFENSE is better when it is NEGATIVE.

Teams in yellow are still alive in the playoffs. Teams in gray lost this past weekend.

TEAM WEI.

DVOA LAST

WEEK W-L WEI OFF

DVOA OFF.

RANK WEI DEF

DVOA DEF.

RANK WEI S.T.

DVOA S.T.

RANK TOTAL

DVOA RANK 1 NE 35.1% 1 14-2 24.7% 3 -7.3% 9 3.1% 6 25.3% 1 2 PIT 23.9% 3 12-5 12.7% 8 -12.1% 5 -0.9% 21 17.5% 4 3 DAL 23.0% 2 13-3 20.2% 4 0.0% 19 2.8% 9 21.0% 2 4 ATL 20.7% 4 11-5 25.0% 2 5.3% 21 1.0% 14 19.6% 3 5 KC 20.3% 5 12-4 8.3% 10 -1.7% 14 10.3% 1 13.9% 7 6 GB 20.1% 7 11-6 26.3% 1 6.0% 24 -0.2% 20 15.9% 6 7 PHI 11.5% 10 7-9 -5.2% 21 -8.1% 8 8.5% 2 17.1% 5 8 BAL 11.1% 9 8-8 -0.4% 16 -4.5% 12 7.0% 4 5.9% 10 9 TEN 10.7% 11 9-7 13.7% 7 7.0% 25 4.0% 5 3.9% 13 10 WAS 10.5% 8 8-7-1 20.1% 5 8.5% 27 -1.1% 22 9.2% 9 11 TB 7.8% 12 9-7 0.4% 15 -8.7% 7 -1.3% 23 -1.6% 21 12 NYG 7.7% 6 11-6 -9.8% 24 -16.5% 2 1.0% 13 4.9% 12 13 CIN 5.3% 15 6-9-1 6.2% 12 -0.6% 17 -1.6% 24 3.0% 15 14 IND 5.2% 18 8-8 7.9% 11 5.5% 22 2.9% 8 -5.1% 24 15 SEA 5.1% 14 11-5-1 -2.5% 17 -7.0% 10 0.5% 17 10.6% 8 16 ARI 3.4% 17 7-8-1 -2.6% 19 -12.4% 4 -6.4% 30 1.7% 16 TEAM WEI.

DVOA LAST

WEEK W-L WEI OFF

DVOA OFF.

RANK WEI DEF

DVOA DEF.

RANK WEI S.T.

DVOA S.T.

RANK TOTAL

DVOA RANK 17 OAK 2.5% 13 12-5 3.2% 13 2.0% 20 1.3% 12 5.3% 11 18 NO 0.6% 19 7-9 15.2% 6 12.6% 29 -2.0% 25 -0.4% 17 19 CAR -3.0% 20 6-10 -13.0% 26 -10.2% 6 -0.2% 19 -4.8% 23 20 DEN -3.5% 21 9-7 -19.5% 29 -19.8% 1 -3.8% 27 3.8% 14 21 MIA -4.7% 16 10-7 0.4% 14 5.9% 23 1.7% 11 -1.9% 22 22 SD -7.2% 23 5-11 -8.3% 23 -6.7% 11 -5.6% 29 -1.0% 19 23 BUF -7.9% 22 7-9 8.6% 9 12.0% 28 -4.5% 28 -0.7% 18 24 CHI -9.4% 24 3-13 -2.5% 18 7.6% 26 0.7% 16 -7.9% 25 25 JAC -10.8% 25 3-13 -10.3% 25 -3.1% 13 -3.6% 26 -10.7% 26 26 MIN -12.5% 26 8-8 -13.4% 27 -0.2% 18 0.7% 15 -1.1% 20 27 HOU -14.6% 27 10-7 -20.3% 30 -12.7% 3 -7.0% 31 -18.2% 28 28 DET -16.8% 29 9-8 -3.8% 20 16.1% 32 3.0% 7 -17.6% 27 29 SF -18.1% 28 2-14 -6.2% 22 13.9% 30 2.0% 10 -19.7% 29 30 CLE -29.8% 30 1-15 -15.8% 28 14.3% 31 0.4% 18 -30.9% 31 31 NYJ -30.8% 31 5-11 -24.6% 31 -1.5% 15 -7.7% 32 -32.4% 32 32 LARM -41.5% 32 4-12 -50.8% 32 -0.8% 16 8.4% 3 -29.0% 30

Here are the one-game DVOA ratings for the first round of the playoffs.