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.

Only weighted DVOA is listed for offense, defense, and special teams. Total DVOA is also listed, but one game doesn't change much in a 17-game sample.

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.)

The big news this week is that the Indianapolis Colts take their win over Houston and move up to No. 2 in weighted DVOA. That means that Saturday's first divisional-round game pits the No. 1 team in weighted DVOA (Kansas City) against the No. 2 team (Indianapolis). The Colts rank lower over the course of the entire season -- seventh if we include the wild-card round -- but they've improved significantly since the early part of the season.

The Colts' first huge win was a 37-5 beatdown of Buffalo in Week 7, but it's more logical to use their Week 9 bye as the split in their season. When you do that, you get this split for Indianapolis in DVOA:

Indianapolis DVOA, Weeks 1-9 vs. Weeks 11-18 Weeks OFF RK DEF RK ST RK TOT Weeks 1-9 1.0% 16 2.2% 21 1.8% 6 0.6% Weeks 11-18 17.6% 3 -10.2% 7 0.2% 20 28.0%

The other obvious story in the current DVOA ratings is that there is a huge gap between the top six teams remaining and the final two, Dallas and Philadelphia. This gap exists whether you look at total regular-season DVOA or weighted DVOA. Even this last weekend, both the Colts and Chargers had higher single-game DVOA ratings than the Cowboys or Eagles.

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.

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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.

There are no adjustments here for sitting starters in Week 17, although we do adjust the ratings that we use in the playoff odds report.

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

RANK 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 KC 32.3% 1 12-4 31.6% 1 1.5% 17 2.2% 15 33.0% 1 2 IND 28.4% 4 11-6 19.2% 2 -8.6% 7 0.7% 20 14.7% 7 3 NO 25.2% 2 13-3 12.2% 7 -10.2% 6 2.9% 11 20.7% 4 4 LAC 21.4% 3 13-4 11.9% 8 -7.7% 8 1.9% 17 22.5% 3 5 CHI 20.6% 5 12-5 -3.9% 22 -27.7% 1 -3.2% 27 19.8% 5 6 NE 19.3% 8 11-5 17.1% 4 0.2% 14 2.4% 13 14.2% 8 7 LAR 18.9% 6 13-3 17.3% 3 -0.6% 13 1.0% 18 23.7% 2 8 MIN 16.9% 9 8-7-1 -1.0% 18 -15.7% 3 2.2% 14 8.1% 10 9 BAL 13.1% 7 10-7 -5.8% 23 -15.8% 2 3.1% 10 15.4% 6 10 CLE 13.1% 12 7-8-1 15.8% 5 2.4% 18 -0.2% 22 -3.0% 18 11 PIT 11.8% 10 9-6-1 13.7% 6 -1.3% 12 -3.1% 26 11.2% 9 12 DEN 7.9% 11 6-10 -1.5% 19 -13.7% 4 -4.3% 30 6.6% 11 13 NYG 7.0% 15 5-11 1.6% 15 3.6% 20 9.0% 1 0.0% 16 14 HOU 4.4% 13 11-6 -0.4% 17 -1.3% 11 3.5% 9 4.3% 13 15 SEA 4.0% 14 10-7 11.8% 9 5.1% 23 -2.7% 25 5.7% 12 16 ATL 3.7% 17 7-9 6.6% 11 6.5% 25 3.7% 8 -3.0% 17 17 PHI 2.7% 16 10-7 3.0% 14 2.7% 19 2.5% 12 0.6% 14 18 TEN 0.3% 18 9-7 1.4% 16 1.0% 16 -0.1% 21 -4.9% 21 19 DAL -1.0% 19 11-6 -3.7% 21 -4.9% 10 -2.2% 24 -3.8% 20 20 CAR -1.7% 20 7-9 3.9% 12 4.2% 22 -1.4% 23 0.5% 15 21 DET -5.2% 22 6-10 -3.3% 20 3.9% 21 2.1% 16 -15.2% 26 22 BUF -7.7% 23 6-10 -14.4% 27 -12.9% 5 -6.1% 32 -18.4% 28 23 GB -8.4% 21 6-9-1 9.4% 10 14.4% 32 -3.4% 28 -3.1% 19 24 TB -9.1% 24 5-11 3.7% 13 9.0% 27 -3.8% 29 -13.0% 24 25 JAX -15.1% 25 5-11 -28.1% 30 -6.2% 9 6.9% 3 -8.1% 22 26 OAK -17.7% 29 4-12 -8.7% 24 9.9% 28 0.9% 19 -21.0% 31 27 NYJ -18.3% 26 4-12 -16.7% 28 10.5% 29 8.8% 2 -14.8% 25 28 CIN -18.6% 27 6-10 -12.5% 25 11.4% 30 5.3% 4 -9.7% 23 29 SF -21.2% 28 4-12 -17.8% 29 7.4% 26 4.0% 5 -20.3% 30 30 WAS -26.3% 30 7-9 -29.5% 31 0.6% 15 3.9% 6 -18.6% 29 31 MIA -31.4% 31 7-9 -13.5% 26 13.4% 31 -4.6% 31 -16.5% 27 32 ARI -47.4% 32 3-13 -46.0% 32 5.2% 24 3.8% 7 -40.4% 32

Here are the one-game DVOA ratings for the first round of the playoffs. These ratings for the Philadelphia-Chicago game aren't going to make Bears fans feel any better, but the Bears overall outplayed the Eagles on a play-by-play basis on Sunday. Chicago gained 5.7 yards per play with no turnovers, while the Eagles gained just 4.7 yards per play with two turnovers. The game came down to red zone efficiency, as the Bears couldn't score a touchdown in three trips to the red zone while the Eagles punched it in twice from inside the 20.

DVOA (with opponent adjustments) TEAM TOT OFF DEF ST IND 49% 31% -16% 1% HOU -39% -16% 22% 0% SEA -9% 9% 13% -6% DAL 16% 8% -8% 0% LAC 36% -24% -47% 13% BAL -27% -49% -43% -21% PHI 10% 4% -3% 4% CHI 34% 5% -25% 4% VOA (no opponent adjustments) TEAM TOT OFF DEF ST IND 32% 23% -9% 1% HOU -42% -15% 27% 0% SEA -16% 1% 11% -6% DAL 7% 9% 2% 0% LAC 23% -36% -46% 13% BAL -42% -55% -34% -21% PHI -10% -18% -4% 4% CHI 34% 5% -25% 4%

Further fuel for offseason arguments: The team this weekend with the highest passing VOA (before adjustments) was Seattle at 34.8%. The team with the highest net yards per pass attempt was Seattle at 8.1. And the team with the fewest pass plays this weekend? Also Seattle.