If you're a sports fan that's into the probabilities for various scenarios for your favorite team, we live in a beautiful era. Whereas in the pre-internet days, we were left to just guess using gut feel on certain outcomes, now the web is flush with sites that can tell you...
If you're a sports fan that's into the probabilities for various scenarios for your favorite team, we live in a beautiful era. Whereas in the pre-internet days, we were left to just guess using gut feel on certain outcomes, now the web is flush with sites that can tell you down to the percentage point, what your team's chances for making the playoffs, and garnering playoff success, are.
For the Houston Texans, we live in fun times. The AFC South, outside of the Texans, is a train wreck, and as a result, the odds of the Texans making the postseason are almost prohibitively tilted in the team's favor right now. According to the analytics websiteHere are a few thoughts on these encouraging developments:The Texans are 7-4 with their next two games against the 2-8 Tennessee Titans and the 2-9 Jacksonville Jaguars. They also have a season finale in Nashville against the Titans.
Unlike last season, when the Texans spent most of the time down the stretch with C.J. Stroud nursing a concussion and playing against opponents inside the division, this season the Texans have two of the marquee teams in the league on their schedule within four days of each other. In Week 16, the Texans travel to Kansas City and then four days later, they host the Baltimore Ravens at home. This should give the Texans a pretty firm idea as to what type of team they have going into the postseason.
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