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Projecting final standings, playoffs for the 2023 NFL season

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With only three weeks and 48 games remaining in the 2023 NFL regular season, there are 26 teams still mathematically alive for the playoffs. Yes, Giants -- even you.

The number of permutations of those 48 games is impossibly large, so today we're going to focus on one scenario: chalk. Technically, we're looking for a specific kind of chalk -- the modal outcome of each conference. In other words, when we simulate the rest of the season 10,000 times using ESPN's Football Power Index (FPI), which combination of seven seeds is the most common in each conference?