The Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks will battle for the seventh and final NFC playoff spot in Week 18. According to the pre-Monday Night Football DVOA rankings, the three teams are essentially neck-neck-and-neck.
The Lions rank 9th in DVOA but seventh in weighted DVOA, which counts recent performance as more important than early-season performance, making it a better measure of how teams are trending down the stretch. The Packers rank 12th overall but eighth in weighted DVOA. The Seahawks rank 10th overall but 11th in weighted DVOA. It's unsurprising that the Lions and Packers leap ahead of the Seahawks in weighted metrics: the Packers are on a four-game winning streak and the Lions have won four of their last five, while the Seahawks just snapped a three-game losing streak with their 23-6 victory over the New York Jets.