 found this Playoff Simulator on ESPN's website, you pick who's going to win each game, and then it just updates the Playoff picture live right in front of your eyes. So I thought every week let's do that. During the NFL's postseason era, when people are fighting for a Playoff spot, let's just pick the favorites based off of what Vegas is saying, what are the odds, who's favorite to win each game, and then see how that updates the Playoff picture. So for week 16, let me go ahead and flip this over to my computer and show you guys this Playoff Simulator right over here. Okay, so we've got the Thursday night game, right, between the 49ers and the Titans. According to Vegas right now, the favorites are the 49ers to win on the road. Surprisingly, three and a half point favorites, so let's go ahead and click them to win, right? How does that update the Playoff picture? Well, now you've got the 49ers down here at nine and six at the sixth seed, and then the Titans at third seed. So it doesn't really affect it that much just based off of one game. That just gives you an idea of, okay, how this little Playoff Simulator works. Now let's go over to Christmas Day, however, with the Browns and the Packers. Looking at those games, we've got the Packers as seven point favorites in that game. So they win, they stay atop as the number one seed in the NFC. For the Browns, though, they're not an AFC Playoff contention right now, and if they lose this game, it's going to be very, very hard for them to get into the AFC wild card moving forward. And then for the Colts and Cardinals, in that game, the Cardinals are a favorite to win, but only by one point. So the Colts are actually favorited to keep this game kind of close, but the Cardinals are going to win, and that updates their record. And again, nothing really is happening in this Playoff Simulator right now. So after Thursday, after Saturday's games, after Christmas, it's not going to be affected by that much. But then you get into Sunday, then you get into Monday. Let's just pick those games and see who's going to win and what are the odds, like what's going to happen after these games were to occur. So first I'll start off with the Lions and the Falcons. The Falcons are six-point favorites. Let's pick them, right? Then the Bucks and the Panthers. We've got the Bucks as 11-point favorites. Pick them to win. All of a sudden, they move up to the second seed. Okay, okay, okay. And then we've got the Ravens and the Bengals, AFC North Battle. Between this game, we've got the Bengals as the favorites. So if we pick them, currently, the Bengals are the fourth seed. We pick them, they move on up to the third seed after the outcome of that game if they were to beat the Baltimore Ravens. Between the Chargers and the Texans in that game, we've got the Chargers as nine-and-a-half point favorites. Pick them to win. They move up. Actually, no, they stay at the fifth seed right there. Between the Rams and the Vikings, that should be a good game. I think it might be more high-scoring. The Rams and the Vikings, I think the Rams are the favorites right here. Yeah, three-point favorites. So they win. Minnesota now loses their seventh seed, which is big, and the Rams continue to make a statement in the wildcard race. You've got the Bills on the Patriots in that rematch. It won't be that windy anymore, so hopefully the Bills have a chance of winning. But the Patriots are still the favorited ones to win in this game. So the Patriots, two-and-a-half point favorites, they move on up to the second seed. That does affect the wildcard picture for the Bills, because if the Bills were to win this game, that affects the seventh seed. You've got Pittsburgh now moving up. The Bills are up in the fourth seed. So even just by one single loss, the Patriots win. The Bills automatically are out of the AFC wildcard race if the playoffs were to start after week 16. Between the Jaguars and the Jets, and our power rankings is number 32 versus number 31, who's favorited to win in this game? In this game, we've got the Jets actually as the favorites. So let's pick them. It doesn't really affect the AFC playoff picture, because both teams are eliminated at that point. Now we've got the Giants and the Eagles to play in the early window, and the Eagles are big favorites, 10-point favorites, and they continue to ride as the seventh seed. And so that's your early afternoon window right there. This is what the playoff picture would look like if all those games went to the favorited ones. And now let's transition into the late afternoon games. You've got three of them. You've got the Bears and the Seahawks, and in this game, the favorited wins are the Seahawks. Let's see by how many points, yep, minus six and a half. So if we picked them to win, how does that affect the NFC playoff race? It doesn't really affect it. The Bears are eliminated. The Seahawks need a lot of help to get into the playoffs. Now for the Sears and the Chiefs, this is big for seeding and for the Steelers that are 7, 6, and 1, the Chiefs are 8.5-point favorites. So if we picked them to win, all of a sudden you've got the Steelers going outside of the NFC playoff picture. So this is, you could consider it a must win for the Steelers going into week 16. The Chiefs stay on top of the first seed. For the Broncos and the Raiders, I believe the Raiders are the favorite in this game because Drew Locke is going to be starting, and yes, but it's only by one point. So if we picked the Raiders to win, even if it's by a point, how does that affect? Yep, Las Vegas now moves up to the 7th seed, and for the Broncos, it makes it more and more tough to make the AFC playoff picture. So that's after the late afternoon window games. Now you've got the 7-9 football game between Washington and the Cowboys. You could consider this a must win for Washington at this point, so they got 6-8 for the Cowboys. The 10-4, they look kind of pretty in the lead with the NFC East, but if they're the favorites to win in this game, which they are 10-1 half point favorites, then you've got them now moving up to the 2nd seed. So it was the Bucks and the Cardinals that were number 2 and number 3. The Cowboys immediately move up from the number 4 seed to the number 2 seed, inching closer and closer to the number 1 seed, which Green Bay is kind of running away with it. But let's see what happens after week 16. And then the Monday night football game between the Dolphins and the Saints. It does affect the playoff picture just a bit, but in this game we've got the Saints as the 3-point favorites, Dolphins on a little bit of a win streak, but Saints are favorite to win. And after all the simulations, all the favorites are winning, it doesn't really affect the playoff picture. So after week 16, if the favorites were to win this game, this is what it would look like. You've got the Chiefs and the Packers still on top of the number 1 seeds of the respective conferences. Now for the playoff picture, you've got Las Vegas down jumping up into the wild card race. Cincinnati is just making a claim and they're moving up and up and up. And then the Colts as well, even though they were to lose this game, they will still stay at the 6th seed. Over on the NFC side, you've got the Cowboys. Again, the biggest thing is they move up to the 2nd seed and the Buccaneers and the Cardinals drop down. Even if they were to win the respective games, the Cowboys would move on up because of tiebreakers and things of that nature, even though they're all 11 and 4. But that is your playoff simulator if all the games were to be simulated and won by the favorites this week in week 16. We're going to come out with our weekly picks where we ask the fans and we give you our opinions on who we think is going to win, but this is just based off the favorites. So leave your thoughts in the comments down below.