2025 NFL Team Futures

How Betting Markets View your Team’s Chances in the 2025 Regular Season

Author

Sebastian Carl

Published

August 25, 2025

The NFL preseason has been completed, and we are only a few days away from the kickoff of the 2025 regular season. So we have reached the peak of knowledge about the status of the teams during the offseason.

At this point every year, I look at how the betting markets estimate the probabilities of winning the division, conference, and Super Bowl, as well as the strength of the teams relative to the rest of the league. We can do the latter because the betting markets are still offering spread lines for all regular season games for a short period of time. We can use these lines to determine the market-implied team strengths of all teams, as well as the estimated value of home field advantage1.

Let’s take a look at the table and then go into some of the details. The data presented is the average of several sportsbooks2 whose data is compiled by Rotowire.

2025 NFL Team Futures
Win Totals, Division, Conference, and Super Bowl Probabilities Plus Market Implied Team Ratings
Wins1 Win
DIV2
Win
Conf2
Win
SB2
PAA3 SOS4 Wins1 Win
DIV2
Win
Conf2
Win
SB2
PAA3 SOS4
E A S T
The BUF NFL logo 12.4 73% 20% 11% 5.2 −0.871 The PHI NFL logo 11.3 57% 20% 11% 5.6 +1.407
The NE NFL logo 8.4 14% 3% 1% −1.3 −1.343 The WAS NFL logo 9.5 28% 8% 4% 3.0 +0.816
The MIA NFL logo 7.5 9% 2% <1% −1.7 −0.487 The DAL NFL logo 8.3 12% 3% 2% −0.6 +1.113
The NYJ NFL logo 6.6 4% <1% <1% −4.7 −0.258 The NYG NFL logo 5.5 4% <1% <1% −3.1 +1.603
N O R T H
The BAL NFL logo 11.6 59% 21% 11% 5.6 +0.157 The DET NFL logo 10.4 38% 14% 7% 3.8 +1.467
The CIN NFL logo 9.5 25% 7% 4% 1.6 +0.206 The GB NFL logo 9.6 27% 8% 4% 2.9 +0.982
The PIT NFL logo 8.8 14% 4% 2% −0.8 +0.453 The MIN NFL logo 9.4 21% 7% 3% 1.1 +1.020
The CLE NFL logo 5.7 2% <1% <1% −5.2 +0.797 The CHI NFL logo 8.3 14% 4% 2% 0.2 +0.984
S O U T H
The HOU NFL logo 9.4 48% 6% 2% 0.2 +0.181 The TB NFL logo 9.4 49% 6% 3% 1.5 −0.655
The JAX NFL logo 7.7 23% 2% <1% −1.8 −0.599 The ATL NFL logo 8.6 29% 3% 1% −2.0 −0.818
The IND NFL logo 7.4 19% 2% <1% −2.9 −0.362 The CAR NFL logo 6.7 17% 2% <1% −3.4 −0.608
The TEN NFL logo 6.7 11% <1% <1% −4.2 −0.760 The NO NFL logo 5.1 5% <1% <1% −6.0 −0.749
W E S T
The KC NFL logo 11.5 51% 18% 9% 5.2 +0.648 The SF NFL logo 10.4 37% 9% 4% 2.3 −1.362
The DEN NFL logo 9.9 23% 6% 3% 2.5 +0.094 The LA NFL logo 10.3 32% 8% 4% 2.2 −0.089
The LAC NFL logo 9.5 21% 6% 3% 2.0 +0.264 The ARI NFL logo 8.9 17% 3% 2% −0.3 −0.362
The LV NFL logo 7.4 5% 2% <1% −2.8 +0.443 The SEA NFL logo 8.5 14% 3% 1% −0.9 −0.320
Data: DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, BetRivers, Caesars, and Hard Rock via @RotoWireNFL
Table: mrcaseb.com | Fri, Aug 29, 2025 | 08:13 AM EDT
1 The implied true wins considering the over and under odds.
2 Implied probability without vig.
3 Points Above Average
The number of points the team would be favored against a league average opponent on a neutral field. Home field advantage is estimated at 1.6 points.
4 Strength of Schedule by average opponent PAA (see 3) including home field advantage.
Purple colors = harder schedule. Green colors = easier schedule.

The WINS are a “true” win total, which takes into account the over and under odds.

The WIN DIV, WIN CONF, and WIN SB columns are the implied probabilities of the betting odds with the vig removed (the respective markets therefore add up to 100).

PAA3 is the above-described estimate of team strength relative to the rest of the league. It reflects the number of points the team would be favored against a league average opponent on a neutral field (where home field advantage wouldn’t apply). Values greater than 0 represent a team that is stronger than the NFL average.

The SOS column represents strength of schedule. This refers to the average strength of opponents (measured in PAA), taking into account home advantage, i.e. it makes a difference whether a team plays at home or away against particularly strong opponents. Values greater than 0 mean that teams must play a schedule in which their opponents are, on average, better than the league average.

Footnotes

  1. I’m not going to get nerdy and go into detail about exactly how to do that. In short, it is a linear regression of all spread lines.↩︎

  2. Rotowire collects lines from DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, BetRivers, Caesars, and Hard Rock.↩︎

  3. Points Above Average↩︎