NFL Preseason Week Two Power Rankings

WhatIfSports.com utilizes its NFL football simulation engine to present the most comprehensive, deterministic, and unbiased ranking of all 32 teams. We simulated every possible match-up in the NFL 100 times, and used the winning percentages from those nearly 50,000 games to evaluate every team.

All 32 teams are ranked below with their average points for and against from the simulated games. All rosters and depth charts are up-to-date as of August 26, 2009.

Teams Ranked by Winning Percentage
(everyone plays everyone 100 times)

	Team	Change	Win Pct	PS/G	PA/G
1.	Philadelphia Eagles	-	71.3	24.3	16.7
2.	New England Patriots	-	68.4	26.1	19.4
3.	Miami Dolphins	+4	68.0	24.4	17.7
4.	Pittsburgh Steelers	+1	66.7	21.5	16.0
5.	Minnesota Vikings	-2	66.7	26.6	20.8
6.	New York Giants	-2	64.7	24.3	18.8
7.	Dallas Cowboys	+1	64.7	25.9	21.0
8.	Arizona Cardinals	-2	62.6	24.2	20.4
9.	San Diego Chargers	-	62.0	25.9	21.4
10.	Houston Texans	-	61.1	25.7	22.0
11.	New York Jets	+5	59.5	22.8	19.2
12.	Washington Redskins	-	58.7	20.1	17.0
13.	New Orleans Saints	-2	57.9	26.4	23.7
14.	Tennessee Titans	+1	55.3	22.7	21.0
15.	Atlanta Falcons	+2	53.5	24.7	23.8
16.	Indianapolis Colts	-2	53.2	24.1	23.1
	Team	Change	Win Pct	PS/G	PA/G
17.	Carolina Panthers	-4	52.6	24.6	23.7
18.	San Francisco 49ers	-	51.7	22.4	21.6
19.	Green Bay Packers	+2	49.3	22.3	22.2
20.	Cincinnati Bengals	-1	45.7	22.2	23.6
21.	Buffalo Bills	-1	45.6	23.8	24.8
22.	Chicago Bears	+1	44.0	20.7	22.8
23.	Kansas City Chiefs	-1	43.3	21.5	23.7
24.	Baltimore Ravens	+1	40.5	18.9	22.2
25.	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	-1	40.4	23.0	26.2
26.	Seattle Seahawks	-	37.4	19.2	23.3
27.	Oakland Raiders	-	32.2	21.0	27.3
28.	Denver Broncos	-	30.0	22.2	29.0
29.	Jacksonville Jaguars	-	28.0	19.5	26.9
30.	Detroit Lions	-	23.4	18.9	28.6
31.	Cleveland Browns	+1	22.6	18.3	28.8
32.	St. Louis Rams	-1	19.1	17.5	29.0

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