2016 nfl standings
National Football League, American professional gridiron football organization, founded in 1920 in Canton, Ohio, as the American Professional Football Association. Its first president was Jim Thorpe, an outstanding American athlete who was also a player in the league. The current name was adopted in 1922.
The NFL has a simple structure as a business concern: each team is owned by an individual (or a group of individuals) and competes in one of two conferences (the American or the National) against the other 31 teams to make the playoffs, which culminate in play for the Super Bowl trophy. This championship game has become one of the most-watched sports events on television.
NFL teams are divided into two conferences: the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). Each conference comprises 16 teams, organized into four divisions of four teams each. The NFL season consists of 16 games played over 17 weeks during a period that spans September to January. After each team has played all its divisional rivals twice and all other teams once during the regular season, six teams from each conference—the winners of each division plus two wild-card entries with the best overall won-lost records—enter a playoff tournament culminating in the championship game, known as the
NFL Standings|Sep. 8, 2016
American Football Conference
East. W L T PCT PF PA HOME ROAD DIV CONF STRK
New England Patriots 1 0 0 1.000 27 21 0-0 1-0 0-0 1-0 W1
Miami Dolphins 1 0 0 1.000 12 10 1-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 W1
Buffalo Bills 0 1 0 .000 7 13 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-1 L1
New York Jets 0 1 0 .000 3 23 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-1 L1
North. W L T PCT PF PA HOME ROAD DIV CONF STRK
Baltimore Ravens* 1 0 0 1.000 13 7 0-0 1-0 0-0 1-0 W2
Cincinnati Bengals* 1 0 0 1.000 23 22 0-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 W2
Pittsburgh Steelers*
NFC North
1 Green Bay Packers 12-4
2 Minnesota Vikings 8-8
3 Detroit Lions 9-7
4 Chicago Bears 3-13
NFC East
1 Dallas Cowboys 13-3
2 New York Giants 11-5
3 Washington Redskins 8-7-1
4 Philadelphia Eagles 7-9
NFC South
1 Atlanta Falcons 11-5
2 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 9-7
3 Carolina Panthers 6-10
4 New Orleans Saints 7-9
NFC West
1 Seattle Seahawks 10-5-1
2 Arizona Cardinals 7-8-1
3 Los Angeles Rams 4-12
4 San Francisco 49ers 2-14
AFC East
AFC North
AFC South
AFC West
NFC East
NFC North
NFC South
NFC West
AFC East
W L T PCT DIV CONF PF PA STREAK
New England Patriots 11 2 0 .846 4–1 9–1 373 248 W6
Miami Dolphins 8 5 0 .615 3–2 6–4 301 290 L1
Buffalo Bills 7 6 0 .538 3–2 7–4 406 320 W2
New York Jets 3 10 0 .231 1–4 2–9 227 308 L3
AFC North
W L T PCT DIV CONF PF PA STREAK
Baltimore Ravens 7 6 0 .538 4–0 7–3 310 271 W2
Pittsburgh Steelers 8 5 0 .615 3–2 6–5 350 304 W1
Cincinnati Bengals 5 7 1 .423 1–3 3–7 309 328 L1
Cleveland Browns 0 13 0 .000 0–5 0–10 209 364 L13
AFC South
W L T PCT DIV CONF PF PA STREAK
Tennessee Titans 7 6 0 .538 2–3 5–6 342 307 W1
Houston Texans 7 6 0 .538 3–2 6–4 279 311 W4
Indianapolis Colts 6 7 0 .462 4–
AFC NORTH