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The Minnesota Vikings, with a 13-2 document, will undertake postseason adventures in about two weeks.
The 5 Most Possible Outcomes of the Vikings’ Season
The following chapter is to find out if Minnesota enters the dance as a Wildcard crew or division champion. The Vikings can clinch homefield benefit all through the postseason if it wins the subsequent two video games (vs. Inexperienced Bay Packers, at Detroit Lions).
And with the playoffs across the bend, followers surprise how this particular season will finish. Nicely, these are the 5 likeliest outcomes, ranked in ascending order (No. 1 = most probably)
5. Win the Tremendous Bowl
There’s an opportunity that is it, of us.
It’s a slim probability, but it surely’s actual till it’s not. Minnesota may win the Tremendous Bowl within the “Sam Darnold season,” towards all odds when no person anticipated it. In truth, that sounds fairly Vikings-like, doesn’t it?
The chances don’t favor it — the Detroit Lions and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs are supposed to achieve the Tremendous Bowl — however the Vikings have a puncher’s probability.
The Odds per DVOA: 3.9%
4. Lose within the Tremendous Bowl
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Right here, Minnesota will tunnel all the best way to February, match up towards a crew just like the Kanas Metropolis Chiefs, Buffalo Payments, or Baltimore Ravens, and sadly lose its fifth Tremendous Bowl.
Whereas this selection could be disappointing, most folk beneath the age of 53 or so can’t keep in mind or haven’t seen Minnesota within the Tremendous Bowl. They final reached the massive recreation because the 1976 season.
The Odds per DVOA: 9.8%
3. A Playoff One-and-Completed
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Probably the most heartbreaking choice, Minnesota’s at-least-13-wins-record could be an for nil. Two years in the past, Kevin O’Connell and Co. received 13 video games and instantly misplaced at dwelling to a New York Giants crew that wasn’t excellent.
With this case, Minnesota would most likely lose within the Wildcard Spherical at Tampa Bay or at Los Angeles.
The Odds per DVOA: Not But Quantifiable
2. Lose within the NFC Championship
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The Vikings would both knock off a division-winning crew on the highway or earn a 1st-Spherical bye. Then, a victory over the Philadelphia Eagles or Detroit Lions on the highway — most likely the Eagles primarily based on present seeding — would exhilarate followers.
However on Convention Championship weekend, Minnesota would fall to the Eagles or Lions.
Followers could be unhappy the day-of however would rapidly understand the season was a nice shock, usually talking.
The Odds per DVOA: 23.6%
1. Win One Playoff Sport, Lose in Divisional Spherical
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Primarily based on Minnesota’s efficiency thus far, statistically and to the attention take a look at, profitable a playoff recreation after which falling on the toes of the mighty Eagles or Lions looks like the most probably consequence.
The Vikings are balanced and productive sufficient to defeat the Buccaneers, Rams, or Falcons, however the Eagles and Lions are totally different beasts.
Dropping within the Divisional Spherical feels just like the likeliest consequence, with the playoffs two weeks away. However stranger issues have occurred than a 13-4, 14-3, or 15-2 crew getting additional.
The Odds per DVOA: Not But Quantifiable
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his every day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options visitors, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple crew, with 4-7 episodes per week. His Vikings obsession dates again to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as carefully because the NFL.
All statistics supplied by Professional Soccer Reference / Stathead; all contractual data supplied by OverTheCap.com.
