38.5% to make playoffs according to prediction machine

[Happy Panther]

These numbers look a little hopeful. Neck and neck with ATL and better than TB and NO

 

Defensive rank 4 is excellent and should be true

Offensive at 14 may be understated but could be true

Power rank of 9 is uplifting

 

 

Carolina Panthers 

Power Rank: 9 

Offensive Rank: 18 

Defensive Rank: 4 

Division Standing: 2 

2012 Playoff Teams on Schedule: 6

Projected 2013 Playoff Teams on Schedule: 7

Playoff Probabilities: 38.5% 

Super Bowl Win%: 2.2% 

Biggest Strength: Cam Newton and the Linebackers 

Greatest Weakness: Defensive Secondary and Right Side of Offensive Line 

Most Important Offensive Player: Byron Bell 

Most Important Defensive Player: Josh Norman 

Fantasy Stud: Cam Newton 

Fantasy Dud: Jonathan Stewart/Mike Tolbert 

Fantasy Sleeper: Domenik Hixon

 

http://predictionmachine.com/2013-NFL-super-bowl-odds-picks-preview#NFS

 

I was a little confused on why Byron Bell would be the most important offensive player but when i think about it maybe it makes sense

 

[UNCrules2187]

Most Important Offensive Player: Byron Bell 

Most Important Defensive Player: Josh Norman 

 

lol wat

[Happy Panther]

 

Most Important Offensive Player: Byron Bell 

Most Important Defensive Player: Josh Norman 

 

lol wat

 

 

I think the logic is those are our biggest holes and/or question marks. So those players are key to holding everything together.

 

It's why Gosder Cherilus is listed for the colts and Justin Pugh for the Giants.

[La Pantera]

Those guys play in our greatest area of weakness (from their review). If Bell and Norman step up and play well, it will help the team in a huge way. I guess that's why they're important???

[Doyle]

I think it means if both of those two do really well then it will make us a much better team.

[Leeroy Jenkins PhD]

 

the "Most Important" players are those whose play is most critical to the team's success. Typically, they will be young, injury-prone and/or inconsistent players who could just as likely play well and help the team as play poorly or miss games to hurt the team. 

 

 

*This is how they decide "Most-Important

 

 

 

This is a fantastic site.  Thanks for bringing it to our attention

[Leeroy Jenkins PhD]

 

Teams that should surprise (good): St. Louis Rams, Carolina Panthers, San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins

Teams that should surprise (bad): New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons, Indianapolis Colts, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys

 

 

 

 

The Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Giants and St. Louis Rams - replacing the Indianapolis Colts, Washington Redskins and Minnesota Vikings respectively - represent new teams in our most likely playoffs that did not make last year's post-season. That being said, there are some other teams to watch as well. The Miami Dolphins win fewer games on average than the Steelers, but, as the clear second best team in the division, Miami actually makes the playoffs about 10% more often than Pittsburgh. In a similar situation, though as part of the most competitive division in the league - all four teams in the NFC South win between 7.5 and 8.4 games - the Carolina Panthers are more likely to make the playoffs than an up-and-coming St. Louis Rams team mired behind two of the league's best three teams in the NFC West. Overall, just Denver (91%), San Francisco (84%), Houston (79%), New England (79%) and Green Bay (70%) are more likely than not to make the postseason. On the other end of the league, the Jacksonville Jaguars (3%) andOakland Raiders (2%) are the only teams to make the playoffs less than 7% of the time. 

 

 

 

 

 

[PhillyB]

they misspelled 100%

[teeray]

I'm feeling pretty good with 66-1 to win the SB

[The Huddler]

Yeah, they need to be careful with those typos. People might acually fall for thinking we have a 38% and not 98%.

[Jangler]

Teams that should surprise (bad): New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons, Dallas Cowboys

 

Never surprised when they are bad, especially Dallas, and they haven't surprised for twenty years.

[R0CKnR0LLA]

Since launching in January 2010, this technology is over 60% against-the-spread with NFL Locks of the Week (40-24 ATS), 55% ATS (431-353 ATS) picking all NFL games, and over 62% ATS and Over/Under (46-28 ATS and O/U) with highlighted NFL picks all-time with greater than 60% confidence. And finally, with a perfect 2011 postseason, the Predictalator is now 26-8 against-the-spread in NFL playoff games, while playable O/U team win total picks are 49-35 (58% O/U) all-time.

 

damn that's pretty impressive

[Jakob]

 

Fantasy Dud: Jonathan Stewart/Mike Tolbert 

 

Jonathan Stewart might be a fantasy dude, even more so with having Barner. But I highly expect Tolbert to be the #1 FB in the league.

[RelaxImaPro]