{"id":459279,"date":"2026-09-10T10:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459279\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:57:29","slug":"san-francisco-49ers-2026-nfl-playoff-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459279\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49ers 2026 NFL Playoff Simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"footer-credits__field svelte-1u8ze2y\">About the simulator: We estimate odds by randomly simulating the remainder of the season thousands of times and counting how often each team makes the playoffs, gets the No. 1 seed, the No. 1 draft pick and so on. We estimate each team\u2019s probability of winning each remaining game using a statistical forecast that incorporates a host of data, including team records, roster changes, weather, game location and more advanced measures like expected points added and success rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"footer-credits__field svelte-1u8ze2y\">Additional work by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/author\/daniel-goldfarb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Goldfarb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About the simulator: We estimate odds by randomly simulating the remainder of the season thousands of times and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-459279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}