{"id":285535,"date":"2026-09-14T05:44:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285535\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T05:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:44:43","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-2026-nfl-playoff-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285535\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers 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":285536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-285535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}