Seahawks Game Model
Updated 2026-10-19 14:35 UTC Model 20261013-5e25267d Trained on 4,709 games

Next game

No upcoming prediction yet

The next run happens about four days before kickoff, then again after the final injury report and on gameday.

Season outlook

2026 projection

Seattle is 3-3. The rest of the regular season, simulated 10,000 times as of 2026-10-19.

Projected wins
10.2
80% range 8–12
Make playoffs
73%
One of 7 seeds
Win division
11%
Seeds 1–4
No. 1 seed
4%
First-round bye

Final win total

Share of simulations ending on each win total (a tie counts half; .5 rounds up). Green bars are inside the 80% range.

Playoff odds over the season

P(playoffs) from each daily simulation.

Simplified tiebreakers. Games simulated independently; team strength is not resampled.

This week

Trajectory

How the win probability moved across the three runs.

Nothing this weekThe trajectory appears after the midweek run.

Why

Biggest factors

Contribution to the projected margin, in points.

Home-field advantage is part of the model's baseline, so it isn't listed here.

No factors yetFactor breakdowns come with each prediction run.

Season log

Every pick, on the record

Predictions are append-only. Each game is scored on the last prediction made before kickoff.

0–2 picks correct / wrong · 0% hit rate
KickoffMatchupRuns (win %)Final pickResultCall
2026-09-10 vsNE — — W13–10 Not predicted
2026-09-20 atARI — — W31–7 Not predicted
2026-09-27 atWAS — — L31–33 Not predicted
2026-10-04 vsLAC — — W30–23 Not predicted
2026-10-11 vsSF 46›50›50 50% L29–32 Missed
2026-10-16 atDEN 47›53›55›63 63% L14–17 Missed
2026-10-26 vsKC — — ·Scheduled Scheduled
2026-11-03 vsCHI — — ·Scheduled Scheduled
2026-11-08 vsARI — — ·Scheduled Scheduled
2026-11-15 atLV — — ·Scheduled Scheduled
2026-11-29 atSF — — ·Scheduled Scheduled
2026-12-08 vsDAL — — ·Scheduled Scheduled
2026-12-13 vsNYG — — ·Scheduled Scheduled
2026-12-19 atPHI — — ·Scheduled Scheduled
2026-12-26 vsLA — — ·Scheduled Scheduled
2027-01-03 atCAR — — ·Scheduled Scheduled
2027-01-10 atLA — — ·Scheduled Scheduled

Live this season

Every NFL game, 2026

Predictions are logged ~1 day before kickoff and never edited. Lower log-loss is better; a coin flip scores 0.693.

MethodLog-lossBrierAccuracyGames
This model 0.730 0.254 51.9% 28
Vegas spread Benchmark 0.687 0.235 63.0% 28
Elo only Baseline 0.697 0.241 55.6% 28

Compared on the 28 completed games that have a Vegas line. Ties count as half a win.

Cumulative log-loss by week

ModelVegasElo

Model report

Walk-forward backtest 2012–2023

Every season is predicted by a model trained only on earlier seasons. Lower log-loss is better; a coin flip scores 0.693.

MethodLog-loss90% CIBrierAccuracy
This model 0.626 0.617–0.634 0.218 65.0%
Elo only Baseline 0.633 0.623–0.643 0.220 64.4%
Home team always Baseline 0.686 0.682–0.690 0.245 56.1%
Vegas spread Benchmark 0.613 0.604–0.622 0.212 66.1%
Locked holdout · Seen before — reference only
0.614
2024, 2025 · Vegas 0.602 (+0.012)
Re-run after the first look, so it can no longer be a clean test. The "Live this season" card is the honest test.
Seattle games
66%
picked correctly · 212 games · log-loss 0.602
Edge vs Elo
+0.006
log-loss improvement over the Elo baseline

Calibration

Predicted vs actual home-win rate per probability bin. Dot size = games.

Log-loss by season

Model log-loss in each backtest season.

ModelVegas (overall)Coin flip (0.693)