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With two games remaining, the Arizona Cardinals have a 0% chance to make the playoffs. This interactive tool is designed to help you explore which games matter most for the rest of the Cardinals’ season. As you pick winners of games, the colors on some games will change, reflecting their relative importance. Use the dropdown below to explore other outcomes.

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The tables below represent all NFL games remaining. While the Cardinals’ games are typically the most important, outcomes from other games can affect the Cardinals’ chances indirectly. Pick winners and explore which games matter most.

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’s 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.

By Ryan Best, David Haye, Elliot Jordan, Junghye Kim, Austin Mock, Matt Myers, Thomas Oide, Laura Pelton, Yuriko Schumacher and Oliver Viehweger

Adapted from The New York Times’s NFL Playoff Simulator.

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Cardinals to make the playoffs

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