{"id":707879,"date":"2026-01-27T02:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/707879\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:46:17","slug":"seahawks-surpass-2013-super-bowl-team-on-all-time-dvoa-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/707879\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks surpass 2013 Super Bowl team on all-time DVOA list"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Seahawks head to the Super Bowl as favorites in the rematch<\/a> against the New England Patriots. It\u2019s a franchise rematch, as none of the players remain on either team from 11 years ago.<\/p>\n

But en route to an appearance as Super Bowl favorites, the 2025 Seahawks have statistically surpassed the 2013 group that won the whole thing.<\/p>\n

By DVOA, Seattle currently sits as the sixth-best team ever charted. The best team in 18 years, since the 16-0 New England Patriots, who ultimately lost to the Eli Manning Giants.<\/p>\n

The 2013 Seahawks come in at 15th.<\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar with DVOA, Defense-adjusted Value Over Average has been a remarkably good indicator of overall team strength since it came out. It uses a slew of advanced metrics, accounts for specific game situations like down and distance, and compares it to league average to give what is effectively a percentage output of how much better a team is than the average NFL team that year.<\/p>\n

For example, the Seahawks and Rams were this year\u2019s number 1 and 2 teams by DVOA. That would indicate the best game of the postseason, and indeed the NFC Championship Game blew the doors off every game prior.<\/p>\n

More than that, actually, Seattle and L.A. was the best matchup of high-rated DVOA teams in over 45 years.<\/p>\n

The two teams were a full 12 percentage points better than the Seahawks-Broncos Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

DVOA gets built from the scores of all three phases. Offense, defense, and special teams. What it means is that this year\u2019s team – when compared to the rest of the league – is as good as Seattle\u2019s 2013 defense, while rostering a better offense and far better special teams.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Aaron Schatz, the godfather of DVOA, noticed that while the Rams were better than the New England Patriots all season, it\u2019s actually the Patriots who are the better team<\/a> right now. After New England beat Denver and Los Angeles lost to Seattle, the Patriots moved up to the 2nd best DVOA and Rams dropped to 3rd.<\/p>\n

Meaning, the Seahawks postseason has gone from facing the league\u2019s \u201cbest\u201d offense (San Francisco 49ers) to the best not-Seattle team by DVOA (Rams) to their replacement at second-best (Patriots).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks head to the Super Bowl as favorites in the rematch against the New England Patriots.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,52201,3734],"class_list":{"0":"post-707879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seattle-seahawks-analysis-and-opinion","11":"tag-seattle-seahawks-statistics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115964778661473437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}