{"id":752913,"date":"2026-02-15T02:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/752913\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T02:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:04:37","slug":"how-the-chicago-bears-can-make-the-playoffs-through-week-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/752913\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Chicago Bears can make the playoffs through Week 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detailed projectionsExplore outcomes<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-copy\">The Bears clinched the No. 2 seed in the NFC. Here is our forecast of their chances in each round of the\u00a0playoffs:<\/p>\n<p>MAKE<br \/>PLAY-OFFSMAKE<br \/>PLAYOFFSMAKE<br \/>DIV.<br \/>ROUNDMAKE<br \/>CONF.<br \/>CHAMP.MAKE<br \/>SUPER<br \/>BOWLWIN<br \/>SUPER<br \/>BOWL<\/p>\n<p>\u2713<\/p>\n<p>\u2713<\/p>\n<p>\u2713<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-copy\">Below are our estimates for the Bears\u2019 chances at all playoff outcomes since the beginning of the season. These figures are updated after every NFL game and occasionally when there is a player injury or other roster\u00a0news.<\/p>\n<p>How the Bears\u2019 chances have\u00a0changed<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-copy\">Here you\u2019ll find our estimates for all remaining combinations of records the Bears may end the season\u00a0with.<\/p>\n<p>Bears\u2019 likeliest end-of-season\u00a0records<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-copy articleFooter_footerText__H4cB1\">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\u00a0rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-copy sans-serif articleFooter_footerText__H4cB1\">By Ryan Best, David Haye, Elliot Jordan, Junghye Kim, Austin Mock, Matt Myers, Thomas Oide, Laura Pelton, Yuriko Schumacher and Oliver\u00a0Viehweger<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-copy sans-serif articleFooter_footerText__H4cB1\">Adapted from The New York Times\u2019s NFL Playoff\u00a0Simulator.<\/p>\n<p>Explore scenarios for any team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detailed projectionsExplore outcomes The Bears clinched the No. 2 seed in the NFC. Here is our forecast of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[7,6,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-752913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116072196767063215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752913","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=752913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}