At the risk of losing the math-averse here before we even get to the first bit of punctuation, allow me to note that ESPN’s analytics-based Football Power Index model – stay with me here – gives a 49-percent chance to a Patriots-Bills rubber match in the wild-card playoff round.
Forty-nine percent may not seem like that much. I’m pretty sure it’s less than 50-50. But the ol’ FPI says its actually the most likely of all wild-card matchups to occur. Further, it says there’s a 58 percent chance that the Patriots and Bills will collide at some point during the playoffs.