There’s a lot of optimism surrounding the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but also a lot of skepticism. Most of that skepticism comes from the analytics community, whose statistical models don’t look particularly favorable on the Bucs.
There are many reasons for that, but one of them is that they’re projected to have a really tough schedule this season. It’s hard to accurately project strength of schedule, but people still try—like Rotoworld’s Warren Sharp, who used Las Vegas win total odds to project every team’s schedule.
Turns out the Bucs have the ninth-toughest schedule in the NFL.