With the NFL season fast approaching, now's a good time to employ some of the underlying statistics from 2017 and a bit of common sense to project which teams are most likely to improve on and decline from their records in 2018. The numbers mentioned below have exhibited some ability to project future performance in the past. You can read more about those metrics here.
Click the links below to read about each team:
Cleveland Browns (0-16)
Point differential in 2017: -176
Pythagorean expectation: 3.3 wins
Record in games decided by seven points or less: 0-6 (.