2024 Strength of Schedule

The latest newsletter from KCSN Sports Data Scientist, Joseph Hefner

Every team in the NFL plays seventeen games each season before the playoffs. Every team has a bye week. However, that doesn’t mean that every team has the same level of difficulty in the teams they face, the order of the games, or the timing of their bye week. Some teams have easier schedules, while others have more difficult ones.

Last week I wrote about the NFL schedule, and how rest advantage worked. The Chiefs ended up being around middle of the pack, not the worst, and not the best. This week, I’m going to look at how difficult the teams we will face are, and compare our schedule to the rest of the NFL.

First up, here are the Vegas odds for each Chiefs game this season.