2025 season · Regression Flags

Pittsburgh Steelers pythagorean win delta, 2025

+1.2

26th of 32, biggest shortfall first

League median
+0.2
Sample
Through the 2025 season

Did the Steelers win more games than their point differential earned?

The Steelers finished +1.2 wins against their pythagorean expectation in the 2025 season, 26th of 32 on this board — below zero means they won fewer games than their point differential earned.

From the Steelers weekly

Fifty-three seconds left, Pittsburgh up thirty to twenty-seven, and Cincinnati at the Pittsburgh thirty-eight after converting a third and eight — first and ten, and by win probability, the model's read on each team's chance of winning at that moment, the Bengals were at forty-five percent. Joe Burrow was sacked by Harmon, the ball came out, and Pittsburgh recovered. Forty-two points of win probability on one snap, the biggest swing of the game, and by expected points added — what a snap was worth given the down, the distance and the field position, measured against what that situation was already worth — minus four point one for Cincinnati. On defense, a big negative number is the good direction. Two kneel-downs later the Steelers had beaten the Bengals thirty to twenty-seven. A week earlier this offense scored three points in New England. Sunday it scored thirty, more than Weeks 1 and 2 combined, with three touchdown passes after one in the first two games.

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Which teams won fewer games than their point differential in 2025?

Kansas City Chiefs (-3.5), New York Giants (-3.1), then Arizona Cardinals (-2.4) lead the league. All 32 teams on the Regression Flags board.

More on this team: the Pittsburgh Steelers page.

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