NFL Power Rankings
All 32 NFL teams ranked by the Kalshi Power Score — 65% live Kalshi playoff, conference and championship market prices, 35% what each team has done on the field, adjusted for the schedule it did it against.
Regular season · Week 1Updated Sunday, Sep 13, 2026 · 10:17 AM ET
Ranking method: Week 1 rankings combine the latest Kalshi playoff, conference and championship market prices with each team's schedule-adjusted on-field record.
Market-implied rankingThe Power Score is normalized to 0–100. The on-field column is the schedule-adjusted performance composite it weights at 35%; the playoffs column is Kalshi's live qualification price. Week 1, 2026.
2026 NFL market-implied power rankings
32 teams
Kalshi market viewEach team's latest prices. Expand a row to open the exact Kalshi markets behind its Power Score.
Playoff, conference and championship prices
Methodology65% live Kalshi prices, 35% schedule-adjusted on-field performance, in a single 0–100 rating.
How the Kalshi Power Score works
24%Playoff qualificationKalshi's price on this team reaching the playoffs, read as itself.Settles when the field is set, and is kept at its settled value.
16%Conference championshipIts price to win the AFC or the NFC — the other half of how far the market expects it to get.
25%Super Bowl probabilityIts price to win it all — the one market with a whole postseason left to run.Rises to 35% once the field is set.
35%On-field performanceWin percentage, point differential, the Pythagorean win rate and the last 5 games, each adjusted for schedule.Eases to 25% once the field is set.
1 · The market half24% playoffs + 16% conference + 25% titlePrices enter as probabilities rather than as a curve fitted to them: a team priced at 80% to reach the playoffs contributes 80 of the 100 points that component is worth. Nothing is scaled to the market leader, so a longshot reads as a longshot.
2 · The on-field half40% win% + 30% point diff + 20% Pythagorean + 10% formThe Pythagorean term uses the NFL exponent of 2.37 and says what share of its games a team's points should have won, whatever it actually won. The four are scaled across the league and floored at 12, so the worst team in football still reads as a team.
3 · Schedule adjustmentmetric + 50 × (opponent win % ÷ league mean − 1)Each on-field metric is re-centred on who the team has actually played, so an unbeaten record against a soft schedule is worth less than a good one against a hard schedule. Every team facing the same schedule relative to the league moves the same number of points, wherever it sits, and the metric is scaled across the league again afterwards. Early on the factor is regressed toward .500 with 5 games of prior, since a Week 1 opponent's record is a one-game sample.
Power rankings built from prices, not pundits
Most NFL power rankings are one writer’s judgment, or an average of expert ballots. This one starts somewhere else: with what people are actually willing to risk money on. 65% of the Power Score is live Kalshi prices — the chance a team reaches the playoffs, the chance it wins its conference and the chance it wins the championship — read as the probabilities they already are rather than rescaled into something else.The other 35% is the part no market prices: what the team has done on the field. Win percentage, point differential, the Pythagorean win rate and the last 5 games, each re-centred on the schedule it was played against, so an unbeaten run through a soft draw is not mistaken for the same thing as a hard-won 6-4.The result is a 0–100 score that moves when prices move and when results land — not when a columnist does. Nobody votes, nothing is revised on a Tuesday, and the same arithmetic runs for all 32 teams every time the page is built.Week 1 matchupsThe Week 1 slate Kalshi prices. These game prices are not inputs to the Power Score — a game reaches it once it settles, as a result in recent form, and by moving the futures markets the score is built from.
Games that can move the rankings
ATL at PITWeek 1 · Sep 13 · 1:00 PM ET73%PIT winBAL at INDWeek 1 · Sep 13 · 1:00 PM ET40%IND winBUF at HOUWeek 1 · Sep 13 · 1:00 PM ET48%HOU winCHI at CARWeek 1 · Sep 13 · 1:00 PM ET40%CAR winCLE at JACWeek 1 · Sep 13 · 1:00 PM ET79%JAC winNO at DETWeek 1 · Sep 13 · 1:00 PM ET75%DET winNYJ at TENWeek 1 · Sep 13 · 1:00 PM ET52%TEN winTB at CINWeek 1 · Sep 13 · 1:00 PM ET64%CIN win
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FAQ
NFL power ranking questions
What are the Kalshi NFL Power Rankings?
All 32 NFL teams ranked by the Kalshi Power Score, a 0–100 rating built from live prediction-market prices and on-field results rather than expert ballots. 65% of it is Kalshi's playoff, conference and championship market prices; the remaining 35% is what the team has actually done on the field, adjusted for the schedule it did it against.
How is the Kalshi Power Score calculated?
Playoff qualification carries 24% of the score, conference probability 16% and championship probability 25% — each read as the price itself, not scaled against the market leader. The remaining 35% is an on-field composite: 40% win percentage, 30% point differential, 20% the Pythagorean win expectation and 10% form over the last 5 games, each one adjusted for strength of schedule and scaled across the league. Every team is rated on a 0–100 scale.
Which NFL team is ranked number one right now?
San Francisco 49ers, with a Power Score of 55.6 and an on-field score of 100.0. Kalshi prices them at 7% to win the championship.
What is the on-field score?
A 0–100 measure of what a team has done this season, independent of any price. It blends win percentage, point differential per game, the Pythagorean win expectation at the NFL exponent of 2.37, and win percentage over the last 5 games. Each metric is re-centred on the average record of the opponents the team has faced, so the same 6-4 is worth more against a hard schedule than a soft one, and the composite is floored at 12 rather than bottoming out at zero. Before Week 1 every team carries the same on-field score, because there is nothing yet to separate them by.
Why is a team’s championship price so much smaller than its playoff price?
Because they are different questions, and the Power Score does not disguise that. Fourteen of 32 teams make the playoffs and one wins the championship, so qualification prices run high while championship prices sit in single digits for most of the league. Reading them as the probabilities they are — rather than rescaling each market to its own leader — is what keeps the score a statement about the league rather than about the shape of a particular market.
Why can a team move before it plays?
Kalshi prices react to injuries, roster news and results elsewhere in the league. Because those prices are 65% of the score, a team can move before the standings do — and because the on-field metrics are scaled across the league, it can also move when another team’s season changes.
Which record is used?
The rankings use each team's 2026 record. Before a season opens, when every standings row still reads 0-0, the previous season's record is shown instead and the on-field component is a flat constant for the whole league.
How often are the NFL Power Rankings updated?
The rankings refresh as the underlying Kalshi market prices change and as games settle. The latest update time appears at the top of the page — currently Sunday, Sep 13, 2026 · 10:17 AM ET.