Week Nine Playoff Implications now available

Week nine playoff implications, complete with interactive charts, are now available at FiveThirtyEight. There are a lot of high leverage games this week, including Thursday Night's Panthers-Saints matchup and Sunday's Ravens-Steelers game. In this week's write-up, we delve into the intricacies of playoff seeding, most notably the race for the top AFC seed and how Sunday Night's Brady-Manning duel will shape that contest.