What A Difference 20 Years Makes

Changes in the NFL's All-Time Pecking Order

It's a good time to illustrate changes to All-Time NFL Franchise Win-Loss-Tie% since the end of last century for a number of reasons.

1) The NFL's 100th season just ended.

2) The 8 original AFL franchises, plus Dallas, each have finished their 60th season

3) Since the end of 1999, the Brady/Belichik era has come and gone in New England.

*The franchise rankings of the 4 newest NFL franchises (for recordkeeping purposes, the NFL treats the Baltimore Ravens as an expansion franchise) were not considered, as they had played so few games in the 1900s (the Texans had played none at all) -- comparisons would not have been meaningful.

TEAM	ATW%  @'19	ATW%  @'99	Rank*   '19	Rank*   '99	Change
The Top 15 -- Now vs. Then
Dallas	.572	.598	1	2	+1
Green Bay	.567	.551	2	8	+6
New England	.564	.469	3	20	+17
Chicago	.563	.585	4	5	+1
Miami	.552	.605	5	1	-4
Minnesota	.547	.563	6	7	+1
San Francisco	.543	.576	7	6	-1
New York Giants	.533	.545	8	9	+1
Pittsburgh	.533	.493	9	15	+6
Denver	.533	.513	10	13	+3
Kansas City	.532	.539	11	10	-1
Indianapolis	.528	.486	12	18	+6
Raiders	.522	.593	13	4	-9
Seattle	.514	.465	14	21	+7
Cleveland	.509	.597	15	3	-12

Other noteworthy items:

1) The franchises that had existed from the 1980s onward that had the 4-worst all-time winning percentages of the 1900s all appeared in at least one Super Bowl in the 2000s: Tampa Bay, New Orleans, Atlanta, and Arizona.

2) The Arizona Cardinals hold the dubious distinction of being the most-consistent team between the 1900s and the 2000s: .423 Win% in the 1900s, .431 Win% in the 2000s, .008 difference the smallest of the 28 teams that have existed 30+ years.