Umsatzdifferenz des Super-Bowl-Gewinners gegenüber dem #1-Team der regulären Saison [OC]

Playoffs don’t care what happened in week 1. Better question to ask would be turnover differential in the playoffs.

To illustrate this, take the overall point differentials between the best in the league and the Super Bowl winner. In theory, the team that scores the most points relative to points they allow should be the best team in the league. My guess is that the datasets would be closer, yet still wouldn’t be perfectly overlapping, because regular-season performance isn’t perfectly correlated with post-season performance.

Something else that would be helpful in your original figure is two more datasets, league median turnover differential, and the worst team’s turnover differential. My guess is that the Super Bowl winners are much closer to the #1 team within that broader context

The Seahawks didn’t turn it over a single time in the playoffs. That’s why they won.

Darnold’s worst turnover games were the games they lost. They stopped turning the ball over and the best defense and special teams in the league feasted.