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New York Giants: 2026 Win Total & Market Edge

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The prediction-market read on the Giants: our 10,000-season simulation projects 7.8 wins in 2026 (24th of 32, Average tier; raw model 7.7), beside the live Kalshi win-total line. Full schedule, per-game win probabilities and NFC East standing below.

2026 win total: our model vs. Kalshi

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New York Giants

NFC East · 22nd power rating · Average
Kalshi live
7.8 projected wins
± 2.0 · 24th of 32
Kalshi market
7.37w
Ladder-implied wins
7 Oracles sim
7.78w
59.6% backtested
Divergence
+0.41w
Model higher

Model agrees with the market

Divergence is projected wins minus the ladder-implied market line, in wins — LOW on the one ladder every season-wins surface grades on (STRONG ≥2.0 · HIGH ≥1.5 · MODERATE ≥1.0); OVER / UNDER fires at ±2.0. Projected wins are the 10,000-season simulation mean; the raw model reads 7.7. No single rung sits near 50¢.

See all 32 teams on the win-totals board → Informational only — verify the market and trade responsibly.

The consensus spread

Three independent estimates of the same season on one line: the expected wins implied by the live Kalshi ladder, our 10,000-season simulation, and EA’s Madden 27 simulation. Where they disagree is the whole signal.

0.63 wins of disagreement
7.15 Madden 27
7.37 Kalshi
7.78 Our sim
6.16.87.58.28.9

Our sim and the Madden simulation land on opposite sides of the 7.37 market line. They disagree with each other, so this is a market to watch rather than one to build a position in.

Madden and our model broadly agree on the Giants — 25th on talent against 22nd on play-by-play.

Where the season actually lands

A point estimate cannot tell a trader whether to take a position — the full distribution against the contract line can. Bars are the Madden 27 simulation over 10,000 seasons; the dashed marker is the live contract.

Kalshi 7.37 01234567891011121314151617
53%
our probability
of clearing 7.37
Madden sim: 44%
+3.0pp vs a coin flip

Our probability from the 10,000-season simulation (mean 7.78 wins; raw model 7.69 ± 1.99). Bars: Madden 27 sim-2026, 10,000 iterations. Two methods, no shared inputs.

The Ladder — Giants

All ladders →

The season simulation at every Kalshi win-total rung, then the widest player-prop gap on this club this week. The rungs the market has not listed two-sided yet are drawn from the simulation alone.

GiantsSeason winsLOCATIONBuy YES · 7+ wins
1+ wins9+ wins17+ wins
Widest gap
🔒
at 7+ wins
Market
🔒
Kalshi · P(YES)
PMP Model
🔒
display-calibrated

We think the median sits somewhere else than the market does.

RungMarketModelGap
1+ wins🔒outside rangethin
2+ wins🔒outside rangethin
3+ wins🔒outside rangeYES
4+ wins🔒outside rangeYES
5+ wins🔒outside rangeYES
6+ wins🔒outside rangeYES
7+ wins🔒🔒🔒YES
8+ wins🔒🔒🔒YES
9+ wins🔒🔒🔒YES
10+ wins🔒outside rangeYES
11+ wins🔒outside rangeYES
12+ wins🔒outside rangeYES
13+ wins🔒outside rangeYES
14+ wins🔒outside rangeYES
15+ winsoutside rangenot listed
16+ winsoutside rangenot listed
17+ winsoutside rangenot listed

Rung-by-rung numbers are a Pro feature. Unlock Pro →

Cam SkatteboRush YdsONE STRIKE PRICED
Widest gap
one strike priced
Market
Kalshi · P(YES)
PMP Model
display-calibrated

Our number is published at the called strike only; the market curves are complete.

RungMarketBooksModelGap
50+ rush yds🔒🔒YES

Rung-by-rung numbers are a Pro feature. Unlock Pro →

Jaxson DartPass TDsONE STRIKE PRICED
Widest gap
one strike priced
Market
Kalshi · P(YES)
PMP Model
display-calibrated

Our number is published at the called strike only; the market curves are complete.

RungMarketBooksModelGap
2+ pass TDs🔒YES

Rung-by-rung numbers are a Pro feature. Unlock Pro →

Gold is our distribution, parchment is the Kalshi contract at each strike; the band between them is green where our probability is higher and purple where it is lower. We publish our number only where we have measured it to be calibrated, between 30% and 70%; rungs outside that range show the market only. A contract pays $1 if it settles YES, so a price in cents is an implied probability. Prediction markets carry risk; contracts can settle at $0.

Market edges

The season contract and the single game most likely to move it, graded on the same thresholds every other Gridiron Edge surface uses.

◆ LOW confidence 7.37 · Over

Season wins over 7.37

Our 10,000-season simulation projects 7.78 (raw model 7.69), the Madden 27 simulation 7.15, against 7.37 market-implied wins — a +0.41-win gap. LOW on the wins ladder (STRONG ≥2.0 · HIGH ≥1.5 · MODERATE ≥1.0); a side is flagged only at the 2.0-win STRONG rung, so the honest read is no position.

◆ MODERATE confidence Wk 1 · Home

Week 1 vs Cowboys

The truest coin flip on the schedule at 50%. Games this close are where a season win total is actually decided — and where a live in-week contract is most likely to be mispriced. Full read →

Informational only. Contracts can settle at $0 — verify the market and trade responsibly.

Power rating breakdown

Diverging from league average rather than four flat numbers, so a positive reads as a positive at a glance. Points per game.

Overall -1.3
Offense +0.8
Defense -2.2
Special teams +0.1

Overall -1.3 ranks 22nd of 32 (Average tier). How Giants rank on the points scale → Re-weight the model yourself →

Methodology: DAEPA model docs → (59.6% backtested straight-up accuracy across 3,266 games, no market line used).

The season path

Seventeen weeks as a heat ribbon — the shape of the season in one glance, each cell linking to that game’s full read. The sortable table stays below it.

7.69 cumulative expected wins
Loss likelyWin likely— cumulative expected wins

Roster shape vs the league

Nine position groups against league average. Each axis is scaled on its own league range — a shared 0-100 scale flattens every roster into the same circle.

23 Quarterback 77
17 O-Line 80
15 Receiver 80
24 Tight End 77
27 Running Back 82
11 Pass Rush 83
7 Linebacker 79
24 Secondary 79
32 Special Teams 73

Dashed violet ring = league average. Number chip = rank of 32. Source: Madden 27 launch team composites (derived unit aggregates, no per-player data).

2026 schedule & model win probabilities

All 17 regular-season games. Our % is the DAEPA margin (power-rating differential + 2.5-point home-field) run through a Normal model, σ=14.4 — those 17 numbers sum to the raw model's 7.7 wins; the 7.8-win headline above is the 10,000-season simulation, which adds rating uncertainty (and fits its own home-field, 2.0) on top of these same ratings. Madden % is the same question asked of Madden 27 talent composites, a model that shares none of our inputs.

WeekOpponentH/AOur %Madden %
Wk 1vs Dallas CowboysHOME50%41%
Wk 2at Los Angeles RamsAWAY27%27%
Wk 3vs Tennessee TitansHOME63%61%
Wk 4vs Arizona CardinalsHOME63%52%
Wk 6vs New Orleans SaintsHOME60%56%
Wk 7at Houston TexansAWAY34%37%
Wk 12at Indianapolis ColtsAWAY40%34%
Wk 13vs San Francisco 49ersHOME51%35%
Wk 14at Seattle SeahawksAWAY26%33%
Wk 15vs Cleveland BrownsHOME60%58%
Wk 16at Detroit LionsAWAY33%26%
Wk 17at Dallas CowboysAWAY36%30%
Wk 18vs Philadelphia EaglesHOME47%38%

Giants player props vs the Kalshi line

Our projection against the live Kalshi contract. Every prop is an “X or more” contract that pays $1 if the player gets there, so the price of the side we call, in cents,is the market’s implied probability — the edge is the gap between that and ours, in percentage points. Closest strike to our projection first.

Giants player props vs the Kalshi line — our odds against the Kalshi price of the called side, on the strike closest to our projection
PlayerContractCallOur oddsMktEdgeTier
Isaiah LikelyTE4+ receptionsover 3.5NOPro subscribers onlyPro subscribers onlyPro subscribers onlyHIGH
Jaxson DartQB30+ rush ydsover 29.5NOPro subscribers onlyPro subscribers onlyPro subscribers onlyMODERATE
Cam SkatteboRB50+ rush ydsover 49.5NOPro subscribers onlyPro subscribers onlyPro subscribers onlySTRONG

All 54 player-prop edges for Week 1Locked numbers are Pro.

Giants props: where the market prices are

The market’s prices, not ours: each Kalshi strike beside the sportsbook consensus read at the same line, and where the cheaper price for each side actually is. A gap is a price difference, not a call — the Oracle calls above are the opinion.

Giants props: where the market prices are — Kalshi mid vs sportsbook consensus per strike, widest gap first
PlayerPropKalshiConsensusGapBest price
Cam SkatteboRBNYG v DAL50+ rush yds48.0¢51%-2.6¢over · Novig 49.5¢under · DK 52.2¢
Isaiah LikelyNYG v DAL15+ rec yds81.5¢Kalshi only
Isaiah LikelyNYG v DAL60+ rec yds23.0¢over · Novig 29¢
Isaiah LikelyNYG v DAL90+ rec yds8.5¢Kalshi only
Isaiah LikelyNYG v DAL110+ rec yds5.5¢Kalshi only
Jaxson DartNYG v DAL2+ pass TDs40.5¢Kalshi only
Jaxson DartNYG v DAL150+ pass yds80.0¢off-ladderover · Kalshi 85.9¢
Jaxson DartNYG v DAL225+ pass yds39.0¢off-ladderover · Kalshi 47.7¢

See all 12 priced prop strikes on the board →+ 61 listed on Kalshi, not yet priced.

NFC East ladder

Projected wins across the division, leader in gold — and four internal reads a click away.

Eagles 9.5 +2.4 Cowboys 8.8 +1.4
Giants 7.8 -1.3
Commanders 7.6 -1.5

Model has the Giants 3rd in the NFC East. Division hub →

10,000-season simulation

How it works →

Our own preseason board, played across the real 2026 schedule 10,000 times with the league's actual tiebreaker procedure. The projection above is the middle of this; these are the odds around it. The sim fits its own home-field (2.0 points, from played games) — a separate fit from the +2.5 the game model uses on matchup pages.

Sim average wins

7.8

10,000 seasons · 28% reach 10+

Make playoffs

32%

33% win 6 or fewer

Win division

18%

3% take the 1 seed

Win Super Bowl

1.4%

23rd of 32 · 3% reach it

The Giants draw a 0.513 opponent win rate — the 4th-hardest schedule in the league.

10,000 simulated seasons on our preseason power ratings. Real NFL tiebreakers, real 2026 schedule. No injuries, no in-season roster change, no market prices.

Madden 27 outlook

Full board →

A second opinion, built from Madden 27 launch ratings alone and played across the real 2026 schedule 10,000 times. It knows nothing about our own model — which is what makes the disagreement worth reading.

Madden rank

25

78.9 composite · QB 77

Simulated wins

7.2

20% reach 10+

Playoffs

23%

10% win division

Super Bowl

0.6%

SoS 0.512 (8th hardest)

Madden and our model broadly agree on the Giants — 25th on talent against 22nd on play-by-play.

Madden-only inputs — no injuries, no in-season roster change, no market prices. Average error on a season win total is 2.27 wins, so the distribution is the product, not the mean. The 10,000-season simulation →

Giants 2026 — frequently asked

What is the New York Giants win total for 2026?

The Kalshi KXNFLWINS-27 ladder implies an expected 7.4 wins for the Giants in 2026. Our 10,000-season simulation on our DAEPA power ratings projects 7.8 wins — a 0.4-win agreement with the market (LOW on our wins ladder).

Where do the Giants rank in our 2026 power ratings?

The Giants sit at a -1.3-point power rating — 22nd of 32 — in the Average tier. That rating (offense +0.8, defense -2.2, special teams +0.1) is the input behind every Giants prediction-market edge we publish.

Can you trade New York Giants games on Kalshi?

Yes. Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated exchange that lists Giants season win totals (KXNFLWINS), individual game winners (KXNFLGAME, which for 2026 opened months ahead of kickoff), plus division, conference and Super Bowl champion markets — available to traders in all 50 states. You take a yes/no position that settles at $1 or $0.

What division are the Giants in for 2026?

The Giants play in the NFC East, alongside Cowboys, Eagles, Commanders. Our model has them projected 3rd in the NFC East on 7.8 expected wins.

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