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Minnesota Vikings: 2026 Win Total & Market Edge

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The prediction-market read on the Vikings: our 10,000-season simulation projects 10.9 wins in 2026 (4th of 32, Average tier; model 11.0), beside the live Kalshi win-total line. Full schedule, per-game win probabilities and NFC North standing below.

Entering Week 7: experts 4 · market-implied 15 · PMP 15 — a 11-place split between Experts and Market. Experts vs. market on the Vikings →

2026 win total: our model vs. Kalshi

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Minnesota Vikings

NFC North · 15th power rating · Average
Kalshi live
10.9 projected wins
± 1.7 · 4th of 32
Kalshi market
11.34w
Ladder-implied wins
7 Oracles sim
10.91w
59.6% backtested
Divergence
-0.43w
Market 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 model — wins already banked plus the rest of the season — reads 11.0. No single rung sits near 50¢.

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

📊 Deep-dive: Vikings win total: a depth-chart position, not a projection — it flips on who starts at QB

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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.

3.29 wins of disagreement
8.05 Madden 27
10.91 Our sim
11.34 Kalshi
4.97.39.712.114.5

Both independent models sit on the same side of the market line — our sim at 10.91 and the Madden simulation at 8.05 against 11.34 implied wins. That is the cleanest version of this signal.

Madden is a bit lower on the Vikings than our model, 5 places apart — a real but modest difference of opinion.

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 11.34 01234567891011121314151617
40%
our probability
of clearing 11.34
Madden sim: 12%
-9.7pp vs a coin flip

Our probability from the 10,000-season simulation (mean 10.91 wins; model, banked wins plus the rest of the season, 10.96 ± 1.70). Bars: Madden 27 sim-2026, 10,000 iterations. Two methods, no shared inputs.

The Ladder — Vikings

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.

VikingsSeason winsMARKET READView 12+ wins on Kalshi →

Kalshi prices 12+ wins at 50¢ — a coin flip. Where the Oracle line sits on each rung is Pro.

Headline rung · 12+ wins
YES 52¢NO 52¢
pays 1.9x · books — · Oracle 🔒

Fewer than three strikes have both a two-sided Kalshi book and a model number inside our published 30–70% band, so there is no shape call here. The market prices are complete.

Legend
  • Kalshi YES mid, 0–100¢
  • book consensus (no-vig)
  • Oracle line (Pro) · hollow = outside the 30–70% band
  • YES/NO buttons are the Kalshi taker cost; “pays” is 100¢ ÷ cost.
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Jordan AddisonReceptionsMARKET READView 4+ rec on Kalshi →

Kalshi prices 4+ rec at 40¢. Where the Oracle line sits on each rung is Pro.

Market · 4+ rec
YES 40¢

Fewer than three strikes have both a two-sided Kalshi book and a model number inside our published 30–70% band, so there is no shape call here. The market prices are complete.

Oracle Ladders venue check

At 4+ rec Kalshi's NO costs 61¢, the books imply 57¢ — 3.0 points below the book read.

Legend
  • Kalshi YES mid, 0–100¢
  • book consensus (no-vig)
  • Oracle line (Pro) · hollow = outside the 30–70% band
  • YES/NO buttons are the Kalshi taker cost; “pays” is 100¢ ÷ cost.
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Aaron JonesReceptionsMARKET READView 3+ rec on Kalshi →

Kalshi prices 3+ rec at 48¢ — a coin flip. Where the Oracle line sits on each rung is Pro.

Market · 3+ rec
YES 48¢

Fewer than three strikes have both a two-sided Kalshi book and a model number inside our published 30–70% band, so there is no shape call here. The market prices are complete.

Oracle Ladders venue check

At 3+ rec Kalshi's NO costs 53¢, the books imply 51¢ — 1.8 points below the book read.

Legend
  • Kalshi YES mid, 0–100¢
  • book consensus (no-vig)
  • Oracle line (Pro) · hollow = outside the 30–70% band
  • YES/NO buttons are the Kalshi taker cost; “pays” is 100¢ ÷ cost.
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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, and a rung where our number sits more than 30 points from a liquid market is refused outright — a gap that size is a bug until proven otherwise. 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 11.34 · Under

Season wins under 11.34

Our 10,000-season simulation projects 10.91 (model 10.96), the Madden 27 simulation 8.05, against 11.34 market-implied wins — a -0.43-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 9 · Home

Week 9 vs Bills

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 +0.1
Offense -2.4
Defense +1.9
Special teams +0.5

Overall +0.1 ranks 15th of 32 (Average tier). How Vikings 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.

10.96 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.

25 Quarterback 75
15 O-Line 80
4 Receiver 86
13 Tight End 83
30 Running Back 81
29 Pass Rush 79
13 Linebacker 78
20 Secondary 79
5 Special Teams 80

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. Played games show the final; the rest show Our %, the DAEPA margin (power-rating differential + 2.5-point home-field) run through a Normal model, σ=14.4 — those numbers plus the 5-0 already banked sum to the model's 11.0 wins; the 10.9-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 Green Bay PackersHOMEW 39-22
Wk 2at Chicago BearsAWAYW 9-3
Wk 4vs Miami DolphinsHOMEW 15-10
Wk 5at New Orleans SaintsAWAYW 23-13
Wk 7vs Indianapolis ColtsHOME60%50%
Wk 8at Detroit LionsAWAY41%30%
Wk 9vs Buffalo BillsHOME50%46%
Wk 10at Green Bay PackersAWAY38%40%
Wk 11at San Francisco 49ersAWAY41%29%
Wk 12vs Atlanta FalconsHOME60%54%
Wk 13vs Carolina PanthersHOME57%63%
Wk 15vs Detroit LionsHOME55%41%
Wk 17at New York JetsAWAY49%53%
Wk 18vs Chicago BearsHOME48%50%

Vikings 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.

Vikings player props vs the Kalshi line — the called side, its Kalshi price and our tier on the strike closest to our projection; our odds only where our probabilities are calibrated
PlayerContractCallOur oddsMktTier
Justin JeffersonWR6+ receptionsover 5.5NO55%48¢HIGH
Kyler MurrayQB2+ pass TDsover 1.5NOPro subscribers onlyPro subscribers onlyMODERATE
Aaron JonesRB40+ rush ydsover 39.5YESPro subscribers onlyPro subscribers onlyMODERATE

All 63 player-prop edges for Week 7 →Locked numbers are Pro.

Vikings 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 — our Oracle calls are the opinion.

No Kalshi strike in this slice is 5¢+ off the sportsbooks right now — the market agrees with itself.

Vikings props: where the market prices are — Kalshi mid vs sportsbook consensus per strike, widest gap first
PlayerPropKalshiConsensusGapBest price
Jordan AddisonMIN v IND4+ rec39.5¢42.5%7bk-3.0¢over · Kalshi 41.7¢under · Novig 58¢
Aaron JonesMIN v IND3+ rec47.5¢49.3%6bk-1.8¢over · Kalshi 49.8¢under · Novig 53.1¢
Jordan AddisonMIN v IND40+ rec yds45.5¢47.1%4bk-1.6¢over · Novig 46.5¢under · Novig 53.9¢
Kyler MurrayMIN v IND25+ rush yds52.5¢51.5%2bk+1.0¢over · Kalshi 54.7¢under · Kalshi 49.8¢
Aaron JonesRBMIN v IND40+ rush yds48.5¢49.2%4bk-0.7¢over · Kalshi 50.8¢under · Novig 53.1¢
Jauan JenningsMIN v IND2+ rec32.0¢32.7%4bk-0.7¢over · ProphetX 32.8¢under · ProphetX 69.7¢
Aaron JonesMIN v IND15+ rec yds49.0¢49.3%6bk-0.3¢over · Novig 51¢under · Novig 50.5¢
Justin JeffersonWRMIN v IND7+ rec37.0¢36.7%3bk+0.3¢over · ProphetX 37.9¢under · ProphetX 65.3¢

See all 74 priced prop strikes on the board →+ 94 listed on Kalshi, not yet priced.

Vikings player pages

All players →

One page per player: every Kalshi strike, the sportsbook consensus at the same threshold, the season projection and the measured range.

NFC North ladder

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

Vikings 10.9 +0.1
Bears 10.9 +3.4 Packers 9.9 +1.8 Lions 9.3 +0.9

Model has the Vikings 1st in the NFC North. Division hub →

Division odds: Vikings 41¢ to win the NFC North on Kalshi.

10,000-season simulation

How it works →

Our current board, with the 94 games already played locked in and the remaining schedule played out 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

10.9

10,000 seasons · 72% reach 10+

Make playoffs

78%

2% win 6 or fewer

Win division

36%

14% take the 1 seed

Win Super Bowl

4.2%

11th of 32 · 9% reach it

The Vikings draw a 0.512 opponent win rate — the 6th-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

20

80.2 composite · QB 75

Simulated wins

8.1

31% reach 10+

Playoffs

34%

13% win division

Super Bowl

1.1%

SoS 0.508 (10th hardest)

Madden is a bit lower on the Vikings than our model, 5 places apart — a real but modest difference of opinion.

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 →

Vikings 2026 — frequently asked

What is the Minnesota Vikings win total for 2026?

The Kalshi KXNFLWINS-27 ladder implies an expected 11.3 wins for the Vikings in 2026. Our 10,000-season simulation on our DAEPA power ratings projects 10.9 wins — a 0.4-win agreement with the market (LOW on our wins ladder).

Where do the Vikings rank in our 2026 power ratings?

The Vikings sit at a +0.1-point power rating — 15th of 32 — in the Average tier. That rating (offense -2.4, defense +1.9, special teams +0.5) is the input behind every Vikings prediction-market edge we publish.

Can you trade Minnesota Vikings games on Kalshi?

Yes. Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated exchange that lists Vikings 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 Vikings in for 2026?

The Vikings play in the NFC North, alongside Bears, Lions, Packers. Our model has them projected 1st in the NFC North on 10.9 expected wins.

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