2010 · Week 16 · Division

Final

Ravens

Baltimore

QB Joe Flacco

20·10

Browns

Cleveland

QB Colt McCoy

Cleveland Browns Stadium · outdoors · grass · 26°F · wind 18mph

Closing spread

BAL -3.5

Total

39.5

Model margin

-0.4est.

CLE perspective

Push chance

None

half-point line — cannot push

Availability

The injury report

The official league filing for this week — game designations first, then who missed or was limited in practice.

Ravens

Browns

Win probability

  • Browns
  • Ravens

How each play moved the game.

Browns winsRavens wins

Matchup

Where the edges are

Season-long league percentiles for both sides, mirrored. The saturated side of a lopsided row holds the edge.

Ravensedge mapBrowns
  • +0.028EPA / play-0.077
  • 41.8%Success rate40.5%
  • +0.133EPA / dropback-0.043
  • -0.102EPA / rush-0.126
  • 7.3%Explosive rate7.5%
  • +2.93CPOE+2.13
  • 38.4%Third-down rate37.8%
  • 57.9%Red-zone TD rate55.3%
  • 1.78Points / drive1.31
  • 1.7%Turnover rate3.0%

Bar length is league percentile, already oriented so longer is better. The saturated side of a lopsided row holds the edge; rows within ~12 points are washed as even.

The rivalry

BAL lead 39–16 since 1999

Meetings average 40.2 points. CLE are 25-29-1 ATS in the series.

Previous meetings
SeasonMatchupScoreWinner
2026 · W6BAL @ CLE10–13CLE
2025 · W11BAL @ CLE23–16BAL
2025 · W2CLE @ BAL17–41BAL
2024 · W18CLE @ BAL10–35BAL
2024 · W8BAL @ CLE24–29CLE
2023 · W10CLE @ BAL33–31CLE
2023 · W4BAL @ CLE28–3BAL
2022 · W15BAL @ CLE3–13CLE

Possession by possession

How it unfolded

Every drive: who had the ball, how far it went, how it ended, and the score as it settled.

Drive-by-drive log
BallStartPlaysYardsResultBAL–CLE
CLEQ1 15:00732Turnover0–0
BALQ1 10:5136Punt0–0
CLEQ1 9:13440Touchdown0–7
BALQ1 7:011580Field goal3–7
CLEQ2 13:3513Turnover3–7
BALQ2 13:17320Touchdown10–7
CLEQ2 11:47617Turnover10–7
BALQ2 8:02828Field goal13–7
CLEQ2 4:06950Field goal13–10
BALQ2 0:0300End of half13–10
BALQ3 15:00338Touchdown20–10
CLEQ3 13:30515Punt20–10
BALQ3 11:3939Punt20–10
CLEQ3 9:32819Punt20–10
BALQ3 5:1124Turnover20–10
CLEQ3 4:24517Punt20–10
BALQ3 2:041139Punt20–10
CLEQ4 9:361167Turnover20–10
BALQ4 4:35935Turnover on downs20–10
CLEQ4 0:14220End of half20–10

Box score

Individual performances

Ravens

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Joe Flacco12/1910221

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Ray Rice25923.70
Willis McGahee8344.30
Joe Flacco3165.30

Browns

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Colt McCoy15/2914903
Mohamed Massaquoi1/12910

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Peyton Hillis12352.90
Colt McCoy4307.50
Mike Bell7273.90
Josh Cribbs284.00

Where this game is likely to land

  • Model
  • Smooth (normal)
  • Betting line

Probability of each final margin. Football scoring clusters — the spikes at 3 and 7 are real, and a smooth model misses them.

line -3.52.8%4.5%3.0%7.4%7.3%2.9%4.4%2.6%

Positive margins favour Browns; negative favour Ravens.

Half-point at risk

7.39%

outcomes that flip if the line moves 0.5

Model home win

48.0%

Expected total

43.8est.

Model

Where the number comes from

Each component is additive, in points of expected margin.

  • Team ratings (opponent-adjusted EPA)-2.87
  • Home-field advantage+2.49
  • Quarterback adjustment0.00
  • Rest differential0.00
  • Expected margin-0.38