2019 · Week 16 · Division

Final

Ravens

Baltimore

QB Lamar Jackson

31·15

Browns

Cleveland

QB Baker Mayfield

FirstEnergy Stadium · outdoors · grass · 49°F · wind 10mph

Closing spread

BAL -9.5

Total

48.5

Model margin

-3.4est.

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
  • +0.203EPA / play-0.027
  • 48.1%Success rate41.3%
  • +0.322EPA / dropback+0.025
  • +0.088EPA / rush-0.116
  • 12.0%Explosive rate10.1%
  • +3.13CPOE-3.23
  • 48.0%Third-down rate36.3%
  • 68.9%Red-zone TD rate61.1%
  • 2.90Points / drive1.80
  • 1.3%Turnover rate2.6%

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 15:00733Punt0–0
BALQ1 10:57745Turnover on downs0–0
CLEQ1 7:12427Punt0–0
BALQ1 5:22734Turnover0–0
CLEQ1 2:121122Touchdown0–6
BALQ2 11:53521Punt0–6
CLEQ2 9:01413Punt0–6
BALQ2 6:46420Punt0–6
CLEQ2 4:58617Punt0–6
BALQ2 1:50263Touchdown7–6
CLEQ2 1:1830Punt7–6
BALQ2 0:55775Touchdown14–6
CLEQ2 0:0900End of half14–6
BALQ3 15:001369Touchdown21–6
CLEQ3 7:361041Field goal21–9
BALQ3 3:251365Field goal24–9
CLEQ4 11:321072Touchdown24–15
BALQ4 8:01869Touchdown31–15
CLEQ4 3:39317Turnover31–15
BALQ4 2:47522End of half31–15

Box score

Individual performances

Ravens

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Lamar Jackson20/3123830

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Lamar Jackson171036.10
Gus Edwards12665.50
Mark Ingram8556.90
Justice Hill3196.31

Browns

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Baker Mayfield20/3319221

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Nick Chubb15453.00
Kareem Hunt284.00
Baker Mayfield242.00

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 -9.52.8%3.1%4.8%3.1%7.5%6.8%

Positive margins favour Browns; negative favour Ravens.

Half-point at risk

1.24%

outcomes that flip if the line moves 0.5

Model home win

39.9%

Expected total

44.6est.

Model

Where the number comes from

Each component is additive, in points of expected margin.

  • Team ratings (opponent-adjusted EPA)-4.94
  • Home-field advantage+1.74
  • Quarterback adjustment0.00
  • Rest differential-0.24
  • Expected margin-3.44