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2024 · Week 18 · Division

Final

Browns

Cleveland

QB Bailey Zappe

10·35

Ravens

Baltimore

QB Lamar Jackson

M&T Bank Stadium · outdoors · grass · 31°F · wind 16mph

Closing spread

BAL -19.5

Total

42.5

Model margin

+9.1est.

BAL perspective

Push chance

None

half-point line — cannot push

Win probability

  • Ravens
  • Browns

How each play moved the game.

Ravens winsBrowns wins

Matchup

Where the edges are

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

Brownsedge mapRavens
  • -0.179EPA / play+0.199
  • 37.1%Success rate49.4%
  • -0.196EPA / dropback+0.328
  • -0.140EPA / rush+0.053
  • 5.8%Explosive rate12.0%
  • -4.22CPOE+4.67
  • 28.8%Third-down rate47.9%
  • 56.8%Red-zone TD rate76.9%
  • 1.09Points / drive2.80
  • 2.7%Turnover rate1.0%

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 39–15 since 1999

BAL have won 3 straight. Meetings average 40.6 points. BAL are 29-24-1 ATS in the series.

Previous meetings
SeasonMatchupScoreWinner
2025 · W11BAL @ CLE2316BAL
2025 · W2CLE @ BAL1741BAL
2024 · W8BAL @ CLE2429CLE
2023 · W10CLE @ BAL3331CLE
2023 · W4BAL @ CLE283BAL
2022 · W15BAL @ CLE313CLE
2022 · W7CLE @ BAL2023BAL
2021 · W14BAL @ CLE2224CLE

Box score

Individual performances

Browns

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Bailey Zappe16/3117012
Dorian Thompson-Robinson2/31300

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
D'Onta Foreman10272.70
Jacob Kibodi5244.80
Dorian Thompson-Robinson231.50
Bailey Zappe221.00

Ravens

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Lamar Jackson16/3221720

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Derrick Henry201386.92
Lamar Jackson9637.00
Keaton Mitchell4102.50
Zay Flowers199.00
Mark Andrews100.00

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 +19.53.1%4.9%3.5%3.5%2.8%2.5%

Positive margins favour Ravens; negative favour Browns.

Half-point at risk

1.99%

outcomes that flip if the line moves 0.5

Model home win

72.4%

Expected total

42.5est.

Model

Where the number comes from

Each component is additive, in points of expected margin.

  • Team ratings (opponent-adjusted EPA)+7.32
  • Home-field advantage+1.71
  • Quarterback adjustment-0.26
  • Rest differential+0.32
  • Expected margin+9.08