It's like this pretty much for every team in the playoff hunt.
Denver has 0 wins against winning teams and the only winning team they played they lost.
The flavor of the week Carolina just got their 1st victory over a winning team. Only Atlanta and Oakland have a lower Strength of Victory percentage right now. The teams combined record they beat are 18-37 and that's with SF's 6 wins.
The funny thing about that statistic is that the Associated Press ran an article a couple of days ago that appeared in both the Herald and the Globe in which the writer stated the following:
The New England Patriots rolled into the bye week after their best offensive game of the season.
Impressive, yes, but consider the opposition.
In fact, consider the opposition all season — hardly the toughest in the NFL.
The 55-31 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers last Sunday was just the latest on a soft schedule for New England. The Patriots (7-2) have played only two games against teams that had winning records going into their matchups.
Even the bye works in their favor. The Patriots can get a head start on their next two opponents, the only ones left with winning records, the Carolina Panthers (5-3) and Denver Broncos (7-1). The rest of the schedule — Houston, Cleveland, Miami, Baltimore and Buffalo — figures to provide the Patriots some momentum heading into the playoffs.
He also went on to write that the "Patriots lead the typically weak AFC East by two games".
First off, you know the writer had to be really reaching to not use strength of schedule or even number of teams with a current winning record as his stat, but the record of teams at the time they played as the centerpiece of his evidence.
The tone clearly implies that two games against teams that fit into that category is much less than that of any other quality team, but even without bothering to look it up I am confident that it is comparable to many, and more than that of certain other teams (I'm looking at you AFC West teams).
Second, the 'weak AFC East' is a myth. Since the NFL went to the 8-division format the AFCE has one of the best collective records in the NFL; in the short term, this year there are five divisions with worse records, and only two that are better (AFCW and NFCW).
The first time I saw it in the Herald no name was listed; the second time I saw the article, in the Globe, I saw it was written by Howard Ulman.
I can't place it, but if I recall correctly he has had some rather negative things to say about the Patriots in the past. Perhaps a guy that keeps writing that the Pats filmed practices, or something like that?
Regardless, that was some really sloppy research, and poor usage of statistics to support a slanted opinion.