2016 NFL season

Quality:

2016 NFL season - 97th season in the history of the National Football League. This event is the 1608^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 937^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “2016 NFL season” in English Wikipedia has 79.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 231 references and 46 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 937^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1608^th most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “2016 NFL season” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “2016 NFL season”, its content was written by 231 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 375 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

2016 NFL season is on the 937^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 1608^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 3914 times in English Wikipedia (6589^th place) and cited 9567 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #73 in December 2016
• Global: #314 in December 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1141 in December 2016
• Global: #2797 in January 2017

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) 2016 NFL season		79.1629
2	German (de) NFL 2016		61.209
3	Italian (it) National Football League 2016		58.7321
4	Portuguese (pt) Temporada da NFL de 2016		49.6563
5	French (fr) Saison 2016 de la NFL		38.7979
6	Spanish (es) Temporada 2016 de la NFL		34.7593
7	Hungarian (hu) 2016-os NFL-szezon		29.3339
8	Japanese (ja) 2016年のNFL		27.3427
9	Croatian (hr) NFL sezona 2016.		23.9431
10	Finnish (fi) NFL-kausi 2016		17.6753

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2016 NFL season		4 042 439
2	German (de) NFL 2016		302 293
3	Spanish (es) Temporada 2016 de la NFL		114 679
4	French (fr) Saison 2016 de la NFL		74 926
5	Portuguese (pt) Temporada da NFL de 2016		58 311
6	Italian (it) National Football League 2016		44 047
7	Japanese (ja) 2016年のNFL		22 993
8	Russian (ru) НФЛ в сезоне 2016		12 170
9	Hungarian (hu) 2016-os NFL-szezon		6 022
10	Finnish (fi) NFL-kausi 2016		2 666

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2016 NFL season		6 539
2	German (de) NFL 2016		277
3	Portuguese (pt) Temporada da NFL de 2016		117
4	Italian (it) National Football League 2016		99
5	French (fr) Saison 2016 de la NFL		61
6	Spanish (es) Temporada 2016 de la NFL		58
7	Russian (ru) НФЛ в сезоне 2016		32
8	Japanese (ja) 2016年のNFL		24
9	Finnish (fi) NFL-kausi 2016		6
10	Croatian (hr) NFL sezona 2016.		6

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2016 NFL season		231
2	German (de) NFL 2016		45
3	French (fr) Saison 2016 de la NFL		30
4	Italian (it) National Football League 2016		17
5	Spanish (es) Temporada 2016 de la NFL		11
6	Japanese (ja) 2016年のNFL		11
7	Portuguese (pt) Temporada da NFL de 2016		9
8	Russian (ru) НФЛ в сезоне 2016		9
9	Hungarian (hu) 2016-os NFL-szezon		7
10	Finnish (fi) NFL-kausi 2016		4

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2016 NFL season		2
2	German (de) NFL 2016		0
3	Spanish (es) Temporada 2016 de la NFL		0
4	Finnish (fi) NFL-kausi 2016		0
5	French (fr) Saison 2016 de la NFL		0
6	Croatian (hr) NFL sezona 2016.		0
7	Hungarian (hu) 2016-os NFL-szezon		0
8	Italian (it) National Football League 2016		0
9	Japanese (ja) 2016年のNFL		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Temporada da NFL de 2016		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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