If Las Vegas gaming company CG Technologies is good at its job, the Ravens can expect a hot start followed by a huge letdown in 2016.
The company recently released projected betting lines for the first 16 weeks of the upcoming season (it passed on Week 17, when many teams rest their players).
While projecting a December football game in June is like trying to predict who will be the Cleveland Browns quarterback by midseason, it's still fun to indulge on the data and temporarily fill the football-shaped holes in our summer beach bods.
We've still got 100 days until the Ravens begin their season, after all.
So, here's how it will/might/probably won't play out.
CG Technologies says the Ravens aren't underdogs in any of their first five games -- favored by three points or less in four of the games and an even bet in the other, at the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Then things get dark. The Ravens are underdogs in eight of their next 10 games.
The biggest point spread in the Ravens' favor all season is Week 10, at home against the Browns. The Ravens are favored by 8.5 points for that Thursday nighter.
Four weeks later, for Monday Night Football at the New England Patriots, the Ravens are a season-high nine-point underdog.
If everything were to go as this simulation projects, the Ravens would be 6-8-1 heading into their season finale at the Cincinnati Bengals.
At least they'll better than the Browns, favored in zero games and likely on their fifth QB of the season.