Week 6 Score Report: They Finally Caught Up, And So Did I

Combination of real-life, fatigue (both RL and sports!), etc., and I fell behind in getting this posted.

Week 6 score average:  48.4 even.

6 week score average:  46.703 -- just four-thousandths of a point below the 46.707 that was last year's average.

In the other numbers:

• They openly rigged the Indianapolis Thursday night win to within one score, and the Monday nighter got to one score in the 4th quarter, so, for the national prime-time contests, they're 7 for 19 getting it to the 4th quarter, and only ONCE was it a cliffhanger (and that was WEEK TWO).
• Four non-competitive games this week, though several appeared to only sneak under the wire as that the losing team got within a score in the fourth before losing bigger (including Monday night).  There was one tie (which featured not only a field-goal for Carolina at the gun, but NFL history, as both teams scored field goals in the OT (on six-minute-plus drives) for the draw), and two other games which were decided in the last two minutes (GB-Miami at 0:03 and SD-OAK at 1:56).  That's 16/91 for that, still well below recent average at 17.58%.
• Games within a score at the 4th quarter are still down from last year as well, though the margin is narrowing (64.84% vs. 68 last year), and games decided by one score are at 40.65% vs. 48 last year.
• Not surprisingly, the over was 10-5 last week -- with one game that pushed at a couple places.  49-52 if you take the predominant, 43-51-7 if you account for games with pushes at some locations.
• I'll have to check to see if this is an NFL record, but, in a 15-game schedule, the home team only won FOUR contests.  4-10-1!!  53-36-1 for the year.
• Home team was called for more penalties in 7 games, less in 6, same in 2.  37 out of 90 non-neutral site games this year.
• Home team penalties were up almost two a game in this week -- 109 in 15 games including 13 for Cincinnati in the draw with Carolina and 14 for Arizona.
• In games with a result, the team with more penalties was 5-7-2 this week for 39-44-7.
• And, for the increasingly archaic Points of Emphasis fouls that made the preseason more of a farce than usual preseasons:  4-5-5 for the team with more in games with a result.  35-33-22 for the season.