Score Update Week 12

All the byes are now over.  All teams have played 11 games.  176 total games.  A 4th neutral game this year because of the snow (BUF-NYJ in Detroit).

• Per-game average for the week normalized most of the way:  45.533
• 11-week per-game average is still down from last year, though:  45.858
• Ten of the fifteen games were competitive into the fourth quarter.
• Three (Oakland's first win over Kansas City, Cleveland beating Atlanta and Dallas besting the Giants) were decided in the last two minutes of the game, more than the three previous weeks combined!  That's now 31 out of 176 for that regard, 17.61%
• A full six of the other games were decided by 8 or less, and one more game which didn't was within that margin during the week.
• Games within a score at some point in the 4th quarter are at 64.77%, down from 68% last year.
• Games within a score at the end of a game are at 46.11%, edging up to the 48% from last year.  Having nine out of fifteen this week helped.
• Over was 7-8 on the week, 87-86-1 with one mixed for the year.
• Home teams were 9-5 for the week, 106-65-1 for the year.
• Home teams were called for more penalties in 5 of the 14 home games.  76/152 for the year.
• Penalties shot up this week (202 in 15 games this week, 148 in 14 last week.)   That's about three more per game.
• Team with more penalties was 8-5-2 this week.  81-82-12 for the year.  There appears to be effectively no difference who commits more penalties.
• PoE:  Team with more Points of Emphasis calls for passing situations was 6-6-3 this week. 59-69-57 this year.
• This included New England.  The winning teams last week combined for five Points of Emphasis accepted penalties.  New England had five ALONE in their win over Detroit.