Score Update Week 16

Bye, Denver.

See ya, Green Bay...

Only question now is who joins Seattle, Dallas, and New England in the final four.

Anyway, score update...

• More normal week in Week 16:  45.8125 for the 16 games for the week.
• But with one week to go in the season, the per-game season average is 45.43, about a point and a third lower than last year.
• 12 of the 16 games were competitive into the fourth quarter.
• Three of them were decided in the last two minutes and overtime.  Washington beat Philly with 5 seconds left.  San Diego beat San Francisco Saturday night in overtime.  And Miami beat Minnesota with 41 seconds left with a safety on a blocked punt.
• This means, out of the 240 games played, 39 have been decided with one or more scores in the last two minutes and overtime, 16.25%.
• 102 of the 240 have been decided within one score.  That's 42.5%, down from 48% last year.
• 151 games have been within a score at some point (what I call "competitive") into the fourth quarter.  That's 62.91%, down from 68% last year.
• The over was 6-9 this week.  111-125-1 with 3 undetermined, including a middle this week for that column (the first Saturday game, Washington-Philadelphia was anywhere 50-52, ended total 51.)
• Home teams were 9-7 this week, again -- same as last week.  139-96-1 for the year, with four neutral site games.
• Home teams were only called for more penalties this week in TWO of the sixteen games, by far the least of the season.  101 of the 236 games have had that happen.
• About a penalty and a half fewer a game this week than last -- a half penalty less than two weeks ago.
• Team with more penalties was 7-7-2 this week -- same as last week!  110-108-21 for the year.
• Team with more PoE fouls was 6-5-5 this week, including wins in the last five games finished.  82-97-72 for the year.