Monday, September 28, 2015

Week 3 Score Update: Good Week to Rake the Leaves

Very unusual week in one specific respect.

Anyway, here are the numbers:
  • Week 3 average:  48.31 points per game.  Season average for the first 48 games:  47.104
  • Last year:  Wk 3:  46.5  3 weeks:  44.6
  • Second week in a row:  Home teams were only 8-8.  26-22 for the year.
  • Last year:  Home teams 9-7 Wk 3, 30-18 total.
  • First seven games on the list for the week went over, one ended in a middle (Minnesota-San Diego could've gone anywhere 44.5 to 45.5, and ended at 45), so the over went 10-5-1 for the week with the middle counted a draw.  Season:  25-20-3 or 25-22-1
  • Last year:  Over was:  8-8/7-8-1 for Wk 3, total 22-26 or as low as 18-26-4.
  • Favorites:  After a bumpy early session that had favorites as low as 2-5-1, a large rush of big favorites winning huge got favorites to 8-6 with 2 pushes.  Season:  23-22-3
  • 229 penalties this week after the record from last week.  Season average:  15.25 penalties per game.
  • Last year:  217 for the week, 661 for the year (this year's total is 732).
  • Teams with more penalties were 6-9-1 for the week.  17-25-6 for the year.
  • Last year:  5-10-1, 21-25-2 for the year.
  • NO Cliffhangers this week.  Closest a game got was Tennessee failing a 2-point conversion to tie Indianapolis within the last 2 minutes, but no game of the 16-game schedule came down to a score within that period of time.  So, of the 48 games played so far, only SIX (16.67%) have come down to such criteria, and four of those were last week.
  • Last year:  2 Cliffhangers in Week 3, 8 over the first three weeks.
  • Only 6 games this week were decided by one score ( < = 8 points).   Only 3 others were within those 8 points at some point in the fourth quarter.  SEVEN GAMES, including the entire late afternoon, Sunday night, and Monday night schedule sans one game, were noncompetitive.
  • This means out of the 48 games, 23 (47.9%) have been decided by 8 points or less.  This is up from only 18 (37.5%) last year.
  • Two-thirds of the games this season were 8 points or within at some point in the fourth quarter (32/48).  Last year:  29.

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