NFL Week 12 Score Update

Thanksgiving brought the first full slate of games since about Week 3, and here's what happened:

• Per game average for Week 12:  45.69 points per game.  (45.533 last year)
• 12 week average:  46.03 points per game. (45.858 last year)
• Home teams went 9-7 last week, 98-75 for the year (.566)  (Last year:  9-5. 106-65-1 (.619))
• Six of the last seven games on the table went over after six of the first eight went under.  The over went 8-7-1 this week, anywhere from 84-83-9 to 84-88-4 for the year.  (Last year:  7-8 and 87-86-2.)
• Favorites against the number actually had a good week:  10-6.  You'd have to go back to WEEK THREE to find the last week Vegas players has a winning week against the number in the NFL.  Last week was the best week of the year against the number for the public, breaking Week 1's 9-6-1.  (73-89-14 for the year)
• 216 penalties in the 16 games, 13.5 a game, going down, as it does later in the year.
• Three Cliffhangers, and two of them were in the national games Sunday night and Monday.   Denver's besting of the Patriots, which is increasingly believed to be rigged, was in overtime, and Double Cliffhangers on Monday, a tying touchdown for Cleveland, only to have a game-winning field goal blocked at the gun and returned for a game-winner for Baltimore.  Also, Oakland's victory came with a TD at 1:21.
• 5 more decided by one score, 3 more than that at one score at some point in the fourth quarter, 5 non-competitive games.
• Cliffhangers This Year:  42/176 (23.86%)  (Last year:  17.61%)
• Games Decided By One Score:  97/176 (55.11%)  (Last year:  46.11%)
• Games Within One Score At Some Point in the 4th Quarter:  122/176 (69.32%)  (Last year:  64.77%)