Score Update after Week 13

Had another crazy week, just like Week 13-14 interim last year.

Anyhow:

• Week 13 average:  47.625 PPG (Last year:  48 even.)
• For the 13 weeks (192 games):  46 1/6 PPG  (Last year:  46.036)
• Another crappy week for the home sides:  5-11 this week for 103-86 for the year.  (.545)  (Last year:  115-72-1 (.614) after 9-7)
• Decent week for the over at 9-7.  Couple of games either side of .500 for the year, meaning Vegas wins on the 9.09% juice.  (Last year, basically the same)
• Favorites were 9-5-2 for the week and 82-94-16 for the year.
• 214 penalties in the 16 games.  13.5 a game.
• Biggest news:  SEVEN CLIFFHANGERS.  Thursday nighter, Monday nighter (3 times over on that one), Carolina's 12th win, Jets over the Giants with two Cliffhanger scores, more putting over Jameis Winston, San Francisco winning over Chicago, and a first since I started covering this 2-3 years ago:  A Cliffhanger that actually ended outside one score!  Buffalo got ahead of Houston with 1:53 to go in the game, so it was a Cliffhanger.  They scored again, though, to win 30-21 to win by nine.
• Three games other than the six other Cliffhangers ended within one score (9 total) and one other game other than any mentioned was within one score in the 4th quarter (11 total).
• 49 Cliffhangers out of 192 games.  (25.52%)  (Last year:  17.71%)  Meaning that the number of games decided with at least one score in the final 2 minutes or overtime is up by a factor of 50%!
• 106 games out of 192 decided by one score (8 points or less).  (55.21%)  (Last year:  41.67%)  Meaning that the number of games decided by one score is up by about a factor of a third.
• 132 out of 192 games within one score at some point in the fourth quarter.  (68.75%)  (Last year:  61.46%)  But this is about the only number somewhat normalized -- the total percentage of this for two years ago was 68%.