Score Update for Week 15

I'll get to the 600 pound elephant in the room in a minute.

• Week 15 average:  49.6875 PPG.  Only one game in the 20's and two in the 30's.  (Last year:  Only 36.4375.)
• For the 15 weeks now played:  45.98 PPG (Last year:  45.406.)
• Home teams were 7-9 last week, 119-102 for the year (.538).  (Last year:  9-7 and 130-89-1 (.593))
• Did seem to be a few extra Christmas gifts for the public this week.  Over was actually 10-6 this week.  107-108-9 to 107-113-4 for the year.  (Last year:  3-13 and 105-116-1.)
• Favorites were 9-5-2 to 9-7 this week, depending on where you shopped.  (Jets and Pittsburgh pushed in some places, didn't cover in others.)  100-108-18 to 100-110-16 for the year.
• 211 penalties this week.
• First two games on my list on Sunday went Cliffhanger (Jets and Carolina), no others did.
• Six games decided within one score, only one other game was within one score at the fourth quarter -- SEVEN non-competitive contests.
• Cliffhangers:  52/224 (23.21% -- going down)  (Last year:  16.07% -- only 36.  None in Week 15 last year.)
• Decided by one score:  122/224 (54.46%)  (Last year:  41.51% after another week of 8.)
• Within one score at some point in the 4th quarter:  150/224 (66.96%)  (Last year:  62.05%)