NFL Week 4 2016 Score Report

• Per-game average for the week:  45.07 (Last year:  43.53.  Two years ago:  Over 52 PPG)
• 4 week per-game average:  45.54.  (Last year:  46.25.  Two years ago:  46.2)
• Another London game in Week 4, like last year.  Home teams were 7-7 on the week, 34-28 (.548) for the year.  Last year:  9-5 and .565.  Two years ago:  8-4 and .633.
• Over was 8-7 for the week, 34-28 for the year.  (Last year, 5-9 and about .500, two years ago, 12-3 but about 7-10 games below .500)
• Favorites were 7-6 this week, both against the number and straight up.  Last year:  5-9.  
• Favorites are now 27-29 against the number and 32-24 straight up.  Last year against the number:  28-31.
• 242 penalties this week, a full penalty a game more than any other week this season.  Teams with more penalties were 8-5 this week, 25-31 for the year (two games had ties in that number).
• Only one Cliffhanger this week, New Orleans' win at San Diego.  Oakland came within 12 seconds.  (7 last year.)
• 12 Cliffhangers so far this year (19%).  (Last year had 13 through four weeks, 9 two years ago.)
• SIX Last Chance Misses, in the big mechanic of the week.  Thirty of the first 63 games have either been Cliffhangers and/or Last Chance Misses.
• No other game finished within one score,   Four others, including the Monday nighter, were within one score at some point in the fourth quarter.
• Four non-competitive games this week, making 16 for the year.  Of those 16, 14 came after the early games finished in Week 2.

And the bad ratings news continues, from Sports Media Watch:

• Sunday night's Pittsburgh beat-down of Kansas City resulted in the lowest overnight ratings for the NBC Sunday Night Football game in nine years.  The game drew an 11.0 overnight rating.  That's down a full 1/4 from last year.  Four of the five Sunday Night games (counting the opener on September 8) have hit massive lows for the network.  
• FOX finally got double-digit declines in both halves of their doubleheader coverage.
• The London game also fell about 1/4 of the ratings, but the CBS single game coverage which followed posted a small 2% increase.