As the NFL celebrates what might be it's re-emergence as our National Obsession as well as Religion, the numbers...
- Week 10: 45.14 PPG (Last year: 41.64. Two years ago: 45.38)
- For the season: 45.65 PPG (Last year: 46.45 Two years ago: 46.68)
- Home teams: 7-7 this week (Last year Week 10: 3-11!!)
- For the season, Home teams: 83-59-1 this season (.5839) (Last year: .566 Two years ago: .6215)
- Over for the Week: Also 7-7. (Last year: 3-8 or 3-9 with a couple pushes.)
- For the year, the over: Surprisingly with Year of the Defense: 80-66. Very slight advantage to the Over players. (Last year: Few games (1-4) either side of .500)
- Brutal week for the favorites: 4-9 against the spread, 5-8 straight up. (Last year Week 10, only two favorites covered.) The Monday nighter was one of those "mixed" games (some had a push at NYG -1, some had it a pick, some had CIN -1), so it was dropped.
- For the year: Finally below .500 against the spread at 63-68-7. (Better than the 58-78-10 of last year, though.) Straight-up: 81-56-1. (.591)
- 176 penalties in Week 10 (186 in the same number of games Week 10 last year.)
- Team with more penalties was 7-4 this week (3 games had tie numbers in penalties.)
- Team with more penalties, for the year, is still well below .500: 53-74 (.421)
- FIVE Cliffhangers this week, including all 3 4 PM Eastern-ish starts. And the Sunday nighter was a Last Chance Miss at the 1 and the Monday nighter, Cincinnati couldn't stop the Giants for the last three minutes, or that one could've been Cliffhanger #6.) (Last year: 3)
- For probably the first time in history, two historic events in Cliffhanger-dom. I know it's the first one involving a defensive two-point return, and I don't think I've covered any with a pick-six like that, though there was a famous playoff game a number of years back that ended with an overtime pick-six.
- Only 3 Last Chance Misses this week -- one overlapped on an onside kick after the defensive two.
- 3 other games finished within one score, for TEN total. Only three games (Green Bay laying an egg (intentionally??) in Tennessee, Cleveland going bust in the Thursday nighter, and Tampa blowout-upsetting Chicago) were non-competitive. (Last year: 8 settled within one score and 4 non-competitive.)
- There have been only 15 non-competitive games the last four weeks. Tennessee has had two, Tampa and Cleveland three apiece. Only Cleveland has had the same result.
- For the year: 32 Cliffhangers (21.77%) (Last year: 36 for 24.66%)
- Within One Score: 83/147 (56.46%)
- Within One Score, Some Point in the 4th: 110/147 (74.82% -- almost three quarters of all the games have been within one score at some point in the fourth quarter.)
- To that end, from Brian Tuohy's page and the NFL's Greg Aiello, from the PR Department:
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