Wednesday, November 16, 2016

NFL Week 10 Score Report

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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