Week 8 Score Report for 2016

• Week 8 Score Average:  44.15  (2015:  46.57  2014:  49.33)
• 8 Week Score Average:  45.233  (2015:  46.597  2014:  46.653)
• Home teams were 8-4 last week (the tie was in London).  (2015:  8-5  2014:  9-5)
• For the season:  .599 (2015:  .595  2014:  .627)
• Over was 9-4 for the week.  (2015:  7-7  2014:  7-8)
• For the year, the over is 65-54.  (2015:  2-6 games over .500  2014:  Couple of games either side of .500)
• Good week for the public, at least until Monday night.  8-4 against the number, 10-2 straight up.  (ATS 2015:  6-6-2. 
• For the season:  52-55-5 ATS, 66-45-1 straight up.  (ATS 2015:  50-59-10)
• 192 penalties this week, including 7 teams with more than 10.  (Led by the record-breaking performance by the Raiders.)
• Team with more penalties was 7-5. 45-61 for the year.
• Four Cliffhangers, three overtime games and the Atlanta victory.  4 Last Chance Misses, 2 overlapping.
• Odd occurrence:  5 of the 14 games were non-competitive, but there were no games last week that were competitive that didn't end within one score.
• For the year:  26/120 cliffhangers (21 2/3 %)  65/120 ending within one score (54 1/6%), 88/120 within one score at some point in the fourth (83.33%).
• Last year:  6 Cliffhangers for the week, 29 for the year.  7 games within one score at the end for the week, 62 for the year.  80 games within one score at some point in the fourth.

Couple of side points:

• First time we have had back-to-back weeks with ties since November 16 and 23, 1997, the only other time since the league adopted regular-season overtime that had happened.  1973, the year before regular-season overtime started, had three consecutive weeks with ties and another week outside the streak with two.
• Three weeks in 2015 had three overtime games, the last three times it had happened before last week.