Week 13 2016 Score Report

• Week 13 score average:  43.533 PPG
• With all teams now having played 12 games, the season average:  44.917 PPG
• Home teams were 9-6 for the week, 109-77-1 for the year (.586)
• The over was 6-8-1 this week - the first real push of the year:  Tampa Bay and San Diego went off at a 49 total, and it finished 28-21.  100-93-1 for the over for the year, slight nod to Vegas.
• Favorites:  9-5 against the number (the Monday nighter went off a Pick), 10-4 straight up.  For the year, 89-85-7 against the number, 115-65-1 straight up.
• Team with more penalties was 5-6 last week, 68-91 for the year.
• SEVEN non-competitive games this week.  NO Cliffhangers.
• Three Last Chance Misses.
• Only five games finished within one score, after this find from Brian Tuohy through the Wall Street Journal:

Through the first 12 weeks of the season, 60.2% of NFL games have been decided by eight points or fewer https://t.co/1Ah66FQ7OV

— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) November 29, 2016

• 37 Cliffhangers for the year out of 192 games played.  (19.27%)
• Percentage of games decided by eight or fewer is down to 58.33% (112/192)
• Only 49 non-competitive games out of 192 (74.47% of games competitive)

Storyline Watch:

• Getting serious in Oakland this week:  They are the #1 seed again on common opponents to New England.  (The victory over the Bills was an opponent New England lost to, New England plays neither Atlanta or Kansas City.)  That said, Oakland has to go to Kansas City in a game that, if KC wins, gives KC the tiebreak over Oakland at the end of the year.  Oakland wins, they're up two with three to play for the division.
• Baltimore and Pittsburgh are both now 7-5 -- Baltimore beat the Steelers in the first meeting, they meet again on Christmas Day.  Baltimore is #3.
• Houston, Indianapolis, and Tennessee are all 6-6 -- Tiebreaker for the one division spot for the #4 goes to Houston because they've swept the other two in their first meetings.
• #5 is Kansas City at 9-3 -- see above with Oakland Thursday night.
• #6 is Denver at 8-4.  One up on Miami and Pittsburgh, two up on Indy, Tennessee, and Buffalo.
• Denver at Baltimore, Kansas City at Houston.

NFC:

• Congratulations to the Dallas Cowboys, the first team to clinch a playoff spot -- four weeks to go. Still the #1 at 11-1 after the (rigged) win over Minnesota.
• Seattle is the #2 at 8-3-1 -- Dallas is 2 1/2 up with four to play.  A win and a Seattle loss and Dallas clinches home field throughout with three weeks to go.
• Detroit is 8-4 for the #3 -- two clear of both the Vikes and the Packers.
• Atlanta is 7-5 for the #4.  Breaks the tie with Tampa Bay on division record, Tampa is the #6 at 7-5.  (Tampa is half a game up on Washington, one full up on the Vikings and Packers.)
• New York Giants are #5 at 8-4.
• Tampa at Detroit, Giants at Atlanta.

I'm still not sold on Oakland.  I really am not.  Even if I thought they were pushing Oakland, I think it's more to raise the value of a Las Vegas Raiders team rather than keeping them in Oakland, too dark of a city (on any number of points) for the corporate NFL these days.