2017 Week 13 Score Report

• 42.31 points per game this week, season-long is now 44.14.
• Home teams had a good week this week:  11-5.  21-11 the last two weeks has finally normalized the home record a bit to 101-86. (.540)
• The over was 6-8-2 this week (yes, TWO pushes) to get the season to exactly .500.
• After several good weeks against the number, Vegas got some back this week, as favorites went only 7-9 against the spread and 10-6 straight up.  For the year:  97-90-5 against the spread and 132-60 straight up.
• In a week where dirty cheap shots made headlines, the team with more penalties drew even this week at 8-8.  Still 76-102 for the year.
• SEVEN non-competitive games this week.  Of the 192 games so far this year, 65, over one-third, have been outside of eight points all of the fourth quarter.
• Three Cliffhangers, including that bloodbath Monday night.   35 for the year.
• Two Last Chance Misses, 34 for the year.
• Only six of the sixteen contests finished within eight points, for only 91 so far in 13 weeks.  That gets us back down to the 48 or so percent it was the last year before I started tracking and that number exploded.

Vegas updates on my totals bets:

• 1-2 this week.  Patriots won for 10-2 (over 12.5).  Lions lost to Baltimore, not a great surprise (6-6, over 7.5).
• The big one that hurt was the Sunday nighter that Seattle won for 8-4 over Philadelphia (under 10.5).  There's still a chance, but that one took a hit.

Playoff storylines:

AFC:

• Pittsburgh over New England at 10-2 on common games, won't matter in two weeks as they play.
• Tennessee is the 3 at 8-4 (and Jacksonville the 5) because of Tennessee beating Jacksonville earlier.
• The AFC West is now a 6-6 clusterfuck.  The Chiefs, Raiders, and Chargers are 6-6.  The Chiefs have the 4 seed right now on division record.
• Baltimore is the 6 with an untiebreaker 7-5.  Meaning every AFC team over .500 is in the playoffs, and one of the 6-6s.
• There are four AFC teams that are 6-6, three more that are 5-7.

NFC:

• Minnesota now has the 1 seed over Philly at 10-2 after Philly's loss Sunday night -- common games is the tiebreaker.
• The Rams have the 3 seed and New Orleans the 4 at 9-3 because the Rams beat the Saints.
• Seattle and Carolina are the two wild-cards at 8-4, Seattle has the 5 on conference record.
• Seattle and Carolina do not play, nor do Minnesota and Philadelphia.