2020 NFL Week 12 Score Report

• Scoring average for the week:  47.3125 -- scoring definitely coming down the last three weeks.
• For the season (177 of a scheduled 256 games played):  8,771 points scored for an average of 49.554.

Record Watch:

Two seasons ago, the NFL had a record scoring season of an average of 46.727 points per game and a total of 11,962 points.

To break that record, the NFL needs 3,192 points in it's last 79 games (or adjust to taste if the coronavirus finally nails unimportant teams to the point games are called off).  That's an average of  40.41 PPG.

At the current season average, the record will be broken in the second game of Week 17.

The all-time per-game average is 47.2 -- and I forget the year it was done, but it was a year in which far fewer teams were in the NFL, and you'd have to pay Pro Football Reference to find out now.  grumbles 

The NFL is now 417 points ahead of THAT number, and that record would fall sometime in the early games of Week 17.

Scary thought:  This week was the third-lowest average of the year (there have been two other higher 47.3x averages).  It STILL beat the 47.2 record.

• Home teams were 6-10 for the week, 91-85-1 for the year.
• The Over was 6-10 this week, 88-85-4 for the year.
• Favorites:  5-10-1 against the Vegas spread.  73-98-3 for the year.
• Straight Up:  11-5.  115-58-1 for the season.
• Team with more penalties was actually 9-5 this week for 68-84-1 for the season.
• And, again, penalties are up as the scoring comes down.  195 penalties this week for 12.2 penalties per game.   2041 for the season, 11.5 per game.
• Three Cliffhangers (MIN TD 0:45 left, and NE and SF with field goals at the gun) this week.  33 for the year.
• Half the 16 games this week, eight, were within one score.
• 6 non-competitive games for 53 total.
• 3 Last Chance Misses for 56 total.