- They fell short of the weekly record as a couple of low-scoring late afternoon and evening games left the NFL with 838 points for the week, 21 short of the record. An average of 52.375 points per game.
- Home teams were 7-9 this week.
- The Over was 10-6.
- Vegas favorites were 7-9 against the spread this week, even though only two favorites lost (14-2 straight up)
- Team with more penalties was 8-6, but only 140 penalties were accepted this week, 8 2/3 a game.
- 2 Cliffhangers, including a triple cliffhanger for the AFC South!
- 7 games finished within eight points
- 4 non-competitive games
- 4 Last Chance Misses.
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And now for the big stories of at least the NFL at large for the regular season:
- Unlike two years ago, the NFL largely sustained it's major push to up the scoring, and, as a result, broke all feasible season scoring records for the league at large.
- The 12,692 points scored this year were a record (set two years ago) by a full 730 points.
- The 49.578 average was an all-time record for the league by nearly 2.4 points, breaking the record set in 1940.
- One of the major pushes the league will have once it is safe for fans to come back? Home teams were actually one game below .500 in largely empty (and the rest reduced) stadiums. 127-128-1.
- The over, showing Vegas adapted well to the new NFL reality, was only 126-124-6.
- Favorites shit the bed against the spread this year (112-137-1), though they won at a nice clip (172-79-1).
- The big news aiding the scoring was fewer penalties this year. 2,882 accepted penalties this year, down 560, over 2 a game, from last year. 11.1 penalties per game.
- The team with more penalties in a given game was 101-116-1.
- 46 games ended in a Cliffhanger, where at least one tying or lead-changing score occurred within the last two minutes of the game.
- 136 games ended within one score, a margin of victory of 8 points or less.
- 77 games ended non-competitively, in which the losing team never got within that one score at any point in the fourth quarter.
- And 82 games ended with at least one final opportunity going by the boards for a team to tie or win the game, even if it was just an onside kick.
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I'll give some of this more of a deep dive later on.
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