2021 NFL Week 11 Score Report

• Another down week for the scoring:  43.87 for the 15 games this week.  (Last year:  45.5)
• Season average:  46.248  (Last year:  49.78)
• Home teams were 7-8 this week.  Season:  79-82-1.  (Last year:  9-5 for 85-75-1.)
• Over was 5-10 for 70-93-2 for the year.  (Last year:  6-8 for 82-75-4)
• Favorites actually won the week per games:  8-7 against the number, 10-5 straight up.  For the season:  ATS:  70-92-1.  SU:  97-65-1.  (Last year:  ATS:  6-8 for 68-88-2.  SU:  8-6 for 104-53-1.)
• Team with more penalties was actually 8-5 this week!  70-74 for the year.  (Last year:  7-7 for 59-79)
• 179 penalties in the 15 games this week -- one of the lighter weeks of the season at just under 12 a game.  2,067 in the 165 games played so far in 2021 season.  (12.55 per game)  (Last year:  176 in 14 games (12.58 per game) for a total of 1,846 in 161 games (11.47 per game))
• Two Cliffhangers this week.  37 for the year (Last year:  4 for 30)
• Only six of the 15 games finished within one score.  75 for the year (45.5%)  (Last year:  10 for 87 (54%).
• Six non-competitive games for 63 for the year.  (Last year:  6 for 47)
• And 3 Last Chance Misses for 36 total (Last year:  6 for 53)

QUITE A FEW INTERESTING SIDE NUMBERS:

Can you guess the outlier on this one:

• 2021:  75 vs 63
• 2020:  87 vs 47
• 2019:  84 vs 52
• 2018:  85 vs 56
• 2017:  76 vs 55
• 2016:  64 vs 38
• 2015:  93 (!!!) vs. 49

If you don't figure out what those numbers are, read the first part of this post again and start asking some real questions about what the NFL is trying to cover up.

• And in doing so, NBC helped the NFL move the figurative goalposts.  During the latter portion of the Sunday Night game, NBC flashed a graphic from the NFL:  23 games in 11 weeks have been decided on the last play -- a Super Bowl-era NFL record for the period of the first 11 weeks of the season.  (With the "last minute and overtime" record from 2015 rapidly disappearing in the mirror, the NFL is moving the goalposts here...)
• To give you how bad the NFL has gotten:  Stats from Weeks 9, 10, and 11 -- the weekends of November 7th, 14th, and 21st:  

1. 43 games played
2. Only SIXTEEN have ended within one score.
3. And NINETEEN have, at no point after the end of the third quarter, gotten within one score!!!