Sorta strange football stat

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Seattle Seahawks

8 wins- 4 losses

260 points scored - 263 points given up.

Any slightly skewed stats you want to share?

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You should check out Gregg Easterbrook’s “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” column at ESPN.com. He does that sort of thing weekly. Here was last week’s:

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You should also check out the pro-football-reference.com blog; it’s run by a guy who’s a serious statistician, and he comes up with incredible and fascinating statistical stuff about NFL football five days a week.

My recent favorite: 13 points is better than 14 points. Also check out the recent (mystifying) post on Benford’s Law.

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Thanks for the links,I will use them a bunch.

In the preseason poll of USA Today’s college football rankings, Duke received one vote…Duke,who finished 0-12.Why does that voter get a ballot?

I was also wondering if an eventual Super Bowl winner has ever been shutout during the regular season.

This thread doesn’t have to be just football,any sport will do,share your stats.

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That voter is Steve Spurrier. Every year in the preseason poll he votes Duke at #25.

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That one’s easy. The, um, second time the Pats won the Super Bowl - so the 2003 Regular Season - they opened the year with a 31-0 loss to the Buffalo Bills. This was right after Lawyer Milloy was cut by the Pats about a week before the season started, and was immediately signed by the Bills and started in the opening day game. Coming off a 9-7 season the year before (and a three-way-tie for first in the AFC East that left them out of the playoffs on tiebreakers), there was all sorts of crazy stuff written and said about the team - most notably, I believe Tom Jackson said on one of ESPN’s big programs that the team “hates Belichick”.

The Pats, of course, finished the regular season 14-2 (having not lost since week 4 against the Redskins, and in the midst of the longest winning streak in NFL history) and won the Super Bowl. The last game of the regular season was a 31-0 win over Buffalo.