# Sorta strange football stat **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorta-strange-football-stat/383425 "2006-12-09T02:16:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorta-strange-football-stat/383425/1 "2006-12-09T02:16:34Z")
Seattle Seahawks 8 wins- 4 losses 260 points scored - 263 points given up. Any slightly skewed stats you want to share? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorta-strange-football-stat/383425/2 "2006-12-09T04:44:46Z")
You should check out Gregg Easterbrook’s “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” column at [ESPN.com](http://ESPN.com). He does that sort of thing weekly. Here was last week’s: > [@](#): > > Stat of the Week No. 1: In the past two weeks, Tennessee has trailed by a combined 35-0, then outscored opponents by a combined 44-3. > > Stat of the Week No. 2: Chicago had twice as many return yards (222) as offensive yards (111). > > Stat of the Week No. 3: Seattle is 8-4 and has been outscored by opponents this season. > > Stat of the Week No. 4: Terrell Owens leads the league in dropped passes. > > Stat of the Week No. 5: Tom Brady is 21-1 on artificial turf – and artificial turf was just installed at Gillette Field. > > Stat of the Week No. 6: After allowing 65 points in Weeks 10 and 11, the Bengals allowed seven points in Weeks 12 and 13. > > Stat of the Week No. 7: Denver has played six games after dark and six in daylight. > > Stat of the Week No. 8: Houston had more return yards (213) than offensive yards (124). > > Stat of the Week No. 9: Detroit, at 2-10, has outscored Denver, at 7-5, this season. > > Stat of the Week No. 10: The 13 punts in the first half of Eagles-Panthers game Monday night were a record for a half. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorta-strange-football-stat/383425/3 "2006-12-09T07:47:25Z")
You should also check out the [pro-football-reference.com blog](http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/wordpress/); 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](http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/wordpress/?p=192). Also check out the recent (mystifying) post on [Benford’s Law](http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/wordpress/?p=199). ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorta-strange-football-stat/383425/4 "2006-12-09T16:15:20Z")
Thanks for the links,I will use them a bunch. In the preseason poll of [USA Today’s](http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/rankingsindex?pollId=null&weekNumber=1&seasonYear=2006) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorta-strange-football-stat/383425/5 "2006-12-09T17:04:58Z")
That voter is Steve Spurrier. Every year in the preseason poll he votes Duke at #25. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorta-strange-football-stat/383425/6 "2006-12-09T19:44:21Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] I was also wondering if an eventual Super Bowl winner has ever been shutout during the regular season. [/QUOTE] 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.