The Rarity Of Football Scores

The Numbers Guy at the Wall Street Journal has a great post about football scores.  My favorite part:
Did you know that teams win more often when they score 13 points than when they score 14? It’s a cause-effect thing. In order to get 13, you (usually) need two field goals. And teams don’t kick field goals if they’re down by 20 points. So teams lose 35-14 more often than they lose 35-13. That’s why scoring 13 is better correlated with winning than scoring 14 is.

 

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