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2017 Game Scripts: Results from all 534 games

There are 256 regular season games each year, plus 11 postseason games, for a total of 267 NFL games per season. This means there are 534 team games each year, which means 534 different Game Scripts and 534 different pass ratios. Here’s a graph of all pass ratios (on the Y-Axis) from 2017, marked against Game Scripts (on the X-Axis).  As you can see, as a team’s Game Script improves, its pass ratio tends to decrease.

And here were the results from every game in 2017:

And here were each team’s average Game Scripts, Pass Ratio, and Opponent’s Pass Ratio during the 2017 regular season. Note that I am taking an average of the per-game averages, which doesn’t mean much for Game Scripts, but it means it counts each game equally when calculating a season-long ratio. This will give a different result than simply adding up the total number of passing plays and rushing plays in a season.

The Rams played with the best Game Script of 2017, while the Browns had the worst.

What stands out to you?

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