If you thought that NFL games across the league this week were abnormally close in terms of the final score, you were absolutely right. In fact, there were so many close games in the NFL this week that it set a new league-wide record.
According to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, 15 of the 16 NFL games had a one-score margin in the fourth quarter, which sets a new all-time league record. While not all of those games necessarily finished as one-core games, the fact that they were all within one score in the game’s final quarter points to a heightened level of parity across the league.
And it wasn’t just this week, there has been insane parity across the NFL all season. As Florio also points out, 50 of 64 contests have been within one score during the fourth quarter through the first four weeks of the NFL season, which is another NFL record.
You can see this parity in the scores, but also in the team records. After four weeks of football, half the teams currently sit with a 2-2 record.
We’ll have to see if this parity will continue throughout the rest of the season or if some teams will start to pull away from the pack.
