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Most leagues begin their playoffs in Week 15. However, some will start in Week 14 or even Week 13 if it's a tournament format. We have reached the point in the season where you have at least one more week, and maybe two, to jockey for positioning in your league's playoff bracket. Fantasy Football post-Thanksgiving is when you want to have your roster primed for postseason play.
Next week, I'll share my thoughts on how to win in the playoffs. What strategies can you use? What matchups should you target? What resources can help you put your team over the top, plus much more? This week, let's dig into some helpful, revealing, interesting stats and tidbits that you can file away as nuggets of information for future weeks or a strategy that may be to your advantage next season. Plus, I have some interesting stats broken down by half for those who play player props with time-of-game allowances.
Did You Know?
- Three quarterbacks average 250+ passing yards per game AND have a completion percentage of 70%+
- Tua Tagovailoa, Miami
- Baker Mayfield, Tampa Bay
- Jared Goff, Detroit
- Patrick Mahomes II has 5 game-winning drives this season. He had 2 all of last year.
- The team allowing the most passing yards in the league is Baltimore (8-4) and the team allowing the fewest passing yards is Tennessee (3-8). One is a playoff team and the other is not.
- Detroit has allowed the fewest passing touchdowns (7), while Houston has allowed the most (24).
- Of the 22 teams who have allowed at least 2,300 yards passing. Only Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Chicago have allowed less than 10 passing touchdowns.
- Detroit has two times as many defensive interceptions (14) as passing touchdowns allowed (7). The Saints and Steelers are the only other teams to have intercepted more passes than touchdown passess allowed.
- Atlanta allows a 71.6% completion percentage on pass plays. Two other teams allow 70%+, Jacksonville (70.9%) and NY Giants (70.8%).
- The Chargers have allowed two rushing touchdowns to running backs this season. One to Samaje Perine in Week 4 and one to Justice Hill in Week 12. For both, its the only rushing touchdown they have scored all year.
- The Raiders, Dolphins, and Saints each allow 2.64 field goal attempts per game. Most in the league.
- The Jaguars have not allowed a two-point conversion in four attempts.
- The Buccaneers (5-6) have the highest point differential (+36) of any team with a losing record. Other teams with a losing record with a positive point differential include: Chicago (+4), New Orleans (+2), and Cincinnati (+1)
- No team has more interceptions thrown than touchdown passes, but Seattle, Las Vegas, and Carolina each have the same number of touchdowns passes to interceptions with 12.
- The Bills are the only team with a 100% conversion rate on two-point conversion attempts. They are 1-for-1. The Giants are a league-worst 0-for-6.
- The Bills and Commanders are both 12-for-14 on fourth down conversions (85.7%), tops in the league. The Dolphins are 5-for-18 (27.8%), lowest in the league.
- Darnell Mooney has the most receptions (48) for any player with a sub-60% catch rate.
- Travis Kelce has the most receptions of any player with a sub-10.0 yards per catch (8.4).
- Travis Kelce is also the only player older than age 25 with at least 60 receptions.
- 10 players have at least 100 total tackles and three of the top five are Indianapolis Colts - Zaire Franklin, Nick Cross, and E.J. Speed.
- Houston DE Danielle Hunter leads the NFL with 15 tackles for a loss. He had five of them in Week 12 against Tennessee.