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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?
- What is a general stat that defines a good quarterback? Consistent yardage and completion percentage. Drake Maye is the only quarterback with a 70% completion rate and an average of 250-plus yards passing per game. Here are the best in this category this season, sorted by completion percentage.
- Drake Maye, New England - 71.0%, 260.8 passing yards per game.
- Sam Darnold, Seattle - 69.5%, 253.2 passing yards per game.
- Dak Prescott, Dallas - 69.3%, 267.4 passing yards per game.
- Jared Goff, Detroit - 69.3%, 251.7 passing yards per game.
- Daniel Jones, Indianapolis - 69.1%, 258.2 passing yards per game.
- Patrick Mahomes II had five game-winning drives last season. He has one this year.
- The Texans have more interceptions on defense (12) than passing touchdowns allowed (10).
- Breece Hall has the most rushing yards (766) of any running back with two or fewer rushing touchdowns.
- Carolina has allowed only 10 first downs by penalty. Fewest in the league, and they have played more games than most (12) due to their Week 14 bye.
- One out of every five drives against the Bears results in a turnover (20%).
- Denver is the only team not to allow double-digit touchdown passes this season. They have allowed nine in 11 games.
- Of the six quarterbacks with double-digit interceptions, Sam Darnold has the highest quarterback rating at 106.2.
- Christian McCaffrey has nearly 100 more PPR fantasy points (311.1) than Puka Nacua (212.0).
- Miami is the only team to have allowed greater than a 70% completion percentage on pass plays. (72.9%).
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba is on pace for 2,029 yards receiving. He has eight 100-yard games this season. His lowest outing was 79 yards.
- Myles Garrett has more sacks (18.0) than San Francisco (13), Cincinnati (15), and Carolina (16).
- In 2024, Cleveland DE Garrett led the league with 22 TFLs. He has 26 currently, with six games to go.
- New England has the worst red zone touchdown allowed percentage in the league at 73.1%. In 26 red zone appearances, New England has allowed 19 touchdowns. The best is Denver at 35.7% (10 touchdowns allowed in 35 red zone appearances).
- Denver has also allowed 25 made field goals, tied for the most with the Jets.
- The Panthers' -53 point differential is the lowest of any team with at least six wins.
- Matthew Stafford has the same amount of passing yards (1,415) in the first half as he does in the second half.
- Indianapolis, LA Rams, Dallas, and New England are all scoring over 1.0 more touchdowns per game than last season.
- Pittsburgh leads the league in yards per point scored at 11.7.
- The Vikings are the only team with more interceptions (15) than touchdown passes (13).
- The Buccaneers are 1-for-7 on two-point conversion attempts. The Rams, Seahawks, and Titans are the only teams not to attempt a two-point conversion.
- The Colts (32) and Rams (31) have more red zone touchdowns than the following eight teams have red zone appearances (Tennessee, NY Jets, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Washington, New Orleans, and Cincinnati).
- Tetairoa McMillan has the most receptions (56) for any player with a sub-60% catch rate.
- Green Bay leads the league with 10.6 points per game in the 4th quarter
- Christian McCaffrey has the most receptions (81) of any player with a sub-10.0 yards per catch (9.7).
- Stefon Diggs (age 32) is the only player older than age 30 with at least 60 receptions.
- Eight players have at least 100 tackles, and the Lions' Jack Campbell is the only one on a team with six wins or more.