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title: "James' R Blog: NFL Scorelines"
author: "curleyjp0"
date: "2021-10-03T22:11:33Z"
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Which NFL scores have never happened? There have been over 16,860 games of professional American Football. There have been some rule changes to the points scoring system over that time, but clearly some scores are going to be more likely than others. As a touchdown plus extra point is worth 7, we’d expect a higher amount of games with multiples of 7 in the scoreline. Similarly, we’d expect more scorelines with multiples of 3 (the number of extra points). Given the large number of games already played, we would expect that it would be rare for unique, never happened before, scorelines to ...
