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Nfl win totals3/1/2023 ![]() “The lowest totals in the 17-game slate are Lions and Texans at 5, Jets and Jaguars at 6, and the Bengals at 6.5. ![]() “ The Chiefs lead the way with a total of 12 followed by the Bucs at 11.5, Packers and Ravens at 11, and Bills and Rams at 10.5,” Stetz said. Over at BetRivers, Stetz has also seen the Jets take a pounding on the under in the early going. Then there’s the Jets - we started them at 6, brought them up to 6.5, and that’s been bet under as well.” For the Colts, we started them at 9, but boosted them up to 10, and that’s been bet under. “We moved the Washington team from 7.5 to 8, and that’s also been bet over. “We put the Browns up at 9 wins at first, bumped it to 9.5 after the announcement, and that’s been bet over,” Avello said. Questions like these aside, the sportsbooks still have to come up with a win total for each team, and already, some five months out, there is movement afoot. “Will that hold? Will there be two weeks with some teams not having much to play for?” “We’re used to the 17th week sometimes not meaning anything,” Avello said. Add another week, and the potential for a runaway team to have salted home field away with two games to go certainly is in the realm of possibility - as is a lousy team tanking earlier than normal for draft position. As it stands now, week 17 (game 16) often features teams with nothing to play for. “We’re so used to doing 16, and you throw another week in there, and it should be a fairly easy calculation, but then we start thinking about it and it’s not as straightforward.”Īvello points to the lack of a fourth preseason game as one part of the equation, but he’s more interested in what that extra week might mean for the more dominant NFL teams. “It’s kind of a different mindset for myself and my team,” said Johnny Avello, the sportsbook chief at DraftKings. So already, on home field advantage alone, those AFC teams tick up a bit. “ The AFC teams benefit slightly more than the NFC teams as they are all home games in that extra week,” pointed out Mattias Stetz, the chief operating officer at Rush Street Interactive, which operates BetRivers. NFC teams will have eight home games this year, whereas AFC teams will have nine. ![]() Each year, the divisions will rotate, but for this year, the AFC East is facing off against the NFC East, the NFC West against the AFC North, the NFC South facing off with the AFC South, and NFC North going up against the AFC West, with the division winners taking on each other, the second place teams doing battle, and so forth.Īlready, there are noticeable differences, specifically home field advantage. The extra game - and whom each team plays - is causing bookmakers a little more hand-wringing then they’re used to at this time of year.Īs far as the extra game goes, the NFL schedule-makers made it relatively straightforward: They are inter-divisional games, with individual divisions in one conference playing another division in the other conference, with last year’s standings as the barometer for who plays whom. Anyway … )Ĭhanging the amount of games each team plays for the first time in four decades has had an effect on the sports betting world, specifically win totals. So yes: Forty-three years is a lot of time. Not that the rushing output was much better, as Doug Russell of the Chicago Cardinals paced the league with 499 yards. (Quick aside, and a guarantee to make you feel old: While 43 years is clearly a long time, if you go back 43 years from 1978, it’s 1935, and Ed Danowski of the 9-3 New York Giants led the NFL in passing with 794 yards. Forty-three years later, the NFL braintrust has tinkered again, bringing the regular season to 17 games this year. ![]() The last time the NFL tinkered with the regular season schedule was 1978, when the league went from 14 to 16 games. ![]()
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