NFL Projected Game Scores - Week 17 2020

By Andy Troiano · December 31, 2020

This post is going to be a weekly re-occurring post where we’ll provide the projected scores for each NFL game. Right now, we have three different models for our game-specific predictions. This might cause some disagreement between the picks for the spreads, game-winners, and game scores. The solution to this is creating a more complex model that predicts all of them at the same time. Creating one robust solution is our long term plan.

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NFL Game Score Predictions for Week 17 2020

<table> <thead> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;"> HomeTeam </th> <th style="text-align:left;"> AwayTeam </th> <th style="text-align:right;"> HomeTeamScore </th> <th style="text-align:right;"> AwayTeamScore </th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Buffalo Bills </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Miami Dolphins </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 32 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 21 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Cincinnati Bengals </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Baltimore Ravens </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 19 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 28 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Cleveland Browns </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Pittsburgh Steelers </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 30 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 20 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Detroit Lions </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Minnesota Vikings </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 19 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 23 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> New England Patriots </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> New York Jets </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 24 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 16 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> New York Giants </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Dallas Cowboys </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 23 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 19 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Tampa Bay Buccaneers </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Atlanta Falcons </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 30 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 19 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Carolina Panthers </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> New Orleans Saints </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 25 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 20 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Chicago Bears </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Green Bay Packers </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 26 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 22 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Indianapolis Colts </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Jacksonville Jaguars </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 29 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 19 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Houston Texans </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Tennessee Titans </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 21 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 26 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Kansas City Chiefs </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Los Angeles Chargers </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 27 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 20 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Denver Broncos </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Las Vegas Raiders </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 24 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 23 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Los Angeles Rams </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Arizona Cardinals </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 24 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 20 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> San Francisco 49ers </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Seattle Seahawks </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 23 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 21 </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"> Philadelphia Eagles </td> <td style="text-align:left;"> Washington Football Team </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 19 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> 22 </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Score Ranges

Below is a graph containing the 1 standard deviation of possible scores for a game. 68% of each team’s scores should fall between the leftmost and rightmost values.

This is useful for a few reasons:

  1. A broad range between the max and min, the less confident our model is about the final game score.
  2. You can see the overlap between outcomes and infer (I will work on using statistics to give you the probabilities) the number of results that would lead to a team winning and losing.

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