Tapp-ing into the Numbers: 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 31)
By JERRY TAPP
When the Packers lost to the Washington Redskins 42-24 in a Week 11 game last season, the Pack’s record was a dismal 4-6. The chances of a 10-win season looked rather slim.
We all know what happened … they won six straight, finished at 10-6 and won the NFC Central.
The 10 wins last season was the 12th time this century that the Packers had won 10 or more games in a season. That is the most of any NFC team since 2000. The New England Patriots have won 10 or more games in 15 of the 17 seasons from 2000-16 to top the list.
Here’s a look at the number of 10-win seasons each franchise has had since 2000.
15: New England
13: Indianapolis
12: Green Bay
11: Pittsburgh
10: Philadelphia
9: Baltimore
8: Denver, Seattle
7: New York Giants
6: Atlanta, Cincinnati, Kansas City, New Orleans
5: Carolina, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Minnesota, N.Y. Jets, San Francisco, Tennessee
4: Arizona, San Diego/L.A. Chargers, Oakland, Tampa Bay
3: L.A. Rams
2: Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Washington
1: Cleveland
0: Buffalo
Jerry Tapp
Jerry Tapp is a freelance writer from Racine, WI with a major concentration on sports statistics and numbers that define sports teams and players. He began his foray into sports stats-focused writing as a regular contributor to the “Numbers” column in Inside Sports magazine in the mid-1980’s and then began writing a weekly “Stats on Tapp” column for the Racine Journal Times. That column was eventually nationally syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. He later wrote sports stats items for the Washington Post under the “Stat of the Day” heading. After launching his blog, www.statsontapp.com in 2011, Jerry turned his sports stats attention to sports websites. He wrote regularly for Bleacher Report, BallHyped, football.com and Heavy.com. Today he keeps busy writing weekly columns of stats-centric articles for three sports websites, Today’s Pigskin (NFL), Today’s Knuckleball (MLB) and Today’s Fastbreak (NBA), and as a monthly contributor to the Milwaukee Brewers “GameDay” publication that is distributed to fans attending games at Miller Park.