Tapp-ing into the Numbers 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 11)
By JERRY TAPP
In the Mike McCarthy era (2006-16), the Packers have the best winning percentage against the AFC West (Denver, Kansas City, Oakland and San Diego), a .833 winning percentage … a 10-2 record.
Here is McCarthy’s regular season record versus the eight NFL divisions from 2006-16:
AFC West 10-2 .833
NFC North 48-17-1 .735
NFC West 16-7 .696
NFC East 14-9 .609
NFC South 10-10 .500
AFC East 6-6 .500
AFC South 6-6 .500
AFC North 4-4 .500
In addition to the six games the Pack will play against their division opponents in 2017, the Packers this season will face the four teams from the NFC South and the four teams in the AFC North.
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.