Tapp-ing into the Numbers 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 14)
By JERRY TAPP
The Packers and Denver were tied 10-10 at halftime in their preseason game last night. The Broncos went on to win the game 20-17.
In the Mike McCarthy era (from 2006-current), the Packers have not been a very good team when a game is tied at halftime. Since McCarthy took over the helm in ’06, the team is 3-7 (.300 winning percentage) in games that are tied at halftime. They are 2-4 on the road and 1-3 in those games. In fact, the Packers have lost seven of their last eight games when the game was tied at halftime.
Here are the winning percentages of each of the 32 NFL team in games that were tied at halftime (2006-16).
Cincinnati, .875; Minnesota, .846.
Detroit, .778; Arizona, .733; Denver, .700.
Atlanta, .667; Carolina, .667; Indianapolis, .667; Houston, .600.
Dallas, .571; San Diego, .571; Tennessee, .556; Oakland, .556; New England, .538; Pittsburgh, .538; New York Giants, .500.
Buffalo, .455; Jacksonville, .444; Miami, .429; Philadelphia, .429; Baltimore, .417; San Francisco, .417; New Orleans, .400.
Chicago, .389; Washington, .368; Los Angeles Rams, .364; New York Jets, .357; Cleveland, .333; Green Bay, .300.
Seattle, .214
Kansas City, .167; Tampa Bay, .143
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.