Tapp-ing into the Numbers: 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 32)
By JERRY TAPP
Football fans know that turnovers can play a significant role in the success (or lack of success) of an NFL team.
Last season the Packers were 9-2 in games when they had one or no turnovers in a game. In games where they had two or more turnovers, their record was 1-4 in 2016.
Over the last seven seasons (2010-16), the Pack’s winning percentage was .804 in games where they have zero or just one turnover in a game (the NFL winning percentage for teams that had zero or one turnover in a game from 2010-16 was .657). In games from 2010-16 where Green Bay had two or more turnovers in a game, their winning percentage was .447 (the NFL average was .306).
With each turnover, the chance of an NFL team winning a game decreases. Again, taking games from 2010-16, here’s a breakdown of winning percentages of NFL teams when they had 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 or more turnovers in a game.
Winning percentage of all NFL teams, 20010-16
0 turnovers .775 (Green Bay .866)
1 turnover .565 (Green Bay .727)
2 turnovers .393 (Green Bay .556)
3 turnovers .255 (Green Bay .143)
4 or more turnovers .126 (Green Bay .250)
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.