Tapp-ing into the Numbers: 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 36)
By JERRY TAPP
Winning at home is a big part of success in the NFL. For the Packers, winning their eight games each year at Lambeau has been a source of pride for the team.
From 2010 to 2016 (the last seven seasons), NFL teams playing at home have won 56.9 percent of all regular season games (1017-770-5). Leading the way were the New England Patriots who in the last seven years were 49-7 at home, a .875 winning percentage. Second on the list … the Green Bay Packers at 45-10-1 (.813). They were the only two teams that had a winning percentage over .800 at home from 2010-2016.
Following are the home winning percentages of each NFL team from 2010-2016.
New England .875 … Green Bay .813 … Seattle .768 … Baltimore .750 … Pittsburgh .714 … Denver .696 … Arizona .670 … New Orleans .643 … Atlanta .625 … Cincinnati .625 … Indianapolis .625 … Kansas City .607
San Francisco .598 … Houston .589 … Minnesota .589 … Detroit .571 … New York Giants .571 … Carolina .554… New York Jets .536 … San Diego .536… Buffalo .518 … Dallas .500 … Philadelphia .500
Miami .482 … Chicago .464 … Oakland .464 … St. Louis/L.A. Rams .429 … Washington .429 … Tennessee .393 … Cleveland .357 … Jacksonville .357 … Tampa Bay .357.
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.