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Originally posted by w_sohl
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Originally posted by Jim S
One thing about statistics. The 51.8% of the OTs that were won by the team winning the toss, does that include games where the team winning the toss won after both teams had a possession?
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That includes all overtime games in the history of the NFL, so YES.
342 games:
177 wins by teams winning the toss (51.8%)
149 wins by teams losing the toss (43.6%)
16 ties ( 4.7%)
I know this totals 100.1%, but that is a product of rounding the decimals.
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Well my math tells me that when there is only one possession that the coin toss winner wins the game 100% of the time . So 48.2% of all games were not won by the coin toss winner. Probability would also say that not all of the 177 wins by the coin toss winner happened on the first possession. It is my guess that the game ended after only one possession more than 12 times so the numbers say that if the coin toss winner does not score on their first possession they are probably not going to win the game.