606 Points In A Season

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Wow, the passing data is really interesting. I wonder what happened in 1947 to throw the yardage numbers up so quickly. I don't think it would be AAFC thing, because I don't think their stats are included in NFL stats. And then around 1968 they hit the skids, and again I'm not sure why. There's likely an AFL effect, but the pattern doesn't seem to match exactly.

You have the same bulge in TD passes per game, which again doesn't exactly match the AFL era or the AAFC era. How weird.

Some speculation on reasons are here:

http://www.advancednflstats.com/2010...-analysis.html