Chart assignment

Charts to read and discuss

Read each chart, then answer its questions. Every chart shows its source and date; open it for a table of the numbers and the data to download.

  1. How many points does an NFL team score per game?

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How many points does an NFL team score per game?

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An NFL team scored 23.0 points a game on average in the 2025 regular season, up from 20.8 in 1999. The high since 1999 was 24.8, in 2020; in 2020, a season played mostly in empty stadiums, it was 24.8. The chart starts in 1999, the first season in nflverse's data.

Questions to discuss

  1. In one sentence of your own, what does this chart show?
  2. Find the biggest change or difference in the chart. What might explain it?
  3. Who collected these numbers, and how recent are they? What else would you want to know before drawing a conclusion?

Source: nflverse, NFL schedules and scores (nflverse-data) (CC BY 4.0 (nflverse)) · Data as of Jan 4, 2026

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