Through Wednesdayâs play, 2015 games have averaged about two hours and 56 minutes, according to Baseball Prospectus. If that holds, it will be the first season since 2011 with an average game length under three hours. Last seasonâs games averaged three hours and eight minutes, an all-time high. The 12-minute difference may not seem like much on a game-to-game basis, but over the course of a 162-game season, it means more than 32 fewer hours of gameplay per team â and 32 fewer hours in front of the TV for dedicated fans.
Since 2001, New England had made the playoffs twelve times, reaching the Super Bowl, incredibly, in half of those seasons. The Patriots have won the Super bowl four times over this fourteen-year span, which made me wonder: how many Super Bowls *should* the Patriots have won? This could be measured in a few ways.
Follow BI. You have successfully emailed the post. 13 NFL teams have still never won a Super Bowl. With two weeks to go in the regular season, the New England Patriots (30%) and the Dallas Cowboys (18%) are the favorites to win the Super Bowl, according to FiveThirtyEight. It would be the fifth Super Bowl win for the Patriots and the record-tying sixth for the Cowboys, suggesting once again that that there is not as much parity in the NFL as they would like you to believe.