How games are won

Wire to wire is nearly the norm

Holds upThe record backs this up, season after season.

This one is in the FanIQ library with the full rule, the reason it works, and every season we checked.

Held in 27 of 27 seasons, from 6,949 records measured.

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First BloodThe team that scores first wins nearly two thirds of the time, the first team to twenty wins six times in seven, and almost half of all winners never trail at all. The comeback is the highlight reel, not the norm.

FanIQ carries this one in full: the rule itself, why it works, the season-by-season record, and the related laws.