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Adjusted NFL Pace and Pass Rate Report: Ranking Week 6's Fastest Games

Pace and pass rate can tell us a lot about offensive tendencies for NFL teams, but you'll often find some flawed ways of analyzing such data.

Teams that are trailing will -- naturally -- be inclined both to play faster and throw more often than they may initially want to do.

Conversely, perhaps quick, pass-heavy teams are getting out to big leads and are then slowing things down in the fourth quarter and grinding clock.

These will affect raw outputs for team data, so I wanted to account for that.

That's why I'm presenting both pace (seconds per play) and pass rate while looking only at plays on which a team's pre-snap win probability (as designated by nflfastR's live win models) was between 20% and 80%.

Here are the results through Week 5.

Passes and Rushes
When Win
Probability is 20-80%
Seconds/
Play
Rank Pass
Rate
Rank
DAL 26.4 1 57.0% 21
NE 27.4 2 65.1% 4
ATL 28.0 3 60.6% 14
LAC 28.2 4 66.0% 2
CHI 28.4 5 46.9% 32
WAS 28.6 6 57.1% 20
MIN 28.6 7 61.2% 12
PHI 28.8 8 63.2% 7
ARI 28.9 9 60.2% 15
HOU 29.2 10 49.0% 30
TB 29.2 11 69.4% 1
SEA 29.3 12 52.5% 25
NYG 29.5 13 58.3% 19
JAX 29.5 14 51.4% 27
TEN 29.5 15 52.9% 24
MIA 29.7 16 65.6% 3
LA 29.8 17 61.2% 11
KC 29.8 18 59.3% 18
NO 29.9 19 51.9% 26
LV 30.5 20 65.0% 5
BUF 30.7 21 61.8% 9
CLE 31.2 22 50.6% 28
SF 31.2 23 52.9% 23
CIN 31.3 24 60.1% 16
NYJ 31.5 25 56.8% 22
DET 31.5 26 47.7% 31
BAL 31.8 27 49.6% 29
CAR 32.1 28 59.5% 17
PIT 32.1 29 63.0% 8
IND 32.2 30 60.7% 13
DEN 32.5 31 63.3% 6
GB 32.5 32 61.4% 10
NFL Average 29.9 58.4%

Week 6 Lookahead

Here's a look at next week's games in terms of average pace and pass rate. The table is initially sorted by average offensive pace, so the higher the game, the faster it should be -- and the more plays we should anticipate.

Game Away
Pace
Home
Pace
Avg.
Pace
Rank Away
Pass%
Home
Pass%
Avg.
Pass%
Rank
DAL@NE 26.4 27.4 26.9 1 57.0% 65.1% 61.1% 3
TB@PHI 29.2 28.8 29.0 2 69.4% 63.2% 66.3% 1
KC@WAS 29.8 28.6 29.2 3 59.3% 57.1% 58.2% 7
MIA@JAX 29.7 29.5 29.6 4 65.6% 51.4% 58.5% 6
LA@NYG 29.8 29.5 29.6 5 61.2% 58.3% 59.8% 5
LAC@BAL 28.2 31.8 30.0 6 66.0% 49.6% 57.8% 8
ARI@CLE 28.9 31.2 30.0 7 60.2% 50.6% 55.4% 11
BUF@TEN 30.7 29.5 30.1 8 61.8% 52.9% 57.3% 10
MIN@CAR 28.6 32.1 30.3 9 61.2% 59.5% 60.4% 4
GB@CHI 32.5 28.4 30.4 10 61.4% 46.9% 54.1% 13
HOU@IND 29.2 32.2 30.7 11 49.0% 60.7% 54.8% 12
SEA@PIT 29.3 32.1 30.7 12 52.5% 63.0% 57.8% 9
CIN@DET 31.3 31.5 31.4 13 60.1% 47.7% 53.9% 14
LV@DEN 30.5 32.5 31.5 14 65.0% 63.3% 64.1% 2

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