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I must say, I love the Box Score Brain idea of just pointing out weird stuff for no reason. I'm here for it! This is sports for fact-obsessed nerds like myself.

I already knew that all of these impactful punts were going to take place in OT, but what I didn't know was how many of them were going to be in ties. I suppose it makes sense. Punts are really efficient at causing ties, and in the event of a tie, it should be the case that punts come out to shine, but it's still interesting to me that football games can be backed into the corner of a punt being able to almost 100% prevent a loss. Tip your cap to the clutch punters out there. These were big pressure moments! The biggest pressure moments in NFL history by WPA.

Good article brother. I love odd statistical quirks like this.

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