The 2019 AFC Championship Game between the New England Patriots and the Kansas City Chiefs was an instant classic, a back-and-forth between the conference’s two best games with a Super Bowl on the line. But which plays swayed the outcome the most and helped the Patriots, who entered the game with a 43.0% chance of winning, come away victoriously? There were plenty of them, as the win probability chart shows:
Let’s take a closer look at the changes in win probability to find out which plays were the pivotal ones (percentages via NumberFire).