You’d rather be lucky than good. That’s the old saying.
Right now, the Pittsburgh Steelers are lucky. But they sure aren’t any good.
A new statistical analysis attempted to quantify “luck” through two key categories. Opponents dropped interceptions and dropped targets. Essentially trying to see how many times a team benefitted from the defense dropping would-be picks while the opposing offense dropped passes. They also look at field goals and extra points attempted by the opposition and fumble recoveries by both teams.
In data released by Tom Bliss on Thursday, the Steelers were deemed the NFL’s “luckiest” club with a score of 2.