Many sports fans and sports media are huge nerds. Many of us love statistics, and it’s one of the main reasons we got into sports in the first place.

Statistical coincidences are even more fascinating – the correlations that we might want to believe are possibly causal, but are almost certainly false.

Here’s another one for you as the NFL postseason begins this weekend.

Everyone knows that the Ravens win the Super Bowl every 12 years by scoring 34 points with a 28-year-old quarterback

2001: 34-7 with Dilfer (28)
2013: 34-31 with Flacco (28)
2025: 34-? with Jackson (28)

– Stuckey (@Stuckey2) January 7, 2025

Stuckey, who only goes by one name, like Drake or Neymar, is a sports expert on The Action Network.

He also pointed out a statistical trend here that every Ravens fan hopes continues. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t. We fixate on them when they remain faithful, but forget about them when they miss the boat.

You may have heard of the “Redskins Rule”: If the Washington Football Team/Commanders/Redskins win their last home game before a U.S. presidential election, the incumbent party wins.

However, this rule did not apply in November. It has now failed in three of the last four results, having been sustained 19 times in a row since 1936.

Or you can use the Kentucky Wildcats-New York Yankees title phrase. Kentucky won the NCAA Tournament in 1949, 1951, 1958, 1978, 1996 and 1998. And the Yankees won the World Series in all six years.

But what if Kentucky had won it all in 1948 and 2012? The Yankees did not win the World Series title in either of those years, so the rule is not always followed.