Atlanta had a really, really good offense this year. My favorite statistic: the Falcons had 59 drives end in a punt or a turnover, and 58 end in a touchdown. Atlanta averaged 3.03 points per drive this year, and yet, the offense has been even better in the playoffs.

There was no stopping Matt Ryan and the Falcons against Green Bay, as the group scored 44 points on 9 drives in the NFC Championship Game. In the division round, the Falcons scored 36 points on 9 or 10 drives against Seattle, depending on whether you want to treat the Falcons final drive of the game as a real drive. In two NFC playoff games, Atlanta’s offense has scored 10 touchdowns, seen 5 drives end on punts, 3 end on field goals, with zero turnovers and one drive end with the clock running out.

Scoring 80 points on 18 or 19 drives translates to an average of 4.21 or 4.44 points per drive. Take an average of those two numbers, and the offense is still averaging a whopping 4.32 points per drive. How remarkable is that? Well, it’s the best average for any of the 102 Super Bowl teams in their pre-Super Bowl playoff games.

The NFL has not historically recorded drive stats, so I previously wrote how one can estimate the number of offensive drives a team has in a game or season. I used that formula to measure the best playoff offenses entering the Super Bowl; unsurprisingly, the 1990 Bills were the previous hottest offense.

Against Miami in the division round, Buffalo had between 10 and 12 drives, depending on how you treat the final drives of the half (the Bills received the ball with 14 seconds left on their own 32, and took a knee) and the game (Buffalo received the ball with just over one minute to go, and ran three times for a first down to run out the clock). Those other ten drives ended as follows, in order: Touchdown, Field Goal, Field Goal, Touchdown, Touchdown, Interception, Field Goal, Touchdown, Touchdown, Punt. That’s 44 points on 10 real drives.

The next week, in the AFC Championship Game against the Raiders, the Bills had 11 or 12 drives, as the final drive of the game featured Buffalo taking a pair of knees to close out a 51-3 victory. The first 11 drives went: TD, TD, Interception, TD, missed FG, TD, TD, Punt, TD, FG, Punt. That’s 44 points (Buffalo also scored on a pick six, and one extra point was missed) on 11 drives.

That’s a total of 88 points on somewhere between 21 and 24 drives. My methodology measures the starts and ends of drives, and takes an average. You can read some detail in this footnote.

Even giving the Bills 21 drives — which again, is probably the right thing to do — that would put Buffalo at 4.19 points per drive, still shy of even the conservative result for Atlanta. But I ran my formula (which gives Buffalo 22.5 drives) for all 100 teams that have appeared in a Super Bowl, and then calculated the numbers for the Patriots and Falcons this year. In addition, I included how these teams all fared in the Super Bowl in terms of Offensive Points Per Estimated Drive. Take a look:

Rk Team Year Est Drives (E) Est Drives (S) Pts OPPED SB OPPED Super Bowl Win? 1 ATL 2016 18 19 80 4.32 ?? ?? 2 BUF 1990 22 23 88 3.91 1.70 Loss 3 SFO 2012 20 20 73 3.65 2.64 Loss 4 SFO 1994 21 21 75 3.57 4.08 Win 5 NWE 2014 22 23 80 3.56 2.55 Win 6 OAK 2002 22 20 71 3.38 1.20 Loss 7 DEN 1987 21 22 72 3.35 0.77 Loss 8 DEN 2013 14 16 50 3.33 1.07 Loss 9 MIA 1973 18 19 61 3.30 2.40 Win 10 BUF 1992 30 30 94 3.13 1.26 Loss 11 MIA 1984 24 25 76 3.10 0.57 Loss 12 DAL 1993 21 21 65 3.10 2.19 Win 13 NWE 2011 22 22 68 3.09 2.00 Loss 14 CAR 2015 20 23 66 3.07 0.69 Loss 15 PIT 1979 21 19 61 3.05 2.95 Win 16 CIN 1981 18 19 55 2.97 1.91 Loss 17 PIT 2005 28 30 86 2.97 1.83 Win 18 DAL 1995 23 23 68 2.96 2.57 Win 19 DAL 1992 21 23 64 2.91 3.04 Win 20 NOR 2009 23 25 69 2.88 3.43 Win 21 PHI 2004 16 17 47 2.85 1.75 Loss 22 NWE 2007 17 20 52 2.81 1.75 Loss 23 NYG 1990 18 16 46 2.71 2.00 Win 24 NWE 2016 22 25 63 2.68 ?? ?? 25 SFO 1989 23 25 64 2.67 4.58 Win 25 MIN 1969 17 19 48 2.67 0.67 Loss 25 OAK 1967 14 16 40 2.67 1.12 Loss 28 WAS 1991 22 22 58 2.64 2.64 Win 29 PIT 1974 21 22 56 2.60 1.08 Win 30 WAS 1982 27 26 69 2.60 2.57 Win 31 SFO 1988 24 24 62 2.58 1.82 Win 32 NWE 2004 19 23 54 2.57 1.50 Win 32 GNB 1966 10 11 27 2.57 3.18 Win 34 BUF 1993 21 25 59 2.57 1.18 Loss 35 RAI 1983 23 25 61 2.54 1.85 Win 36 DEN 1997 32 31 80 2.54 2.70 Win 37 PIT 2010 19 19 48 2.53 2.27 Loss 38 DEN 1989 24 25 61 2.49 0.50 Loss 39 PIT 1978 25 29 67 2.48 2.80 Win 40 WAS 1983 27 28 68 2.47 0.64 Loss 41 STL 2001 20 23 53 2.47 1.62 Loss 42 PIT 1995 25 24 60 2.45 1.62 Loss 43 CHI 2006 27 26 64 2.42 0.80 Loss 44 KAN 1966 12 14 31 2.38 0.91 Loss 45 GNB 2010 30 34 76 2.38 2.29 Win 46 BAL 1968 21 22 51 2.37 0.61 Loss 47 BAL 2012 35 35 83 2.37 2.57 Win 48 DEN 1998 20 26 54 2.35 3.40 Win 49 ARI 2008 35 37 84 2.33 2.10 Loss 50 SEA 2013 19 21 46 2.30 4.15 Win 51 OAK 1976 21 21 48 2.29 2.17 Win 52 IND 2009 22 22 50 2.27 2.27 Loss 52 ATL 1998 20 24 50 2.27 1.26 Loss 54 GNB 1996 21 24 51 2.27 1.86 Win 55 SEA 2014 22 24 52 2.26 2.18 Loss 56 NYG 2011 37 35 81 2.25 2.24 Win 57 SFO 1981 25 28 59 2.23 2.36 Win 58 SEA 2005 24 25 54 2.20 0.87 Loss 58 DAL 1975 23 26 54 2.20 1.36 Loss 60 TAM 2002 24 23 51 2.17 2.45 Win 61 DEN 1977 23 27 54 2.16 0.67 Loss 62 NYG 2007 30 33 68 2.16 2.13 Win 63 STL 1999 23 25 51 2.13 2.71 Win 64 NYG 1986 25 31 59 2.11 3.70 Win 65 DAL 1977 27 30 60 2.11 1.80 Win 66 NWE 2003 19 19 39 2.05 2.37 Win 67 IND 2006 32 34 67 2.03 1.76 Win 68 CAR 2003 32 33 65 2.00 2.15 Loss 68 GNB 1997 23 19 42 2.00 2.09 Loss 70 NYG 2000 23 25 47 1.96 0.00 Loss 70 MIN 1973 24 24 47 1.96 0.93 Loss 72 SFO 1984 23 22 44 1.96 3.62 Win 73 SDG 1994 18 20 37 1.95 1.56 Loss 74 MIN 1976 26 29 53 1.93 1.17 Loss 75 PIT 2008 21 25 44 1.91 2.11 Win 76 NWE 1985 36 38 70 1.89 0.69 Loss 77 PHI 1980 25 29 51 1.89 1.00 Loss 78 WAS 1972 22 23 42 1.87 0.00 Loss 79 GNB 1967 27 26 49 1.85 2.17 Win 80 BAL 1970 24 24 44 1.83 1.00 Win 81 MIA 1982 35 41 69 1.82 0.50 Loss 82 CIN 1988 22 25 42 1.79 0.86 Loss 83 MIA 1971 23 23 41 1.78 0.29 Loss 84 DAL 1978 27 28 48 1.75 2.00 Loss 85 OAK 1980 38 41 68 1.72 2.70 Win 86 NYJ 1968 18 14 27 1.69 1.39 Win 87 DEN 2015 26 25 43 1.69 1.21 Win 88 NWE 1996 25 24 41 1.67 1.45 Loss 89 DEN 1986 25 28 43 1.62 2.00 Loss 90 BUF 1991 24 26 40 1.60 1.71 Loss 91 MIA 1972 20 24 35 1.59 1.14 Win 92 MIN 1974 22 25 37 1.57 0.00 Loss 93 TEN 1999 37 36 56 1.53 1.88 Loss 94 DAL 1971 24 26 34 1.36 2.29 Win 95 WAS 1987 21 25 31 1.35 3.23 Win 96 RAM 1979 22 23 30 1.33 1.81 Loss 97 BAL 2000 37 37 48 1.30 1.33 Win 98 PIT 1975 28 31 37 1.25 1.52 Win 99 CHI 1985 25 25 31 1.24 2.64 Win 100 KAN 1969 28 27 30 1.09 2.19 Win 101 NWE 2001 23 27 27 1.08 1.30 Win 102 DAL 1970 22 24 20 0.87 0.81 Loss

Of course, Bill Belichick has a history of stopping incredible offenses in the Super Bowl: he was the defensive coordinator for the Giants when they met the ’90 Bills in the Super Bowl. But make no mistake about it: after one of the best regular seasons in NFL history, the Atlanta offense has put together — through the conference side of the bracket — the best playoff run in NFL history.