This pair of graphs shows football game scores in two ways – the data include every NFL game played since the league began in 1920.

The heat map shows how many games ended in a given score. The mode is 20-17 (242 games), followed by 17-14 (188 games), and 27-24 (182 games). The highest score by a winning team is 73 and by a losing team is 49.

The histogram represents the frequency of the number of points scored by winning and losing teams. For tie games, the points scored are attributed to both the winning and the losing columns. Cumulative frequency distributions are plotted over the histogram. The maximum distance between the CFDs is 0.49, and it occurs at 18 points. A typical (median) game would be 26-14, though the mode scores are 24-7.

Data source: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores.cgi