One-score games · decided by 8 points or fewer

The Cardinals in one-score games

The Cardinals are 0–0 in one-score games in 2026 so far, after 2–8 in 2025. Replayed with the same day’s form, they win 0.0 of those 0. Since 2019: 19–38–1 in 58 one-score games, 26.8 wins in replays.

A good record in close games looks like clutch. It rarely lasts: from 2019 to 2025, a team’s win rate in one-score games carried into the next season at a correlation of 0.12, against 0.39 for its overall record. How often a team wins those games in replays says what its play was worth.

Close-game luck by season

One-score wins minus how many of those games the Cardinals win in replays (regular season).

2026 0.0 0–0

2025 −2.7 2–8

2024 −1.9 3–5

2023 −0.5 2–5

2022 −0.8 2–6

2021 −0.3 3–4

2020 −0.6 4–5

2019 −0.6 3–5–1

Season	One-score record	Replay wins in those games	Close-game luck	Overall record
2026	0–0	0.0 of 0	0.0	1–1
2025	2–8	4.7 of 10	−2.7	3–14
2024	3–5	4.9 of 8	−1.9	8–9
2023	2–5	2.5 of 7	−0.5	4–13
2022	2–6	2.8 of 8	−0.8	4–13
2021	3–4	3.3 of 7	−0.3	11–6
2020	4–5	4.6 of 9	−0.6	8–8
2019	3–5–1	4.1 of 9	−0.6	5–10–1

Every team’s one-score record, 2026 · Arizona Cardinals, every season