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One-score games · decided by 8 points or fewer

The Raiders in one-score games

The Raiders are 0–0 in one-score games in 2026 so far, after 2–5 in 2025. Replayed with the same day’s form, they win 0.0 of those 0. Since 2019: 33–32 in 65 one-score games, 36.3 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 Raiders win in replays (regular season).

SeasonOne-score recordReplay wins in those gamesClose-game luckOverall record
20260–00.0 of 0 0.02–0
20252–54.4 of 7 −2.43–14
20243–42.5 of 7 +0.54–13
20235–54.5 of 10 +0.58–9
20224–96.2 of 13 −2.26–11
20217–25.7 of 9 +1.310–7
20205–46.4 of 9 −1.48–8
20197–36.6 of 10 +0.47–9

Every team’s one-score record, 2026 · Las Vegas Raiders, every season