One-score games · decided by 8 points or fewer

The Chargers in one-score games

The Chargers are 0–0 in one-score games in 2026 so far, after 6–2 in 2025. Replayed with the same day’s form, they win 0.0 of those 0. Since 2019: 32–40 in 72 one-score games, 38.0 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 Chargers win in replays (regular season).

2026 0.0 0–0

2025 +0.5 6–2

2024 +1.5 4–4

2023 −1.9 3–8

2022 +1.7 7–5

2021 −1.2 5–5

2020 −1.0 5–7

2019 −5.6 2–9

Season	One-score record	Replay wins in those games	Close-game luck	Overall record
2026	0–0	0.0 of 0	0.0	0–2
2025	6–2	5.5 of 8	+0.5	11–6
2024	4–4	2.5 of 8	+1.5	11–6
2023	3–8	4.9 of 11	−1.9	5–12
2022	7–5	5.3 of 12	+1.7	10–7
2021	5–5	6.2 of 10	−1.2	9–8
2020	5–7	6.0 of 12	−1.0	7–9
2019	2–9	7.6 of 11	−5.6	5–11

Every team’s one-score record, 2026 · Los Angeles Chargers, every season