Referee calls · 2019–2026
Do refs favor the Eagles?
No more than most teams. Judgment calls have been worth −0.29 points a game to the Eagles since 2019, 22nd of 32 teams. In the playoffs: +1.34 points a game over 11 games, a small sample that swings on a handful of flags.
Call luck, season by season
Points per regular-season game from judgment calls: the calls that helped the Eagles minus the calls that hurt them.
| Season | Games | Points per game | League rank | Flags against | Flags for | Playoffs, pts per game |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | −1.21 | 20th | 7 | 5 | – |
| 2025 | 17 | −1.72 | 30th | 74 | 55 | −3.74 (1) |
| 2024 | 17 | −0.42 | 26th | 61 | 53 | +4.22 (4) |
| 2023 | 17 | +0.18 | 17th | 49 | 62 | −4.95 (1) |
| 2022 | 17 | −0.93 | 29th | 57 | 54 | +1.18 (3) |
| 2021 | 17 | −1.43 | 29th | 70 | 54 | −3.62 (1) |
| 2020 | 16 | +2.25 | 2nd | 50 | 71 | – |
| 2019 | 16 | +0.34 | 16th | 68 | 71 | +6.61 (1) |
Biggest calls for the Eagles
- Offensive Holding on the Giants, 10 yards, wiping out the play · 2020 Week 7 · 26 pts of win probability
- Offensive Holding on the Bears, 10 yards, wiping out the play · 2022 Week 15 · 21 pts of win probability
- Offensive Pass Interference on the Commanders, 10 yards, wiping out the play · 2022 Week 10 · 18 pts of win probability
- Defensive Pass Interference on the Commanders (Benjamin St-Juste), 31 yards · 2023 Week 8 · 18 pts of win probability
- Offensive Holding on the Browns, 10 yards, wiping out the play · 2024 Week 6 · 17 pts of win probability
Biggest calls against
- Offensive Pass Interference on the Eagles (Darren Sproles), 10 yards, wiping out the play · 2019 Week 3 · 53 pts of win probability
- Offensive Holding on the Eagles, 10 yards, wiping out the play · 2025 Week 14 · 28 pts of win probability
- Roughing the Passer on the Eagles (Haason Reddick), 15 yards · 2023 Week 9 · 26 pts of win probability
- Offensive Holding on the Eagles, 10 yards, wiping out the play · 2019 Week 17 · 26 pts of win probability
- Offensive Holding on the Eagles, 10 yards, wiping out the play · 2025 Week 16 · 22 pts of win probability
Questions
Do refs favor the Eagles?
No more than most teams. Judgment calls have been worth −0.29 points a game to the Eagles since 2019, 22nd of 32 teams.
What about the playoffs?
In the playoffs: +1.34 points a game over 11 games, a small sample that swings on a handful of flags.
How is this measured?
Every flag that isn’t a pre-snap foul (holding, pass interference, roughing, unnecessary roughness and the like) is valued in expected points for the team it helped, including any play it wiped out. A flag on a player who is rarely flagged counts more (up to twice), one on a frequent offender less. A team’s call luck is the calls that helped it minus the calls that hurt it. It says how the calls went, not why: teams that throw deep draw more pass interference, for example.
Is it more than chance?
Mostly not. A team’s call luck in odd weeks barely predicts its call luck in even weeks (correlation 0.06 across all teams since 2019), which is what chance looks like. Over 32 teams, a few will always sit at the top of this list.
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