By Jon Wilner, Bay Area News Group via Sports360AZ: Trap games are difficult to project — they require specific circumstances — but fairly easy to define.
This explanation comes courtesy of Football Outsiders: “Team X has a ‘trap game’ when it plays team Y but it’s looking forward to playing team Z the following week. If team X falls into the trap, they underperform against team Y, possibly losing a game that they would be expected to win easily.”
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