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Old 11-12-2007, 10:25 AM
Kneel B4 Zod Kneel B4 Zod is offline
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Default Re: NFL Week 10 Sunday Night Football: Colts@ Chargers

ok, some basic analysis I did. I looked up my old version of The Hidden Game of Football, and I found this date.

from 1982-1986, FG attempts from 20-29 yards were 89% successful.

this data is 20+ years old; given that we now know that extra points (= 20 yard FG's) are
96% successful, and kickers are much better now, I think it's fair to assume that that 89% figure is now up 5% higher: 94%. So if we know that 20 yarders are made at 96% ish, and we can guess that the average between 20-29 is 94%, I think a likely current distribution is something like this:

20 96.5%
21 96.0%
22 95.5%
23 95.0%
24 94.5%
25 94.0%
26 93.5%
27 93.0%
28 92.5%
29 92.0%

meaning going from 24% to 29% probably changes the kick from 94% to 92%

that analysis is far from perfect, but the #'s intuitively make sense.
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