Comments on: The Greatest Field Goal Kickers Of All Time II, Part I http://www.footballperspective.com/the-greatest-field-goal-kickers-of-all-time-ii-part-i/ NFL History and Stats Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: dbqp http://www.footballperspective.com/the-greatest-field-goal-kickers-of-all-time-ii-part-i/#comment-311114 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:01:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=25966#comment-311114 How about ranking kickers by total yards of kicks made? We don’t rank quarterbacks by completion percentage.

If you want to get a percentage, then percentage of the maximum yards they could make would be interesting. You could take into account fourth down conversion attempts in the maximum, as the coach would try more long field goals with the perfect kicker.

]]> By: Chase http://www.footballperspective.com/the-greatest-field-goal-kickers-of-all-time-ii-part-i/#comment-311060 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 22:38:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=25966#comment-311060 In reply to Dan.

Yeah…. as you can see, you can quickly spend a lot of time on this stuff. In the interest of keeping things simple, I’ve decided to just take the maximum value for each year at each distance between two choices: what the formula produced, or the rate in the prior season. That gets us pretty close, I think, and saves a lot of hassle.

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