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BBSS: Kickers in the Yellow Zone


Lately I've been doing some thinking about the concept of the "Yellow Zone", and this thinking tends to lead to research and number crunching. Today we'll take a look at Kickers.

And this is probably going to be a boring read, because it turns out that in this zone kickers are painfully accurate.

How accurate?

Very:

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It turns out that the average field goal rate for kickers in the Yellow Zone is over 96 percent, with only eight missed FGs in this zone for the entire regular season. Even the kicker with the lowest percentage in this zone was guilty of missing only two field goals. I know I've heard that the extra point was moved back ad nauseam because the kicks "were practically automatic" but you'd think kickers would miss a little more than 8 field goals in a season.

Maybe this season was a fluke and the numbers are just artificially low?

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Nope, kickers are just that accurate from this range.

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