SampleFG: Field Goal Attempts in the NFL

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Description

A sample of 30 field goal attempts in the National Football League

Format

A dataset with 30 observations on the following 13 variables.

ID	ID number
PlayerID	Code for player
LastName	Last name
FirstName	First name
Year	Year
Team	Abbreviation for team name
Date	Code for date: mmddyy
FGAttempts	Field goals attempted by the kicker that game
FGMade	Field goals made by the kicker that game
Attempt	Which attempt during the game?
Result	1=made the field goal or 0=missed
Yards	Number of yards for the field goal attempt
Block	1=attempt blocked or 0=not blocked

Details

This is a subset of just 30 field goal attempts selected at random from the larger sample of attempts made by NFL kickers that is summarized in FGByDistance.

Source

We thank Sean Forman and Doug Drinen of Sports Reference LLC for providing us with the NFL field goal data set.

Stat2Data documentation built on May 2, 2019, 7:25 a.m.