Some kicking stats and the reduction of 50+ yard FG attempts

oski-oui-oui · November 1, 2010, 4:18pm

I posted this in the “If I Were Commissioner” thread yesterday, but I decided to re-post in its own thread so we can discuss special teams trends across the league.

Here goes:

"oski-oui-oui":

"Blogskee Wee Wee":

"Mikefrmthhammer":

I personally think that the reason kickers aren’t improving with long range kicks is that they don’t get to try them as much any more as the coach worries about a bad result (return for a TD) if unsuccessful. It could be as simple as if they try more long range kicks the success rate will increase. Practice does make perfect after all. I wonder if anyone has any statistics which bear out my gut feeling about the CFL’s downward curve in attempting long range field goals? (Please and thank you if anyone does.)

I’m sure once Russ sees this, he’ll be on it. The guy is a stat like I’ve never seen. Even if the numbers don’t support it, it does feel like they don’t attempt as many.

And you could be entirely right. It could very well be that coaches are afraid to try it. I know that with guys like Owens, Thigpen and David, I’d be scared too. But there used to be Pinball and Gizmo. Those guys would have scared me as well. Now I kind of hope someone does do the research to see if you’re right.

As of Week 15: 9/15 league-wide for attempts over 50 yards.

2010 Consistent Kickers Redux

9,326- Total yards of all attempted field goals
6,735- Total yards of all made field goals
2,591- Total yards of all missed field goals
989- Kicking points scored
291- Field goals attempted, overall
286- Extra point converts attempted
285- Extra point converts made
227- Field goals made, overall
195- Field goals attempted, inside 40 yards
172- Field goals made, inside 40 yards
96- Field goals attempted, over 40 yards
88.2- CFL field goal percentage, inside 40 yards
78.0- CFL field goal percentage, overall
64- Missed field goals, overall
60.0- CFL field goal percentage, over 50 yards (9 made/15 attempted)
57.3- CFL field goal percentage, over 40 yards
57- Longest field goal made & attempted *Noel Prefontaine 09/10/10 EDM vs. CGY
55- Field goals made, over 40 yards
41- Missed field goals, over 40 yards
40.5- Average yards per missed field goal
32.0- Average yards per attempted field goal
29.7- Average yards per made field goal
23- Missed field goals, inside 40 yards
23- Missed field goal singles
15- Field goals attempted, over 50 yards
15- Different players who have attempted extra point converts
13- Different players who have attempted field goals
9- Field goals made, over 50 yards
8.83- Average team kicking points scored per game
8- Most field goals attempted, single game *Damon Duval 07/22/10 MTL vs. HAM
7- Most field goals made, single game
*Damon Duval 07/22/10 MTL vs. HAM & Luca Congi 07/31/10 SSK vs. HAM
6- Missed field goals, over 50 yards
1- Extra point convert missed *Grant Shaw 08/14/10 TOR vs. MTL

Field Goal Percentage, over 40 yards

85.7- Palardy, WPG
81.8- McCallum, BC
62.5- Prefontaine, EDM
58.3- Shaw, TOR
53.3- Duval, MTL
50.0- Congi, SSK
50.0- Medlock, TOR
45.5- DeAngelis, HAM
40.0- Serna, WPG
25.0- Maver, CGY

*minimum 5 field goal attempts over 40 yards to qualify

Field Goal Percentage, over 50 yards

100.0- Prefontaine, EDM (2 made/2 attempted)
100.0- Shaw, TOR (2/2)
100.0- Congi, SSK (1/1)
100.0- Whyte, BC (1/1)
50.0- Medlock, TOR (2/4)
50.0- McCallum, BC (1/2)
0.0- Maver, CGY (0/1)
0.0- Duval, MTL (0/2)

Average yards per made field goal

32.7- Shaw, TOR
32.1- Prefontaine, EDM
30.4- McCallum, BC
29.5- DeAngelis, HAM
28.6- Congi, SSK

all stats are up to date through Monday’s games on October 11, 2010

[url=http://www.cfl.ca/article/by-the-numbers-consistent-kickers]http://www.cfl.ca/article/by-the-number ... nt-kickers[/url]
I can’t find an immediately accessible stat breakdown for FG attempts in 2009.

My take: 50+ yard attempts have to be down from last season. Duval has been banged up for a few games already…Palardy doesn’t have a bomb for a leg, Congi is iffy from 45+, Maver’s been up and down like a toilet seat and Sandro doesn’t do 45+ much it seems…I’m sure we’ve seen a 10-20% drop in attempts from 45+, how much I will post if/when I find a full season-to-season breakdown.

Oski Wee Wee,

Russ