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Field Goal Attempts in the NFL
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.