04-14-2022, 05:32 PM
(04-14-2022, 04:27 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I was looking at "Touchbacks percentage" on kickoffs. At first I was surprised that MacPherson was only 13th in the league. I assumed he had the leg to kick it deep into or even out of the endzone everytime. Then I saw that Justin Tucker was 20th.
I realized that teams are actually trying to avoid touchbacks on kick offs. Instead they want high hanging kicks inside the 10.
There is a stat for teams "starting field position" but it includes every drive instead of just kickoffs. Seems like there should be a stat like that to rank both kicking and return teams.
I think it was obvious that he was trying to keep it out of the endzone and was also kicking it to one side of the field or other.
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