04-15-2022, 02:38 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.
A lot of bad things can happen to the Return team if you make the Returner return it if he has had issues in the past.
Some times it is a good idea to gamble on this fact with certain Returners instead of just going for the touchback all the time.
