On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the FGByDistance data set which pertains to FGByDistance. The FGByDistance data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the FGByDistance data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("FGByDistance"). This will load the data into a variable called FGByDistance. If R says the FGByDistance data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the FGByDistance R data set. The size of this file is about 1,790 bytes.

FGByDistance

Description

Field goal results in the NFL (by distance)

Format

A dataset with 51 observations on the following 7 variables.

R project statistics dataset table

Row	Case ID
Dist	Distance of the attempt (in yards)
N	Number of kicks attempted from that distance
Makes	Nmber of kicks made from that distance
PropMakes	Proportion of attempts made
Blocked	Number of kicks blocked
PropBlocked	Proportion of kicks blocked

Details

This dataset summarizes all 8520 field goals attempted by place kickers in the National Football League (NFL) during regular season games for the 2000 through the 2008 seasons. Results are counts (attempted, made, and blocked) and proportions (made and blocked) for each distance.

Source

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

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.