The Giants offense according to starting field position

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Yes, that's what I was thinking about


Incredible! Why us, Lord???

Well, to be fair there are a lot of short ones mixed in there. It's still pretty unlucky though, for sure.

I think the Eagles have had the worst luck though, in terms of having long field goals routinely go in (even excluding the infamous Matt Bryant kick).

 

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In 2006, NFL teams scored touchdowns on 15.7 percent of the possessions started on the offense's own half of the field. When they started in the opponent's territory, it went up to 34.9 percent -- more than double. (I don't think those exclude end-of-half/kneel-down possessions, though.)

If we've scored touchdowns on 25 percent of ALL our possesions, that means we should have scored touchdowns on about 59 percent of those we started across the 50 -- or about seven out of the 12.

Right, well, in order to get a true percentage chance, you'd have to get the actual field position and not just vague "in the opp's territory", but I didn't feel like doing that work.