Grey Area Yards

[Mikie2times]

In the NFL teams this year average 4.69 kickoffs per game, and 4.76 punts. Combine that with penalties and NFL has plenty of areas for teams to gain that small advantage. I created a stat to account for the Grey Area yardage these areas represent. All I did was take the average kickoff and punts per game as shown above, and multiplied it by the yardage differential of each team stats and its opponents on ST. I then included average loss of yardage per game from penalties compared to the league average.

 

Grey area yardage becomes even more important when you look at how yardage relates to points. In the NFL 15.9 yards gets you one point on average, of course red zone efficiency, turnover, etc play a roll but it's a fairly accurate formula to estimate a teams points scored.

 

This is how teams faired, I translated the yardage into points as previously mentioned, I will also list the amount of grey yards it averages to per game. Sorry if the charts hard to read, I did my best.

 

 

Team Grey Yards......... Grey Points

Buffalo 46.79.................2.943

Dallas 42.58..................2.682

Washington 21.52..................1.354

Denver 17.89..................1.125

NY Giants 17.49..................1.100

Carolina 15.77...................0.992

Minnesota 14.27................... 0.898

Houston 13.36.....................0.840

San Diego 13.22.....................0.832

San Francisco 12.38................... 0.778

NY Jets 12.15......................0.764

Chicago 7.81......................0.491

Indianapolis 7.02.....................0.441

Cleveland 6.98......................0.439

Cincinnati 5.29......................0.333

Atlanta 2.24..................... 0.141

Tennessee 1.20................... .0.075

Pittsburgh -0.04....................-0.002

Jacksonville -7.97................... -0.501

Oakland -8.41....................-0.529

New England -8.54................... -0.537

Seattle -11.25.................. -0.707

Detroit -11.77................. ..-0.740

Philadelphia -12.5..................... -0.789

Green Bay -18.78................ -1.181

Tampa Bay -19.34................. -1.216

Baltimore -20.18.................. -1.269

Miami -21.16................... -1.331

New Orleans -33.95..................-2.135

Kansas City -37.42................. -2.354

St. Louis -38.62................. -2.429

Arizona - 38.90................. -2.447