NFL FIeld Goals - Visualized
From Decision Science News , comes this little bit of awesomeness regarding field-goals . They took all 10,705 of the field goals in the NFL from 2002 - 2012, and it basically came out to the following At D > 50 yards, you make the Field Goal with probability 0 At D < 50 yards, it is 0.951 + .0062*D - 0.005*D^2 Mind you, the other thing I found fascinating was that the coaches not only know this, they pretty much live by this too - with them basically not even bothering at D > 50 Check out the original !