FOF7- Field goal kicking in this game is a joke

[loregnum]

Every single season I have lousy field goal made percentages no matter how good my kicker is.

Right now I have 90 rated Nick Folk and he has the second lowest FG made percentage in the entire league (barely above 62%) and most of his misses are in the 40-49 yard range despite having 91/87 ratings for accuracy and distance. Other highly rated kickers in my league also suck in that range and I have seen this trend over 10 seasons.

QB passer ratings league wide are also a joke given the way the real league is. I'm 7 games into this new season and half the starting QBs are under a 70 rating.

This isn't supposed to be 1950s ball where QBs are all or nothing (meaning a lot of picks and low completion percentages) and kickers are incredibly inaccurate beyond 40 yards.

[mrtourette]

I wouldn't call it a joke, but yeah I have noticed pretty poor stats for the majority of starting QBs.

[Ben E Lou]

On the QB passer rating thing, Jim has made it very clear that he thinks it's a bad business decision to model the last few years of the NFL in terms of passing stats. He wrote a blog post about it, and there's some discussion about it in this thread here at FOFC: Today's NFL compared to FOF7 - Front Office Football Central

As for FG kicking, the best thing I have to go on there is a completed FOF MP season with the new game, compared to previous seasons (so using the same players). Here are the CCFL's numbers after its first season (2038) on the new game:

CCFL STATS BY SEASON

So 40+% was down a little from last year, but 50+% was up, and neither was particularly low or high compared to the league's history, which was all in FOF6.3 and 6.4, prior to the 2038 season in FOF7.

[molson]

Anecdotally, I've noticed both things, but I think I prefer this brand of football than what we've seen the last few years in the NFL, so I don't mind at all.

Here's some NFL season-by-season kicking stats:

NFL Season By Season Kicking & Punting - Pro-Football-Reference.com

Teams had an 86.5% success rate on FGs in 2013. And an 83% success rate in FGs in the from 40-49 yards (254/306). Which are huge changes from just a few decades before. It's hard to believe that in 1979, teams made only 90% of their extra point kicks, and 63% of their field goals.

[Hammer]

Always seemed to me a so called great kicker was barely any better than a so called poor one - when it came to kicking FGs. When it comes to kickoffs, there always seemed to be a noticeable difference.

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by Hammer

Always seemed to me a so called great kicker was barely any better than a so called poor one - when it came to kicking FGs. When it comes to kickoffs, there always seemed to be a noticeable difference.

There was a difference, now it seems every kicker can boot it out the back of the endzone. (NFL that is)

[sjshaw]

Staying Medium: On the problems of evaluating field goal kickers