Field Goal Percentage Calculator — Football Kicking

Background.

This is the American football kicking statistic. If you are looking for the basketball shooting percentage that shares the name, Quanta's effective field goal percentage calculator is the page you want — it is linked below. This page takes a placekicker's field goals made and attempted, his extra points made and attempted, and returns both accuracy figures plus the number of points those kicks actually put on the scoreboard.

The reason a kicker's line deserves more than a single division is that field goal percentage on its own is a famously misleading number. It says nothing about distance. A kicker who attempts thirty kicks from inside 40 yards will post a far better percentage than one who is regularly sent out from beyond 50, and the second kicker may well be the better player. It also says nothing about volume: 90% on ten attempts and 90% on forty attempts are the same number describing very different seasons. That is why this calculator returns the raw miss count alongside the percentage, and why the points figure matters — points are what a kicker is actually paid to produce.

The point values are taken from the NFL rulebook rather than assumed. Rule 11, Section 1, Article 2 sets out the value of every scoring play: a touchdown is 6 points, a field goal is 3, a safety is 2, and a try after a touchdown is worth 1 point when scored by field goal or safety and 2 when scored by touchdown. So the placekicking points on this page are three times the field goals made plus one times the extra points made. Two-point conversions are excluded by construction — they are run or thrown, not kicked, and crediting them to a kicker would be wrong.

Extra points deserve their own field because they stopped being automatic in 2015, when the try-by-kick was moved back to a snap from the 15-yard line, turning what had been a near-certain 1 point into roughly a 33-yard field goal. A kicker who is 35 for 35 on extra points is doing something that would have been unremarkable a decade earlier and is genuinely notable now, and a kicker missing three or four a season is costing his team real points that his field goal percentage will not reveal.

One convention is worth stating plainly rather than hiding. If you enter zero extra point attempts — which is legitimate for a partial season, a single game, or a kicker used only on field goals — the extra point percentage is reported as 0, because dividing by zero has no answer. The summary line underneath spells out that no attempts were recorded, so the 0 cannot be misread as a kicker who missed everything. Field goal attempts have no such escape hatch: they are the page's primary denominator, so entering zero is rejected outright.

Below the widget you will find the arithmetic in full, guidance on reading kicking accuracy honestly against distance, an explanation of why fantasy football scores kickers differently from the real rulebook, and a worked example built from a real 2024 season whose points total the NFL publishes itself — which is how the calculator's scoring logic gets independently checked rather than merely asserted.

What is field goal percentage calculator (football kicking)?

Field goal percentage in American football is the share of a placekicker's field goal attempts that were successful: field goals made divided by field goals attempted, expressed as a percentage. Every try counts as an attempt, including kicks that are blocked and kicks that fall short, which is why the statistic is a joint measure of the kicker, the snapper, the holder and the protection unit rather than of the kicker alone. Extra point percentage is the same calculation applied to tries by kick after a touchdown. Since 2015 the NFL's extra point kick has been snapped from the 15-yard line, making it roughly a 33-yard attempt and turning a formerly automatic play into a real one — extra point percentages below 100 are now common and worth tracking. The points a kicker scores follow directly from the rulebook: three points per made field goal, one per made extra point. This calculator reports both percentages, the points, the points per kick attempt across both kick types, and the raw number of misses, because percentages alone systematically flatter kickers with short attempt profiles and low volume. What it deliberately does not do is adjust for distance, weather, altitude or surface, all of which move field goal accuracy substantially and none of which are recoverable from a made-and-attempted pair.

How to use this calculator.

1. 01Enter field goals made and attempted. Include blocked attempts and short attempts in the attempted figure — they are attempts under the official statistics rules even though the kicker may not be at fault.
2. 02Enter extra points made and attempted separately. Do not roll two-point conversions into either field; they are not kicks and this page will not count them.
3. 03If the player has no extra point attempts in the sample you are measuring, leave both extra point fields at 0. The percentage will read 0 and the summary line will say that no attempts were recorded.
4. 04Read the miss count alongside the percentage. Three misses is a different story at 44 attempts than at 12, and the percentage alone will not tell you which you are looking at.
5. 05Use the points figure to compare kickers with different roles. A kicker on a high-scoring team gets many extra points and few long field goals; a kicker on a stalling offence gets the reverse. Points per kick attempt is the crude equaliser between those two jobs.
6. 06For fantasy purposes, do not use the points figure from this page — fantasy leagues score kicks by distance. NFL.com's default awards 3 points for a field goal inside 50 yards, 5 from 50 or beyond, and 1 per extra point, so a fantasy total will exceed the real scoreboard total for any kicker with long makes.

The formula.

The two accuracy figures are straight divisions. Field goal percentage is made divided by attempted, times one hundred. Extra point percentage is the same calculation on the try-by-kick pair. Neither is weighted or adjusted in any way, which is exactly what makes them easy to compute and easy to over-read.

The points figure comes from the rulebook rather than from convention. NFL Rule 11 Section 1 Article 2 lists the value of each scoring play: touchdown 6, field goal 3, safety 2, and try after touchdown 1 point by field goal or safety, 2 points by touchdown. Placekicking points are therefore 3 × field goals made + 1 × extra points made. Two-point conversions are scored by running or throwing the ball into the end zone and are not attributed to the kicker.

Points per kick attempt divides the points total by every kick attempt of either type. It sits between 1 and 3 by construction: a kicker who attempts only extra points and makes them all reaches 1.0, and one who attempts only field goals and makes them all reaches 3.0. It is a rough way to compare kickers whose workloads are split differently between the two kinds of kick, and it should be read as a workload-mix indicator rather than a skill measure.

The miss count is field goal attempts minus makes, plus extra point attempts minus makes. It is included because it is the number that survives small samples. Percentages on ten attempts move by ten points per kick and are close to meaningless; the miss count is at least a fact.

One zero-denominator convention. Extra point attempts may legitimately be zero, so when they are, the extra point percentage is set to 0 rather than left undefined, and the summary line states in words that no attempts were recorded. Field goal attempts cannot be zero — a field goal percentage with no attempts is not a small number, it is not a number at all — so that case is rejected with an error rather than fudged.

What the arithmetic cannot do is adjust for distance, and no made-and-attempted pair ever can. Accuracy falls sharply with distance: an attempt from inside 30 yards and one from beyond 55 are different events being counted identically. Two kickers with the same percentage and very different attempt distributions are not equally accurate, and the only honest fix is to compare within distance bands using data this calculator does not take.

A worked example.

Frequently asked questions.

References& sources.

1. [1]National Football League (2025). Official Playing Rules of the National Football League, Rule 11 Section 1 Article 2, 'Types of Scoring Plays': 'Touchdown: 6 points; Field goal: 3 points; Safety: 2 points; Try after touchdown: 1 point (field goal or safety) or 2 points (touchdown)'. The source of the 3-point and 1-point values used to compute placekicking points on this page.
2. [2]National Football League (2025). 2025 NFL Record & Fact Book — 2024 AFC individual scorers (kickers) table, showing Chris Boswell of Pittsburgh at 35 extra points on 35 attempts, 41 field goals on 44 attempts, and 158 points. Used as the worked example precisely because the published points total independently confirms the 3-per-field-goal and 1-per-extra-point reconstruction. The same section supplies the 2024 field goal, field goal attempt and longest field goal conference leaders.
3. [3]NFL Fantasy Football — 'Scoring', Default Scoring Settings. Source of the distance-weighted fantasy kicker scoring described in the FAQ: 'PAT Made 1 point', 'FG Made (0-49) 3 points', 'FG Made (50+) 5 points'. Included to explain why a fantasy kicker total will exceed the scoreboard total this page computes.