American football has various statistics on field goal kicking, such as field goals attempted, field goals made, and field goals made percentage. However, I haven't seen a statistic that indicates whether a kicker's attempts tended to be longer than average, shorter than average, or about average. This makes it hard to discern whether a higher success percentage is due in part to a kicker's attempting shorter field goals on average than were attempted by a colleague with a slightly lower success percentage.

To help address this, I propose a pair of statistics that is analogous to passing yards (which are solely from successful passes, that is, those that are "complete") and passing yards per attempt. The first proposed field goal statistic is the combined yardage of all field goals made, which I'll call "made field goal yards." For example, a kicker whose successful attempts were of 38, 25, 53, and 44 yards would have 160 successful field goal yards. The yardage of unsuccessful field goals would be irrelevant to this statistic.

The second proposed statistic divides made field goal yards by number of attempts, which I'll call "made field goal yards per attempt." For example, a kicker who made 4 of 5 field goal attempts and had 160 made field goal yards would have 160/5 = 32 made field goal yards per attempt. A kicker who instead made 5 of 5 field goal attempts but from an average distance of only 30 yards would have only 150 made field goal yards and therefore only 150/5 = 30 made field goal yards per attempt.

I believe that these two statistics would facilitate comparison between field goal kickers.