When the NFL moved back the extra point from the 2-yard line to the 15 in 2015, the reasoning was basically that the kicks were too boring. NFL kickers made 99.3% of their extra points in 2014, the season before the rule change, and the league thought that pushing it back would both make the kicks more difficult and incentivize teams into going for two.
It worked, for the most part. Kickers as a whole did not cross the 95% mark on extra points from the 15 until last season, when the league rate was 95.9%. NFL teams, driven by the rule change and the rise of analytics, started
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