Putting Up Numbers· NFL

Ka'imi Fairbairn’s field goals at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed kickers, Ka'imi Fairbairn was 0.7 field goals over at home and 0.4 field goals over away in 2026, 4 games against 2. The plain averages are 2.0 and 2.5, a difference of 0.5. Expected was 0.8 field goals lower at home than away. Both division games were away. All 4 games outside the division were at home.

2 games away is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

field goals a game over expected

A +0.3 difference in field goals over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A −0.5 difference in field goals at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Ka'imi Fairbairn’s games, 2026, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultfield goalsExpected
Sep 13, 2026vsBUFL11.2
Sep 20, 2026vsCINL22.0
Sep 27, 2026@INDL12.3
Oct 4, 2026vsDALL31.3
Oct 11, 2026@TENW41.8
Oct 18, 2026vsJAX (neutral)W21.1
Oct 25, 2026vsNYGL20.7

Method

  • Expected is what the opponent allowed kickers in its other 2026 games, minus 0.1 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for kickers that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s kickers’ field goals in his games, 100%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 93% of the difference the model predicts.
  • The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut in two where one date leaves the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.