How much is a punter worth?

I looked recently at the point value of kickers. Today I do the same for punters and the punting game. This is a bit less straightforward because punters don't actually score points. Essentially, we can associate a point value to field position based on how many points we can expect a team to score from there. Punts, then, have a real point value in that they change that field position. To calculate the PPOE - Punting Points over Expected - I subtract out the expected change in field position based on the league average. (Note: this is net punting yards, so I subtract return yards from the punt yardage.) While PPOE is the total value over expected for the entire season, the TPPOE is the typical point value over expected, or the typical value added on a single punt. Also in the table is the average net punt yards (NPYs) and the average yardline when the team is punting.

By these statistics, Ray Guy Award winner Ray Allen for Louisiana Tech contributed more to his team than any other punter in the country. He was worth a little under 2 points per game more than the average FBS punter. But Florida State's Shane Powell was the most efficient, adding almost half a point every time he walked on the field.

	Team	PVOE	TPPOE	NPYs	Yline
1	Louisiana Tech	23.4	0.27	39.5	62.4
2	Florida St.	23.2	0.41	41.3	63.6
3	LSU	22.2	0.33	40.2	63.9
4	Idaho	20.8	0.23	40.4	70.1
5	Rice	19.5	0.24	39.9	64.5
6	North Texas	19.2	0.26	39.5	64.5
7	Bowling Green	18.9	0.33	40.9	64.8
8	Kentucky	17.6	0.22	39.6	67.8
9	Cincinnati	17.1	0.27	39.4	63.2
10	Utah	16.4	0.23	39.2	64.9
11	UTEP	15.7	0.33	40.5	66.2
12	Ole Miss	14.7	0.20	38.5	63.8
13	Auburn	14.5	0.20	38.6	62.7
14	Southern Miss.	14.4	0.25	39.0	62.8
15	Oklahoma	14.2	0.23	37.9	60.2
16	Oregon	14.1	0.29	41.1	69.0
17	Utah St.	13.5	0.23	39.1	64.9
18	UCLA	12.9	0.20	38.8	64.7
19	Western Ky.	11.8	0.18	37.9	60.9
20	Ball St.	11.4	0.17	38.4	62.7
21	Iowa	11.0	0.21	38.8	63.6
22	Vanderbilt	10.8	0.16	38.4	66.2
23	La.-Lafayette	10.7	0.13	37.4	64.1
24	Mississippi St.	10.1	0.14	38.1	64.2
25	Washington	10.1	0.19	39.7	67.2
26	Texas Tech	9.7	0.17	38.8	64.3
27	Oregon St.	9.7	0.19	38.5	63.9
28	Hawaii	9.6	0.17	38.5	65.2
29	Wisconsin	9.6	0.21	38.4	64.9
30	Colorado St.	9.1	0.16	39.1	65.8
31	Oklahoma St.	9.0	0.18	39.0	64.9
32	Ohio St.	8.8	0.12	37.5	64.6
33	California	8.0	0.15	39.0	64.6
34	Arizona St.	7.9	0.13	37.3	63.6
35	Purdue	7.0	0.10	36.9	63.2
36	Boise St.	6.9	0.15	37.6	58.4
37	Missouri	6.9	0.11	37.7	64.5
38	Nebraska	6.9	0.12	38.2	64.5
39	Southern California	6.8	0.19	37.5	60.2
40	Temple	6.8	0.14	37.6	61.5
41	Boston College	6.2	0.09	37.1	61.0
42	Ohio	6.1	0.11	36.4	59.3
43	Rutgers	6.0	0.09	36.8	62.4
44	Louisville	6.0	0.08	36.9	63.4
45	Arkansas	5.9	0.11	38.0	67.3
46	Connecticut	5.4	0.07	37.3	65.5
47	Wyoming	5.2	0.07	37.3	65.1
48	BYU	4.8	0.10	36.3	60.7
49	San Diego St.	4.8	0.08	37.0	63.0
50	Duke	4.7	0.09	36.9	61.2
51	Miami (FL)	4.3	0.09	37.8	66.0
52	Iowa St.	4.1	0.06	37.3	62.2
53	San Jose St.	4.0	0.08	37.4	62.9
54	Florida	4.0	0.07	37.6	67.5
55	Western Mich.	4.0	0.09	36.4	57.9
56	Pittsburgh	3.1	0.04	36.3	65.2
57	Arkansas St.	2.7	0.05	36.9	63.8
58	Middle Tenn.	2.4	0.04	36.6	64.3
59	Stanford	2.4	0.06	36.3	60.4
60	Colorado	1.9	0.02	37.7	67.2
61	UAB	1.5	0.03	36.5	63.9
62	Eastern Mich.	1.3	0.02	35.9	62.7
63	Georgia	1.3	0.02	36.0	66.0
64	Michigan St.	0.3	0.01	35.2	59.2
65	TCU	0.3	0.01	35.5	62.3
66	Clemson	-0.1	0.00	35.8	61.4
67	Arizona	-0.1	0.00	35.8	63.3
68	Texas St.	-0.1	0.00	36.8	64.2
69	Maryland	-0.2	0.00	36.4	63.8
70	Alabama	-0.2	-0.01	36.4	62.4
71	Penn St.	-1.1	-0.01	35.5	61.0
72	Air Force	-1.4	-0.04	36.0	67.3
73	Troy	-1.4	-0.02	35.4	64.5
74	Northwestern	-1.8	-0.03	35.2	64.7
75	Texas A&M	-1.8	-0.03	34.7	58.7
76	Georgia Tech	-1.9	-0.05	36.8	68.2
77	Navy	-2.5	-0.07	35.8	65.4
78	Marshall	-2.7	-0.04	36.2	64.9
79	West Virginia	-2.8	-0.05	35.4	65.1
80	Fresno St.	-3.3	-0.05	35.4	63.2
81	Army	-3.4	-0.09	34.5	63.9
82	Washington St.	-3.5	-0.06	35.6	63.4
83	Houston	-3.5	-0.07	35.3	62.5
84	Kansas St.	-3.8	-0.05	35.8	65.9
85	Notre Dame	-3.8	-0.07	34.3	60.3
86	Kansas	-4.4	-0.07	36.1	67.8
87	Northern Ill.	-4.5	-0.07	35.0	63.5
88	Nevada	-5.4	-0.09	34.5	65.4
89	North Carolina St.	-5.5	-0.08	35.1	63.5
90	South Fla.	-5.8	-0.09	34.1	62.4
91	Illinois	-5.8	-0.08	35.2	64.7
92	UCF	-5.9	-0.14	32.9	59.6
93	Wake Forest	-6.2	-0.09	35.3	67.1
94	Baylor	-6.7	-0.21	32.6	63.3
95	Tulsa	-6.9	-0.11	35.3	68.4
96	Syracuse	-6.9	-0.11	35.0	66.1
97	SMU	-7.0	-0.12	34.1	65.1
98	FIU	-7.9	-0.11	34.0	62.9
99	Buffalo	-8.3	-0.12	34.8	64.6
100	Virginia Tech	-8.9	-0.15	33.5	64.2
101	North Carolina	-8.9	-0.14	34.3	65.3
102	Indiana	-9.1	-0.13	35.4	69.0
103	Michigan	-9.3	-0.20	33.8	67.8
104	Virginia	-9.3	-0.14	33.5	62.9
105	Texas	-9.8	-0.15	35.0	67.3
106	South Carolina	-10.1	-0.19	34.3	67.4
107	Tulane	-10.2	-0.13	35.0	66.5
108	Central Mich.	-11.1	-0.17	34.3	65.4
109	UNLV	-11.8	-0.15	34.9	67.9
110	Memphis	-12.0	-0.12	35.2	67.6
111	Toledo	-12.5	-0.20	32.4	61.8
112	Miami (OH)	-13.9	-0.20	32.5	63.6
113	Akron	-14.1	-0.17	34.7	68.5
114	Tennessee	-14.2	-0.25	33.3	68.3
115	Minnesota	-14.6	-0.27	33.3	64.3
116	New Mexico St.	-17.8	-0.23	33.0	66.2
117	Fla. Atlantic	-18.3	-0.23	33.6	68.5
118	UTSA	-18.3	-0.39	30.1	62.1
119	Kent St.	-20.2	-0.24	32.7	65.3
120	New Mexico	-21.5	-0.28	32.8	67.8
121	East Carolina	-23.4	-0.45	30.0	65.1
122	La.-Monroe	-26.0	-0.38	31.4	66.2