Goaltenders in NHL Shootouts

[Doctor No]

I've done some cleanup on the site so that it's easier to see how goaltenders have done in the shootout.

Prior to today, the data was text strings (so obviously harder to look at):

The new format, for instance:
http://www.hockeygoalies.org/bio/thomast.html
http://hockeygoalies.org/bio/giguere.html
http://hockeygoalies.org/bio/nabokov.html
(under NHL SHOOTOUTS)

Shows the score of each shootout, and then each shooter in the contest and whether or not they scored (green is good for the goaltender, red is bad for the goaltender).

I'll be adding more at some point in the near future - I'd like to reinstitute season totals, and some other metrics (like win probabilities - for instance, as a goaltender, you stop 3 of 4 shots in the shootout. How often does that usually result in a victory?).

(For those who haven't been to my site before, each goaltender has his own page - and most are named with their last name, such as lundqvist.html. Tim Thomas is a rarer case, since Wayne Thomas preceded him onto my site).

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[Doctor No]

I had a theory (just based on intuition and how I would structure my lineup in a shootout) that players' scoring percentages would decrease going from shooter #1 to shooter #N.

This does appear to be true, although the effect is more muted than I would have expected.

From the 2005-06 season through last night, scoring percentages by shooter position:

35%/34%/32%/32%/30%/30%/26%/30%

After that, it's mostly noise (for instance, the 14th shooter scores 100% of the time).