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Anyone into advanced hockey statistics? Whoever is probably knows what PDO is. This year, we've been the unluckiest team in hockey based on the metric.
The way it works is you calculate a team's shooting % and a team's save %. Combined, the # should average out to 100.0.
I saw this on the Rangers GDT and found it interesting since no one is even close to being as bad as us.
http://www.extraskater.com/teams/on-ice?type=total&sort=pdo
I don't fully buy into it, but I do somewhat. Basically, over a larger sample, you'd have to expect our team shooting % to be better than 5.1%.
We also have a terrible .883 save%. Even if you look at just Markstrom and Scott Clemmensen and compare their save %'s to their career save %'s, we come to the conclusion that the poor start could be due to just a small sample. And, of course, we now have Tim Thomas who's better than those two, anyway.
It's not a perfect stat, but it's one worth monitoring imo. At the end of the day, the point of the game is to score goals and limit the goals against. You can't score goals if you don't take shots and you shouldn't allow as many goals if you keep the # of shots down (which, believe it or not, we're middle of the pack in shots allowed this year...not terrible).
The way it works is you calculate a team's shooting % and a team's save %. Combined, the # should average out to 100.0.
I saw this on the Rangers GDT and found it interesting since no one is even close to being as bad as us.
http://www.extraskater.com/teams/on-ice?type=total&sort=pdo
I don't fully buy into it, but I do somewhat. Basically, over a larger sample, you'd have to expect our team shooting % to be better than 5.1%.
We also have a terrible .883 save%. Even if you look at just Markstrom and Scott Clemmensen and compare their save %'s to their career save %'s, we come to the conclusion that the poor start could be due to just a small sample. And, of course, we now have Tim Thomas who's better than those two, anyway.
It's not a perfect stat, but it's one worth monitoring imo. At the end of the day, the point of the game is to score goals and limit the goals against. You can't score goals if you don't take shots and you shouldn't allow as many goals if you keep the # of shots down (which, believe it or not, we're middle of the pack in shots allowed this year...not terrible).