Zombie Mike Murphy
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- Mar 18, 2011
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So, I had an idea come to me today, that I thought I'd bounce off the mob. This is purely a thought exercise as it would take _serious_ resources to compute this for even a subset of a single season.
The idea is fairly simple - instead of looking at a goalie's SV%, a number which while easy to compute, is also poorly isolated, you look at how he handles specific shots vs the other goalies in the league.
So, each shot taken that the goalie played will go into a bucket - ideally, a single bucket should represent a specific type of shot - one timer, slapper, deflection, whatever - taken from a small region of the ice - 1 yard squares maybe.
The idea is to neutralize for the differing shot selections faced by goalies behind good and bad defenses.
Does this approach have any merit? Has a study along these lines ever been tried?
The idea is fairly simple - instead of looking at a goalie's SV%, a number which while easy to compute, is also poorly isolated, you look at how he handles specific shots vs the other goalies in the league.
So, each shot taken that the goalie played will go into a bucket - ideally, a single bucket should represent a specific type of shot - one timer, slapper, deflection, whatever - taken from a small region of the ice - 1 yard squares maybe.
The idea is to neutralize for the differing shot selections faced by goalies behind good and bad defenses.
Does this approach have any merit? Has a study along these lines ever been tried?