October 17, 2011

There's No Defense for a Bad Goalie: Schuckers mapped every shot each goalie faced last season, allowing him to isolate a goalie's save percentage against shots from every location on the ice. He put those findings against a plot of every shot taken in the NHL in order to estimate how each goalie would fare not just against the shots he faced, but against the shots all the goalies faced—therefore putting them all up against the same shots. DIGR stands for "defense independent goalie rating."

posted by NoMich to hockey at 02:34 PM - 2 comments

Is the take home message from this that Jonathan Quick isn't a very good goalie? I think I knew that already.

posted by insomnyuk at 05:53 PM on October 17, 2011

The sabrmaticians are going to come to a screeching halt if they take on hockey: Turns out goalies are REALLY important?!? (Chris Osgood starts a slow clap, looks for support from audience.)

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 05:58 PM on October 17, 2011

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