From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Save percentage

Statistic in hockey, baseball, and lacrosse

Save percentage (often known by such symbols as SV%, SVS%, SVP, PCT) is a statistic in various goal-scoring sports that track saves as a statistic.

In ice hockey and lacrosse and association football, it is a statistic that represents the percentage of shots on goal a goaltender stops. It is calculated by dividing the number of saves by the total number of shots on goal.

Although the statistic is a percentage, it is often given as a decimal in North America, in the same way as a batting average in baseball. Thus, .933 means a goaltender saved 93.3 percent of all shots they faced. In international ice hockey, such as the IIHF World Championships, a save percentage is expressed as a true percentage, such as 90.5%.

References

Vollman, Rob. (2018). "Stat Shot: A Fan's Guide to Hockey Analytics". ECW Press.
Kelley, Jane. (2010). "It's a Numbers Game". South Pacific Press.
Frederick, Shane. (2012). "Hockey: The Math of the Game". Capstone Press.

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

percentages ice-hockey-statistics

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Save percentage — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report