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Originally Posted by edslunch
It exists because it combines two meaningful measures (shooting and save percentage) into an easy to understand benchmark. The league average PDO is 100 by definition (since every non-blocked shot is either a goal or is saved), so numbers above 100 indicate that you have better than average shooting and/or saving and vice versa.
It seems like a useful indicator, but then we're told that saves and goals are both based on luck and everything reverts to the mean (100) so I guess it ends up being kinda meaningless.
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Meaningless... but on average closely mirrors standings.
Putting these together aren't new. The Junior A team I worked with combined those and combined special team stats the same way. It wasn't called anything fancy though.
They wanted over 100 combined shooting/save % and over 100 PK plus PP %