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Originally Posted by albertGQ
Ok. I'll be the first to ask and hopefully I'm not the only one that doesn't know.
What does PDO stand for and what does it mean?
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http://blogs.thescore.com/nhl/2013/01/21/pdo-explained/
If you are too lazy to click the link: The short of it is PDO was the username of the person who first brought the stat to people's attention. It is a stat that tries to determine "luck" by simply adding save% and shooting %. Too high of a PDO and the implication is that the team has too much good luck and too low of a PDO means that a team has bad luck. The theory is that too high or too low PDO will eventually regress to a mean value (i.e. a lucky team's luck will run out and regress or an unlucky team will eventually play better when more pucks start going in and/or a goaltender starts putting up some lucky saves).
That's what some "advanced" stats people believe anyways.