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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
And who's got better GSAA? Rittich or Smith?
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So the Goals Saved Above Average essentially takes the league average save percentage and then apply it to the amount of shots a particular goalie has faced. Think WAR in baseball but for goalies.
It doesn't account for strength of opponent but it is a much better way of looking at GAA and SV%. Also doesn't account for GSAA/60mins which would even out based on number of games played a little better, and doesn't account for 5v5 or PK. Doesn't account for shot quality either.
This year so far Rittich is at 2.72 (after being as high as 13 earlier this season)
and Smith is at -12.66 (which is a decline from earlier strangely, when he was only -11 something.)
Rittich ranks 26th out of 69 qualified goalies so far this season while smith still sits in 66th.
notably still sitting below smith is Martin Jones
you can't draw too much from this other than essentially what pinder was saying yesterday "Rittich is getting worse, but that doesn't mean smith has improved so drastically to a point where he is even close to league average."
End of the day both goalies need to be better, but Pinder seems to at least look at stats before forming his opinion while Wills is still stuck using stats that really don't tell the whole story, like +/- for skaters, and he is arguing sentimentally whether he realizes it or not.