At 09:01 PM 11/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Questions:  What differentiates a plain old SOG from a "Grade A" shot ?
>High percentage of what ?  Who decides ?
It's a statisical representation of shots by a team.  It's similar to the
"red zone" in football in that shots from certain locations have higher
precentages of going in from the spot they are taken.
 
I don't have the number off the top of my head but the system accounts for
different percentanges based on location.
 
Locations used:
1. center ice
2. blue line
3. hash marks
4. bottom of the circle (closer to blue line)
5. face-off dot
6. top of circle
7. left corner near/in crease
8. right corner
9. center
 
Something like that, it's a little rough but that's close enough.  The
closer the shot, the higher the percentage.
 
So, a shot on goal is still what it always as. The high percentage shot is
simply a subset of shots on.
 
 
>***  Isn't it fitting someone named Garth Snow is playing  ***
>***            for a hockey team in Canada   ???           ***
Too bad he never played for the Avalanche.  :)
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