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[QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 2608044, member: 229"]
imo shooting % in lacrosse is meaningless especially with midfielders.  They will have a lower % since they shoot further away from the cage.  (Tigh's SH% is terrible but he nearly doubles our top shot guy with a 116 shots which he turned into 35 goals.)

You could do everything right and the goalie just makes a great save or you hit pipe, so I want to know if it was a good shot and on cage.  The SOG% at least measures the accuracy better.

You will also have a higher % chance of scoring if you bounce the shot as well as the accuracy goes up b/c they tend to be more on cage.  I wish they measured this for shooters; high vs bounce and placement.  Thats something I chart for goalies; high vs bounce and location (stick side high, off hip etc).

But imo, the problem isn't SH% it's the number of shots we're taking.  Not many.  513 or 34 per game.  Our SH% and accuracy percentages actually match Yale's EXCEPT Yale takes 42 shots per game.  They had over 800 shots.  800.

We scored 169 goals.  Yale scored 278 goals shooting 30%.

My mantra has always been to shoot and shoot a lot.  (but they have to be good shots).  Yale bears it out that volume is good.  It's sort of like Dino Babers of lacrosse, play fast and take a lot of shots.  The less shots you take the higher % you need to be so I don't want to rely on shooting %, I'd rather rely on the volume.  But that's me.
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