First a look at how these rankings were calculated. I gathered the data from the NWSL website for each of the four seasons complete. Then calculated the shooting percentages, save percentages, and other factors that went into the below calculations:
Statistical Descriptions
- PDO is named after Brian King’s on-line handle for this statistic. It is defined as Shooting Percent plus Save Percentage. It can be set to 1000, 100, or 1. Here I will set to one. Basically, a score of one means everything is “normal”. A higher number such as 1.