Lacrosse Shooting & Save Percentage Calculator

This calculator reports four separate ratios, and it's worth knowing what pool of shots each one is really measuring. Shooting percentage is goals divided by shots on goal only — attempts that missed the cage or were blocked before reaching it don't count in the denominator at all, so this number reflects finishing quality on shots that actually challenged the goalie, not overall shot creation. Save percentage flips the same idea for the goalkeeper: saves divided by saves-plus-goals, i.e., the share of on-goal shots the goalie stopped. Shot efficiency broadens the lens from goals-per-shot to goals relative to total offensive actions, defined here as shots on goal plus turnovers — so a team or player who shoots well but coughs up the ball on unforced turnovers will see this number drop even though their shooting percentage alone looks fine, since turnovers count against them without ever registering a shot.

Goal differential is the simplest figure, just goals minus turnovers, a rough single-number proxy for whether a player's possessions are ending in points more often than they're ending in giveaways. Ground balls collected as an input is shown in the calculation trace but doesn't feed into any of the four output ratios — it's tracked as context since ground-ball wins are a well-known possession indicator in lacrosse, even though this particular tool doesn't fold it into shooting or efficiency math. College-level shooting percentages of roughly 28-32% and goalie save percentages above 55-60% are commonly cited benchmarks to compare your own numbers against.