Do We Keep SO as a Category or Just Drop it Outright?

[Steve]

I think that we should consider what to do with the Shut Out (SO) category. It seems that this is easily the most random category we have and a goalie that gets quite a few SO one year, may get a lot less the next year. The top team in this category had 20 SO, which is less than 1 per week and the average is less than 1 SO every 2 weeks.

Even though I've stated a few times that our categories should maintain a 2:1 ratio for skaters:goaltenders, I don't think having 1 less goaltender category is critical to the league. Goalies currently count 33% of our overall totals, which in my opinion is rather high when we have to consider that they occupy just 10% of our active roster. If we were to drop to 4 out of 14 or 15 categories, depending what happens in the GWG vs FOW vote, then the goalie cats will still make up at least 27% of the overall totals. I think we would be fine with that percentage if you guys do decide you want to get rid of SO as a category.

[scoop12ca]

i am not a big fan of shutouts. if you needed to add a category i would be in favour of either game starts or loses. i use loses in the league i run and it certainly adds to the strategy of using your goalies. do you sit the guy and take a chance your opponents goalie losses? or do you take the chance and start the guy to catch him in another category? something to think about.

[Deleted]

I like shutouts as a category. There's nothing left I'd substitute in cuz we already use SVs as a category. Maybe Starts but I think Shutouts >>> Starts. Rewards teams for having a stronger goalie core.

[Steve]

Well, I'm honestly a little surprised by the vote in this one, but you guys obviously want to keep the SO category, so we will.

[Deleted]

I voted to keep it but could see subbing it out for say OT losses. But I think people like shutouts like I do lol