Missed Shot (MS)

What counts as a missed shot

A missed shot is a shot attempt that was not on goal. It went wide or high, hit the pipe or the crossbar, or was blocked by a field player before it reached the goalie. The shooter meant to shoot and the ball never forced the goalie to make a play.

Missed shots are the half of shooting that a box score hides. A player with eight goals on twelve shots and a player with eight goals on thirty shots look the same in the goals column and very different to a coach planning practice. Recording misses is what makes shooting percentage and the shooting chart honest.

How SquadProfile records it

Tap the shooter, then tap Missed Shot, then the spot on the field the shot came from. There is no result to choose, because the result is the miss. Record a blocked shot the same way: the shooter gets a missed shot, and the blocker gets nothing today.

Common mistakes

• Skipping misses because they feel like nothing happened. Every skipped miss inflates the shooter's percentage.
• Recording a pipe as a shot on goal. A ball that hits the post was not going in.
• Recording a pass or a clearing throw as a missed shot. Only a shot attempt counts.
• Leaving off the location. The miss still counts, but the shooting chart loses the point that shows where the shooter struggles.

Where it shows up

Missed shots have no column on the public leaderboards or box scores. They show up in the app, in each player's total shots, in shooting percentage, and on the shooting chart that plots goals, shots on goal, and misses by location.

Related stats

• Shot on goal: the shot that was going in.
• Shooting percentage: goals divided by shots on goal plus misses.
• Blocked shot: a miss caused by a field player.