shot attempts
Shots at goal
Shot attempts is a sports statistic counting all shots taken at a goal or basket, regardless of outcome—makes, misses, and blocked shots alike.
The metric appears most often in basketball and hockey analytics: He led the league in shot attempts but ranked twentieth in shooting percentage.
Distinguished from shots on goal, which excludes attempts that miss the target entirely.
- field goalsKicked scores through uprights
- missesFails to connect
- makesCauses to be
- reboundsReturns after deflection
- percentageProportion out of hundred
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