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Jessie Vetter - Highlights and More!

Page history last edited by Adam Augustine 14 years, 8 months ago

Since I've been lucky enough to watch Wisconsin hockey first-hand for nearly two decades now, I've had the chance to see an outstanding group of goalies stand between the pipes in the Cardinal and White, both at the Kohl Center and the Coliseum before that. I saw the likes of Duane Derksen, Jim Carey, Graham Melanson, Bernd Bruckler and Brian Elliott all backstop the Badgers to league titles and national championships, but I never saw any of them impact the the game quite like Jessie Vetter.

 

There are many stats to use to try to quantify just how dominant Vetter was at Wisconsin, but this is my favorite - while going 11-1 in 12 career NCAA tournament games (including six shutouts), Vetter stopped 97.4 percent of the shot she faced. For a comparison, Vetter and former teammate Christine Dufour actually share the NCAA career record for save percentage at .941 - very impressive, but nothing compared to that number of .974 when the games mattered the most.

 

Without further ado, here is a career highlight reel that I compiled for Vetter (MP4 version and WMV version - the WMV one actually has a little bit better quality).

Now I've mentioned my near-obsession with stats analysis on here a couple times already, but here is a measure of goaltenders that I created after this season in order to try to fully quantify just what having Vetter on the ice meant to the Badgers.

 

 

The Vetter Goalie Rating

 

Here is something that is meant to be a metric for goalies based on what I believe is important in a goalie after watching Jessie Vetter play the majority of her career at Wisconsin. She's the most dominating goalie I've ever seen at any level, so that's why it's named after her.

 

If anyone wants to see the actual formula, I can certainly share it with them, however it is essentially 60% save percentage, 20% shutouts, 15% winning percentage and 5% goals against average. While I know GAA tends to be a more traditional measure of a goalie's skill level, I believe basing a metric around save percentage gives a more accurate reflection of a goalie apart from the defensive efforts of the team.

 

Then, I researched minutes per goals allowed thanks to another suggestion from my friend Mike. It is exactly like it sounds, a simple reflection of how much game time elapsed between the average two goals allowed by a goalie. To give you an idea, Vetter allowed a goal every 47.8 minutes this year, or about three goals every two games. However, in 12 career NCAA tournament games, Vetter allowed a goal only every 90.8 minutes, or an astounding twice every three games. In other words, Vetter averaged a shutout once in every three games' worth of regulation game time over her NCAA tournament career - much of which came in multiple-overtime contests.

 

A few other interesting comparisons are at the bottom. Alli Altman is chosen as an example of another starting goalie at the DI women's level. The next five names are meant to be a cross section of Jessie's peers in the college game. Ali Brewer is used because she was the first goalie to win the Kazmaier Award in 1999-2000.

 

The Dufour lines are interesting because I wanted to take a look at 2006-07, when Coach Mark Johnson had two very strong goalies to choose from, yet nobody ever really questioned his decision. While Dufour's subtotal is actually slightly higher than Vetter's, the Min/GA category reflects a more true idea of which goalie the players felt more comfortable having in net.

 

As it turns out, most good DI women's goalies fall between about 4.00 and 4.50, with anything over 5.00 being exceptional. With that in mind, Vetter's career NCAA tournament Vetter Rating of 11.39 is astronomical. The only other number to even approach that mark is Dufour's 8.79 in 2006-07.

 

 

Name

Save Pct.

Shutouts/GP

Win. Pct.

GAA

 

Subtotal

 

Min.

GA

Min./GA

 

Vetter Rating

SAMPLE

1.000

1.00

1.000

0.00

 

10.00

 

2000.00

0

--

 

--

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jessie Vetter (05-06)

0.962

0.38

0.917

0.78

 

7.91

 

767.92

10

76.8

 

9.59

Jessie Vetter (06-07)

0.953

0.42

0.896

0.83

 

7.88

 

1511.28

21

72.0

 

9.08

Jessie Vetter (07-08)

0.924

0.26

0.737

1.49

 

6.76

 

2290.67

57

40.2

 

4.78

Jessie Vetter (08-09)

0.942

0.34

0.888

1.26

 

7.40

 

2341.87

49

47.8

 

6.18

Jessie Vetter (career)

0.941

0.34

0.842

1.19

 

7.36

 

4569.87

88

51.9

 

6.56

Jessie Vetter (NCAA)

0.974

0.50

0.917

0.66

 

8.30

 

817.52

9

90.8

 

11.39

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alli Altmann

0.867

0.05

0.342

4.15

 

3.94

 

1098.28

76

14.5

 

-0.62

Molly Schaus

0.938

0.29

0.700

1.69

 

6.75

 

2027.80

57

35.6

 

4.31

Alyssa Grogan

0.923

0.14

0.850

1.67

 

6.59

 

1222.45

34

36.0

 

4.18

Jenny Lura

0.918

0.10

0.861

1.62

 

6.52

 

998.13

27

37.0

 

4.21

Kim Martin

0.933

0.14

0.625

1.72

 

6.27

 

1184.22

34

34.8

 

3.75

Johanna Ellison

0.929

0.16

0.806

1.69

 

6.59

 

1031.68

29

35.6

 

4.14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ali Brewer (99-00)

0.939

0.22

0.828

1.44

 

6.94

 

1829.40

44

41.6

 

5.10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christine Dufour (06-07)

0.955

0.41

0.958

0.88

 

7.94

 

1026.52

15

68.4

 

8.79

Christine Dufour (career)

0.941

0.34

0.885

1.09

 

7.48

 

3147.53

57

55.2

 

7.00

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