Jacob Fowler

Jacob Fowler

G · Left catchesAge 216'1" · 223 lbMelbourne, United States
cap hit$0.94M3-year signingsigned April 4, 2025contract ledger →

Wins by season

Career NHL wins, ending with the projection at a 60-start workload (violet).

26: 9 pts92637PROJ27: 8 pts (projected 37)27

Pool value

Projected full-season fantasy worth.

91/100
why 91?

Every fantasy goalie category, scored on the season model's projections at a 60-start workload:

  • proj wins37 × 4.5+166.5
  • proj shutouts2.4 × 3+7.2
  • SV% 0.893 vs .900-0.007 × 250-1.8
  • GAA 3.21 vs 2.70-0.51 × 50-25.5
  • total146 pool points  ·  an elite goalie season scores 160146 = 91/100

Weights: a win is worth 4.5 (the heaviest goalie category in every format), a shutout 3, SV% pays 250 per full point above .900 and GAA pays 50 per hundredth below 2.70. 100 = a Vezina-tier season (~26 W, 6 SO, .918, 2.45). Projections shrink SV% toward career and league averages because save percentage repeats poorly year to year; wins lean on team quality for the same reason.

Season stats — goaltending

NHL regular-season goaltending numbers from the league's goalie feed — wins, GAA, save% and shutouts, season by season. Skater columns (G/A/P) would be all zeros for a goalie, so they're gone. The 60-start proj line is a model, not a pace: save% is projected with empirical-Bayes shrinkage toward career and league (save% is weakly repeatable — Schuckers 2016; a James–Stein study on NHL save% found shrinkage beats the raw estimate 2.2× in error), GAA is rebuilt from its SA/60 × (1−SV%) identity, shutouts are the Poisson zero probability at the projected goals-against rate (Buttrey & Washburn, JQAS 2011), and wins are regressed toward the league per-start rate because wins are mostly a team stat (Berri & Brook 2010). Backtested on 330 goalie seasons from our own data: 26% lower save% error and 16% lower GAA error than naive last-year pace. Hockey's honest truth: save% barely repeats, so this model shrinks hard on purpose.

SeasonTeamGPGSWLOTGAASV%SO
25-26MTL18179622.4790.7%1
26-27MTL11118122.1492.5%2
60-start projMTL6060371493.2189.3%2.4

Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats