Box Lacrosse stats, kept live.

Box lacrosse lives in tight quarters. Five runners and a goalie on a shrunken floor, boards instead of sidelines, and a faceoff after every single goal. That last part changes everything you track. Where the field game logs ground balls, the box game logs loose balls, the scrums along the boards and in front of the crease where possession flips in a blink. Statside tracks goals, assists, shots, loose balls, turnovers, caused turnovers, faceoffs, penalty minutes, and the full goalie line. The floor is smaller, so the margins are smaller. A dropped loose ball or a lazy turnover in the offensive zone hands the other team a transition rush going the other way.

The signature rate stat here is shooting percentage. Formula: shooting % = goals / shots. On a floor this tight, against a goalie squared up and squeezing the angles, raw shot volume lies to you. Shooting percentage tells the truth. It rewards the shooter who waits for the crease to open instead of firing into a set goaltender, and it separates the finisher from the guy who just racks up attempts. Say a lefty puts up 9 goals on 30 shots: that is 9 / 30 = 0.300, a 30% clip that plays anywhere. Statside computes it live off your box-score entry, no spreadsheet, no halftime math.

Entry is box-score first, which fits the box game. You are logging discrete events off the floor: a goal and its assist, a shot, a loose ball scooped, a turnover, a caused turnover, minutes in the box on a penalty. Because a faceoff follows every goal, faceoff work stacks up fast, and Statside rolls it into faceoff percentage automatically. Goalie entry feeds save percentage the same way, so the crease gets the same honest rate treatment the shooters get.

Good versus great shows up once the qualifying threshold kicks in. Season leaders only rank once a player clears the minimum, so a 2-for-3 night never leapfrogs a runner who shoots 30% across a full slate. The great ones stack points while keeping shooting percentage high, win their share at the dot, and cause more turnovers than they cough up. That two-way ledger, offense earned and possessions stolen, is what the leaderboard actually rewards.