Goal (sport) the ball can be kicked either under the crossbar for a goal, or over the crossbar between the posts for a point. The vertical supports are usually called "goal posts" and the horizontal top is usually called the "crossbar". A goal in these games normally requires that the ball or puck be sent between the posts, under the crossbar and completely behind the goal line. In Australian rules football, there is no crossbar but four uprights instead. In netball, a single post at each end of the court supports a horizontal hoop that the ball must fall through. In basketball,
Effective field goal percentage behind the statistic, where it is pretended that a player only shot two point shots (hence the division of non-free-throw points by 2). An additional formula that seems to be more in use by the statistics actually displayed on websites (but less cited by said websites) is: formula_3 where: Effective field goal percentage In basketball, effective field goal percentage (abbreviated eFG%) is a statistic that adjusts field goal percentage to account for the fact that three-point field goals count for three points while field goals only count for two points. Its goal is to show what field goal percentage a