What Andrew McMeekin’s Cannons Faceoff Record Actually Measures
See the 145-for-232 calculation behind McMeekin’s 2026 Cannons record, how it differs from his 71.4% game, and why it is not a verified PLL all-time mark.
Andrew McMeekin set the Boston Cannons’ individual single-season faceoff percentage record at 62.5% in 2026, winning 145 of 232 attempts. That is a Cannons franchise record—not a verified all-time PLL record. The undrafted Princeton rookie also won the PLL’s Paul Cantabene Faceoff Specialist of the Year Award, according to the league’s September 18 awards report.
The record belongs to professional outdoor field lacrosse. It does not describe McMeekin’s NCAA career, a box-lacrosse competition, or Boston’s combined faceoff percentage across all its players. His official statistical line covers nine regular-season appearances, rather than the Cannons’ entire team schedule.
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62.5% — Cannons Season Record
145 wins in 232 attempts across nine 2026 regular-season appearances. This is McMeekin’s individual rate, not a verified all-time PLL record.
| Sample | Wins / Attempts | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 season | 145 / 232 | 62.5% |
| Maryland game | 20 / 28 | ~71.4% |
| All-time PLL record | — | — |
~ marks a rounded percentage; — means the cited evidence does not establish the figure. The Maryland rate is not identified as a single-game record.
Sources: PLL 2026 player statistics and September 18 awards report; USA Lacrosse Week 11 recap, linked in the article.
The Record Is 145 Wins In 232 Attempts
McMeekin’s official 2026 PLL statistics, checked October 1, list 145 faceoff wins in 232 attempts across nine regular-season appearances. Those are the numerator, denominator, and playing-time context behind the record percentage.
| Measure | McMeekin’s 2026 Mark |
|---|---|
| Games played | 9 |
| Faceoffs won | 145 |
| Faceoffs taken | 232 |
| Faceoffs lost, calculated | 87 |
| Faceoff percentage | 62.5% |
| Record scope | Cannons, individual single season |
Faceoff percentage is wins ÷ attempts × 100. For McMeekin, 145 ÷ 232 × 100 equals exactly 62.5%: five wins for every eight faceoffs taken.
The loss total is a calculation, not an additional quoted statistic: subtracting 145 wins from 232 attempts leaves 87 losses. Labeling it that way preserves the distinction between the figures listed in the player statistics and a value derived from them.
The percentage is exact at the precision shown. It is not a rounded figure that merely happens to display as 62.5%. The underlying fraction produces that value directly, so the published wins and attempts reconcile with the stated record without any rounding discrepancy.
The Franchise Record Is Not An All-Time PLL Record
The decisive qualifier is Boston Cannons, individual single season. The league’s awards report identifies McMeekin’s achievement within that franchise scope. It does not establish that no player on any PLL club has ever posted a higher season percentage.
These are different record-book claims. A franchise record compares a player’s season with the relevant seasons in that club’s history. A league-wide record requires a comparison across the league’s eligible players and seasons. The evidence supporting the narrower claim cannot, by itself, support the broader one.
The available sources do not supply a complete historical PLL leaderboard or a minimum-attempt qualification rule for an all-time comparison. They also do not provide the previous Cannons record holder or the previous record percentage. Those details should remain unspecified rather than being reconstructed from the award announcement.
The defensible wording is therefore that McMeekin set the Cannons’ individual single-season faceoff percentage record. Calling the same figure an all-time PLL record would add a claim the cited material does not verify. Conversely, saying it is not verified as a league record does not establish that another player holds that record; it identifies the limit of the evidence here.
Nine Appearances Do Not Mean A Nine-Game Team Season
Boston finished its 12-game regular season at 7–5. McMeekin’s official line covers nine appearances. The team schedule and the player’s statistical sample therefore need to be kept separate.
His 62.5% uses the 232 attempts credited to him in those appearances. It does not use Boston’s number of games as its denominator, and it does not assume he took every faceoff available to the team. A game in which he had no credited attempt would not add an attempt to this calculation.
The supplied statistics do not explain why his appearance total differs from Boston’s schedule. They do not establish an injury, a roster decision, or any other reason for the difference. The record can be reported accurately without assigning a cause to the missing appearances.
Likewise, the regular-season line should not be presented as a combined regular-season-and-playoff total. The figures provided here establish the stated regular-season sample; no separate postseason faceoff totals are supplied. Keeping the competition phase attached to the numbers prevents a reader from treating the record as a different statistical window.
The Season Percentage Is Weighted By Attempts
McMeekin’s season rate comes from adding his wins and attempts, then dividing the totals. It is not a simple average of the percentages displayed beside individual games.
That distinction matters because game workloads vary. A game with 28 attempts contributes more to the season calculation than one with 10. Averaging those game percentages equally would give both games the same influence despite their different numbers of faceoffs.
For this record, the season totals already provide the required calculation: 145 wins out of 232 attempts. There is no need to reconstruct the percentage from game-by-game rates, which may themselves be rounded for display. Working from the underlying counts also avoids introducing an error by averaging rounded numbers.
The nine appearances describe where the attempts accumulated, but they do not replace the denominator. Dividing wins by games would answer a different question about wins per appearance, not faceoff success. The record percentage measures how often McMeekin won among the faceoffs credited to him, with each attempt contributing equally regardless of which game contained it.
The 20-For-28 Maryland Game Was A Separate Performance
In Boston’s 14–12 overtime victory over Maryland during its home doubleheader, McMeekin won 20 of 28 faceoffs, including the final five. He also contributed a goal and an assist. USA Lacrosse’s Week 11 recap reported his game percentage as 71.4% and described his season rate of 62.5% as PLL-leading at that point.
The two percentages refer to different samples:
| Statistic | Wins / Attempts | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 regular season | 145 / 232 | 62.5% |
| Maryland overtime game | 20 / 28 | ~71.4% |
The game calculation is 20 ÷ 28 × 100, which rounds to approximately 71.4%. Unlike the season’s exact 62.5%, the game percentage is a rounded display of its underlying fraction.
The Maryland performance was stronger than McMeekin’s season-wide rate, but it does not replace the season record. A single-game percentage answers how he performed in that matchup. The season percentage answers how he performed over the full set of attempts in the official regular-season line.
Neither the recap nor the season totals establish that 71.4% was a Cannons single-game record. It is a documented game performance, not an additional record claim supported by these sources. The goal and assist also belong to his broader game contribution; neither enters the faceoff-percentage calculation.
The Final Five Wins Had Specific Late-Game Context
The Maryland recap connects McMeekin’s faceoff work to Boston’s comeback. After Mic Kelly brought the Cannons within one with 30 seconds remaining, McMeekin won the ensuing faceoff. Kelly then tied the game with seven seconds left, before Marcus Holman scored the overtime winner.
That sequence gives the final-five detail a meaning that the game percentage alone cannot convey. McMeekin’s success included a faceoff at a moment when Boston still needed another goal to extend the game. The reported succession of wins was part of the finish, rather than merely an isolated streak elsewhere in the matchup.
It would still be inaccurate to turn the season percentage into a measure of late-game success. The 62.5% combines all credited attempts in the season line without separating them by score, time remaining, or game situation. The supplied statistics contain no season-wide breakdown for those circumstances.
The record and the recap therefore serve different purposes. The totals establish his overall faceoff efficiency; the account of the Maryland game shows how particular wins fit into a particular result. Neither should be used as a substitute for the other.
“PLL-Leading” And “Record” Describe Different Comparisons
USA Lacrosse described the 62.5% season rate as PLL-leading when reporting the Week 11 action. That wording compares McMeekin with players in the league at that point in the season. It is not, on its own, a comparison with every season in PLL history.
The Cannons record claim has a different comparison group: the franchise’s individual single-season marks. A player can lead the current league and set a franchise record without the supplied evidence establishing an all-time league record. There is no contradiction between those descriptions.
The reporting point also belongs with the league-leading claim. A recap reflects the standings and statistics available when that recap was written. Here, the later official player line independently supplies the same 62.5% season figure, but that does not justify silently expanding the recap’s comparison into an all-time ranking.
For a record entry, “Cannons single-season record” is the supported historical designation. “PLL-leading at that point” is useful context from the game coverage. Keeping the phrases separate preserves both facts without making either source say more than it does.
The Faceoff Award Supports A Separate Achievement
The PLL’s September 18 report named McMeekin the Paul Cantabene Faceoff Specialist of the Year. That award belongs alongside the record in a summary of his rookie season, but it is not the mathematical basis of the percentage.
The award and the statistical record answer different questions. The award identifies the league’s recipient of that honor. The faceoff line supplies the counts from which his success rate can be checked. Winning the award does not itself establish a league-wide historical percentage record.
His undrafted status and Princeton background likewise describe the player’s route into the PLL, not the scope of the record. The professional figure should not be relabeled as a Princeton record or treated as his NCAA career percentage. No NCAA faceoff totals are provided in the cited material here.
The Supported Record Entry
A precise entry reads: Andrew McMeekin, Boston Cannons, 2026 regular season—145 faceoff wins in 232 attempts, 62.5%, across nine appearances; Cannons individual single-season faceoff percentage record.
That wording retains the player, team, season, raw counts, rate, sample, and record scope. It also leaves the Maryland game in its proper place as a separate 20-for-28 performance and the Paul Cantabene award as a separate honor.
The previous franchise mark, an all-time PLL ranking, a historical qualification threshold, and a combined postseason total are not supplied by these sources. The answer to the record query is firm at the franchise level: 62.5% for the Cannons, not a verified all-time PLL percentage record.