nhl point percentage
Teams are sorted by the overall percentage of points accumulated out of points available (two times the number of games played) throughout NHL history.
x-Colorado Avalanche: .657, 42-20-8 x-Tampa Bay Lightning: .657, 43-21-6 In the National Hockey League, teams are awarded two points for a win, and one point for either a tie (a discontinued statistic) or an overtime loss. While anyone can look and see that a 25-5-5 team is superior to a 22-10-11, the problem is that the standings say otherwise – both teams have 55 points – and the average layperson isn’t going to calculate a metric to differentiate the two when just casually looking at the standings.
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Are you a Stathead, too? Depending on your answer to that, your opinion on the necessity of points percentage would change. WHA hat tricks courtesy Scott Surgent. w = Wildcard Playoff Spot, Ohhh baby. ESPN, TSN, Fox Sports, and CBS Sports are among the other major sports information outlets who have yet to adopt points percentage for their NHL standings, continuing to leave fans without complete information.
New Jersey Devils: .493, 28-29-12, x-St. Louis Blues: .662, 42-19-10
The NHL may resume the regular season and play out the dozen or so games left for each team, or may not be able to return to normal at all this year.
Follow your favorite team through the 2019-20 season. Points percentage is topical right now, as a perfect case study is playing out in the Atlantic Division.
I’m way old enough (Original 6) to understand “rabid fan”, but man! Montreal Canadiens: .500, 31-31-9
I misunderstood Zach’s intent and the article.
The Blue Jackets just so happen to hold the final wild card spot in the Eastern Conference. The Atlantic Division standings would stay the same, with the Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs still leading in points percentage.
That metric is points percentage, which of course is the amount of points a team has accrued (two-point wins and one-point OT/shoot-out losses) out of how many possible points they could have earned with a win in each game. Aircool, clearly we are all not as smart as you, but even if we were, there is nothing wrong with the NHL helping us out a bit and showing an easily interpretable stat.
NHL standings by points percentage stirs up current playoff positioning. w1-Nashville Predators: .565, 35-26-8 Oh for f*** sakes.
New York Rangers: .564, 37-28-5 x-Dallas Stars: .594, 37-24-8 None of us as a fan of hockey are “stupid” as you have clearly stated, Aircool? The league did not explain what the plan was at this point because there is no clear timeline on when the season will resume (if at all), but many have speculated about how they would decide which teams qualify should there not be time to play any more regular season games. Well, the Bruins have 26 points… but in 23 games. has decided to temporarily suspend the season, Assessing the fallout from the injuries in Week 2 of the NFL season. I must apologize to Zach and to his Airness, I read this while still half-asleep and rushing to a meeting. There are also other options like a play-in tournament that some have suggested. NHL.com should, above everyone else, at least use points percentage in their standings, especially since it is a metric they have on hand, but they don’t.
Other data sources include the Hockey Summary Project and Hockey Databank. I’m a Leaf and I know that’s not happening.
This Tampa team is a bit meaner than previous years. The Metropolitan would be where it would come into play however, as the Islanders currently have a better percentage than the Blue Jackets, despite trailing them by one point in the standings. Zach isn’t arguing for the league to change the way games are scored. Enough said really.
The whole outlook of the Atlantic is skewed due to the games played gap and points percentage is a clear way to show accurate standings. For now, we’ll just have to wait and see what comes about in the next weeks and months.
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