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Points-Blown Standings, Sunday October 23

Points-blown refers to the number of points a team could have earned, but did not. They are points-squandered. You get two PBs for a loss, and one PB for an OT/SOL. The lower your total, the better. Like golf. Or cholesterol. The columns are fully sortable.

Q NHL R/OT/SO PTS W% PRJ 10-11 %ch MAX PB +/- W! GD
1 3 DET 4-1/1-0/0-0 10 0.8333 136.7 104 31% 162 2 4 5 5
2 4 LAK 3-1/2-0/0-1 11 0.7857 128.9 98 31% 161 3 3 5 7
3 1 DAL 5-2/0-0/1-0 12 0.7500 123.0 95 29% 160 4 2 5 4
4 2 COL 2-2/1-0/3-0 12 0.7500 123.0 68 81% 160 4 2 3 6
5 5 CHI 4-1/0-0/0-2 10 0.7143 117.1 97 21% 160 4 2 4 6
6 8 ANA 3-2/0-0/1-0 8 0.6667 109.3 99 10% 160 4 2 3 0
7 9 EDM 2-2/0-0/1-2 8 0.5714 93.7 62 51% 158 6 0 2 1
8 12 SJS 1-3/0-0/1-0 4 0.4000 65.6 105 -38% 158 6 0 1 0
9 6 VAN 3-3/1-0/0-1 9 0.5625 92.3 117 -21% 157 7 -1 4 -1
10 7 MIN 1-2/0-2/2-1 9 0.5625 92.3 86 7% 157 7 -1 1 -2
11 11 NAS 3-3/0-0/0-1 7 0.5000 82.0 99 -17% 157 7 -1 3 -5
12 13 PHX 2-3/0-0/0-1 5 0.4167 68.3 99 -31% 157 7 -1 2 -3
13 10 STL 3-4/1-0/0-0 8 0.5000 82.0 87 -6% 156 8 -2 4 -2
14 14 CGY 2-4/0-1/0-0 5 0.3571 58.6 94 -38% 155 9 -3 2 -5
15 15 CBJ 0-6/0-0/0-1 1 0.0714 11.7 81 -86% 151 13 -7 0 -12

KEY:

  • Q is my standings, default sorted by points-blown (long-winded explanation of points-blown here).
  • NHL is the official standings, via NHL.COM (ESPN has the tie-breakers wrong).
  • R/OT/SO is the team’s win-loss record broken down into regulation/over-time/shoot-out.
  • W% is what’s commonly referred to as win-percentage, but because of the stupid Bettman point (SBP) it’s actually points-earned as a percentage of maximum possible points.
  • PRJ is projected point total for 82 games.
  • 10-11 is last season’s final point total.
  • %ch is the difference between last year’s final point total and this year’s projected point total.
  • MAX is maximum points possible for that team.
  • PB is points-blown.
  • +/- is the distance in points-blown above or below the 8th seed.
  • W! is regulation wins plus OT wins (the first tie-breaker).
  • GD is goal-differential.

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