- Sorted by winning percentage (WIN%).
- Only regulation wins and OT wins are counted as wins (W).
- Shoot-out wins are tallied separately. Why? Because they don’t count in the “total wins” tie-breaker, so we need to keep them out of the W column.
- “PROJ” = projected final point total.
- “GB” = games back, i.e. baseball standings.
- “PB” = points blown. Points-blown refers to the number of potential points a team has failed to earn. The fewer the better, obviously. This may seem like a needlessly confusing and pointless stat to keep track of, in which case, feel free to skip this column entirely. However, I find it’s a useful way to correct for disparities in games-played. For example, notice that PHX has blown fewer points (i.e. screwed up less) than their win% or point total would indicate, whereas CHI has blown more points (i.e. screwed up more). Think of points-blown as a kind of “hidden reason for optimism (or pessimism)” quantifier. I’ll have to think of a better way to phrase that, but it’ll do for now.
- (as an aside, check out Chicago. They are 2nd in the West in the official “ESPN” standings. But they’ve played several more games than many of the teams. Accordingly, when sorted by WIN%, they drop all the way to 12th, and if you look only at points-blown, they drop to 14th, one game above dead-last.)
- “PS +/-” = points blown, relative to the 8th seed. In other words, how far above or below the post-season (“P.S.”) cut-off a team is.
- Green indicates a projected finish 100 points or above (certain to qualify for playoffs). Yellow is 94-99 projected points (probable for playoffs), orange is 86-93 (projected to fall short), red is below 85 (doomed).
- I’m kidding about doomed. These are obviously somewhat arbitrary cut-offs, other than the assumption that 94 points is a pretty safe bet (but not 100% safe) if you’re looking for the playoff threshold.
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