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Wednesday: The Real Standings

Q NHL PTS W% PRJ MAX LSF PB +/- TO 97 GR W! SS SSGR GD Qcl
1 1 VAN 113 0.7063 115.8 117 103 47 18 n/a 2 48 -1 VAN 71 110
2 2 SJS 103 0.6519 106.9 109 113 55 10 n/a 3 42 -2 SJS 38 105
3 3 DET 102 0.6456 105.9 108 102 56 9 n/a 3 42 3 LAK 24 100
4 5 PHX 96 0.6076 99.6 102 107 62 3 0-2-1 3 37 -2 1 7 95
5 6 LAK 96 0.6076 99.6 102 101 62 3 0-2-1 3 36 n/a n/a 23 95
6 4 NAS 97 0.6063 99.4 101 100 63 2 0-2-0 2 37 4 LAK 24 95
7 7 ANA 93 0.5886 96.5 99 89 65 0 2-1-0 3 40 1 2 -3 95
8 8 CHI 93 0.5886 96.5 99 112 65 0 2-1-0 3 36 -8 CHI 31 95
9 9 DAL 91 0.5759 94.5 97 88 67 -2 3-0-0 3 35 5 LAK -7 90
10 10 CGY 91 0.5688 93.3 95 90 69 -4 n/a 2 31 2 LAK 9 90
11 11 STL 84 0.5250 86.1 88 90 76 -11 n/a 2 33 -8 STL 5 85
12 12 MIN 82 0.5190 85.1 88 84 76 -11 n/a 3 34 1 LAK -26 80
13 13 CBJ 81 0.5063 83.0 85 79 79 -14 n/a 2 29 3 LAK -39 80
14 14 COL 66 0.4177 68.5 72 95 92 -27 n/a 3 23 8 LAK -59 65
15 15 EDM 61 0.3861 63.3 67 62 97 -32 n/a 3 23 7 LAK -68 60

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KEY:

  • Q is my standings, default sorted by points-blown (explanation of points-blown here).
  • NHL is the official standings, via NHL.COM (ESPN has the tie-breakers wrong).
  • PRJ is projected point total for 82 games.
  • LSF is last season’s final 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.
  • TO 97 is the record needed to get to the presumed (by me) playoff-threshold.
  • GR is games-remaining.
  • W! is wins plus OT wins (the first tie-breaker).
  • SS and SSGR is season series against the Kings (Kings’ points-earned vs. that team’s points-earned) and games remaining (team name in the SSGR column means that team has won the season series). 2 points for a Kings win, 1 for an OT or SO win, -1 for an OT or SO loss, -2 for a loss.
  • GD is goal-differential.
  • Qcl is clustered points, which corrects for variance in games-played and then rounds point totals to the nearest multiple of 5. The idea is to emphasize which teams are bunched together, or, to put it another way, are “more or less tied.” It may be useless or annoying. Feel free to ignore.

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