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Forum: NHL10 hours ago
Thread: 2023-2024 NHL Discussion Thread #6: The Quest for Lord Stanley's Cup
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>A_Habs_fan</b></div><div>Anyone know why Kochetkov is starting and not Freddy?</div></div>

Freddie gets worse the more consecutive games he plays. I've been advocating Kochetkov coming in for a game or 2 since before the playoffs started

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hurricanes_WPG</b></div><div>This series is reminding me too much of the Florida series, at least I didn't have to stay up until 3am to get heartbroken again</div></div>

There's a long OT loss, a short OT loss, a 4-3 regulation loss, outshooting the opponents in every game in both attempts and SOG, and the opposing goaltender having a save percentage above 0.935, it's uncanny.

I legitimately might gamble on the last game being a shutout win for the Rangers.

Some huge questions coming up this offseason, this was the all-in year.
Forum: NHLApr. 11 at 11:47 a.m.
Thread: 2023-2024 NHL Discussion Thread #5: The Final Stretch
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Leafsfan98</b></div><div>Would that count for pace as well (talking about the 41 in 56 season Matthews had to win the RR)?</div></div>

Yes, but only in the case where the season length was different. Something like Cam Neely's 1993-1994 where he scored 50 goals in 49 games wouldn't be adjusted because teams played 84 games that season, but for the shortened 2021 season the pace would be over 56 games (even though Matthews only played 52). That season would count for 63.5 season-adjusted goals, but unfortunately hockey-reference's single-season goal leader page doesn't show anyone with less than 47 goals in a season so it's not in the main list.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mokumboi</b></div><div>Yes, a relatively simple, nonsense calculation. And most of those 80s and 90s goal totals were done with wooden sticks, but that never gets mentioned. Or how certain crazy talented scoring teams threw off the averages. Or how clutching and grabbing and hooking and all sorts of things were allowed back then. No two line passes. Etc etc etc.

When folks start elevating 100% subjective, cherry picked and inherently faulty stats to gospel, it's just nonsense.</div></div>
I'm not going to debate you on your point that this adjustment is flawed and that the game has changed, but to say that I'm cherry-picking and being subjective are both wrong. Any era-adjustment is going to be flawed because you can't say exactly how much the game has changed. Does the improvement in goaltending equipment and skill offset the improvement in scorers' equipment and skill? Have the numerous rule changes over the years favoured one side or the other?

I use overall league goals per game because that serves as some kind of measurement as to how the offense/defense/goaltending balance has shifted over the years, though nothing can perfectly measure the difference between seasons, let alone eras.

What do you contend that I'm cherry-picking, and what am I cherry-picking in service of? I don't have a narrative to push, and I decided on the criteria and methodology before I saw any results. Similarly, I don't use any subjective measurements. League goals, league game and player goals are all countable, objective measurements, far from the 100% subjective that you claim.
Forum: NHLApr. 11 at 8:58 a.m.
Thread: 2023-2024 NHL Discussion Thread #5: The Final Stretch
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mokumboi</b></div><div>Through the magic of his cherry picked "analytics" he says it's clear that this Matthews season is actually like the 7th best goal scoring season of all time. Some nonsense like that.</div></div>

Honestly that's not far-fetched given era adjustments, a lot of the huge raw goal numbers were achieved in the late 80s and early 90s when overall scoring was way up.

A relatively simple calculation, taking the raw goal number * 82 * 2023-24 goals per game, divided by season goals per game and number of games per team (to account for the fact that season lengths have been changed over time), puts Matthews' current season at number 15 all time if he doesn't score another goal all season, and 10th if he keeps up his goal scoring pace.

Edit: See this calculation for all 47+ goal scorers <a href="https://pastebin.com/jNaJxnSb" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"> here</a>
Forum: General Fantasy TalkMar. 30 at 11:03 a.m.
Thread: 2023-24 CapFriendly ESPN Fantasy League
Just a heads up, the teams making the finals only play a 4-day week, because the NHL season ends on April 11 (Thursday)

I cannot change the number of days per matchup to lengthen the finals at the expense of the second round, or anything like that.

I can, however, manually change scores, which lends itself to some extra possibilities.


Options (feel free to contribute other ideas):
Just play out the 4 day week and let the game decide who wins.
Double-count Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from the second round so that the finals still have 7 days.
Count fantasy points for each team's NHL Playoff Game 1 and add those to the total.

Any alternate options must be agreed upon by BOTH eventual finalists before the first puck drop on April 5, or else we just run with the 4-day finals.
Forum: NHLMar. 23 at 5:26 p.m.