2016 Playoff Race

6 more weeks!

I believe, we officially have our first team to clinch playoffs. Los Angeles & Winnipeg could tie Calgary if CGY loses out and one of LA or WPG wins out, BUT I still believe Calgary would have the tiebreaked. Sooooo....

CONGRATULATION TO CALGARY!

We also officially have 3 teams eliminated from playoff contention.



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Yeah, it's pretty freaking awesome!

Thanks for the graph Jusso!

For those who don't want to click the link:



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Haha fixing now. I probably just figured an islanders fan couldn't have that many wins

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We should look at the quality of opponents. If Bruins, Flyers and myself all play top 3 teams for instance, that could change things dramatically. 

That's correct, although the site should take that into account (I don't know how well it does, but points scored by each team/schedule of play is factored into the equation). Another thing that we would need to take into account is the numbers of games each team's players play, but that starts getting complicated

Time to trade him?

The race for the final 2 playoff positions is getting either tighter than it was last week. Both the Kings and Ducks won last week, while the Leafs and Flyers lost. Boston's late comeback against Tampa made them an odds on favourite to advance from the bunch. The current odds are as follow:


The match-up to watch this week is TOR vs. WPG. If Toronto wins, Winnipeg's odds of advancing to the playoffs drop to 5.3%. Toronto will be almost guaranteed a playoff berth with 98.8% odds. If Winnipeg wins, the two teams will be neck and neck with Winnipeg's odds rising to 55.5% and Toronto's odds falling to 60.3%. 

The Ducks and Kings will need to beat the Isles and Bruins respectively to keep their upward momentum going. A loss for either team will see their drops of advancing fall back down to the 10% range. 

Philly appears to have a relatively easy match-up this week against freshly eliminated Montreal. A win against MTL will bump Philly's odds of advancing to 60.9%.

Best of luck this week everyone!

Just trying to secure the NYI-NYR series

To do so, you will most likely need to finish 2nd overall in the McDavid conference. The top 3 in the league are already locked: CGY and I will be #1 and #2 (statistically I can still get on top if CGY loses both of his upcoming match-ups and I win both of mine). NYR is guaranteed to finish 3rd overall. The top team in McDavid will however get the #2 seed, so the rankings will be as follows:

1) CGY/MIN
2) ARI/BOS/NYI (#1 overall from McDavid)
3) MIN/CGY
4) NYR
5) ? (most likely #2 overall from McDavid)
6) ?
7) ?
8) ?