^That chart does not give you reliability, which the one I posted before does.
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I asked the question some time ago, and haven't yet received a response: Does this model factor in each team's remaining schedule to factor into consideration each team's remaining games against one another? If not, then that is a problem.
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I actually do not know if that is one of the adjustments made. I don't know if it factors into sportsclubstats's model either.
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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
So If Calgary makes the playoffs and finishes the season with more points than the Kings, who miss the playoffs, we can correctly conclude that Calgary was the better 2014-15 team, no?
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No. After 82 games, it may be a better indicator, but it's not an absolute. Take the New Jersey Devils. They finished behind the Coyotes in points. They went 0-13 in the shootout. That's amazingly unlucky. I would suggest that they were better than the Coyotes. This is one of many examples. Sometimes nothing goes right for a team during a season; sometimes everything goes right for them. Similarly, the Avalanche finished 3rd in league standings last year. The Kings and Blackhawks finished 7th and 10th respectively, then played the biggest battle of titans series in recent memory. Those teams were both better at hockey than the Avalanche and it wasn't close.
Let's take another spin on it, shall we: by your argument, the Vancouver Canucks were the best team in the National Hockey League for two years running in 2011-2013.