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Originally Posted by Vinny01
82pts on the year is .500 hockey no matter how you get there. It is about point % not wins vs losses
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If every team averages 90 points, then 82 points is not .500. .500 should be half of the ~2.2 points given out every game.
Since slightly more than half the teams make the playoffs, it roughly works out that real .500 is the mark needed to make the playoffs. Of course the big assumption is everyone gets roughly an average amount of OTLs.