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Originally Posted by butterfly
I'd like to see some evidence that it's becoming more bimodal. Your baseline year of 2014-15 had 5 teams between -10 and 10. This year has 5 teams between -10 and 10.
You haven't addressed the increase in ENG (397, not prorated this year v. 284 total in the baseline year) where losing teams couldn't care less about allowing a marginal goal, and the fact that the standard deviation of winning percentage hasn't appreciably changed since 30 years ago.
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When you consider that winning a hockey game requires you to score more goals than you allow... a measurement of which teams score more goals than they allow should tie up pretty nicely with with which teams are winning more games.
Regardless, the point was that we're seeing teams being able to stack their rosters again. The fact those teams have a much higher goal differential than the rest of the league, and the fact we're seeing higher individal point-totals are just symptoms of that point.