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Originally Posted by butterfly
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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I haven't addressed it because it's trivial compared to the overall change: a difference of four or five goals per team per year.
Thirty years ago, the league included several sad-sack expansion teams, and small-market teams were beginning to lose their ability to compete against big-market budgets. If you're comparing the present league to that situation, I'm not sure that helps your case.