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Forum: NHLApr. 11 at 11:12 a.m.
Thread: 2023-2024 NHL Discussion Thread #5: The Final Stretch
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hurricanes_WPG</b></div><div>Honestly that's not far-fetched given era adjustments, a lot of the huge raw goal numbers were achieved in the late 80s and early 90s when overall scoring was way up.

A relatively simple calculation, taking the raw goal number * 82 * 2023-24 goals per game, divided by season goals per game and number of games per team (to account for the fact that season lengths have been changed over time), puts Matthews' current season at number 15 all time if he doesn't score another goal all season, and 10th if he keeps up his goal scoring pace.

Edit: See this calculation for all 47+ goal scorers <a href="https://pastebin.com/jNaJxnSb" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"> here</a></div></div>

That seems pretty fair, era adjusted stats are kind of their own niche thing where they don't really serve a purpose unless you want to dig deep and compare players from different hockey eras but they're very useful in seeing a glimpse of how stats would stand up through time
Forum: NHLApr. 11 at 11:27 a.m.
Thread: 2023-2024 NHL Discussion Thread #5: The Final Stretch
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mokumboi</b></div><div>Yes, a relatively simple, nonsense calculation. <strong>And most of those 80s and 90s goal totals were done with wooden sticks, but that never gets mentioned. Or how certain crazy talented scoring teams threw off the averages. Or how clutching and grabbing and hooking and all sorts of things were allowed back then. No two line passes.</strong> Etc etc etc.

When folks start elevating <strong>100% subjective</strong>, cherry picked and inherently faulty stats to gospel, it's just nonsense.</div></div>

You say this... But you have to remember; goalies just started wearing masks, getting the puck off the ice basically meant a goal...

Grant Fuhr won the Vezina while posting an .881... Jack Campbell, this season, had an .873 and was called unusable....

Everyone's faster, stronger and more athletic... Which is why defence is more effective...

It's a different game now then it was before... It's fair to try and use a model to see what a 66 goal season in 23-24 would be equal to (based on rough estimates) in '89-90

As for being 100% subjective, how's that any different from the MVP conversation... There's 4 worthy candidates but there's not a deciding factor, which allows people to be subjective...
Forum: General Fantasy TalkMar. 30 at 11:41 a.m.
Thread: 2023-24 CapFriendly ESPN Fantasy League
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hurricanes_WPG</b></div><div>Just a heads up, the teams making the finals only play a 4-day week, because the NHL season ends on April 11 (Thursday)

I cannot change the number of days per matchup to lengthen the finals at the expense of the second round, or anything like that.

I can, however, manually change scores, which lends itself to some extra possibilities.


Options (feel free to contribute other ideas):
Just play out the 4 day week and let the game decide who wins.
Double-count Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from the second round so that the finals still have 7 days.
Count fantasy points for each team's NHL Playoff Game 1 and add those to the total.

Any alternate options must be agreed upon by BOTH eventual finalists before the first puck drop on April 5, or else we just run with the 4-day finals.</div></div>

No, as far as I can tell, the finals in our league will be from April 8th to April 18th (which is the final regular season day)