Beech
What A Wonderful Day
- Nov 25, 2020
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you need to be even more worried.it's crazy because there's actually a shit load of parity in the NHL. Worst team can beat the best team on any given night.
So to be basically eliminated in the first month of play for 3-4 straight seasons is actually incredible. Even most bad teams manage better than that.
The 20 game mark? that is well known. You know who else knows it? The league. So for the most part, the bulk of games 1 to 20 are scheduled between teams in a like on like fashion. The top 1/3 of teams from last season play against one another, the middle 1/3 does the same and the bottom 1/3 does the same. The hope is everyone plays to a 0.500 record, And keeps fans interested and consuming your product.
Pretty much every league knows this. The NFL goes so far as to make their schedule tilted towards teams playing their 3 extra games against like finishers from last year and they further add the top v top. m v m, b v b early season slant to skew things more and more.
So, if your last season's results were poor and you are out of it after 20 games? Good luck, games 21-60 will have a healthy dose of top and mid 1/3 teams. And, you are a bad team.