PocketNines
Cutter's Way
There's not really a myth of the point system keeping teams in it longer.
The point system is pure marketing. It literally, and I mean literally, defines every team in about the 25th percentile up to the 50th percentile as "teams over .500"
When you are .500 in the NHL you are about 24th or 25th out of 32 teams. What they are doing is exactly like Raiders of the Lost Ark. Amazing movie, and Stephen Spielberg was so confident that the audience lacks knowledge and critical thinking ability, put a 5,000 foot cliff between the town of Tanis where the ark is discovered and Cairo. Tanis is in the Nile river delta area. the elevation change is about 80 feet. But there is a 5,000 foot cliff for Nazis to plunge off the side of because he knows no Americans know anything about geography. The NHL did the same thing using math, hockey fans are not able to handle elementary math. I wish that weren't true but it absolutely is.
It's not really about the timing of when a team gets eliminated, it's so that all the employed hypesters (who call themselves, and I swear this is true, "journalists") can yap about how such and such a team is close, they are above .500. Almost there. The NHL fears most having a constant series of teams on the brink because they suck. So they Spielberged everyone and there are no journalists to even bring up a point that 6th grade math students should grasp if they are paying attention in class.
The point system is pure marketing. It literally, and I mean literally, defines every team in about the 25th percentile up to the 50th percentile as "teams over .500"
When you are .500 in the NHL you are about 24th or 25th out of 32 teams. What they are doing is exactly like Raiders of the Lost Ark. Amazing movie, and Stephen Spielberg was so confident that the audience lacks knowledge and critical thinking ability, put a 5,000 foot cliff between the town of Tanis where the ark is discovered and Cairo. Tanis is in the Nile river delta area. the elevation change is about 80 feet. But there is a 5,000 foot cliff for Nazis to plunge off the side of because he knows no Americans know anything about geography. The NHL did the same thing using math, hockey fans are not able to handle elementary math. I wish that weren't true but it absolutely is.
It's not really about the timing of when a team gets eliminated, it's so that all the employed hypesters (who call themselves, and I swear this is true, "journalists") can yap about how such and such a team is close, they are above .500. Almost there. The NHL fears most having a constant series of teams on the brink because they suck. So they Spielberged everyone and there are no journalists to even bring up a point that 6th grade math students should grasp if they are paying attention in class.
