Score distribution query///

[PrimumHockeyist]

Can anybody tell me how, on hockey-reference or some similar site, I might be able to determine the number of games played to a certain score, like 7-2 or 6 - 1, in a given NHL season, or over a range of seasons?

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[Hockey Outsider]

You'll have to manually update the parameters, but this is probably the easiest way: link from NHL.com (if I set this up correctly, it should show you all 44 games that ended with a 6-3 score during the 1989-90 season)

(Hockey-reference.com definitely has this data, but you'd need to pay to access it).

 

[PrimumHockeyist]

Thank you Hockey Outsider !

 

[Hockey Stathead]

Can anybody tell me how, on hockey-reference or some similar site, I might be able to determine the number of games played to a certain score, like 7-2 or 6 - 1, in a given NHL season, or over a range of seasons?

I have this all compiled if you still need it.

 

[PrimumHockeyist]

I have this all compiled if you still need it.

Thanks. I would like to take a peak, actually.

 

[Hockey Stathead]

Thanks. I would like to take a peak, actually.

Ya of course. Only issue is that there are 95 different final scores and over 100 seasons so the chart is massive (have to scroll up and down in Excel to see everything).

Any ideas on how to present it?

 

[PrimumHockeyist]

Ya of course. Only issue is that there are 95 different final scores and over 100 seasons so the chart is massive (have to scroll up and down in Excel to see everything).

Any ideas on how to present it?

Awesome. If it aint too much problem, I'd like to see a heirarchy where the most common scores are at the top, and the least common at bottom. I'm not vg at Excel, but I can load it and find my way around. And thank you Hockey Stathead. I do appreciate the gesture.

 

[Hockey Stathead]

Happy to help. This is regular season for every season from 1917-1918 to 2021-2022:

3-2	6,375
4-3	4,658
2-1	4,425
4-2	4,226
3-1	3,773
4-1	3,570
5-2	3,302
5-3	2,694
5-4	2,148
5-1	1,744
6-3	1,731
3-0	1,718
2-2	1,676
3-3	1,514
2-0	1,444
6-2	1,275
1-0	1,209
4-0	1,172
6-4	1,109
4-4	947
1-1	903
6-1	842
6-5	712
7-3	651
7-4	629
7-2	602
5-0	599
7-1	422
5-5	367
6-0	362
7-5	317
8-2	265
8-3	260
8-4	225
0-0	186
8-1	182
7-6	172
8-5	157
7-0	156
9-2	116
6-6	107
9-3	106
8-6	105
9-4	99
9-1	76
8-0	64
9-5	51
9-0	47
10-2	44
9-6	39
10-3	36
10-4	36
8-7	36
10-1	35
11-4	22
11-2	21
11-3	21
7-7	21
10-5	20
9-7	20
10-0	18
11-5	11
10-6	11
11-1	9
12-2	9
10-7	9
11-0	8
8-8	8
12-1	7
11-6	7
12-3	6
10-8	6
12-5	5
13-4	4
9-8	4
10-9	4
12-0	3
12-4	3
11-7	3
13-0	2
13-3	2
15-0	1
13-1	1
14-1	1
13-2	1
14-2	1
15-2	1
14-3	1
16-3	1
14-4	1
13-6	1
14-7	1
12-8	1
11-9	1
12-9	1

 

[PrimumHockeyist]

Happy to help. This is regular season for every season from 1917-1918 to 2021-2022:

3-2	6,375
4-3	4,658
2-1	4,425
4-2	4,226
3-1	3,773
4-1	3,570
5-2	3,302
5-3	2,694
5-4	2,148
5-1	1,744
6-3	1,731
3-0	1,718
2-2	1,676
3-3	1,514
2-0	1,444
6-2	1,275
1-0	1,209
4-0	1,172
6-4	1,109
4-4	947
1-1	903
6-1	842
6-5	712
7-3	651
7-4	629
7-2	602
5-0	599
7-1	422
5-5	367
6-0	362
7-5	317
8-2	265
8-3	260
8-4	225
0-0	186
8-1	182
7-6	172
8-5	157
7-0	156
9-2	116
6-6	107
9-3	106
8-6	105
9-4	99
9-1	76
8-0	64
9-5	51
9-0	47
10-2	44
9-6	39
10-3	36
10-4	36
8-7	36
10-1	35
11-4	22
11-2	21
11-3	21
7-7	21
10-5	20
9-7	20
10-0	18
11-5	11
10-6	11
11-1	9
12-2	9
10-7	9
11-0	8
8-8	8
12-1	7
11-6	7
12-3	6
10-8	6
12-5	5
13-4	4
9-8	4
10-9	4
12-0	3
12-4	3
11-7	3
13-0	2
13-3	2
15-0	1
13-1	1
14-1	1
13-2	1
14-2	1
15-2	1
14-3	1
16-3	1
14-4	1
13-6	1
14-7	1
12-8	1
11-9	1
12-9	1

Excellent. Thank you again. If it's not to much to ask, and available without hard number crunching, can you tell me the total number of goals listed here?

 

[Hockey Stathead]

Excellent. Thank you again. If it's not to much to ask, and available without hard number crunching, can you tell me the total number of goals listed here?

I'm coming up with 364,169 regular season goals scored in NHL history.

It's 366,403 including the shootout win as +1 goal for the winner and a couple 1-0 forfeits in early NHL.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

Happy to help. This is regular season for every season from 1917-1918 to 2021-2022:

3-2	6,375
4-3	4,658
2-1	4,425
4-2	4,226
3-1	3,773
4-1	3,570
5-2	3,302
5-3	2,694
5-4	2,148
5-1	1,744
6-3	1,731
3-0	1,718
2-2	1,676
3-3	1,514
2-0	1,444
6-2	1,275
1-0	1,209
4-0	1,172
6-4	1,109
4-4	947
1-1	903
6-1	842
6-5	712
7-3	651
7-4	629
7-2	602
5-0	599
7-1	422
5-5	367
6-0	362
7-5	317
8-2	265
8-3	260
8-4	225
0-0	186
8-1	182
7-6	172
8-5	157
7-0	156
9-2	116
6-6	107
9-3	106
8-6	105
9-4	99
9-1	76
8-0	64
9-5	51
9-0	47
10-2	44
9-6	39
10-3	36
10-4	36
8-7	36
10-1	35
11-4	22
11-2	21
11-3	21
7-7	21
10-5	20
9-7	20
10-0	18
11-5	11
10-6	11
11-1	9
12-2	9
10-7	9
11-0	8
8-8	8
12-1	7
11-6	7
12-3	6
10-8	6
12-5	5
13-4	4
9-8	4
10-9	4
12-0	3
12-4	3
11-7	3
13-0	2
13-3	2
15-0	1
13-1	1
14-1	1
13-2	1
14-2	1
15-2	1
14-3	1
16-3	1
14-4	1
13-6	1
14-7	1
12-8	1
11-9	1
12-9	1

I guess this proves that Darryl Sutter was right when he said the NHL is a 3-2 league.

 

[Hockey Outsider]

There were 8 games in NHL history that ended 8-8. The year with the most such games? '88.

 

[PrimumHockeyist]

I'm coming up with 364,169 regular season goals scored in NHL history.

It's 366,403 including the shootout win as +1 goal for the winner and a couple 1-0 forfeits in early NHL.

Thanks much, didn't mean to put you out. I'm especially interested in the 6-5 final score frequency. Seems like 349169/719 about one in every 500 games, historically.

 

[PrimumHockeyist]

There were 8 games in NHL history that ended 8-8. The year with the most such games? '88.

Only one player scored 8 points three times in his career, and that was Mario Lemieux who did it three times in 87-88.