Why didn't you choose the season that was closer to his 11/12 season, the 2006/07 season? He was 34 points after 22 games for a 1.55 PPG and finished with a PPG of 1.52.
Or how about the 09/10 season where he was at a PPG after 22 and finished at a 1.35 PPG? Or 15/16 or this year where he has also picked up his pace from the 22 game mark onwards.
Instead you choose a season affected by a completely uncharacteristic mediocre showing. That's cherrypicking at it's finest.
For starters, the 06/07 season is an outlier. And you know that as well as I. The PP-oppurtunities during that season (and the one before...) made players inflated paces doable during that season. It was in no way comparable to 5 years later as a season in the leauge. And your stats actually seem to prove my point. That hot and cold streaks are part of Crosbys game. And everything indicates that he had a hot streak inbedded in both 10/11 and 11/12. As he scored most of his points in short streaks.
Most important, Crosbys outlier/hot 06/07 was during november-december. Had he been injuried after for example his 28th game, he would have had a 1,8 PPG - and the legend for that season would be as for the 10/11 and 15/16. Or similiar after his 47th game, where he would have stood at a 1.7PPG. So even a 47 game sample is to small, as shown. Instead that season had it´s course and ended at a impressive 1.55. But had he been injuried earlier it would be used to suggest he would had scored 140-150 TP in what would have been claimed a aborted peak for him.
So it´s not about the start of the season, as I seemed to have let you believe. It´s about that Crosby (as just about every star player, maybe outside Sundin...) goes on hot streaks as well as cold streaks every season. But they even up in the end.
As shown before, he didn´t even keep that pace over thoose shortended season. In 10/11 most of the "damage" was done in 16-20 out of 41 games that season. The 22 game 11/12 season had him score 12 TP in his last 5GP. Had his season ended before that, his PPG would drop from 1.68 to 1.47. That´s how easy small sample sizes are affected. That´s why we can´t use Crosbys half seasons or less as an indication that he would hace continued that pace during the whole season. Because he never did when healthy, even if he had just as good or greater parts of others seasons. It evens out.
As said before, the 12/13 season is different because he played 12 games less and was 4 points after the Art Ross winner. And Crosby never went 12 games of scoring less than 5 points during 2009-2015. So that one you, as I said in my earlier post, without grapsing for a straw can say that Crosby would have won. That it was a shortend season, and as I see it that makes that Art Ross for St-Louis already having an asterix is another debate.
With the same statistical logic, getting back to the Richard. Peak Ovechkin never between 2005-2011 failed to score at least 2 goals during 10 GP (you can check it yourself if you don´t believe me...). So a sample size out of 475 GP for peak Ovechkin tells us that the Richard would have been his if he had played all games.
But different from the two scenarios above (Crosbys 12/13 Art Ross and Ovechkins 09/10 Richards...) Crosbys 10/11-11/12 seasons can´t be seen as statistics that can be used to draw any conclusions by. Just as we can´t say for sure that Ovechkin would have won the 08/09 Art Ross if he hadn´t went home to visit his ailing grandfather in october, even if he had an marginale better PPG than Malkin with only 3 less GP. Because peak Ovechkins went 3 games without scoring 4 points. So that´s a scenario that´s been proven to go either way.
To sum it up: Crosby has never during a full season kept his PPG pace (06/07 not included for PP-oppurtunities...) that he has had during his shortended season. But during his full seasons he´s had better or as good sample sizes as during his shortend injuried seasons - but never kept the pace. Therefore we can quite sure assume that Crobys wouldn´t had kept his pace during if he stayed healthy during his injuried seasons.
