Monday, February 09, 2004
Adjusting the standings
The best idea yet I've heard to fix the way the NHL standing appear is from PecaFan on HFBoards.
His idea is:
... change the current OTL column. Instead of using it to track ot losses, we should use it for OT wins. At the end of regulation time, record a Tie for each team. Every time, regardless of what is about to happen in overtime. If nobody wins, you do nothing, since you've already handed out the point each.
But if someone wins in overtime, give them the extra point, store it in the Bonus Point column (BP). So, the winner in overtime gets 2 points, one in the tie, one in the BP. The loser gets 1 in the tie column.
The only problem I see is that the totals in the four columns will be greater then the number of games played. But I'll take that over the silly 3 points for a win stuff that keeps popping up from fans.
Read his full post here
His idea is:
... change the current OTL column. Instead of using it to track ot losses, we should use it for OT wins. At the end of regulation time, record a Tie for each team. Every time, regardless of what is about to happen in overtime. If nobody wins, you do nothing, since you've already handed out the point each.
But if someone wins in overtime, give them the extra point, store it in the Bonus Point column (BP). So, the winner in overtime gets 2 points, one in the tie, one in the BP. The loser gets 1 in the tie column.
The only problem I see is that the totals in the four columns will be greater then the number of games played. But I'll take that over the silly 3 points for a win stuff that keeps popping up from fans.
Read his full post here
