How this works:
Basically what I do, is to take the points a team has managed till now, divide it by the games played, then multiply it by 82. That should accurately project what the team should finish like, unless there is an extreme streak one way or the other.
| Current Rank |
Team | Games Played | Points | Points Per Game |
Projected Final Points |
Projected Rank |
| 6 | Atlanta | 67 | 78 | 1.1642 | 95 | 6 |
| 7 | NY Islanders | 66 | 76 | 1.1515 | 94 | 7 |
| 8 | Carolina | 68 | 73 | 1.0735 | 88 | 9 |
| 9 | Montreal | 68 | 72 | 1.0588 | 87 | 12 |
| 10 | NY Rangers | 66 | 71 | 1.0758 | 88 | 8 |
| 11 | Toronto | 66 | 71 | 1.0758 | 88 | 10 |
| 12 | Boston | 65 | 69 | 1.0615 | 87 | 11 |
As you can see,according to tonights calculations, I project the Rangers as MAKING the playoffs. Its a hard thing to say considering its technically a 3-way tie for the final playoff spot, but when you consider games in hand and current win totals, I “eyeballed” it to show the rangers with more wins. i doubt im wrong, but its what i think will happen. Therefore using these numbers we can project what the Rangers would have to go over the remaining 16 games in order to secure the projected 89 points (not 88 because its more ambiguous and harder to calculate, lets use 89 as a “secure” number) needed to secure the final playoff spot:
9-7-0
8-6-2
7-5-4
6-4-6
5-3-8
4-2-10
3-1-12
2-0-14
-Inferno