More games going to overtime in NHL
Posted by: Mike MachnikChanges in the NHL overtime system have led to more games going to overtime. Link here.
In 2000, the National Hockey League began rewarding teams for ties at the end of regulation by granting a point in the league standings to teams that lose in overtime. That makes overtime games worth one more point than other games, because winners of any game get two points. In the nine seasons since that rule change, the probability of games going to overtime has increased by 21% compared with the nine seasons before the change, according to Justin Kubatko, vice president of Sports Reference LLC, as teams have scrambled to hold on for overtime and the guaranteed point it confers.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
[…] • Here’s what the overtime charity point has done for overtime: "In the nine seasons since that rule change [in 2000], the probability of games going to overtime has increased by 21% compared with the nine seasons before the change." [WSJ, via College Hockey News] […]
March 18th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
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March 19th, 2009 at 12:28 am
[…] to overtime has increased by 21% compared with the nine seasons before the change." [WSJ, via College Hockey News]Preview: New Jersey Devils at Carolina Hurricanes (7 p.m. EST; TV: MSG+, FSS, Yahoo! Sports). The […]