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Playoff Calculator

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Every year for the playoffs, we provide a Playoff Calculator. Once the teams and matchups for the playoffs are set, there is a link from THE Hockey Pool home page labeled "Playoff Calculator". After you click on it, it prompts you to predict the winning team for each playoff round and how many games you think they will win in. Then, based on the playoff format for the year, it will present you with your predicted match-ups for the subsequent round and allow you to predict the winners again.

Once your predictions are made all the way to the finals, the Calculator will look at how many games you predict each team to play in the post season. Then, based on the predicted number of games, the Calculator will compute the expected point output of each player in the post-season based on their regular season points per game.

Of course, as demonstrated by experience, it takes guts to draft from the generated list, but if you really believe in your picks, it can help.

Click here to see the full prediction list you would have seen if you had predicted the 99 playoffs correctly.

Click here to see how the calculator fared in 1998.

(The 2000 and 2001 results were lost in our server crash, and we have not spent the time to regenerate them yet, the 99 and 98 results should give you a good indication of how this works, though, so we're in no rush to recreate them- we're working on more important things for you:^)

If You Had Predicted The 99 Playoff Results Correctly
You Would Have Seen This List
Players in BOLD Were In The Top 40 Players at Right
These Are The Actual Top 40 Scorers In The Playoffs In 99

Expected Pts: predicted points in playoffs according to your picks
    (expected games played times points per game in the regular season)
GP: games played in regular season
RSP: regular season points (all the following stats are for the regular season as well)
G: goals A: assists PP: power play goals
 SH: short handed goals GW: game winning goals
Player Name Team Expected Pts GP RSP G A PP SH GW -------------------------- ---- --------------- -- --- --- --- --- --- --- JOE SAKIC COL 19 X 1.315= 25 73 96 41 55 12 5 6 MIKE MODANO DAL 23 X 1.052= 25 77 81 34 47 6 4 7 THEOREN FLEURY COL 19 X 1.240= 24 75 93 40 53 8 3 5 PETER FORSBERG COL 19 X 1.244= 24 78 97 30 67 9 2 7 BRETT HULL DAL 23 X 0.967= 23 60 58 32 26 15 0 11 JAROMIR JAGR PIT 13 X 1.568= 21 81 127 44 83 10 1 7 JOE NIEUWENDYK DAL 23 X 0.821= 19 67 55 28 27 8 0 8 MIROSLAV SATAN BUF 21 X 0.815= 18 81 66 40 26 13 3 6 (48th 8Pts) MATS SUNDIN TOR 17 X 1.012= 18 82 83 31 52 4 0 6 JERE LEHTINEN DAL 23 X 0.703= 17 74 52 20 32 7 1 2 STEVE THOMAS TOR 17 X 0.936= 16 78 73 28 45 11 0 7 (44th 9Pts) SANDIS OZOLINSH COL 19 X 0.821= 16 39 32 7 25 4 0 3 PAVOL DEMITRA STL 13 X 1.085= 15 82 89 37 52 14 0 10 (41st 9Pts) MIKE PECA BUF 21 X 0.683= 15 82 56 27 29 10 0 8 ADAM DEADMARSH COL 19 X 0.742= 15 66 49 22 27 10 0 3 DARRYL SYDOR DAL 23 X 0.649= 15 74 48 14 34 9 0 2 SERGEI ZUBOV DAL 23 X 0.630= 15 81 51 10 41 5 0 3 SERGEI BEREZIN TOR 17 X 0.776= 14 76 59 37 22 9 1 4 MARTIN STRAKA PIT 13 X 1.038= 14 80 83 35 48 5 4 4 MICHAL GROSEK BUF 21 X 0.658= 14 76 50 20 30 4 0 3 (103rd 4Pts Injured) JAMIE LANGENBRUNNER DAL 23 X 0.600= 14 75 45 12 33 4 0 1 PIERRE TURGEON STL 13 X 0.970= 13 67 65 31 34 10 0 5 CURTIS BROWN BUF 21 X 0.603= 13 78 47 16 31 5 1 3 JOE JUNEAU BUF 21 X 0.597= 13 72 43 15 28 2 1 3 VALERI KAMENSKY COL 19 X 0.677= 13 65 44 14 30 2 0 2 IGOR KOROLEV TOR 17 X 0.712= 13 66 47 13 34 1 0 2 (Injured) CLAUDE LEMIEUX COL 19 X 0.622= 12 82 51 27 24 11 0 8 JASON ALLISON BOS 12 X 0.927= 12 82 76 23 53 5 1 3 DIXON WARD BUF 21 X 0.564= 12 78 44 20 24 2 1 4 Milan Hejduk COL 19 X 0.585= 12 82 48 14 34 4 0 5 JASON WOOLLEY BUF 21 X 0.538= 12 80 43 10 33 4 0 2 DMITRI KHRISTICH BOS 12 X 0.899= 11 79 71 29 42 13 1 6 (57th 7Pts) DEREK KING TOR 17 X 0.642= 11 81 52 24 28 8 0 4 (107th 4Pts) STEVE SULLIVAN TOR 17 X 0.635= 11 63 40 20 20 4 0 5 (68th 6Pts) Chris Drury COL 19 X 0.557= 11 79 44 20 24 6 0 3 (49th 8Pts) PAT VERBEEK DAL 23 X 0.436= 11 78 34 17 17 8 0 2 (61st 7Pts) GERMAN TITOV PIT 13 X 0.778= 11 72 56 11 45 3 1 3 (47th 8Pts) ALYN MCCAULEY TOR 17 X 0.615= 11 39 24 9 15 1 0 1 (Injured) STEVE YZERMAN DET 10 X 0.925= 10 80 74 29 45 13 2 4 SCOTT YOUNG STL 13 X 0.693= 10 75 52 24 28 8 0 4

--------------------              GP  GL  AS PTS PP SH GW GT  S   PCTG  P/G
  1 C PETER FORSBERG          COL 19   8  16  24  1  1  0  0  54  14.8 1.263
  2 C MIKE MODANO             DAL 23   5  18  23  1  1  1  1  83   6.0 1.000
  3 C JOE NIEUWENDYK          DAL 23  11  10  21  3  0  6  2  72  15.3 0.913
  4 C JOE SAKIC               COL 19   6  13  19  1  1  1  0  56  10.7 1.000
  5 R THEOREN FLEURY          COL 18   5  12  17  2  0  0  0  56   8.9 0.944
  6 C JAMIE LANGENBRUNNER     DAL 23  10   7  17  4  0  3  0  46  21.7 0.739
  7 C MATS SUNDIN             TOR 17   8   8  16  3  0  2  0  44  18.2 0.941
  8 C MARTIN STRAKA           PIT 13   6   9  15  1  0  0  0  27  22.2 1.154
  9 D ALEXEI ZHITNIK          BUF 21   4  11  15  4  0  2  0  58   6.9 0.714
 10 D JASON WOOLLEY           BUF 21   4  11  15  2  0  1  1  43   9.3 0.714
 11 R BRETT HULL              DAL 22   8   7  15  3  0  2  1  86   9.3 0.682
 12 R CLAUDE LEMIEUX          COL 19   3  11  14  1  0  0  0  69   4.3 0.737
 13 C STEVE YZERMAN           DET 10   9   4  13  4  0  2  0  41  22.0 1.300
 14 C PIERRE TURGEON          STL 13   4   9  13  0  0  2  2  42   9.5 1.000
 15 C CURTIS BROWN            BUF 21   7   6  13  3  0  3  0  34  20.6 0.619
 16 C MIKE PECA               BUF 21   5   8  13  2  1  0  0  37  13.5 0.619
 17 R JERE LEHTINEN           DAL 23  10   3  13  1  1  0  0  55  18.2 0.565
 18 D SERGEI ZUBOV            DAL 23   1  12  13  0  0  0  0  46   2.2 0.565
 19 R JAROMIR JAGR            PIT  9   5   7  12  1  0  1  1  32  15.6 1.333
 20 R ALEXEI KOVALEV          PIT 10   5   7  12  0  0  1  0  24  20.8 1.200
 21 D AL MACINNIS             STL 13   4   8  12  2  0  0  0  66   6.1 0.923
 22 R Milan Hejduk            COL 16   6   6  12  1  0  3  2  38  15.8 0.750
 23 R SERGEI BEREZIN          TOR 17   6   6  12  2  0  2  1  65   9.2 0.706
 24 D SANDIS OZOLINSH         COL 19   4   8  12  3  0  1  0  56   7.1 0.632
 25 R ADAM DEADMARSH          COL 19   8   4  12  3  0  0  0  44  18.2 0.632
 26 R DIXON WARD              BUF 21   7   5  12  0  2  3  0  38  18.4 0.571
 27 D DARRYL SYDOR            DAL 23   3   9  12  1  0  1  0  49   6.1 0.522
 28 D NICKLAS LIDSTROM        DET 10   2   9  11  2  0  0  0  29   6.9 1.100
 29 C JASON ALLISON           BOS 12   2   9  11  1  0  0  0  28   7.1 0.917
 30 R SCOTT YOUNG             STL 13   4   7  11  1  0  1  1  40  10.0 0.846
 31 C JOE JUNEAU              BUF 20   3   8  11  0  1  0  0  29  10.3 0.550
 32 L BRENDAN SHANAHAN        DET 10   3   7  10  1  0  1  0  31   9.7 1.000
 33 D RAY BOURQUE             BOS 12   1   9  10  0  0  0  0  44   2.3 0.833
 34 L GEOFF SANDERSON         BUF 19   4   6  10  0  0  1  0  53   7.5 0.526
 35 C STU BARNES              BUF 21   7   3  10  4  0  1  0  30  23.3 0.476
 36 L DAVE REID               DAL 23   2   8  10  0  0  0  0  30   6.7 0.435
 37 R LONNY BOHONOS           TOR  9   3   6   9  0  0  0  0  26  11.5 1.000
 38 L VALERI KAMENSKY         COL 10   4   5   9  1  0  1  0  18  22.2 0.900
 39 C SERGEI FEDOROV          DET 10   1   8   9  0  0  0  0  38   2.6 0.900
 40 C JOE THORNTON            BOS 11   3   6   9  2  0  2  0  15  20.0 0.818
Not In Predicted Top 40:
#9 Alexei Zhitnik 15Pts - Predicted 59th with 9Pts
#20 Alexei Kovalev 12Pts - Predicted 49th with 9Pts
#21 Al MacInnis 12Pts - Predicted 42nd with 10Pts
#28 Nicklas Lidstrom 11Pts - Predicted 70th with 8Pts
#32 Brendan Shanahan 10Pts - Predicted 64th with 8Pts
#33 Ray Bourque 10Pts - Predicted 56th with 9Pts
#34 Geoff Sanderson 10Pts - Predicted 55th with 9Pts
#35 Stu Barnes 10Pts - Predicted 41st with 10Pts
#36 Dave Reid 10Pts - Predicted 105th with 6Pts
#37 Lonny Bohonos 9Pts - Predicted 73rd with 8Pts
#39 Sergei Fedorov 9Pts - Predicted 47th with 9Pts
#40 Joe Thornton 9Pts - Predicted 80th with 7Pts