Friday 10 February 2012

1970/71 Point Allocation

Last time we looked at the 1985/86 NHL Point Allocation results, in order to examine the upper limits of player performance. Wayne Greztky's 215-point season came in at a TPAK of 7.00. Now let's see how good Bobby Orr's +124 season, in 1970/71. Unsurprisingly, he was the best in the league that season:


PlayerClubPosGPMINOPDPPPTPATPAK
ORR, BobbyBOS38020008.66.5-0.314.87.40
PLANTE, JacquesTORG5733620.022.50.022.56.69
WHITE, BillCHI36917251.49.2-0.210.46.03
ESPOSITO, PhilBOS58016007.81.1-0.38.65.38
BUCYK, JohnBOS68016007.70.90.08.65.38
PLAGER, BobSTL37218001.28.8-0.49.65.33
KEON, DaveTOR57815605.82.40.08.25.26
ROBERTS, JimmySTL37418501.98.1-0.39.75.24
BELIVEAU, JeanMTL57214406.90.8-0.27.55.21
COURNOYER, YvanMTL76713406.10.7-0.16.75.00
HULL, BobbyCHI68016006.02.0-0.17.94.94
TREMBLAY, J-CMTL37819504.25.5-0.19.64.92
SELING, RodNYR37017501.77.0-0.18.64.91
MAGNUSON, KeithCHI37819501.28.8-0.79.34.77
SMITH, DallasBOS37518752.76.5-0.38.94.75
CHEEVERS, GerryBOSG5834650.016.20.016.24.67
ANGOTTI, LouCHI56713402.14.3-0.26.24.63
PARK, BradNYR37017503.05.5-0.48.14.63
NEILSON, JimNYR37919751.77.7-0.39.14.61
SANDERSON, DerekBOS57314604.52.8-0.66.74.59
WESTFALL, EdBOS78016004.03.4-0.27.24.50
HODGE, KenBOS78016006.60.9-0.57.04.38
ULLMAN, NormTOR57515005.51.1-0.16.54.33
STAPLETON, PatCHI37819502.75.7-0.18.34.26
RATELLE, JeanNYR58016005.51.4-0.16.84.25
MIKITA, StanCHI57615204.71.7-0.36.14.01

Orr and Gretzky, in their primes, probably put up 7.00 TPAK seasons as a matter of course, while other players can only dream of approaching that number once in their careers. We could call this the Gretzky-Orr Threshold, or maybe Gretzorr (which sounds like a hockey-themed Masters of the Universe villain, so maybe we shouldn't call it that). Let's stick with the Gretzky-Orr Threshold, and use it to see which historical players had this type of singular performance.

4 comments:

  1. Still can't believe the numbers Plante put up that year at that age...

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    1. Agreed. Put to rest any doubt anyone might have had about his ability, playing behind the mighty Montreal defence.

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  2. 14 teams in the NHL, and only 6 of them got players in the top 25.

    What are the odds that the top 25 players would be spread out over just 6 teams? In actuality wouldn't there be the odd Gilbert Perreault or Bobby Clarke sneaking on to the list?

    It could just be that there was very little parity in the league, but I suspect Bill White wouldn't have made the list had he played for the Golden Seals.

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    1. Since we're dealing with hockey stats there's no way team performance will ever be entirely removed from an individual player's stats.

      I will say that the chance of the top 25 players belonging to 6 teams were much greater in 1970/71 than in, say, 1985/86. It's just four years after the great expansion. Parity is not a word you would use to describe the conditions of the NHL at this time.

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