Competitiveness Index

[Bollocks]

Totally. The Kings can claim to be the most competitive non playoff team. Up there with Winnipeg.

Not to be overly harsh, but the poor correlation between the index in the standings would indicate it needs more tweaking. IMO, It overweights the penalty for a single blowout loss.

I think it's more like an index based on which you could make a projection of how big the gap is towards being higher up the standings. The biggest difference between the standings and competitive index, the "easier" it would be for the team to climb up the standings if they get hot-ish, but not very hot.

 

[Clif]

The other night the telecast had a graphic displaying league leaders in one-goal games. Kings were right at the top, barely edged out of first place, at like .811. So it follows they’d be in the top in this index also.

It’s a half glass situation. I find it telling that the Kings have had a spate of injuries for weeks now and are still in one-goal games. It’s almost like it doesn’t matter who’s in the lineup for Hiller Hockey.