In baseball the saying is, “It’ll look like a liner in the box score.”<\/p>\n
That’s how I’m seeing my local NHL team (that would be the Washington Capitals) and its sneaky entrance into this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n
The Caps won their last three games of the season, and I’m happy to say it wasn’t their\u00a0last<\/em> three games.<\/p>\n Just as important, these were\u00a0regulation wins<\/em>. Yeah, the old RW column. Who’da thunk this meaningless stat would actually play into whether or not the Caps made the playoffs? They forgot that one in\u00a0Moneyball<\/em>… on-base percentage, OPS+, and regulation wins.<\/p>\n Remember to put that one in\u00a0Moneyball 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In baseball the saying is, “It’ll look like a liner in the box score.” That’s how I’m seeing my local NHL team (that would be the Washington Capitals) and its sneaky entrance into this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs. The Caps … Continue reading