Winning Margin and Goode's Winning Index

Goode's Winning Index and Winning Margin Correlation

Playoff teams, by definition, are made up of the 8 divisional leaders plus 2 wild card teams from each conference.

These charts picture two stats: 1) the key Winning Margin (scoring differential) in BLUE and 2) our new featured stat, Goode's Winning Index, in RED.

If a team is strong on Goode's Winning Index (RED) it is almost always strong on Winning Margin (BLUE).

The 4 teams in each divisional graph are sorted from strong to weak. To follow your favorite team's playoff hopes check your graph each week. Early in the season you will be the first kid on the block to make an educated guess -- will your team make the playoffs?

These two stats are linked (math experts call this a "correlation" because it measures the association between any two stats). If the linkage is close the red and blue bars will be the same length. If they are perfectly matched (percentile bar graphs are of equal size) then the linkage is perfect.

In the Percentile Charts above it is clear that the divisional leaders are almost always strong on both stats.

Bud Goode