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Best Goal-scoring Season Ever

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  1. 1. Which of the following seasons was the most impressive display of goal-scoring?

    • Maurice Richard 50 goals 1944-45
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    • Gordie Howe 49 goals 1952-53
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    • Phil Esposito 76 goals 1970-71
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    • Wayne Gretzky 92 goals 1981-82
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    • Wayne Gretzky 87 goals 1983-84
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    • Mario Lemieux 85 goals 1988-89
      1
    • Brett Hull 86 goals 1990-91
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    • Other
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JoeyJoJo

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Which one had the widest disparity between the leader and everybody else?For example, Bonds has the single season home run record with 73, but that was in an era when McGwire had a 70 hr season, Sosa a 66, etc.When Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in a season, that was more than any other team hit.60 > 73

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Which one had the widest disparity between the leader and everybody else?For example, Bonds has the single season home run record with 73, but that was in an era when McGwire had a 70 hr season, Sosa a 66, etc.When Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in a season, that was more than any other team hit.60 > 73
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It has to be Gretzky because he wasnt even considered a pure goal scorer...Gretzky was the best playmaker the game has ever seen...He made everyone around him better AND he scored 92 goals.Hull "only" had 131 pts that year..His main job was to score goals...

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It has to be Gretzky because he wasnt even considered a pure goal scorer...Gretzky was the best playmaker the game has ever seen...He made everyone around him better AND he scored 92 goals.Hull "only" had 131 pts that year..His main job was to score goals...
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I went with the Rocket's 50 goal season. - He was the first to do it. He did it in 50 games- Nobody potted 50 again until 16 years later- I'm a Habs fan...duhRunners-up:Gretzky's 83-84 season > 87 goals in 74 games (highest GPG ever for 50+ goal scorer)Paul Coffey 85-86 > 48 goals in 79 games (still a record for defensemen)

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Dubey

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The answer according to the math is...Brett Hull 86 goals 1990-91
which math? like player goals/game into some function of league wide goals/game?
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digitalmonkey

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which math? like player goals/game into some function of league wide goals/game?
It has to do with the Poisson function and the probability of the feat being repeated and, like JJJ mentioned, the performance of others. It's from a book I'm reading called Hockeynomics: What the Stats Really Reveal by Darcy Norman. He does the math and shows that the 1981-82 season would have to be played 2250 times to get a 92 goals season. The 2007-08 season in which Ovechkin scored 65 goals would have to be repeated about 16,000 times before Ovie scored 92 goals or more.Gretzky's 92-goal season is the 4th best according to his calculations. 1 in 2250Here are the top 3:1. Brett Hull 1990-91 86 goals 1 in 105,0002. Wayne Gretzky 1983-84 87 goals 1 in 12,0003. Phil Esposito 1970-71 76 goals 1 in 2400
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It has to do with the Poisson function and the probability of the feat being repeated and, like JJJ mentioned, the performance of others. It's from a book I'm reading called Hockeynomics: What the Stats Really Reveal by Darcy Norman. He does the math and shows that the 1981-82 season would have to be played 2250 times to get a 92 goals season. The 2007-08 season in which Ovechkin scored 65 goals would have to be repeated about 16,000 times before Ovie scored 92 goals or more.Gretzky's 92-goal season is the 4th best according to his calculations. 1 in 2250Here are the top 3:1. Brett Hull 1990-91 86 goals 1 in 105,0002. Wayne Gretzky 1983-84 87 goals 1 in 12,0003. Phil Esposito 1970-71 76 goals 1 in 2400
Very interesting..Still think Gretzky's 92 goals are more impressive.
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It has to do with the Poisson function and the probability of the feat being repeated and, like JJJ mentioned, the performance of others. It's from a book I'm reading called Hockeynomics: What the Stats Really Reveal by Darcy Norman. He does the math and shows that the 1981-82 season would have to be played 2250 times to get a 92 goals season. The 2007-08 season in which Ovechkin scored 65 goals would have to be repeated about 16,000 times before Ovie scored 92 goals or more.
Sounds like some pretty hand-wavey math to me. I wouldn't trust it as definitive by any means.
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digitalmonkey

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Sounds like some pretty hand-wavey math to me. I wouldn't trust it as definitive by any means.
I'll attempt to type in the chapter this week.
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