1993-94 and PDO

The following table shows each team’s all situation PDO in 1993-94.  The key numbers are on the right: “PDO” is the original number I had without taking the empty net goals into account, and “AdjPDO” is the big number that has everything properly balanced and comes out to a leaguewide total of 100.0000000000.  SV% is the total number of goals against from number of shots against; TmSV% includes the empty net shots (which had to be adjusted for).  In this table, AdjPDO is simply S% plus TmSV%.

You can see the extremely small deviations between the two numbers on the right

Team	GF	S	GA	SA	EN	S%	SV%	TmSV%	PDO	AdjPDO
Buffalo	282	2369	218	2459	3	11.904	0.911	0.911	103.038	103.049
New Jersey	306	2657	220	2434	3	11.517	0.910	0.910	102.478	102.489
Florida	233	2291	233	2801	7	10.170	0.917	0.917	101.852	101.873
Toronto	280	2530	243	2551	3	11.067	0.905	0.905	101.542	101.553
Montreal	283	2621	248	2528	5	10.797	0.902	0.902	100.987	101.007
Dallas	286	2558	265	2582	7	11.181	0.897	0.898	100.917	100.945
NY Islanders	282	2511	264	2558	3	11.231	0.897	0.897	100.910	100.922
San Jose	252	2101	265	2383	6	11.994	0.889	0.889	100.874	100.902
St. Louis	270	2570	283	2945	1	10.506	0.904	0.904	100.896	100.900
NY Rangers	299	2871	231	2325	3	10.414	0.901	0.901	100.479	100.492
Philadelphia	294	2409	314	2653	10	12.204	0.882	0.882	100.369	100.413
Calgary	302	2640	256	2306	5	11.439	0.889	0.889	100.338	100.362
Pittsburgh	299	2731	285	2674	2	10.948	0.893	0.893	100.290	100.298
Chicago	254	2545	240	2458	0	9.980	0.902	0.902	100.216	100.216
Quebec	277	2405	292	2561	11	11.518	0.886	0.886	100.116	100.165
Los Angeles	294	2769	322	3033	13	10.618	0.894	0.894	100.001	100.046
Detroit	356	2990	275	2296	7	11.906	0.880	0.881	99.929	99.965
Anaheim	229	2402	251	2606	10	9.534	0.904	0.904	99.902	99.939
Edmonton	261	2549	305	2883	8	10.239	0.894	0.895	99.660	99.689
Hartford	227	2319	288	2574	14	9.789	0.888	0.889	98.600	98.660
Vancouver	279	2625	276	2278	7	10.629	0.879	0.879	98.513	98.550
Washington	277	2606	263	2168	4	10.629	0.879	0.879	98.498	98.521
Tampa Bay	224	2503	251	2291	5	8.949	0.890	0.891	97.993	98.017
Boston	289	2980	252	2111	2	9.698	0.881	0.881	97.761	97.772
Winnipeg	245	2470	344	2792	6	9.919	0.877	0.877	97.598	97.625
Ottawa	201	2148	397	2767	9	9.358	0.857	0.857	95.010	95.056

Remember that magic range of 99.2% and 100.9% in all situations PDO that correlates very strongly with playoff appearances?

In 1993-94:

• 2 teams finished with a PDO of 102.0% or above; both made the playoffs
• 3 teams finished with a PDO of 101.0% to 101.9%; two made the playoffs while Florida missed
• 11 teams finished with a PDO of 100.0% to 100.9%; 8 made the playoffs while 3 missed
• 3 teams finished with a PDO of 99.0% to 99.9%; Detroit made the playoffs while the other two missed
• 4 teams finished with a PDO of 98.0% to 98.9%; 2 made the playoffs while 2 missed
• 2 teams finished with a PDO of 97.0% to 97.9%; Boston made the playoffs while Winnipeg missed
• 1 team finished with a PDO of below 97.0%, naturally it was Ottawa and they missed the playoffs by a mile

In the playoffs

In the first round of the 1993-94 playoffs:

• NY Rangers (lower) beat NY Islanders (higher)
• Washington (lower) beat Pittsburgh (higher)
• New Jersey (lower) beat Buffalo (higher)
• Boston (lower) beat Montreal (higher)
• San Jose (higher) beat Detroit (lower)
• Vancouver (lower) beat Calgary (higher)
• Toronto (higher) beat Chicago (lower)
• Dallas (higher) beat St. Louis (lower)

In the second round:

• NY Rangers (higher) beat Washington (lower)
• New Jersey (higher) beat Boston (lower)
• Vancouver (lower) beat Dallas (higher)
• Toronto (higher) beat San Jose (lower)

And the rest of the way:

• NY Rangers (lower) beat New Jersey (higher)
• Vancouver (lower) beat Toronto (higher)
• NY Rangers (higher) beat Vancouver (lower)

The lower PDO team finished with an 8-7 playoff series record over the higher PDO team.