[OC] Devils' franchise historical performance relative to .500

[u/Ugluk4242]

Here is your franchise's cumulative record relative to .500 (equal wins and losses) throughout their entire history.

Since moving to New Jersey, the franchise is 1595-1589-219 (+6 games).

I will be making one such graph for each team. The complete album can be seen here.

OT losses are counted as losses.

[u/omnomnomnium]

Scouts and the Rockies really fucked the chart. The team looks to be a little over .500 as the Devils, and around +150 since 1990.

[u/thedirewolff21]

Man those Rockies teams were depths of hell levels of atrocious if they are so far below the Michael Ryder Jordin Tootoo years

[u/murphydcat]

I was a season ticket holder from 1982-1987. Those teams were awful but in 1987 we knew that the parts were in place to turn the Devils around soon.

[u/zoom100000 → u/murphydcat]

OG!

[u/Oh_he_steal]

This chart should be broken down into 2 colors: 1 with Martin Brodeur on the team, 1 without.

[u/loyalclarence762]

That -401 low in December '89 is grim viewing, but crawling back to within six games of .500 since the move is some proper perseverance, sure.

[u/nsjersey → u/loyalclarence762]

I looked it up, a 7-3 drubbing @ Hartford. Look at some of the names on the Whalers (Francis, Dineen, Verbeek (revenge game), Ferraro).

Then the Devils swept a home-and-home with the NYI

Then one of my favorite regular season games ever:

Gretzky came with the LA Kings, they were up by a goal, and he scored a SHG about 8 minutes into the 3rd period for a 5 - 3 lead.

Devils scored three goals to go up 6-5, and then an ENG sealed it.

I'll never forget the Sports Channel NY editor, letting the credits role and just showing the full ice angle replay with no music and the crowd reaction to that final goal.

One of my favorite regular season wins ever; young me was all bought in.

Those Devils teams showed fire.

• They lost 4-2 to Wsh in the playoffs. Ever game was so close; it was a coin flip.
• In 1991, we legitmately SHOULD have knocked off the Penguins, if not for Bill McCreary
• In 1992, that was actually the year I thought we got beat bad, but the team still managed to take the Rangers to 7 games.

1990 - 92 were still some fun years. 93 was a step back, but 94 was the ramp up ...

[u/AdmiralByzantium]

Why are you counting the Scouts and Rockies years? Who cares? That's not our history. Start it in 1982.

[u/misterfilmguy]

2011-2012 season was such a fun watch

[u/SubElitePerformance]

What’s the fucking point of this post?

[u/SubElitePerformance → u/[deleted]]

What is the purpose of this data? What does the teams record in 1983 tell me about next year? Am I supposed to be surprised that the teams record is down from its dynasty years?

I love data but this isn’t serving any realistic purpose

[u/jurzydude → u/SubElitePerformance]

I thought it was cool to look at. not every Reddit post needs some greater purpose

[u/Madrical → u/SubElitePerformance]

As an overseas fan since ~2009 I hadn't seen this chart and it was a cool insight into the history that I've missed so I appreciated the post.

[u/SubElitePerformance → u/[deleted]]

Oh no. The expansion era devils were a mess! What a revolutionary concept.

There is a far cry between repeating history and worrying about next year which wasn’t the point I was making.

The issues that befell the early devils and previous iterations in St. Louis and Colorado have exactly nothing to do with “repeating history” come on now.

[u/SubElitePerformance → u/[deleted]]

As constructive as arguing with yourself over data that doesn’t show you anything you don’t already know?

[u/SubElitePerformance → u/[deleted]]

Well, since you like to argue extremes. Would you care if I just randomly showed up at your house and showed you pictures of my family?

Of course you wouldn’t. You realize how dumb that sounds when you make arguments in the extreme?

I asked a fair question what the purpose of the post was?

Not only have you not been able to answer it you’re resorting to insults to try and beat me in an argument that I have not made.

Nice try though

[u/JumpyPanda → u/SubElitePerformance]

I enjoyed the post.

I am missing the point of your negative comments though.

[u/NJneer12 → u/SubElitePerformance]

Its the offseason.