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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3927593, member: 289"] 1981 OG: 85 NB: 70 Historical: OG: 1,289 points, 17 victories and 6 rings NB: 778 points, 5 victories and 6 rings. The Knicks had their best season since their last championship, finishing 50-32, better than 16 of the 23 NBA teams but alas, only 3rd in the East, behind the Sixers and the Celtics, both of whom finished 62-20. The Nets fell back into last place, 24-58, better than only the Pistons and the Mavericks. The Knicks lost in the first round to the Bulls, getting an extra point, 17-2. The Islanders were at the height of their power, scoring the best record in the 21 team NHL, 48-18-14 (110 hockey points), winning the five team Patrick Division and cruising through the Maple Leafs, Oilers, Rangers and North Stars by a combined 15 games to 3 for a haul of 45 points. The Rangers barely made the playoffs at 30-36-14 (74), better than 7 teams, then made it to the semi-finals by upsetting the Kings (99 points) and the Smythe Division champs, the Blues, (107) before becoming the bug on the Islanders windshield in a four-game sweep for another 5 points. That brought the spring score to 47 for the New Breed and 29 for the Old Guard. The baseball season was wounded but not destroyed by a strike that blew away the middle third of the season. Then the owners made the odd decision to use a split season concept rather than simply adding together the records from before and after the strike. The Yankees won the AL East in the first half, 34-22 but had a poor second half at 25-26. The combined record of 59-48 was the fourth best in the East with the Brewers first at 62-47 but that didn’t matter. The Yankees met the Brewers for the Eastern title as the winners of the first half and beat them in five games. They then met the Athletics, who had the best combined record in the American League at 64-45 and swept them in three games. They then beat the Dodgers in the first two games of the World Series and it appeared that they would win the championship they should have won the year before. But just as the Yankees had lost the first to games to L.A. in 1978 and come back to win four in a row now the Dodgers did that to the Yankees. They had the second best combine National league record to the unfortunate Cincinnati Reds, in the last year of the “Big Red Machine” era had the best record in all of baseball at 66-42 but missed the playoffs entirely by finishing second in both the first and second half. If they’d used combined records, it would have bene the brewer vs. the A’s and the Cardinals, (who also finished second in both halves) against the Reds. Instead they all watched the World Series on TV. I’ll use the combined records for the first tier of my system. The Yankees were better than 24 teams but didn’t “win” the combined division. By being the runner up in a sport with 26 teams they got another 13 points for a total of 37 points. The Mets avoided all controversy by winning nothing with a combined 41-62 record, better than the Cubs, Padres, Twins and Blue Jays but no one else. Pop and Junior Squared had a lead of 66-51 going into the fall. Both the Giants and Jets had winning records, a nice change. The Giants were 9-7, third in the NFC East but better than 16 teams and enough to clinch the year for the Old Guard. The Jets were 10-5-1 after a tie with the Dolphins, who won the AFC East at 11-4-1. The Jets were better than 23 teams. Both teams made the expanded playoffs, (there were now 4 wild cards). The Jets lost to the Bills, 27-31 in the first round and got one point for that. The Giants beat the Eagles 27-21 but lost to the 49ers, 24-38 in the quarterfinals for three extra points. The Niners went on to win their first ever NFL title. The Old Guard won their 16th title, 85-70 but Junior got his 6th ring, just as many as the OG. [/QUOTE]
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