Friday, May 30, 2025

The Lightning are a lock to go deep, and other lessons from the prediction contest

And then there were two. And soon, just one winner.

No, this isn’t a Stanley Cup preview post that accidentally ran a few days early. It’s an update on the annual playoff prediction contest, which is already over for almost all of you. We’ll get to that in a bit.

But first, a refresher. This is the contest that seems simple, because it’s only one question: Name as many or as few playoff teams as you’d like based on how many games they’ll win, in order from most to least. That’s it. We even give you the benefit of the doubt on ties, because we want you to succeed. But you don’t. Did I mention that you’re not good at this? Because you’re not.

You can find this year’s contest post here, and if you entered, you can find your answer by heading to the comment section of that post and using the dropdown to select “my comments”. But you probably don’t want to do that, because spoiler alert, there’s a roughly 99.8% chance that you’re out of the running.

Let’s get into what happened, and why you’re bad at this.

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