NBA standings, NHL style!

Everyone loves hockey. If you don't, you should. But the thing is, everyone thinks the NHL style of sorting out standings is way too screwed up. When in soccer (that's football for everyone else), it's pretty straightforward: 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. Americas and their Canadian cousins hate draws, or ties. A drawn/tied game is like "kissing your sister." Now if you are the actor playing First Son Roger Taylor on 24, this shouldn't be a problem, but for everyone else, it sucks.

Why does it suck so bad? Two points for a win, 1 point for a loss in overtime or shootout (in hockey, once the overtime period ends, they proceed in a shootout much like soccer's penalty shooutout, which is also much-maligned at that sport) and 0 for a loss in regulation time. See the stupidity? You'd get one point when you lose. But it's still not like kissing your sis. Or something.

Eastern	W	L	OTW	OTL	Pts.
Cleveland	66	16	2	2	134
Boston	62	20	5	2	126
Orlando	59	23	2	0	118
Atlanta	47	35	0	1	95
Chicago	41	41	2	8	90
Miami	43	39	6	2	88
Detroit	39	43	2	6	84
Philadelphia	41	41	3	0	82
Indiana	36	46	1	4	76
Charlotte	35	47	5	3	73
New Jersey	34	48	5	1	69
Milwaukee	34	38	1	0	68
Toronto	33	49	1	2	68
New York	31	50	2	3	65
Washington	19	63	0	1	39

Western	W	L	OTW	OTL	Pts.
L.A. Lakers	65	17	2	1	131
Portland	53	28	1	4	110
Denver	54	27	2	0	108
Houston	53	28	2	1	107
San Antonio	53	28	3	0	106
New Orleans	49	32	1	2	100
Dallas	49	32	3	1	99
Utah	48	34	2	2	98
Phoenix	45	36	1	2	92
Golden State	29	52	2	4	62
Minnesota	24	57	2	2	50
Memphis	23	58	0	4	50
Oklahoma City	22	59	2	3	47
L.A. Clippers	19	62	4	2	40
Sacramento	16	65	2	5	37

Tiebreaker: Number of wins.

Interesting to note that Portland gets to be #2 in both FIFA and NHL style rankings, and they could've been #2 if the tie for the Northwest Division title wasn't broken first. Also interesting to see how the lower half of the Eastern seedings got mixed up.

Playoff matchups: Identical with the FIFA-style standings. Quite telling, isn't it?