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The Red Wings piled up 131 points and lapped the field, though the Stanley Cup they wanted would have to wait another year.","teams":[{"name":"Detroit Red Wings","color":"#CE1126","pts":[-1,1,2,2,2,2,3,5,6,7,10,11,13,15,18,20,20,21,23,24,26,27,28,29,32,34,35,38,39,43,45,45,46,49]},{"name":"Chicago Blackhawks","color":"#101820","pts":[0,1,1,2,1,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,4,7,7,8,8,9,10,13,14,15,15,13,12,10,12,13,12,12,12,12]},{"name":"St. Louis Blues","color":"#F0A500","pts":[0,1,1,-1,0,-2,-2,0,-2,-4,-1,1,0,2,-1,-1,1,0,-1,0,0,0,-1,1,2,2,3,4,4,2,1,0,-1,-2]}]},{"title":"1998 WNBA","slug":"wnba-1998-west","meta":"WNBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/wnba/1998/west/","playoffs":"/wnba/1998/playoffs/","story":"The WNBA's first dynasty was at its peak. Cynthia Cooper, Sheryl Swoopes, and Tina Thompson drove Houston to a 27-3 season and the second of four straight titles, the run that put the young league on the map. No one else in the West came close.","teams":[{"name":"Houston Comets","color":"#CE1141","pts":[0,1,2,2,3,5,4,4,5,7,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,16,17,17,18,19,19,20,21,22,23,23,22,23,24]},{"name":"Phoenix Mercury","color":"#E56020","pts":[1,1,3,3,3,2,3,4,5,4,5,4,4,5,6,6,7,8,7,7,6,6,5,4,3,3,4,3,4,4,4,5,7,8]},{"name":"Los Angeles Sparks","color":"#552583","pts":[1,1,0,-1,0,-1,-2,-2,-3,-4,-5,-5,-5,-5,-5,-4,-5,-5,-5,-6,-5,-6,-7,-6,-5,-4,-3,-4,-6,-6,-5,-4,-5,-6]}]},{"title":"2018 MLS","slug":"mls-2018-supporters-shield","meta":"MLS · Supporters' Shield race · points above draw pace","url":"/mls/2018/supporters-shield/","story":"Two points decided the Supporters' Shield. The Red Bulls set a league record with 71 points, but the story was Atlanta United, the second-year expansion side drawing record crowds behind Josef Martinez's record-setting goals. Atlanta lost the Shield by two, then answered by winning the MLS Cup.","teams":[{"name":"Red Bull New York","color":"#ED1E36","pts":[0,2,1,3,2,2,4,3,5,7,9,11,11,10,10,12,14,16,15,17,21,20,22,24,24,28,27,27,29,29,33,33,35,37]},{"name":"Atlanta United","color":"#80000A","pts":[-1,-1,3,3,5,7,7,9,11,13,14,13,13,15,15,17,17,18,20,20,22,24,24,24,28,28,27,29,33,33,34,34,36,35]},{"name":"Sporting Kansas City","color":"#91B0D5","pts":[0,1,3,3,5,7,7,9,8,10,12,12,12,14,14,14,16,14,14,13,13,12,14,16,18,20,19,23,23,22,22,22,26,28]}]},{"title":"The three greatest regular seasons","slug":"greatest-nba-seasons","meta":"NBA · 69-13, 72-10, 73-9 · games above .500","story":"The three greatest regular seasons ever, matched game for game. The 2015-16 Warriors jumped out early, but by midseason all three had pulled level, the 1971-72 Lakers riding a 33-game win streak and the 1995-96 Bulls right alongside. Then the Warriors edged away to 73-9, the most wins in history, one better than the Bulls' 72-10, with the Lakers' 69-13 just behind.","teams":[{"name":"1971-72 Lakers","color":"#FDB927","pts":[0,2,3,5,4,6,9,11,14,16,19,21,24,26,29,31,34,36,35,35,36,38,41,41,42,44,43,45,48,48,51,53,54,56]},{"name":"1995-96 Bulls","color":"#CE1141","pts":[0,2,5,5,8,8,11,13,16,18,21,21,24,26,29,31,34,36,37,37,40,42,43,45,48,48,51,53,54,56,57,59,62,62]},{"name":"2015-16 Warriors","color":"#1D428A","pts":[0,2,5,7,10,12,15,17,20,22,23,25,28,28,31,33,34,34,37,39,42,44,45,47,50,50,53,55,56,58,61,61,62,64]}],"links":[{"label":"1971-72 Lakers","url":"/nba/1971/west/"},{"label":"1995-96 Bulls","url":"/nba/1995/east/"},{"label":"2015-16 Warriors","url":"/nba/2015/west/"}],"axis":82},{"title":"2025-26 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-2025-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · promotion race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/2025/efl-championship/","story":"Fresh off three promotions in a row, a first in English football and a climb from the fifth tier to the second under owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, Wrexham chased a fourth. They held a playoff place deep into the spring, then slipped in the final weeks to finish seventh, two points behind Hull City for the last playoff spot.","teams":[{"name":"Wrexham","color":"#E4373C","pts":[0,-2,-2,0,0,-1,1,1,1,0,2,4,6,6,8,8,7,6,12,14,13,15,17,16,16,20,22,23,24,24,23,22,26,25]},{"name":"Hull City","color":"#A46903","pts":[0,0,1,0,0,0,2,3,3,5,7,8,10,10,10,9,13,15,16,16,18,22,24,23,23,24,25,25,27,27,27,26,26,27]}]},{"title":"1993 MLB NL West","slug":"mlb-1993-nl-west","meta":"MLB · division race · games above .500","url":"/mlb/1993/nl-west/","playoffs":"/mlb/1993/playoffs/","story":"The Giants won 103 games and still finished second. Atlanta chased down a huge San Francisco lead over the summer and pulled ahead on the final day. It was the last pennant race before the wild card, so 103 wins meant going home.","teams":[{"name":"Atlanta Braves","color":"#CE1141","pts":[1,3,1,2,-2,-1,4,5,7,5,4,3,7,8,8,11,10,11,12,16,19,20,19,24,27,28,29,31,35,38,42,43,43,46]},{"name":"San Francisco Giants","color":"#FD5A1E","pts":[0,0,2,3,5,8,8,12,15,15,14,16,19,23,25,25,28,29,30,34,34,37,37,39,40,41,38,40,40,36,34,38,43,44]},{"name":"Houston Astros","color":"#EB6E1F","pts":[-1,0,1,3,5,6,5,6,4,4,6,7,4,2,3,4,3,5,4,4,5,2,4,5,6,8,8,7,8,10,7,5,7,8]}]},{"title":"1999 NFL NFC West","slug":"nfl-1999-nfc-west","meta":"NFL · division race · games above .500","url":"/nfl/1999/nfc-west/","playoffs":"/nfl/1999/playoffs/","story":"The Rams had a decade of losing seasons and turned to an unknown backup, Kurt Warner, only after a preseason injury. The Greatest Show on Turf then exploded for 13 wins, ran away with the NFC West, and won the Super Bowl, one of the great worst-to-first turns the league has seen.","teams":[{"name":"St. Louis Rams","color":"#003594","pts":[1,1,2,3,4,5,6,5,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,10]},{"name":"Carolina Panthers","color":"#0085CA","pts":[-1,-2,-1,-2,-2,-1,-2,-3,-2,-3,-2,-1,-2,-1,0,-1,0]},{"name":"Atlanta Falcons","color":"#000000","pts":[-1,-2,-3,-4,-3,-4,-5,-4,-5,-5,-6,-7,-6,-7,-8,-7,-6]}]},{"title":"2011-12 EPL","slug":"epl-2011-english-premier-league","meta":"English Premier League · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/epl/2011/english-premier-league/","story":"City and United ran level all spring. City needed a win on the final day and were losing deep into stoppage time, until two goals in the last four minutes, the second from Sergio Aguero, snatched the title on goal difference.","teams":[{"name":"Manchester City","color":"#6CABDD","pts":[0,4,6,6,8,10,12,12,14,16,18,20,22,22,24,23,27,26,28,30,32,31,35,35,37,39,38,40,40,39,43,45,47,51]},{"name":"Manchester United","color":"#7E1013","pts":[0,2,6,6,8,10,12,12,12,11,13,15,17,17,19,21,25,26,25,27,29,31,33,33,35,37,39,41,43,47,48,48,47,51]},{"name":"Arsenal","color":"#EF0107","pts":[0,-1,-2,-2,0,1,0,0,2,4,6,8,10,10,12,14,15,17,16,15,14,14,18,18,20,22,24,28,27,29,30,30,30,32]}]},{"title":"2018-19 NHL Atlantic","slug":"nhl-2018-atlantic","meta":"NHL · division race · points above pace","url":"/nhl/2018/atlantic/","story":"Tampa Bay tied the record with 62 wins and ran away with the Presidents' Trophy, then wrote the sharpest fall in the sport: swept out of the first round by a wild-card team. The greatest regular season and the most stunning early exit belong to the same team.","teams":[{"name":"Tampa Bay Lightning","color":"#4A9CD6","pts":[0,1,1,3,5,6,8,8,9,9,10,14,16,18,20,21,24,24,27,26,27,27,28,29,32,35,37,38,39,41,44,45,44,46]},{"name":"Boston Bruins","color":"#FFB81C","pts":[-1,1,3,2,4,4,4,5,5,5,6,5,6,6,7,7,8,10,11,11,10,10,11,13,16,19,20,22,25,22,24,25,24,25]},{"name":"Toronto Maple Leafs","color":"#003087","pts":[1,2,4,3,4,4,5,5,8,8,10,12,11,11,13,15,15,15,14,13,13,13,14,17,18,17,18,19,21,20,19,20,19,18]}]},{"title":"2010 WNBA","slug":"wnba-2010-west","meta":"WNBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/wnba/2010/west/","playoffs":"/wnba/2010/playoffs/","story":"Seattle went 28-6 and then swept every round of the playoffs to the championship. Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson led one of the most dominant seasons the league has seen, and the West was settled long before the finish.","teams":[{"name":"Seattle Storm","color":"#2C5234","pts":[0,1,2,3,3,4,5,6,7,8,8,7,9,9,10,12,12,13,14,14,15,16,17,17,18,19,19,18,20,21,20,19,20,22]},{"name":"Phoenix Mercury","color":"#E56020","pts":[1,1,1,0,1,0,-1,0,-2,-1,0,0,-2,-2,-3,-5,-6,-5,-4,-4,-5,-4,-4,-3,-2,-2,-1,0,1,-1,-2,-3,-2,-4]},{"name":"San Antonio Silver Stars","color":"#8D9093","pts":[-1,-1,0,1,1,-1,-1,-2,-3,-2,-3,-3,-3,-3,-2,-3,-4,-4,-4,-4,-5,-6,-6,-5,-6,-6,-5,-6,-7,-7,-6,-7,-8,-6]}]},{"title":"The Red Sox keep landing on 57-51","slug":"red-sox-57-51","meta":"MLB · 57-51 four years running · games above .500","story":"Through 108 games, the Red Sox have gone 57-51 four seasons in a row: 2023, 2024, 2025, and now 2026. The paths could not be more different. The 2025 team sat right at .500 deep into the summer; the 2026 team fell 14 games under before storming all the way back. Four completely different seasons, the same record at game 108.","teams":[{"name":"2023","color":"#1baf7a","pts":[0,1,-1,0,-3,0,0,1,0,1,5,6,5,3,6,3,4,2,1,0,-1,-1,2,3,1,-2,1,2,6,7,4,7,7,6]},{"name":"2024","color":"#4a3aa7","pts":[0,-1,3,4,1,2,0,3,2,3,3,2,1,1,-2,1,0,0,1,0,-1,1,2,5,7,4,5,8,8,9,8,7,5,6]},{"name":"2025","color":"#eb6834","pts":[0,-1,-1,2,-1,-2,0,1,2,1,1,0,1,1,-2,-1,0,-2,-3,-4,-5,-3,0,1,1,-2,-3,-2,2,5,8,7,5,6]},{"name":"2026","color":"#2a78d6","pts":[0,-1,-3,-6,-5,-4,-4,-5,-8,-5,-7,-6,-5,-7,-8,-5,-8,-10,-9,-8,-11,-11,-14,-13,-13,-10,-11,-8,-4,-1,2,3,5,6]}],"links":[{"label":"2023","url":"/mlb/2023/al-east/"},{"label":"2024","url":"/mlb/2024/al-east/"},{"label":"2025","url":"/mlb/2025/al-east/"},{"label":"2026","url":"/mlb/2026/al-east/"}],"axis":108},{"title":"2017 MLS","slug":"mls-2017-supporters-shield","meta":"MLS · Supporters' Shield race · points above draw pace","url":"/mls/2017/supporters-shield/","story":"Toronto FC put together the greatest season MLS had seen: the Supporters' Shield with a then-record points haul, the MLS Cup, and the Canadian Championship, a domestic treble. Sebastian Giovinco and Jozy Altidore led a side that simply ran away from the league.","teams":[{"name":"Toronto FC","color":"#B81137","pts":[0,0,0,2,2,2,2,3,5,9,13,13,15,14,14,16,18,17,19,19,19,19,21,23,25,29,29,31,33,31,33,33,35,35]},{"name":"New York City Football Club","color":"#6CACE4","pts":[0,-1,1,1,1,3,4,4,3,5,7,6,8,9,9,11,13,15,14,14,16,16,15,19,19,21,21,22,22,22,24,24,23,23]},{"name":"Chicago Fire FC","color":"#7CCDEF","pts":[0,0,2,1,1,1,3,4,4,3,5,9,11,11,13,15,17,19,19,19,18,17,19,18,16,15,17,17,19,18,20,20,22,21]}]},{"title":"2011 NFL AFC North","slug":"nfl-2011-afc-north","meta":"NFL · division race · games above .500","url":"/nfl/2011/afc-north/","playoffs":"/nfl/2011/playoffs/","story":"Baltimore and Pittsburgh, the league's fiercest rivalry, ran in lockstep from September to January and finished dead even at 12-4. The Ravens took the division on the head-to-head sweep, the only thing that could separate two teams that would not separate on the field.","teams":[{"name":"Baltimore Ravens","color":"#241773","pts":[1,0,1,2,2,3,2,3,4,3,4,5,6,7,6,7,8]},{"name":"Pittsburgh Steelers","color":"#FFB612","pts":[-1,0,1,0,1,2,3,4,3,4,4,5,6,7,6,7,8]},{"name":"Cincinnati Bengals","color":"#FB4F14","pts":[1,0,-1,0,1,2,2,3,4,3,2,3,2,1,2,3,2]}]},{"title":"1976-77 NHL Norris","slug":"nhl-1976-norris","meta":"NHL · division race · points above pace","url":"/nhl/1976/norris/","story":"Montreal lost eight games all season. Eight. The 1976-77 Canadiens went 60-8-12, a record for fewest defeats that will never be seriously threatened, and swept to the second of four straight Stanley Cups. Many still call them the greatest team ever assembled.","teams":[{"name":"Montréal Canadiens","color":"#A52205","pts":[0,1,4,5,7,7,9,10,10,13,15,16,18,19,21,21,22,25,27,26,29,29,31,32,35,35,38,41,42,44,46,47,50,52]},{"name":"Los Angeles Kings","color":"#111111","pts":[0,-1,0,2,2,4,3,3,1,0,-2,-2,-2,-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-5,-8,-5,-6,-4,-4,-7,-7,-5,-2,-2,0,0,-1,0,3]},{"name":"Pittsburgh Penguins","color":"#FCB514","pts":[0,-1,-2,-2,-3,-4,-2,-3,-1,-1,-2,-3,-1,-1,-2,-1,-1,0,0,0,1,2,3,3,2,2,1,2,0,3,2,1,0,1]}]},{"title":"2024 WNBA","slug":"wnba-2024-east","meta":"WNBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/wnba/2024/east/","playoffs":"/wnba/2024/playoffs/","story":"The most-hyped rookie class in WNBA history arrived to record crowds. Caitlin Clark's Fever dug out of a 1-8 start and surged into the playoffs, while Angel Reese's Sky slid the other way. Two faces of the same class, pulling apart down the stretch.","teams":[{"name":"Indiana Fever","color":"#F2CD64","pts":[-1,-3,-5,-5,-7,-7,-7,-7,-6,-5,-3,-4,-4,-5,-4,-5,-3,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-2,-2,-2,0,1,1,1,1,0]},{"name":"Chicago Sky","color":"#418FDE","pts":[0,0,0,0,0,-1,-1,-2,-4,-5,-4,-3,-5,-4,-4,-4,-5,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-5,-5,-6,-7,-9,-11,-10,-10,-12,-14]}]},{"title":"The MLS points record, climbing","slug":"mls-points-record","meta":"MLS · 72, then 73, then 74 · points above draw pace","story":"MLS's single-season points record fell three times in six years, each new high barely clearing the last. Carlos Vela's 2019 LAFC set it at 72, the 2021 Revolution raised it to 73, and Messi's 2024 Miami to 74. Aligned game for game, all three run in a tight knot, LAFC leading much of the way before New England and Miami edge past at the end.","teams":[{"name":"2019 LAFC","color":"#E5701E","pts":[0,2,4,4,6,8,10,12,11,13,13,13,15,17,17,19,21,22,24,26,25,27,29,31,33,35,35,34,34,34,34,36,36,38]},{"name":"2021 New England","color":"#002B5C","pts":[0,0,2,4,3,3,5,7,9,11,13,12,12,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,26,28,30,30,32,34,36,36,38,38,40,39]},{"name":"2024 Inter Miami","color":"#F7B5CD","pts":[0,2,2,4,3,5,4,4,4,6,8,10,12,14,14,16,18,17,19,21,23,25,24,26,28,30,32,34,34,34,34,36,38,40]}],"links":[{"label":"2019 LAFC","url":"/mls/2019/supporters-shield/"},{"label":"2021 New England","url":"/mls/2021/supporters-shield/"},{"label":"2024 Inter Miami","url":"/mls/2024/supporters-shield/"}],"axis":34},{"title":"1908 MLB NL","slug":"mlb-1908-nl","meta":"MLB · NL pennant race · games above .500","url":"/mlb/1908/nl/","playoffs":"/mlb/1908/playoffs/","story":"The tightest three-team race in the archive came down to a replayed tie. In September, Fred Merkle's failure to touch second base cost the Giants a win; when Chicago and New York finished the schedule level, the game was played again, and the Cubs took it and the pennant. They would not win another World Series for 108 years.","teams":[{"name":"Chicago Cubs","color":"#0E3386","pts":[1,4,5,8,8,8,10,10,8,12,14,12,15,15,14,16,13,13,15,19,15,16,13,18,21,24,26,30,32,33,37,40,42,44]},{"name":"New York Giants","color":"#FD5A1E","pts":[1,4,4,3,3,1,-1,3,1,1,3,5,10,10,13,11,14,14,13,18,20,19,20,24,26,26,30,34,38,40,37,40,40,42]},{"name":"Pittsburgh Pirates","color":"#251316","pts":[0,0,2,4,5,4,2,2,4,6,10,10,15,16,17,16,15,18,19,22,23,22,24,23,22,26,27,31,31,32,35,38,43,42]}]},{"title":"1972 NFL AFC East","slug":"nfl-1972-afc-east","meta":"NFL · division race · games above .500","url":"/nfl/1972/afc-east/","playoffs":"/nfl/1972/playoffs/","story":"The Dolphins won all fourteen games, the only perfect regular season of the Super Bowl era, and kept winning through the Super Bowl itself. Nobody else in the AFC East finished above .500. Every autumn since, this line has waited for the season's last unbeaten team to lose.","teams":[{"name":"Miami Dolphins","color":"#008E97","pts":[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]},{"name":"New York Jets","color":"#125740","pts":[1,2,1,0,1,2,3,2,3,2,1,2,1,0]},{"name":"Baltimore Colts","color":"#002C5F","pts":[-1,-2,-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-4,-5,-4,-3,-2,-3,-4]}]},{"title":"1946-47 NBA East","slug":"nba-1946-east","meta":"NBA · division race · games above .500","url":"/nba/1946/east/","playoffs":"/nba/1946/playoffs/","story":"The league's first winter, and its best team was coached by a 29-year-old Red Auerbach. His Washington Capitols went 49-11 and finished fourteen games clear, then lost in the playoffs, and the Warriors, from second, won the first championship. Every NBA line in the archive starts here.","teams":[{"name":"Washington Capitols","color":"#C8102E","pts":[0,2,0,-1,0,3,5,6,8,10,11,13,14,16,15,17,18,18,20,21,22,23,24,22,23,27,29,30,33,35,36,36,37,38]},{"name":"Philadelphia Warriors","color":"#1D428A","pts":[0,0,1,2,1,0,0,0,2,1,0,1,2,3,3,2,1,1,1,2,3,6,6,8,6,6,8,7,6,6,6,8,8,10]},{"name":"New York Knicks","color":"#F58426","pts":[1,0,1,0,2,4,7,8,9,11,10,7,7,6,7,7,7,6,5,4,4,2,1,2,2,1,1,2,4,5,5,6,8,6]}]},{"title":"1917-18 NHL","slug":"nhl-1917-nhl","meta":"NHL · league race · points above pace","url":"/nhl/1917/nhl/","story":"The league's first season, four teams, and a race the standings cannot settle: the Canadiens and Arenas finished 13-9 and 13-9, so the NHL split the year into halves and played off between the half-winners. The fourth line goes flat in January, six games in: the Wanderers' arena burned down and the club withdrew, frozen into the standings mid-season.","teams":[{"name":"Montréal Canadiens","color":"#A52205","pts":[1,1,2,1,1,2,3,3,4,3,3,4,4,4,6,5,5,4,5,5,6,5,5,4,4,4,6,7,7,6,5,5,4,4]},{"name":"Toronto Arenas","color":"#003087","pts":[-1,-1,0,1,1,0,1,1,2,3,3,2,3,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,5,5,4,3,3,4,4,4,5,4]},{"name":"Ottawa Senators (1917)","color":"#D2001C","pts":[-1,-1,-2,-1,-1,0,-1,-1,-2,-2,-2,-2,-3,-3,-4,-3,-3,-2,-3,-3,-4,-3,-3,-4,-5,-5,-6,-6,-6,-6,-5,-5,-5,-4]},{"name":"Montreal Wanderers","color":"#8B0000","pts":[1,1,0,-1,-1,-2,-3,-3,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4]}]},{"title":"1997 WNBA","slug":"wnba-1997-west","meta":"WNBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/wnba/1997/west/","playoffs":"/wnba/1997/playoffs/","story":"Eight teams, a 28-game schedule, and the first summer of the league. Houston finished 18-10, the best record anywhere in it, and beat New York for the championship behind Cynthia Cooper's MVP season. These are the first steps of the dynasty the archive's 1998 card shows at full speed.","teams":[{"name":"Houston Comets","color":"#CE1141","pts":[1,1,2,1,2,3,2,1,2,2,1,2,3,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,4,5,4,5,6,6,7,9,9,8,9,10,9,8]},{"name":"Phoenix Mercury","color":"#E56020","pts":[0,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,2,2,3,2,3,4,4,4,4,4,3,2,1,0,-1,0,0,0,-1,0,1,1,1,2,3,4]},{"name":"Los Angeles Sparks","color":"#552583","pts":[-1,-2,-1,0,0,-1,0,-1,-2,-2,-2,-1,-2,-2,-2,-3,-4,-5,-4,-3,-2,-3,-4,-3,-2,-2,-3,-3,-3,-2,-1,0,1,0]}]},{"title":"1996 MLS","slug":"mls-1996-supporters-shield","meta":"MLS · Supporters' Shield race · points above draw pace","url":"/mls/1996/supporters-shield/","story":"The league's first table, and the trophy for topping it did not exist yet: the Supporters' Shield arrived three years later and was awarded backward. Tampa Bay, with Valderrama conducting, finished top after the Galaxy gave back an eight-point lead. The club that won the league's first race folded after six seasons.","teams":[{"name":"Tampa Bay Mutiny","color":"#0093D0","pts":[0,0,2,4,4,3,2,6,6,8,10,9,11,13,12,11,11,10,12,11,11,15,16,16,17,16,18,17,16,18,20,22,24,26]},{"name":"LA Galaxy","color":"#FFD200","pts":[0,0,2,4,4,6,8,10,10,12,14,16,16,18,18,18,20,19,17,17,16,18,17,17,16,17,17,15,14,13,12,11,13,17]},{"name":"D.C. United","color":"#231F20","pts":[-1,-1,-2,-3,-3,-2,-3,-4,-2,-3,-3,-1,1,1,1,0,-1,1,2,4,4,3,5,4,5,4,4,8,10,12,11,11,12,14]}]},{"title":"1992-93 EPL","slug":"epl-1992-english-premier-league","meta":"English Premier League · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/epl/1992/english-premier-league/","story":"The first Premier League season, and still its joint-deepest title comeback: United were twelve points off the lead in December, with Norwich City the surprise leaders by eight at one stage. Ferguson's side ran through the spring to end a twenty-six-year wait for the title.","teams":[{"name":"Manchester United","color":"#7E1013","pts":[-1,-2,2,6,8,8,8,8,8,8,7,6,8,10,12,14,14,16,18,18,20,21,23,23,27,29,28,28,28,30,36,38,40,42]},{"name":"Aston Villa","color":"#5C0E2E","pts":[0,0,1,2,2,4,8,8,8,8,10,12,12,11,13,15,15,16,18,20,20,21,22,24,28,28,28,30,29,31,33,34,33,32]},{"name":"Norwich City","color":"#8CB424","pts":[2,4,7,9,11,13,12,12,14,13,13,15,17,19,21,20,19,19,19,18,18,22,21,21,23,22,26,27,29,28,29,28,30,30]}]},{"title":"1995-96 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-1995-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/1995/efl-championship/","story":"Derby led the division by nine points in March and did not win it, still the biggest lead the Championship's charts have seen lost. Sunderland, twelve points off the pace in January, went past everyone under Peter Reid and finished four clear. Two swings, one spring, both on the comebacks page.","teams":[{"name":"Sunderland","color":"#983004","pts":[-1,-1,1,0,2,4,6,8,8,8,10,10,10,13,15,17,17,16,16,16,15,17,16,16,18,22,26,30,32,34,36,38,38,37]},{"name":"Derby County","color":"#9EA3A8","pts":[0,-1,-1,0,1,1,0,2,2,2,4,3,5,9,11,13,15,19,21,23,23,23,23,23,25,27,28,28,27,28,32,32,32,33]},{"name":"Crystal Palace","color":"#B2A9F0","pts":[2,1,1,3,3,3,2,1,3,2,4,3,2,4,3,3,5,7,9,9,9,9,9,9,13,14,18,22,24,26,27,29,31,29]}]},{"title":"1914 MLB NL","slug":"mlb-1914-nl","meta":"MLB · NL pennant race · games above .500","url":"/mlb/1914/nl/","playoffs":"/mlb/1914/playoffs/","story":"The Braves were last in the National League on the Fourth of July, fifteen games behind that day's leader. They won nearly everything the rest of the way, ran down the Giants in September, and finished ten and a half games clear. The Miracle Braves then swept Connie Mack's Athletics in the World Series.","teams":[{"name":"Boston Braves","color":"#CE1141","pts":[-1,-2,-5,-7,-11,-12,-12,-15,-15,-10,-9,-9,-11,-14,-11,-9,-7,-4,-4,0,4,7,9,10,9,12,15,18,20,23,25,30,34,35]},{"name":"New York Giants","color":"#FD5A1E","pts":[-1,-2,0,1,4,6,8,10,10,11,13,13,14,16,12,14,14,18,18,16,17,16,15,11,12,13,15,13,13,17,13,13,12,14]}]},{"title":"1985 NFL NFC Central","slug":"nfl-1985-nfc-central","meta":"NFL · division race · games above .500","url":"/nfl/1985/nfc-central/","playoffs":"/nfl/1985/playoffs/","story":"The Bears went 15-1, outscored their playoff opponents 91-10, and gave the league the Super Bowl Shuffle, the Fridge, and maybe its most beloved champion. The lone loss, a Monday night in Miami that protected the 1972 Dolphins' perfect season, is the one dip in the line.","teams":[{"name":"Chicago Bears","color":"#C83803","pts":[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,11,12,13,14]},{"name":"Green Bay Packers","color":"#203731","pts":[-1,0,-1,-2,-1,0,-1,-2,-3,-2,-1,-2,-1,-2,-1,0]},{"name":"Detroit Lions","color":"#0076B6","pts":[1,2,1,2,1,0,1,2,1,0,1,0,1,0,-1,-2]}]},{"title":"1950-51 NBA East","slug":"nba-1950-east","meta":"NBA · division race · games above .500","url":"/nba/1950/east/","playoffs":"/nba/1950/playoffs/","story":"The Warriors and Celtics swapped the lead thirty-three times, still the most of any NBA race charted here, three seasons before the shot clock existed. Philadelphia edged two and a half games clear at the end; Boston, with a rookie named Bob Cousy, would spend the next two decades returning the favor.","teams":[{"name":"Philadelphia Warriors","color":"#1D428A","pts":[0,1,1,1,2,2,3,4,4,4,3,5,6,5,4,3,3,4,3,4,7,6,5,4,6,7,5,6,7,9,8,11,12,14]},{"name":"Boston Celtics","color":"#007A33","pts":[0,-3,-2,1,3,4,4,4,5,5,5,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,6,7,8,8,8,7,9,8,8,10,11,10,12,12,10,9]},{"name":"New York Knicks","color":"#F58426","pts":[0,-1,-3,-3,-1,-2,0,0,2,0,-1,0,0,1,3,2,1,2,2,3,3,5,6,7,7,7,10,9,8,8,8,8,8,6]}]},{"title":"1929-30 NHL American","slug":"nhl-1929-american","meta":"NHL · division race · points above pace","url":"/nhl/1929/american/","story":"The Bruins went 38-5-1, an .875 points percentage that is still the league record nearly a century later, and finished thirty points clear of the division. Then they lost the Stanley Cup final in two straight to Montreal, the same twist this archive keeps finding: the greatest seasons do not always end with the trophy.","teams":[{"name":"Boston Bruins","color":"#FFB81C","pts":[1,2,3,4,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,13,14,15,17,16,16,18,19,21,21,22,22,24,26,27,28,29,30,31,31,31,33]},{"name":"Chicago Blackhawks","color":"#101820","pts":[0,0,0,1,0,1,2,3,4,5,2,3,3,2,1,1,2,4,2,2,4,2,3,4,4,3,1,0,1,2,2,2,2,3]},{"name":"New York Rangers","color":"#69A8E8","pts":[1,1,1,2,2,1,1,2,2,3,3,3,3,2,3,1,0,1,3,4,4,4,3,3,2,3,2,1,1,1,1,0,0,0]}]},{"title":"1998 WNBA East","slug":"wnba-1998-east","meta":"WNBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/wnba/1998/east/","playoffs":"/wnba/1998/playoffs/","story":"The Sting led the East by five games in mid-July; the Rockers caught and passed them inside four weeks. It is still both the deepest comeback and the largest collapse the league has charted, and it belongs to two franchises that no longer exist.","teams":[{"name":"Cleveland Rockers","color":"#8B1A1A","pts":[1,1,2,2,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,-1,0,1,1,1,1,2,3,4,3,4,5,6,7,6,7,9,10,10]},{"name":"Charlotte Sting","color":"#008E97","pts":[1,2,1,1,2,3,4,5,6,5,5,6,6,6,7,8,8,10,9,10,9,8,7,7,8,7,8,9,8,7,6,5,5,6]},{"name":"New York Liberty","color":"#6ECEB2","pts":[-1,-2,-3,-3,-3,-2,-1,0,0,1,0,1,3,2,2,1,1,-1,0,1,1,2,3,3,3,5,5,4,5,6,7,8,7,6]}]},{"title":"2007 MLS Western Conference","slug":"mls-2007-western","meta":"MLS · playoff race · points above draw pace","url":"/mls/2007/western/","story":"Chivas USA finished top of the West by a single point over Houston, trading the lead twenty-one times along the way. It is the best season of a club that no longer exists: the project unraveled within four years and the franchise was folded within eight. A first-place line from a vanished team.","teams":[{"name":"Chivas USA","color":"#101C3A","pts":[2,2,1,3,2,1,1,1,1,3,3,5,7,6,8,7,7,9,9,10,10,10,10,12,16,16,18,20,20,22,22,24,23,23]},{"name":"Houston Dynamo FC","color":"#FF6B00","pts":[0,0,2,1,0,2,2,0,0,-1,1,5,5,9,9,11,15,15,15,15,14,14,13,15,15,15,17,17,19,19,21,20,22,22]},{"name":"FC Dallas","color":"#E81F3E","pts":[0,2,1,3,1,1,3,5,7,6,5,7,8,10,10,12,12,12,12,12,14,14,16,15,15,14,16,15,15,14,13,15,15,14]}]},{"title":"1994-95 EPL","slug":"epl-1994-english-premier-league","meta":"English Premier League · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/epl/1994/english-premier-league/","story":"Blackburn led from March and were nearly caught at the post: Shearer's champions lost at Anfield on the final afternoon, but United could only draw at West Ham, and the title went to Ewood Park by a single point. Jack Walker's money, Dalglish's team, one line just holding off the other.","teams":[{"name":"Blackburn Rovers","color":"#0F94D4","pts":[0,4,4,6,8,10,9,11,10,12,16,16,18,22,24,24,26,30,30,32,33,32,34,36,36,40,42,42,46,46,47,47,46,47]},{"name":"Manchester United","color":"#7E1013","pts":[2,4,6,5,7,6,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,22,24,26,26,26,28,30,32,34,33,37,37,38,38,38,40,40,42,46]}]},{"title":"2005-06 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-2005-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/2005/efl-championship/","story":"Reading finished on 106 points, the most in the history of the English second tier, losing twice in forty-six games. The race was settled by early spring; the record chase is what the line is for. On the far side of it waited the club's first season in the top flight in more than a century of trying.","teams":[{"name":"Reading","color":"#0A6E5C","pts":[-1,3,5,7,7,9,13,15,15,17,19,21,23,25,29,31,33,35,39,41,43,43,45,47,49,48,52,52,52,52,54,56,58,60]},{"name":"Sheffield United","color":"#994E4C","pts":[2,3,5,9,9,13,17,18,18,22,22,24,26,26,25,27,29,29,30,34,34,36,36,37,37,39,38,37,36,38,38,42,42,44]},{"name":"Watford","color":"#93944F","pts":[-1,1,3,5,5,9,8,7,7,6,8,12,14,16,16,16,16,15,17,18,18,22,24,26,27,29,31,31,33,32,31,31,35,35]}]},{"title":"1951 MLB NL","slug":"mlb-1951-nl","meta":"MLB · NL pennant race · games above .500","url":"/mlb/1951/nl/","playoffs":"/mlb/1951/playoffs/","story":"The Dodgers led by thirteen games on August 11. The Giants barely lost again, caught them on the schedule's final weekend, and the chart runs through the three-game playoff that settled it. The last point on the line is Bobby Thomson's home run, the Shot Heard 'Round the World.","teams":[{"name":"New York Giants","color":"#FD5A1E","pts":[0,-2,-7,-7,-5,-2,-2,1,1,1,2,5,6,8,10,8,8,7,7,10,11,12,8,13,17,20,24,25,27,27,32,33,36,39]},{"name":"Brooklyn Dodgers","color":"#005A9C","pts":[0,2,1,1,1,4,5,7,8,13,14,17,18,17,18,24,26,22,24,29,31,31,35,34,33,35,36,37,40,39,38,39,36,37]}]},{"title":"2003 NFL NFC North","slug":"nfl-2003-nfc-north","meta":"NFL · division race · games above .500","url":"/nfl/2003/nfc-north/","playoffs":"/nfl/2003/playoffs/","story":"The Vikings started 6-0 and led the North by three and a half games, the largest lead any charted NFL team has lost. On the season's final play in Arizona, a last-second touchdown beat Minnesota, knocked them out of the playoffs entirely, and handed Green Bay the division without the Packers touching the ball.","teams":[{"name":"Green Bay Packers","color":"#203731","pts":[-1,0,-1,0,1,0,-1,-1,0,-1,0,1,0,1,2,3,4]},{"name":"Minnesota Vikings","color":"#4F2683","pts":[1,2,3,4,5,5,6,5,4,3,2,3,2,3,2,3,2]}]},{"title":"1966-67 NBA East","slug":"nba-1966-east","meta":"NBA · division race · games above .500","url":"/nba/1966/east/","playoffs":"/nba/1966/playoffs/","story":"Boston had won eight straight championships. Wilt Chamberlain's 76ers opened the season 46-4, finished 68-13, the best record the league had ever seen, and left a 60-win Celtics team eight games behind. The streak ended that spring, and many still rank this Philadelphia side among the greatest ever.","teams":[{"name":"Philadelphia 76ers","color":"#006BB6","pts":[1,1,3,5,6,6,9,12,14,16,18,21,24,24,26,29,31,33,35,35,38,41,41,41,41,43,43,46,47,48,50,52,53,55]},{"name":"Boston Celtics","color":"#007A33","pts":[1,1,3,3,5,6,8,8,10,12,11,12,15,15,16,17,18,19,17,17,19,22,24,28,29,29,30,29,32,33,37,36,37,39]}]},{"title":"1967-68 NHL West","slug":"nhl-1967-west","meta":"NHL · division race · points above pace","url":"/nhl/1967/west/","story":"The league doubled from six teams to twelve and put all six newcomers in one division. The first race of the expansion era finished Philadelphia 73 points, Los Angeles 72, St. Louis 70. Five years later the Flyers were champions of everything; this was the first flag.","teams":[{"name":"Philadelphia Flyers","color":"#FF6B1C","pts":[-1,-2,0,1,0,0,0,1,3,5,3,3,3,5,5,3,5,5,3,5,4,2,3,3,5,2,3,1,0,-1,0,2,1,-1]},{"name":"Los Angeles Kings","color":"#5C2D91","pts":[0,2,2,1,1,1,3,2,3,3,3,3,2,0,3,1,-1,-5,-5,-4,-4,-3,-4,-5,-4,-4,-4,-2,-4,-3,-3,-2,-1,-2]},{"name":"St. Louis Blues","color":"#0057B8","pts":[0,0,-1,-3,-3,-2,-2,-4,-7,-9,-9,-11,-8,-10,-10,-8,-8,-6,-7,-6,-6,-4,-3,-4,-5,-4,-4,-5,-6,-3,-3,-5,-6,-4]}]},{"title":"2002 WNBA","slug":"wnba-2002-west","meta":"WNBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/wnba/2002/west/","playoffs":"/wnba/2002/playoffs/","story":"The Sparks led the West for eighty of the race's eighty-one days and never quite shook the Comets, the four-time champions they had dethroned the summer before. Los Angeles finished 25-7 and repeated as champions; the one-game gap on this chart is where the league's first era handed off to its second.","teams":[{"name":"Los Angeles Sparks","color":"#552583","pts":[1,2,3,2,3,3,4,5,5,6,7,8,8,9,11,10,10,11,12,12,12,12,13,13,14,15,15,16,14,15,16,15,17,18]},{"name":"Houston Comets","color":"#CE1141","pts":[0,-1,0,1,0,1,2,3,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,10,11,12,12,12,11,11,11,13,13,12,13,14,15,16,15,16]}]},{"title":"2009 MLS","slug":"mls-2009-supporters-shield","meta":"MLS · Supporters' Shield race · points above draw pace","url":"/mls/2009/supporters-shield/","story":"Columbus trailed the Shield race by fifteen points in mid-May, the deepest hole any charted MLS leader has climbed out of, and still defended the trophy, by one point over Houston and Los Angeles at once. The Crew's line spends the spring near the bottom of the pack and October at the top of it.","teams":[{"name":"Columbus Crew","color":"#FEDD00","pts":[0,0,0,-2,-2,-2,-2,-2,0,0,0,2,4,6,5,7,7,7,7,9,11,13,15,17,17,16,16,18,18,20,19,21,20,19]},{"name":"Houston Dynamo FC","color":"#FF6B00","pts":[0,0,-1,-2,-2,0,0,2,4,4,6,8,10,14,14,14,15,15,14,14,13,14,16,16,16,15,15,14,16,16,16,16,16,18]},{"name":"LA Galaxy","color":"#FFD200","pts":[0,0,0,-1,-1,-1,-1,1,1,1,1,1,3,2,1,1,5,5,9,9,9,9,11,12,12,14,14,13,15,14,16,16,16,18]}]},{"title":"1995-96 EPL","slug":"epl-1995-english-premier-league","meta":"English Premier League · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/epl/1995/english-premier-league/","story":"Newcastle led by twelve points on January 22, the biggest lead the Premier League has ever seen lost. Keegan's entertainers played the most watchable football in England and gave it back a result at a time, United won the run-in by four points, and the season left behind one immortal touchline interview.","teams":[{"name":"Newcastle United","color":"#232024","pts":[2,6,8,7,9,11,13,13,17,17,19,21,21,23,23,22,26,25,27,29,31,31,33,35,34,34,33,35,34,33,34,38,38,40]},{"name":"Manchester United","color":"#7E1013","pts":[-1,3,5,7,9,9,9,9,13,15,14,14,16,18,18,18,17,20,19,19,21,21,23,25,27,29,31,31,35,35,39,40,40,44]}]},{"title":"2006-07 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-2006-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/2006/efl-championship/","story":"Roy Keane took his first job in management with Sunderland near the bottom of the table, sixteen points behind the leaders by October. They were champions on the final day, the latest the division's charts have ever seen the title decided, after a spring run that simply did not stop.","teams":[{"name":"Sunderland","color":"#983004","pts":[0,-3,-4,-2,-2,2,1,3,3,1,3,3,3,5,7,9,11,10,13,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,31,31,33,37,39,40,42]},{"name":"Birmingham City","color":"#9985F7","pts":[2,4,6,5,5,9,8,8,8,6,8,14,16,16,17,19,23,25,26,26,26,26,25,27,29,30,34,33,33,35,33,37,41,40]},{"name":"Derby County","color":"#9EA3A8","pts":[0,1,1,0,0,1,3,5,5,6,5,9,11,13,17,16,20,20,23,23,25,27,31,31,31,29,32,34,34,36,36,35,37,38]}]},{"title":"1964 MLB NL","slug":"mlb-1964-nl","meta":"MLB · NL pennant race · games above .500","url":"/mlb/1964/nl/","playoffs":"/mlb/1964/playoffs/","story":"The Phillies led the pennant race by six and a half games with twelve to play, then lost ten straight. The Cardinals came from the pack, took first in the final week, and went on to win the World Series. Philadelphia and Cincinnati finished level, one game short, and the collapse still carries the city's name.","teams":[{"name":"St. Louis Cardinals","color":"#6FA0D0","pts":[0,1,0,1,3,4,5,5,4,3,2,-2,0,0,-2,-2,-2,3,2,-1,5,3,5,8,8,7,12,14,17,18,17,19,24,24]},{"name":"Philadelphia Phillies","color":"#6F263D","pts":[0,3,5,6,8,6,7,8,10,10,9,12,13,16,16,18,20,16,15,19,17,18,21,24,26,29,28,29,27,31,30,26,21,22]},{"name":"Cincinnati Reds","color":"#C6011F","pts":[-1,0,1,0,-1,0,1,0,1,2,5,5,6,4,4,8,5,6,10,10,8,10,11,10,12,14,16,16,15,14,17,20,24,22]}]},{"title":"2007 NFL AFC East","slug":"nfl-2007-afc-east","meta":"NFL · division race · games above .500","url":"/nfl/2007/afc-east/","playoffs":"/nfl/2007/playoffs/","story":"New England won all sixteen games, the only 16-0 season ever played, and the same chart holds Miami at 1-15. Fifteen games separated first from last in one division, the widest gap the league has seen, and the Dolphins' only win took overtime in December.","teams":[{"name":"New England Patriots","color":"#B0B7BC","pts":[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]},{"name":"Buffalo Bills","color":"#00338D","pts":[-1,-2,-3,-2,-3,-3,-2,-1,0,1,0,-1,0,1,0,-1,-2]},{"name":"Miami Dolphins","color":"#008E97","pts":[-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-6,-7,-8,-8,-9,-10,-11,-12,-13,-12,-13,-14]}]},{"title":"1972-73 NBA East","slug":"nba-1972-east","meta":"NBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/nba/1972/east/","playoffs":"/nba/1972/playoffs/","story":"The best and worst seasons in the conference's history share one chart. The Celtics won 68 games, still the franchise record; the 76ers won 9, still the league's floor over a full season. Fifty-nine games separated first from last, the widest spread the NBA has ever produced, and New York, from second, won the title.","teams":[{"name":"Boston Celtics","color":"#007A33","pts":[0,3,5,8,9,9,11,13,12,14,15,17,19,22,22,23,23,24,26,28,31,33,32,33,32,35,39,40,41,44,46,47,50,54]},{"name":"New York Knicks","color":"#F58426","pts":[1,1,3,5,7,8,11,11,13,14,16,17,17,17,17,18,21,23,25,28,28,28,30,31,31,30,32,32,32,32,33,34,33,32]},{"name":"Philadelphia 76ers","color":"#006BB6","pts":[-1,-3,-4,-7,-8,-13,-15,-15,-18,-20,-20,-22,-24,-27,-28,-30,-32,-34,-36,-39,-42,-44,-47,-50,-53,-53,-52,-52,-52,-54,-57,-60,-63,-64]}]},{"title":"1981-82 NHL Smythe","slug":"nhl-1981-smythe","meta":"NHL · division race · points above pace","url":"/nhl/1981/smythe/","story":"Gretzky scored 92 goals, a number nobody has approached before or since, and Edmonton finished 34 points clear of everyone in the Smythe. The gap between the first line and the rest of the chart is the record season, drawn.","teams":[{"name":"Edmonton Oilers","color":"#FC4C02","pts":[0,1,1,2,4,5,5,4,6,8,11,11,11,13,14,16,16,17,17,15,17,20,20,22,23,25,27,29,27,26,27,27,29,31]},{"name":"Vancouver Canucks","color":"#0B4229","pts":[1,2,-1,-2,-2,-2,-1,0,1,0,1,1,2,0,-2,-3,-3,-6,-8,-7,-9,-8,-7,-8,-6,-4,-4,-3,-6,-9,-8,-7,-5,-3]},{"name":"Calgary Flames","color":"#D2001C","pts":[0,0,-3,-4,-4,-6,-8,-8,-7,-6,-5,-6,-5,-4,-3,-4,-6,-5,-5,-3,-3,-4,-4,-4,-4,-3,-3,-5,-7,-4,-5,-4,-5,-5]}]},{"title":"Worst to first in one winter","slug":"shock-worst-to-first","meta":"WNBA · 9-23, then 25-9 · games above .500","story":"The 2002 Shock finished 9-23, last in the East, with Bill Laimbeer arriving as the season sank. Twelve months later Detroit finished 25-9, the best record in the league, and beat the two-time defending champion Sparks for the title. Worst to first in one winter, two lines crossing like an X.","teams":[{"name":"2002 Shock","color":"#eb6834","pts":[0,-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-6,-7,-8,-9,-10,-11,-12,-13,-12,-13,-14,-15,-14,-13,-14,-13,-14,-13,-12,-13,-14,-13,-12,-13,-12,-13,-14]},{"name":"2003 Shock","color":"#2a78d6","pts":[0,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,6,7,6,5,6,5,6,8,9,8,9,10,11,12,13,12,11,12,13,12,13,14,15,16]}],"links":[{"label":"2002 Shock","url":"/wnba/2002/east/"},{"label":"2003 Shock","url":"/wnba/2003/east/"}],"axis":34},{"title":"2011 MLS Eastern Conference","slug":"mls-2011-eastern","meta":"MLS · playoff race · points above draw pace","url":"/mls/2011/eastern/","story":"Sporting Kansas City opened with ten straight road games while their new stadium was finished, and sat last in the East at the end of May, fifteen points off the lead. From the home opener on, almost nobody beat them: first place by October, the biggest conference-race comeback the league has charted.","teams":[{"name":"Sporting Kansas City","color":"#91B0D5","pts":[0,2,1,1,1,0,-1,-2,-2,-3,-4,-4,-4,-4,0,0,2,4,4,4,6,8,7,9,11,10,10,12,11,11,13,13,15,17]},{"name":"Houston Dynamo FC","color":"#FF6B00","pts":[0,-1,-1,-1,1,3,3,5,3,3,3,2,1,1,3,2,2,2,4,4,3,5,5,7,9,8,8,7,9,11,11,11,13,15]},{"name":"Philadelphia Union","color":"#B1872D","pts":[0,2,4,3,5,5,5,7,6,5,7,9,9,9,9,8,10,10,10,12,12,11,11,11,10,10,9,9,11,11,13,15,15,14]}]},{"title":"1997-98 EPL","slug":"epl-1997-english-premier-league","meta":"English Premier League · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/epl/1997/english-premier-league/","story":"Arsenal were thirteen points behind four days before Christmas, still the deepest hole any Premier League champion has climbed from. Wenger's first full season won ten league games in a row through the spring, took first in mid-April, and finished a point clear of United with the Double besides.","teams":[{"name":"Arsenal","color":"#EF0107","pts":[0,2,4,4,4,6,10,12,12,12,12,11,13,12,11,13,12,14,14,16,16,16,20,20,22,22,24,26,28,30,34,36,40,40]},{"name":"Manchester United","color":"#7E1013","pts":[0,4,4,8,8,10,9,11,11,11,13,15,14,16,18,20,22,25,25,27,26,26,25,25,29,31,30,29,31,33,33,33,35,39]}]},{"title":"2011-12 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-2011-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/2011/efl-championship/","story":"Reading were eighteen points off the lead on November 5, the deepest comeback in the division's charted history. Brian McDermott's side won fifteen of seventeen in the new year, went top in mid-April, and finished one point ahead of a Southampton team that had led for most of the season.","teams":[{"name":"Reading","color":"#0A6E5C","pts":[0,2,0,-1,-1,-2,0,2,2,4,4,3,5,5,6,7,9,11,13,14,16,15,17,17,21,23,25,31,33,34,36,40,44,43]},{"name":"Southampton","color":"#E84E74","pts":[0,4,8,7,7,9,11,12,12,12,14,18,20,20,21,22,22,22,24,22,24,24,23,23,25,27,29,33,35,39,38,40,41,42]},{"name":"West Ham United","color":"#A63A6B","pts":[0,1,3,5,5,7,7,8,8,10,11,13,15,15,19,20,19,21,21,22,24,26,26,27,27,29,29,31,31,33,32,34,36,40]}]},{"title":"1967 MLB AL","slug":"mlb-1967-al","meta":"MLB · AL pennant race · games above .500","url":"/mlb/1967/al/","playoffs":"/mlb/1967/playoffs/","story":"Four teams traded the American League lead twenty-eight times through the summer. Boston, a hundred-to-one shot in the spring, won its final two against Minnesota while Detroit split a pair, and Yastrzemski's Triple Crown season ended one game clear of two teams at once. The Impossible Dream, drawn in four lines.","teams":[{"name":"Boston Red Sox","color":"#BD3039","pts":[0,-1,0,3,0,-3,-2,0,0,2,2,0,0,2,3,5,2,3,7,11,12,11,8,8,8,15,17,18,16,18,20,22,20,22]},{"name":"Detroit Tigers","color":"#1D3E7B","pts":[0,0,1,4,6,10,9,9,11,10,11,8,6,8,4,5,10,9,5,6,9,10,9,9,9,13,13,14,14,19,20,19,20,20]},{"name":"Minnesota Twins","color":"#B9975B","pts":[0,-3,-1,-5,-2,-3,-3,-3,-2,0,-1,1,1,0,1,5,7,10,10,6,6,6,9,11,15,13,16,17,17,19,20,22,22,20]},{"name":"Chicago White Sox","color":"#27251F","pts":[0,1,1,2,5,9,12,11,10,8,8,12,12,14,15,14,16,14,12,12,14,16,13,12,12,15,13,13,15,15,17,20,19,16]}]},{"title":"2008 NFL AFC East","slug":"nfl-2008-afc-east","meta":"NFL · division race · games above .500","url":"/nfl/2008/afc-east/","playoffs":"/nfl/2008/playoffs/","story":"A year after 1-15, the Dolphins won the division. Chad Pennington, cut when the Jets traded for Brett Favre in August, beat his old team in the finale to finish 11-5, level with New England and ahead on the tiebreaker. It is still the biggest one-season turn in league history, drawn as a single line.","teams":[{"name":"Miami Dolphins","color":"#008E97","pts":[-1,-2,-1,-1,0,-1,-2,-1,0,1,2,1,2,3,4,5,6]},{"name":"New England Patriots","color":"#B0B7BC","pts":[1,2,1,1,2,1,2,3,2,3,2,3,2,3,4,5,6]},{"name":"New York Jets","color":"#125740","pts":[1,0,-1,0,0,1,0,1,2,3,4,5,4,3,4,3,2]}]},{"title":"1980-81 NBA Atlantic","slug":"nba-1980-atlantic","meta":"NBA · division race · games above .500","url":"/nba/1980/atlantic/","playoffs":"/nba/1980/playoffs/","story":"Bird's Celtics and Erving's 76ers finished 62-20 and 62-20, and the chart cannot separate them. Boston took the top seed on a tiebreaker, fell behind the same 76ers three games to one in the conference finals, then won three straight by a combined five points on the way to the title. A decade of rivalry in two lines.","teams":[{"name":"Boston Celtics","color":"#007A33","pts":[1,0,0,1,3,3,3,5,7,7,8,11,12,14,17,19,21,22,25,28,31,33,33,31,33,33,34,35,38,39,39,40,41,42]},{"name":"Philadelphia 76ers","color":"#006BB6","pts":[-1,0,1,3,6,8,10,12,14,17,20,21,23,26,28,29,26,28,31,32,33,35,34,36,39,39,40,40,40,41,42,41,41,42]}]},{"title":"1990-91 NHL Patrick","slug":"nhl-1990-patrick","meta":"NHL · division race · points above pace","url":"/nhl/1990/patrick/","story":"Pittsburgh sat fifteen points off the Patrick lead on December 1, with Lemieux still out after back surgery. He returned in late January, the Penguins ran down the Rangers for the first division title in the franchise's history, and by May they had their first Stanley Cup too.","teams":[{"name":"Pittsburgh Penguins","color":"#FCB514","pts":[0,1,1,-1,-1,0,1,1,3,1,0,-2,-3,-3,0,1,2,2,3,4,4,5,6,6,5,4,6,3,2,5,6,7,8,8]},{"name":"New York Rangers","color":"#69A8E8","pts":[-1,-1,2,3,5,8,5,7,9,9,10,9,6,7,8,7,8,10,11,11,10,10,9,8,9,11,10,10,12,10,7,6,5,5]},{"name":"Washington Capitals","color":"#0038A8","pts":[0,0,-2,-1,-1,0,2,1,-1,0,0,1,2,3,0,-1,-4,-3,-2,-2,-4,-4,-3,-3,-1,-3,-4,-4,-3,-2,-1,-1,0,1]}]},{"title":"2011 WNBA","slug":"wnba-2011-east","meta":"WNBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/wnba/2011/east/","playoffs":"/wnba/2011/playoffs/","story":"Connecticut and Indiana finished 21-13 and 21-13, the tightest finish the league has charted, with the lead changing hands eight times on the way. The Fever took the top seed on a tiebreaker; a year later they were champions.","teams":[{"name":"Connecticut Sun","color":"#DF4601","pts":[0,1,1,1,1,2,3,2,1,2,3,3,2,2,2,3,4,4,4,5,6,5,7,6,7,7,7,7,8,6,7,8,7,8]},{"name":"Indiana Fever","color":"#F2CD64","pts":[0,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,3,4,4,5,6,6,6,5,5,5,6,8,8,9,9,9,10,10,11,11,10,9,8,9,10,8]},{"name":"Atlanta Dream","color":"#9E1B32","pts":[0,-1,-2,-3,-2,-3,-3,-4,-5,-4,-4,-4,-5,-5,-6,-5,-3,-3,-1,-2,-3,-3,-1,-2,-1,0,0,1,2,3,3,4,5,6]}]},{"title":"2013 MLS","slug":"mls-2013-supporters-shield","meta":"MLS · Supporters' Shield race · points above draw pace","url":"/mls/2013/supporters-shield/","story":"Eighteen seasons without a major trophy ended on the final day of this race. Thierry Henry's Red Bulls beat Chicago 5-2 on Decision Day, took first place for good with no days to spare, and edged Sporting Kansas City by a single point for the Shield.","teams":[{"name":"Red Bull New York","color":"#ED1E36","pts":[0,0,-1,-2,0,-1,1,2,4,6,8,10,10,9,9,9,8,10,9,11,11,13,15,14,14,13,15,19,19,21,21,21,23,25]},{"name":"Sporting Kansas City","color":"#91B0D5","pts":[2,1,1,1,3,5,5,6,5,7,8,8,8,7,7,7,7,9,11,13,15,14,13,15,13,13,15,17,19,18,20,20,22,24]},{"name":"Portland Timbers","color":"#004812","pts":[0,-1,-1,-1,-1,1,3,3,5,5,7,7,9,9,9,11,13,13,12,14,14,13,13,13,15,13,13,15,17,17,19,21,21,23]}]},{"title":"1998-99 EPL","slug":"epl-1998-english-premier-league","meta":"English Premier League · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/epl/1998/english-premier-league/","story":"The treble began with the tightest of its three legs. United took first place for good only on May 9, traded the lead with Arsenal eighteen times along the way, and won the league by a single point. Eleven days later the FA Cup followed, then Barcelona, injury time, and history.","teams":[{"name":"Manchester United","color":"#7E1013","pts":[0,0,0,2,4,5,7,7,9,9,11,13,12,14,14,14,15,15,17,19,19,23,25,27,29,29,31,33,33,33,35,35,37,41]},{"name":"Arsenal","color":"#EF0107","pts":[0,2,2,2,2,3,5,5,5,7,9,11,10,10,10,9,13,15,15,17,17,19,21,23,23,25,27,29,29,31,33,35,39,40]},{"name":"Chelsea","color":"#0546A8","pts":[-1,-1,-1,-1,1,5,5,5,7,7,7,9,11,11,13,13,17,17,19,21,21,20,22,24,26,26,25,27,29,31,31,31,35,37]}]},{"title":"2014-15 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-2014-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · promotion race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/2014/efl-championship/","story":"Four clubs finished within five points, and the smallest of them won the division: Bournemouth, nearly liquidated six years earlier, took their first-ever promotion to the top flight from a race with twenty-four lead changes. Eddie Howe's line is the one that ends on top.","teams":[{"name":"AFC Bournemouth","color":"#F59189","pts":[0,4,2,2,2,1,1,4,4,6,10,14,14,14,14,16,18,20,24,24,25,24,26,28,28,26,30,32,34,34,36,40,40,44]},{"name":"Watford","color":"#93944F","pts":[0,1,5,7,7,8,8,10,10,12,12,13,12,12,10,12,14,16,17,17,18,20,19,23,25,26,30,32,33,33,35,39,41,43]},{"name":"Norwich City","color":"#8CB424","pts":[0,1,5,5,5,9,9,10,10,9,9,10,9,9,8,10,12,12,13,13,17,16,16,20,22,26,27,29,31,31,35,39,38,40]},{"name":"Middlesbrough","color":"#B26757","pts":[0,1,2,1,1,5,7,9,9,11,10,14,14,14,14,16,18,17,19,19,21,23,25,29,29,30,31,32,33,33,34,38,40,39]}]},{"title":"1969 MLB NL East","slug":"mlb-1969-nl-east","meta":"MLB · division race · games above .500","url":"/mlb/1969/nl-east/","playoffs":"/mlb/1969/playoffs/","story":"The Cubs led the brand-new NL East nearly all summer, ten games clear of the Mets in mid-August. New York, never once a winning team in its first seven seasons, ran them down in September, won the division by eight, and kept going all the way to the title nobody saw coming. A black cat at Shea sits in the middle of the story.","teams":[{"name":"New York Mets","color":"#1A3A68","pts":[0,-3,-2,-4,-4,-3,-2,0,-4,0,5,4,7,10,7,10,13,13,15,13,13,13,14,11,17,20,23,21,25,31,32,33,36,38]},{"name":"Chicago Cubs","color":"#0E3386","pts":[0,5,10,8,10,9,12,11,14,17,19,22,19,20,23,25,20,23,23,25,23,28,29,31,31,28,31,31,26,24,24,23,22,22]}]},{"title":"2013 NFL NFC North","slug":"nfl-2013-nfc-north","meta":"NFL · division race · games above .500","url":"/nfl/2013/nfc-north/","playoffs":"/nfl/2013/playoffs/","story":"Green Bay led the North for four days of the season: the last four. Rodgers missed seven starts with a broken collarbone, came back for Week 17 in Chicago, and hit Randall Cobb on fourth-and-eight with 38 seconds left. The 8-7-1 Packers are the latest-deciding division winner the chart has ever recorded.","teams":[{"name":"Green Bay Packers","color":"#203731","pts":[-1,0,-1,-1,0,1,2,3,2,1,0,0,-1,0,1,0,1]},{"name":"Chicago Bears","color":"#C83803","pts":[1,2,3,2,1,2,1,1,2,1,2,1,0,1,2,1,0]},{"name":"Detroit Lions","color":"#0076B6","pts":[1,0,1,2,1,2,1,2,2,3,2,1,2,1,0,-1,-2]}]},{"title":"2003-04 NBA Pacific","slug":"nba-2003-pacific","meta":"NBA · division race · games above .500","url":"/nba/2003/pacific/","playoffs":"/nba/2003/playoffs/","story":"Sacramento led the Pacific by six games in mid-March. The Lakers, carrying Shaq, Kobe, Malone, and Payton, took first place for good on the season's final day, later than any charted NBA race has been decided. It was the superteam's only act: they lost the Finals and were broken up that summer.","teams":[{"name":"Los Angeles Lakers","color":"#FDB927","pts":[1,3,4,4,6,8,10,12,14,13,13,14,14,13,10,12,13,10,12,11,11,12,14,16,17,18,19,20,23,25,28,29,29,30]},{"name":"Sacramento Kings","color":"#A7A8AA","pts":[0,1,1,1,2,5,7,8,8,10,11,14,13,14,15,18,19,19,19,21,21,24,25,26,27,30,31,32,31,30,31,30,29,28]}]},{"title":"1993-94 NHL Central","slug":"nhl-1993-central","meta":"NHL · division race · points above pace","url":"/nhl/1993/central/","story":"Detroit trailed the Central by eighteen points in November, the deepest hole any charted NHL winner has escaped. Toronto, fresh off a run to the conference finals, led by twelve in December and watched the Wings walk them down by spring. The two biggest swings on the comebacks page happened in the same race.","teams":[{"name":"Detroit Red Wings","color":"#CE1126","pts":[-1,-1,-4,-2,-3,-1,-2,-1,-1,-1,0,1,3,4,6,7,8,10,12,12,13,12,12,13,16,17,17,18,18,17,17,17,18,16]},{"name":"Toronto Maple Leafs","color":"#003087","pts":[0,3,6,8,10,10,11,9,12,12,14,12,13,12,11,9,8,11,13,13,14,14,12,13,16,14,16,16,16,16,15,13,13,14]},{"name":"Dallas Stars","color":"#3E9B6E","pts":[1,0,1,2,3,1,-1,0,2,3,3,4,5,4,6,7,6,8,5,6,8,9,9,11,12,13,11,11,10,13,13,12,11,13]}]},{"title":"2014 WNBA","slug":"wnba-2014-west","meta":"WNBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/wnba/2014/west/","playoffs":"/wnba/2014/playoffs/","story":"Phoenix won 29 of 34 games, the best record the league had seen, with the defending champions chasing the whole way. Minnesota led the race by two and a half in June; the Mercury answered with a sixteen-game winning streak, finished four clear, and swept to the title.","teams":[{"name":"Phoenix Mercury","color":"#E56020","pts":[0,2,2,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,3,4,5,6,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,15,15,16,17,18,18,19,20,22,22,22,24]},{"name":"Minnesota Lynx","color":"#236192","pts":[1,2,2,4,5,6,7,7,7,7,6,5,5,7,7,6,7,8,7,8,9,10,11,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,17,17,16,16]}]},{"title":"2015 MLS","slug":"mls-2015-supporters-shield","meta":"MLS · Supporters' Shield race · points above draw pace","url":"/mls/2015/supporters-shield/","story":"Twenty-two lead changes, the most in any charted MLS race, and at the end of it two identical records: FC Dallas and the Red Bulls both finished 18-10-6. The table cannot split them; the Shield went to New York on goal difference, the thinnest margin the trophy has ever turned on.","teams":[{"name":"FC Dallas","color":"#E81F3E","pts":[0,2,4,6,6,4,4,6,8,10,10,9,8,8,7,7,9,11,13,15,17,17,16,15,14,16,18,20,19,18,20,20,24,26]},{"name":"Red Bull New York","color":"#ED1E36","pts":[0,0,0,2,4,4,6,6,6,5,7,7,6,4,4,3,5,6,8,10,10,12,12,16,16,17,17,19,20,19,21,23,24,26]},{"name":"Vancouver Whitecaps FC","color":"#00245E","pts":[0,-1,1,3,5,7,6,8,7,9,8,7,9,10,10,12,14,13,13,12,12,16,18,17,19,18,18,20,19,18,18,18,17,19]}]},{"title":"2003-04 EPL","slug":"epl-2003-english-premier-league","meta":"English Premier League · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/epl/2003/english-premier-league/","story":"Played 38, lost none. On this chart a line only ever falls on a defeat, so the Invincibles' line does something nothing else in the archive can: it rises and rests for nine months and never once drops. No English top-flight side had gone unbeaten since Preston in 1889, and none has since.","teams":[{"name":"Arsenal","color":"#EF0107","pts":[2,4,8,8,8,10,12,12,14,14,16,18,20,20,20,22,24,26,28,30,30,32,36,38,40,40,42,44,44,46,48,48,48,52]},{"name":"Chelsea","color":"#0546A8","pts":[0,4,4,4,6,8,12,12,11,13,15,17,19,21,21,20,21,23,24,24,24,26,30,29,31,31,33,35,39,38,38,37,39,41]},{"name":"Manchester United","color":"#7E1013","pts":[2,4,5,5,7,7,11,11,13,12,14,16,18,17,19,21,25,27,29,28,28,30,31,31,31,31,30,32,32,34,37,36,35,37]}]},{"title":"2016-17 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-2016-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/2016/efl-championship/","story":"Brighton led Newcastle by seven points with a fortnight left and had already secured promotion. Then came two defeats, a Newcastle win on the final afternoon, and the title changed hands at the last possible moment, the thirtieth lead change of a season that never settled.","teams":[{"name":"Newcastle United","color":"#232024","pts":[-1,-2,2,4,4,8,7,11,11,15,17,21,21,23,22,21,25,27,27,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,40,40,42,43,42,46,48]},{"name":"Brighton & Hove Albion","color":"#0B63C4","pts":[0,2,4,3,3,4,8,10,10,12,14,18,18,18,20,20,24,26,30,30,29,33,32,34,36,37,40,39,39,43,45,49,47,47]},{"name":"Reading","color":"#0A6E5C","pts":[0,1,0,2,2,4,8,7,7,6,8,12,12,14,16,15,16,18,22,22,21,22,26,26,27,26,28,29,29,33,32,36,37,39]}]},{"title":"1995 MLB AL West","slug":"mlb-1995-al-west","meta":"MLB · division race · games above .500","url":"/mlb/1995/al-west/","playoffs":"/mlb/1995/playoffs/","story":"California led the West by eleven games in August. Seattle, with Griffey back from a broken wrist and Refuse to Lose on the marquee, caught them in the final week and won the one-game playoff behind Randy Johnson. The comeback that filled the Kingdome is widely credited with keeping baseball in Seattle.","teams":[{"name":"Seattle Mariners","color":"#005C5C","pts":[0,2,3,1,1,1,3,6,3,4,1,2,1,1,-2,-1,-3,-1,-1,0,-2,0,3,1,0,0,2,2,2,5,7,11,12,13]},{"name":"California Angels","color":"#952610","pts":[0,0,2,2,3,6,8,7,8,7,10,10,9,9,10,9,13,15,17,20,22,22,24,26,25,23,19,15,14,15,11,7,8,11]}]},{"title":"2014 NFL NFC South","slug":"nfl-2014-nfc-south","meta":"NFL · division race · games above .500","url":"/nfl/2014/nfc-south/","playoffs":"/nfl/2014/playoffs/","story":"Four years after the 7-9 Seahawks, a division winner arrived with a worse record still. Carolina took the South at 7-8-1, winning the Week 17 decider in Atlanta with the crown on the line, and no team in the division touched .500 all season. Then the Panthers won a playoff game, too.","teams":[{"name":"Carolina Panthers","color":"#0085CA","pts":[1,2,1,0,1,1,0,-1,-2,-3,-4,-4,-5,-4,-3,-2,-1]},{"name":"New Orleans Saints","color":"#D3BC8D","pts":[-1,-2,-1,-2,-1,-1,-2,-1,0,-1,-2,-3,-2,-3,-2,-3,-2]},{"name":"Atlanta Falcons","color":"#000000","pts":[1,0,1,0,-1,-2,-3,-4,-4,-3,-2,-3,-2,-3,-4,-3,-4]}]},{"title":"2007-08 NBA West","slug":"nba-2007-west","meta":"NBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/nba/2007/west/","playoffs":"/nba/2007/playoffs/","story":"The deepest conference ever charted. The top two stayed within one game of each other for 142 days, the most the site has measured, and the eighth seed won fifty games. Ninth place went to a 48-win Warriors team, the most wins that have ever missed the NBA playoffs.","teams":[{"name":"Los Angeles Lakers","color":"#FDB927","pts":[-1,1,1,1,3,1,2,3,4,4,5,8,8,9,12,15,14,13,13,14,15,18,20,22,23,25,26,24,27,26,26,29,30,32]},{"name":"New Orleans Hornets","color":"#B4975A","pts":[0,3,2,5,6,5,5,5,7,6,6,7,10,12,11,13,15,18,19,17,19,21,22,19,21,22,22,23,25,28,29,32,31,30]},{"name":"San Antonio Spurs","color":"#101820","pts":[1,3,4,6,6,10,11,13,14,13,11,12,13,13,12,14,12,15,12,13,16,17,18,21,23,26,25,22,23,26,29,29,29,30]},{"name":"Golden State Warriors","color":"#1D428A","pts":[-1,-3,-5,-6,-4,-2,1,2,2,3,4,4,5,4,4,7,8,8,9,10,10,12,12,11,13,14,16,17,16,17,16,15,15,14]}]},{"title":"The worst seasons the NHL has seen","slug":"nhl-worst-seasons","meta":"NHL · 21, 24, and 24 points · points above pace","story":"Three lines, one floor. The expansion 1974-75 Capitals went 8-67-5, and their 21 points are still the lowest the league has recorded; eighteen years later the expansion Senators and second-year Sharks found nearly the same depth in the same winter, 24 points each. Washington's record has now stood for half a century.","teams":[{"name":"1974-75 Capitals","color":"#0038A8","pts":[0,-2,-2,-4,-7,-9,-11,-13,-13,-15,-17,-20,-21,-22,-24,-26,-29,-30,-33,-35,-37,-38,-40,-41,-41,-44,-46,-48,-51,-53,-56,-58,-59,-59]},{"name":"1992-93 Senators","color":"#000000","pts":[0,-1,-3,-6,-8,-10,-12,-15,-17,-18,-20,-20,-23,-24,-27,-29,-32,-34,-35,-37,-40,-40,-40,-41,-43,-44,-44,-47,-49,-52,-54,-57,-57,-60]},{"name":"1992-93 Sharks","color":"#1BAEBB","pts":[0,-1,-3,-6,-8,-6,-8,-11,-11,-12,-14,-17,-20,-22,-23,-25,-27,-29,-32,-34,-37,-39,-42,-41,-43,-46,-46,-47,-49,-52,-54,-57,-57,-60]}],"links":[{"label":"1974-75 Capitals","url":"/nhl/1974/norris/"},{"label":"1992-93 Senators","url":"/nhl/1992/adams/"},{"label":"1992-93 Sharks","url":"/nhl/1992/smythe/"}],"axis":84},{"title":"2016 WNBA","slug":"wnba-2016-west","meta":"WNBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/wnba/2016/west/","playoffs":"/wnba/2016/playoffs/","story":"The Lynx started 13-0; the Sparks started 11-0. Los Angeles led by two and a half in July, Minnesota finished 28-6 to 26-8, and the same two teams played a five-game Finals that fall that came down to the final shot. The greatest rivalry season the league has produced, charted.","teams":[{"name":"Minnesota Lynx","color":"#236192","pts":[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,11,11,13,12,10,11,11,12,14,15,17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17,16,17,18,20,20,20,22]},{"name":"Los Angeles Sparks","color":"#552583","pts":[0,1,3,5,5,6,7,8,10,11,10,11,13,15,16,17,19,18,18,18,18,18,18,18,18,18,18,17,16,18,18,17,17,18]}]},{"title":"2017 MLS Western Conference","slug":"mls-2017-western","meta":"MLS · playoff race · points above draw pace","url":"/mls/2017/western/","story":"Portland and Seattle finished the season on 53 points each, and the West came down to the wins column: fifteen against fourteen. The Timbers took first on the final day; the Sounders answered by reaching a second straight MLS Cup final. Cascadia, charted at its closest.","teams":[{"name":"Portland Timbers","color":"#004812","pts":[2,2,4,6,5,5,7,6,8,7,7,6,5,7,9,8,7,7,7,7,6,8,8,9,11,13,13,15,14,16,15,15,17,19]},{"name":"Seattle Sounders FC","color":"#236192","pts":[0,-1,-1,1,1,1,0,0,2,1,0,1,3,2,4,3,3,3,5,5,7,9,11,13,13,15,15,15,15,14,15,15,17,19]},{"name":"Vancouver Whitecaps FC","color":"#00245E","pts":[0,0,-1,-2,-2,0,1,1,0,4,3,5,4,6,6,6,6,5,7,7,9,10,10,9,11,13,13,15,17,19,20,19,19,18]}]},{"title":"2013-14 EPL","slug":"epl-2013-english-premier-league","meta":"English Premier League · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/epl/2013/english-premier-league/","story":"Liverpool won eleven straight into late April and led the table with three games left. Then Gerrard slipped against Chelsea, Crystal Palace came back from three goals down, and City, nine points adrift in the autumn, took first place for good with four days of the season remaining. The slip season, drawn.","teams":[{"name":"Liverpool","color":"#C8102E","pts":[2,4,6,6,6,5,9,9,9,11,10,12,12,12,15,17,19,19,19,21,21,23,25,27,29,31,31,35,39,41,43,45,44,46]},{"name":"Manchester City","color":"#6CABDD","pts":[0,1,3,3,3,5,6,6,8,7,9,8,8,10,14,16,18,24,24,28,28,29,29,29,31,31,33,35,37,39,38,40,44,48]},{"name":"Chelsea","color":"#0546A8","pts":[0,4,4,4,3,5,5,7,9,11,10,10,10,12,15,17,17,23,23,25,27,29,31,31,33,35,36,38,37,39,41,40,42,44]}]},{"title":"2019-20 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-2019-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/2019/efl-championship/","story":"Leeds had been out of the top flight for sixteen years when Bielsa's second season paused for the pandemic. The lead had already changed thirty-one times, the most the division had charted; after the restart, Leeds pulled ten points clear behind closed doors and the exile ended. The line pulls away exactly where the world stopped.","teams":[{"name":"Leeds United","color":"#E8C400","pts":[0,2,8,7,7,9,9,9,11,13,15,19,23,25,26,26,24,25,24,28,32,34,34,34,34,34,34,34,34,34,34,35,39,47]},{"name":"West Bromwich Albion","color":"#077FA8","pts":[0,2,4,6,6,8,11,11,13,15,17,21,25,27,26,26,25,26,30,32,33,33,33,33,33,33,33,33,33,33,33,32,38,37]},{"name":"Brentford","color":"#F2A658","pts":[0,1,-1,1,0,0,1,1,5,6,8,9,10,14,15,17,19,20,22,22,21,23,23,23,23,23,23,23,23,23,25,29,35,35]},{"name":"Fulham","color":"#797D8A","pts":[0,1,4,4,4,4,8,8,9,8,10,14,15,13,17,16,20,22,24,23,27,27,27,27,27,27,27,27,27,27,26,27,33,35]}]},{"title":"2011 MLB AL wild card","slug":"mlb-2011-al-wildcard","meta":"MLB · wild card race · games above .500","url":"/mlb/2011/al-wildcard/","playoffs":"/mlb/2011/playoffs/","story":"The Red Sox led the wild card race by nine games as late as September 3. On the season's final night, Tampa Bay came back from 7-0 down against the Yankees while Baltimore walked off Boston, and Evan Longoria's twelfth-inning home run finished the sharpest September fall the sport had seen. Two lines crossing in the dark, minutes apart.","teams":[{"name":"Tampa Bay Rays","color":"#4A9CD6","pts":[0,-5,-5,-2,-1,1,3,6,7,4,3,3,3,5,6,8,9,8,8,7,6,5,5,8,8,12,11,13,13,14,17,18,16,20]},{"name":"Boston Red Sox","color":"#BD3039","pts":[0,-5,-7,-7,-4,-3,-1,-2,-1,3,6,4,8,12,15,13,12,15,20,21,23,24,27,28,28,27,30,31,29,27,23,22,19,18]}]},{"title":"2020 NFL NFC East","slug":"nfl-2020-nfc-east","meta":"NFL · division race · games above .500","url":"/nfl/2020/nfc-east/","playoffs":"/nfl/2020/playoffs/","story":"Nobody in the NFC East reached .500, and none of the four lines ever climbs above zero. Washington took the division at 7-9 on the final Sunday night, beating Philadelphia while Dallas and the Giants watched their own 6-10 seasons fall one result short.","teams":[{"name":"Washington Football Team","color":"#5A1414","pts":[1,0,-1,-2,-3,-4,-3,-3,-4,-5,-4,-3,-2,-1,-2,-3,-2]},{"name":"Dallas Cowboys","color":"#869397","pts":[-1,0,-1,-2,-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-5,-4,-5,-6,-5,-4,-3,-4]},{"name":"New York Giants","color":"#0B2265","pts":[-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-4,-5,-6,-5,-4,-4,-3,-2,-3,-4,-5,-4]},{"name":"Philadelphia Eagles","color":"#0F6B66","pts":[-1,-2,-2,-1,-2,-3,-2,-1,-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-4,-5,-6,-7]}]},{"title":"The Celtics' 42-win swing","slug":"celtics-42-win-swing","meta":"NBA · 24-58, then 66-16 · games above .500","story":"The same franchise, twelve months apart. The 2006-07 Celtics won 24 games and slid to the bottom of the league; Danny Ainge traded for Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen that summer, and the 2007-08 team won 66 and the championship. The biggest one-year turnaround the NBA has seen, drawn as an X.","teams":[{"name":"2006-07 Celtics","color":"#4a3aa7","pts":[0,-2,-3,-5,-2,-4,-5,-7,-6,-4,-5,-7,-8,-8,-11,-13,-16,-18,-21,-23,-26,-26,-29,-27,-26,-26,-27,-27,-28,-28,-29,-31,-34,-34]},{"name":"2007-08 Celtics","color":"#1baf7a","pts":[0,2,5,7,8,10,11,13,16,18,19,21,24,26,25,25,26,26,27,29,32,30,31,33,36,38,39,41,40,42,45,47,48,50]}],"links":[{"label":"2006-07 Celtics","url":"/nba/2006/atlantic/"},{"label":"2007-08 Celtics","url":"/nba/2007/atlantic/"}],"axis":82},{"title":"2015-16 NHL Pacific","slug":"nhl-2015-pacific","meta":"NHL · division race · points above pace","url":"/nhl/2015/pacific/","story":"Los Angeles led the Pacific by twelve points in January. Anaheim came from sixteen back and took first place for good on the season's final day, the latest any charted NHL race has been decided, winning the division by a single point. It was the Ducks' fourth straight Pacific title, and by far the hardest earned.","teams":[{"name":"Anaheim Ducks","color":"#F47A38","pts":[0,-1,-2,-4,-6,-4,-2,-3,-3,-3,-3,-1,-2,-2,-3,0,1,0,2,2,4,5,6,8,11,13,16,18,16,17,17,20,20,21]},{"name":"Los Angeles Kings","color":"#111111","pts":[-1,-3,-1,1,3,4,3,5,5,5,7,10,10,10,9,13,13,15,14,15,14,15,14,14,13,16,16,17,18,21,19,19,18,20]},{"name":"San Jose Sharks","color":"#1BAEBB","pts":[1,3,3,2,1,0,-1,1,4,4,4,1,0,1,2,2,1,2,5,6,8,7,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,14,14,15,15,16]}]},{"title":"2020 WNBA","slug":"wnba-2020-west","meta":"WNBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/wnba/2020/west/","playoffs":"/wnba/2020/playoffs/","story":"Twenty-two games in the Bradenton bubble, and the top of the West never moved: Las Vegas and Seattle finished 18-4 and 18-4 with zero lead changes, the only charted WNBA race without a single one. The Storm settled it where the chart could not, sweeping the Finals between the pair.","teams":[{"name":"Las Vegas Aces","color":"#101820","pts":[0,-1,-1,0,-1,0,0,1,1,2,3,4,4,5,6,6,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,9,9,8,8,9,10,10,11,12,12,14]},{"name":"Seattle Storm","color":"#2C5234","pts":[1,1,2,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,5,6,7,8,8,9,10,9,9,8,8,9,9,10,10,10,11,12,12,13,13,14,15,14]}]},{"title":"2022 MLS","slug":"mls-2022-supporters-shield","meta":"MLS · Supporters' Shield race · points above draw pace","url":"/mls/2022/supporters-shield/","story":"Both finished on 67 points, the most the league had seen from two teams in one season, and the Shield went to LAFC on twenty-one wins to nineteen. Six weeks later the same two clubs played the greatest MLS Cup final there has been: Gareth Bale in the 128th minute, then penalties. This chart is act one.","teams":[{"name":"Los Angeles Football Club","color":"#101820","pts":[2,2,4,4,6,6,8,7,9,11,13,13,11,13,15,15,15,15,19,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,31,30,31,30,32,32,34,33]},{"name":"Philadelphia Union","color":"#B1872D","pts":[0,2,4,4,6,6,8,10,9,9,9,9,9,11,11,11,11,11,12,12,14,18,20,22,21,23,24,26,30,32,32,32,31,33]},{"name":"CF Montréal","color":"#0033A1","pts":[0,-2,-3,-3,-3,-3,-1,1,3,3,5,7,8,7,9,9,9,8,12,11,10,12,14,14,16,18,20,22,23,23,27,27,29,31]}]},{"title":"2018-19 EPL","slug":"epl-2018-english-premier-league","meta":"English Premier League · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/epl/2018/english-premier-league/","story":"Ninety-eight points against ninety-seven. The lead changed thirty-two times, double any other Premier League season; Liverpool lost once all year and still finished second, because City won their final fourteen. The best two-team race England has staged, ending one point apart.","teams":[{"name":"Manchester City","color":"#6CABDD","pts":[0,2,4,6,6,8,12,12,12,14,16,18,20,22,26,25,27,27,29,31,33,32,36,38,38,42,44,44,46,48,50,54,56,60]},{"name":"Liverpool","color":"#C8102E","pts":[0,2,6,8,8,10,12,12,12,14,16,16,18,20,24,26,30,34,33,35,37,37,39,39,39,41,43,45,47,49,51,53,57,59]}]},{"title":"2021-22 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-2021-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/2021/efl-championship/","story":"Mitrovic scored 43 goals, the most the Championship has ever seen from one player, and Fulham led from mid-January without a serious wobble. The margin was only two at the end because Bournemouth kept winning too; the story is the line that never came back to the pack.","teams":[{"name":"Fulham","color":"#797D8A","pts":[0,2,6,8,8,9,8,9,9,13,15,19,21,23,23,23,23,22,22,24,28,30,30,34,33,37,41,40,40,42,43,44,43,44]},{"name":"AFC Bournemouth","color":"#F59189","pts":[0,2,4,4,4,8,12,14,14,18,20,21,23,22,22,22,21,20,24,24,23,22,24,28,28,30,29,31,33,35,34,36,36,42]},{"name":"Huddersfield Town","color":"#0E63AD","pts":[0,-1,3,5,5,6,4,6,6,8,7,9,8,10,8,8,8,10,14,14,14,16,18,18,20,24,26,25,24,26,28,30,32,36]}]},{"title":"116 wins, 95 years apart","slug":"mlb-116-wins","meta":"MLB · 116-36 and 116-46 · games above .500","story":"The two winningest seasons ever played, matched game for game. The 1906 Cubs went 116-36 in a 152-game schedule; the 2001 Mariners matched the win total across 162. They climb together nearly the whole way, and neither team won it all: the Cubs were upset by the crosstown White Sox in the Series, and the Mariners never got there.","teams":[{"name":"1906 Cubs","color":"#0E3386","pts":[0,1,1,2,6,9,10,14,13,15,16,19,21,22,26,27,28,30,35,34,36,39,41,46,49,53,58,62,65,70,72,75,77,80]},{"name":"2001 Mariners","color":"#005C5C","pts":[0,3,4,7,12,15,15,16,21,20,25,30,35,36,37,36,37,39,40,41,44,45,48,51,52,53,56,57,59,62,65,64,67,70]}],"links":[{"label":"1906 Cubs","url":"/mlb/1906/nl/"},{"label":"2001 Mariners","url":"/mlb/2001/al-west/"}],"axis":162},{"title":"2022 NFL AFC South","slug":"nfl-2022-afc-south","meta":"NFL · division race · games above .500","url":"/nfl/2022/afc-south/","playoffs":"/nfl/2022/playoffs/","story":"Jacksonville sat four games behind Tennessee in Week 11, the deepest hole any charted NFL division winner has escaped. The Jaguars won five straight to close, the Titans lost seven straight, and the two lines crossed completely before a Week 18 winner-take-all in Jacksonville settled it.","teams":[{"name":"Jacksonville Jaguars","color":"#006778","pts":[-1,0,1,0,-1,-2,-3,-4,-3,-4,-4,-3,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1]},{"name":"Tennessee Titans","color":"#4B92DB","pts":[-1,-2,-1,0,1,1,2,3,2,3,4,3,2,1,0,-1,-2,-3]}]},{"title":"2012-13 NBA East","slug":"nba-2012-east","meta":"NBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/nba/2012/east/","playoffs":"/nba/2012/playoffs/","story":"In the middle of this line is a two-month climb with no dip in it: twenty-seven straight wins, the second-longest streak the league has ever seen. The Heat finished 66-16, twelve games clear of the conference, and LeBron collected his fourth MVP and second title on the far side of it.","teams":[{"name":"Miami Heat","color":"#A52014","pts":[1,1,4,3,5,7,8,8,9,9,11,13,12,13,12,12,14,16,16,17,19,22,23,26,28,31,34,37,40,41,42,44,47,50]},{"name":"New York Knicks","color":"#F58426","pts":[0,2,4,5,6,6,7,9,10,13,13,12,12,13,11,11,12,12,13,16,16,14,13,13,15,15,15,12,15,18,21,24,25,26]},{"name":"Indiana Pacers","color":"#FDBB30","pts":[0,1,-2,-3,-2,-2,0,1,-1,2,2,4,4,6,8,9,9,9,8,10,11,11,12,14,15,15,15,14,17,19,21,19,19,17]}]},{"title":"2017-18 NHL Pacific","slug":"nhl-2017-pacific","meta":"NHL · division race · points above pace","url":"/nhl/2017/pacific/","story":"An expansion team won its division by eight points. Vegas, built in one summer from other teams' castoffs, led the Pacific nearly wire to wire, finished 51-24-7, and reached the Stanley Cup final in its first season. There is no comparable first year anywhere in modern major-league sports.","teams":[{"name":"Vegas Golden Knights","color":"#6B7377","pts":[0,3,3,5,7,5,4,5,5,8,8,8,10,11,13,16,18,19,19,19,20,21,22,21,23,24,24,24,25,24,26,26,28,27]},{"name":"Anaheim Ducks","color":"#F47A38","pts":[0,0,-1,0,0,1,0,0,1,1,1,0,2,3,2,2,5,4,5,6,7,8,6,8,8,11,10,12,11,12,14,14,16,19]},{"name":"San Jose Sharks","color":"#1BAEBB","pts":[-1,-2,-2,-1,-1,2,3,4,2,3,5,4,6,7,7,9,9,8,9,10,11,10,12,12,12,13,13,13,13,16,19,21,19,18]}]},{"title":"2023 WNBA","slug":"wnba-2023-playoff-race","meta":"WNBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/wnba/2023/playoff-race/","playoffs":"/wnba/2023/playoffs/","story":"Two rosters built to win it all, clear of the field by midsummer. The Aces finished 34-6, the best record in league history; the Liberty's 32-8 would have led almost any other season ever played. The Finals went to Las Vegas, back to back, and the top two lines never let anyone else near.","teams":[{"name":"Las Vegas Aces","color":"#101820","pts":[0,1,2,4,5,6,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,15,15,17,17,18,19,20,21,22,21,22,24,25,24,26,25,25,26,26,28]},{"name":"New York Liberty","color":"#6ECEB2","pts":[-1,0,0,1,3,2,3,4,3,4,5,6,6,7,8,9,10,10,9,11,13,13,14,16,16,18,17,18,19,20,21,23,25,24]},{"name":"Connecticut Sun","color":"#DF4601","pts":[1,2,3,2,4,5,5,6,5,6,8,9,8,7,8,9,10,10,10,11,12,11,12,13,13,12,12,12,12,13,14,13,14,14]}]},{"title":"2024 MLS Western Conference","slug":"mls-2024-western","meta":"MLS · playoff race · points above draw pace","url":"/mls/2024/western/","story":"The Galaxy and LAFC played thirty-four games each and finished 19-8-7 and 19-8-7. El Trafico as a season-long dead heat: the table could not choose, the top seed went to the Galaxy on a tiebreaker, and the Cup followed in December. Two lines from the same city, ending on the same point.","teams":[{"name":"LA Galaxy","color":"#FFD200","pts":[0,0,2,2,2,4,6,5,7,8,8,8,8,10,11,11,13,17,19,20,19,23,23,23,23,23,25,24,24,25,27,29,31,30]},{"name":"Los Angeles Football Club","color":"#101820","pts":[0,2,1,1,0,2,1,3,3,5,4,6,8,10,14,14,16,18,20,22,21,23,23,23,23,23,23,22,22,21,20,24,26,30]},{"name":"Real Salt Lake","color":"#B30838","pts":[-1,-1,1,0,0,2,4,4,4,8,10,10,14,14,16,16,16,17,17,21,20,19,19,19,19,19,18,20,20,21,21,21,23,25]}]},{"title":"2022-23 EPL","slug":"epl-2022-english-premier-league","meta":"English Premier League · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/epl/2022/english-premier-league/","story":"Arsenal led the table from August and by eight points as late as April 7, with the youngest squad in the league. Manchester City won the spring, went past them in the final weeks, and finished five clear, the freshest of the great collapses and the start of a treble.","teams":[{"name":"Arsenal","color":"#EF0107","pts":[2,4,6,10,9,11,11,13,17,17,19,23,23,23,23,23,25,27,27,31,31,30,31,33,37,39,41,43,43,43,42,46,45,46]},{"name":"Manchester City","color":"#6CABDD","pts":[0,4,4,8,8,10,10,12,13,15,17,18,18,18,18,18,18,20,22,25,25,24,28,30,32,34,34,36,38,40,44,48,50,51]}]},{"title":"2023-24 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-2023-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · promotion race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/2023/efl-championship/","story":"Three clubs passed ninety points and one of them missed automatic promotion entirely. Leicester won the title on 97; Ipswich, promoted from League One twelve months earlier, went straight through the division with 96; Leeds won 90 and got the playoffs. One of the strongest top threes the second tier has ever staged.","teams":[{"name":"Leicester City","color":"#6819D4","pts":[0,4,6,8,7,9,13,15,19,19,23,24,23,23,25,27,31,35,37,39,38,38,42,44,45,44,45,45,45,46,47,46,50,51]},{"name":"Ipswich Town","color":"#2119A8","pts":[0,4,6,5,7,7,13,13,17,17,19,21,23,23,22,26,30,29,29,29,31,31,30,30,34,38,42,41,43,47,46,46,46,50]},{"name":"Leeds United","color":"#E8C400","pts":[0,-1,-1,1,1,1,5,4,8,8,9,13,15,15,15,19,20,22,20,22,24,28,30,32,36,38,40,42,44,46,45,44,45,44]},{"name":"Southampton","color":"#E84E74","pts":[2,2,4,6,5,4,2,4,6,6,8,10,14,14,14,18,18,22,26,26,28,30,32,34,35,33,35,37,37,36,38,42,40,41]}]},{"title":"The 120-loss club","slug":"mlb-120-losses","meta":"MLB · 120 losses, then 121 · games above .500","story":"The 1962 Mets lost 120 games, the modern record, and wore it almost charmingly for sixty-two years. Then the 2024 White Sox lost 121. Matched game for game, the two worst seasons of the expansion era sink nearly stride for stride: the Mets in their first year of existence, the White Sox in their 124th.","teams":[{"name":"1962 Mets","color":"#1A3A68","pts":[0,-5,-8,-9,-13,-10,-9,-10,-15,-20,-24,-23,-26,-29,-30,-33,-36,-36,-39,-44,-49,-50,-51,-52,-56,-61,-64,-65,-68,-71,-75,-76,-77,-80]},{"name":"2024 White Sox","color":"#27251F","pts":[0,-3,-8,-11,-14,-19,-17,-18,-17,-16,-19,-24,-29,-32,-35,-34,-37,-39,-38,-41,-44,-49,-54,-59,-62,-63,-66,-71,-75,-78,-81,-80,-83,-80]}],"links":[{"label":"1962 Mets","url":"/mlb/1962/nl/"},{"label":"2024 White Sox","url":"/mlb/2024/al-central/"}],"axis":162},{"title":"The winless seasons","slug":"nfl-winless-seasons","meta":"NFL · 0-14, 0-16, 0-16 · games above .500","story":"Three teams have gone through a season without winning, and their lines sit exactly on top of each other, because losing every game draws the only line it can. The 1976 Buccaneers' stops at 0-14; the 2008 Lions and 2017 Browns carry the same line on to 0-16. One consolation, shared: all three were playoff teams within three years.","teams":[{"name":"1976 Buccaneers","color":"#BC2500","pts":[0,-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-6,-7,-8,-9,-10,-11,-12,-13,-14]},{"name":"2008 Lions","color":"#0076B6","pts":[0,-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-6,-7,-8,-9,-10,-11,-12,-13,-14,-15,-16]},{"name":"2017 Browns","color":"#6B4423","pts":[0,-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-6,-7,-8,-9,-10,-11,-12,-13,-14,-15,-16]}],"links":[{"label":"1976 Buccaneers","url":"/nfl/1976/afc-west/"},{"label":"2008 Lions","url":"/nfl/2008/nfc-north/"},{"label":"2017 Browns","url":"/nfl/2017/afc-north/"}],"axis":16},{"title":"2014-15 NBA Central","slug":"nba-2014-central","meta":"NBA · division race · games above .500","url":"/nba/2014/central/","playoffs":"/nba/2014/playoffs/","story":"Chicago led the Central by six and a half in January, the biggest lead any charted NBA team has lost. Then Cleveland's first season with LeBron back home found its footing: from 19-20, the Cavaliers went 34-9 the rest of the way, took the division by three, and started the run that ended the city's fifty-year wait.","teams":[{"name":"Cleveland Cavaliers","color":"#6F263D","pts":[0,0,-1,0,1,-2,0,2,5,4,4,7,6,5,2,-1,1,4,7,10,10,11,11,13,14,15,16,18,19,21,21,23,23,24]},{"name":"Chicago Bulls","color":"#CE1141","pts":[0,1,4,4,5,3,4,5,4,6,7,10,12,14,14,13,12,13,13,11,11,14,14,15,15,16,13,12,14,15,16,15,15,18]}]},{"title":"2022-23 NHL Atlantic","slug":"nhl-2022-atlantic","meta":"NHL · division race · points above pace","url":"/nhl/2022/atlantic/","story":"Boston finished 65-12-5. The 135 points and 65 wins are both all-time records, past the 1976-77 Canadiens, past the 62-win teams this archive already holds, and then the Bruins lost in the first round to a team that had finished 43 points behind them. The greatest regular season ever, and what it could not buy.","teams":[{"name":"Boston Bruins","color":"#FFB81C","pts":[0,1,2,4,7,8,10,12,15,15,17,17,19,21,23,24,27,27,30,33,31,32,32,33,35,38,41,41,40,43,45,48,50,53]},{"name":"Toronto Maple Leafs","color":"#003087","pts":[0,0,0,1,0,2,3,4,5,9,10,12,13,13,14,15,15,16,16,18,19,18,19,19,20,22,21,23,22,23,24,24,26,29]},{"name":"Tampa Bay Lightning","color":"#4A9CD6","pts":[0,-1,-2,0,1,3,2,3,4,6,7,7,10,10,9,12,11,13,16,15,17,17,17,19,19,19,16,18,19,18,17,19,16,16]}]},{"title":"2025 WNBA","slug":"wnba-2025-east","meta":"WNBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/wnba/2025/east/","playoffs":"/wnba/2025/playoffs/","story":"New York led the East by three and a half in late July, defending champions out in front. Atlanta ran them down through August and won the conference by three, the franchise's second East title and, at 30-14, the best season in Dream history.","teams":[{"name":"Atlanta Dream","color":"#9E1B32","pts":[-1,0,-1,2,3,3,2,3,4,4,5,5,4,5,4,5,4,4,4,4,5,5,7,7,9,10,10,10,11,10,11,13,14,16]},{"name":"New York Liberty","color":"#6ECEB2","pts":[0,1,2,4,6,7,8,9,8,9,8,7,7,6,7,7,7,9,9,10,10,8,8,9,9,9,8,8,7,9,8,7,8,10]},{"name":"Indiana Fever","color":"#F2CD64","pts":[0,0,1,0,-2,-1,-1,-1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,-1,0,1,1,0,2,3,5,4,4,3,3,3,1,2,2,1,3,4]}]},{"title":"2025 MLS Western Conference","slug":"mls-2025-western","meta":"MLS · playoff race · points above draw pace","url":"/mls/2025/western/","story":"San Diego FC won the West at the first attempt, level with Vancouver on 63 points and ahead on wins, with first place settled only in the season's closing weeks. Only St. Louis two years earlier had taken a conference in a debut season, and nobody had done it in a photo finish.","teams":[{"name":"San Diego Football Club","color":"#00A9A5","pts":[0,2,4,4,3,5,7,6,5,4,6,8,10,12,13,13,15,17,19,18,19,19,21,21,23,25,25,27,27,26,26,27,27,29]},{"name":"Vancouver Whitecaps FC","color":"#00245E","pts":[0,2,6,8,7,7,9,11,11,13,15,15,15,17,17,19,18,17,19,18,19,19,21,21,20,20,22,22,22,24,26,26,30,29]},{"name":"Los Angeles Football Club","color":"#101820","pts":[2,4,3,2,4,3,2,4,4,4,6,6,8,8,8,10,10,10,9,11,15,15,14,14,14,16,16,15,15,19,21,23,27,26]}]},{"title":"The Premier League's record seasons","slug":"epl-record-points","meta":"EPL · 95, 99, and 100 points · points above draw pace","story":"The three highest points totals in Premier League history, matched matchday for matchday. Mourinho's 2004-05 Chelsea set the bar at 95; Guardiola's centurions took it to 100 in 2017-18; Klopp's Liverpool answered with 99 two years later. Three eras of dominance on one chart, five points apart after 38 games.","teams":[{"name":"2004-05 Chelsea","color":"#0546A8","pts":[0,2,4,6,8,8,10,12,11,13,17,19,19,21,23,23,25,29,31,33,35,37,39,39,43,45,47,49,49,49,53,55,57,57]},{"name":"2017-18 City","color":"#6CABDD","pts":[0,2,2,4,8,10,12,14,16,18,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,38,38,40,39,41,43,43,47,49,51,53,52,54,58,58,60,62]},{"name":"2019-20 Liverpool","color":"#C8102E","pts":[0,2,4,6,10,12,14,16,16,18,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,51,53,53,55,54,56,58,57,59,61]}],"links":[{"label":"2004-05 Chelsea","url":"/epl/2004/english-premier-league/"},{"label":"2017-18 City","url":"/epl/2017/english-premier-league/"},{"label":"2019-20 Liverpool","url":"/epl/2019/english-premier-league/"}],"axis":38},{"title":"2024-25 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-2024-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/2024/efl-championship/","story":"Leeds finished on 100 points. So did Burnley, who lost twice in forty-six matches, and the chart cannot separate the two, so the title went to Leeds on goal difference. Thirty-one lead changes, a hundred points each, and second place for a team that was beaten twice all season.","teams":[{"name":"Leeds United","color":"#E8C400","pts":[0,0,2,4,4,3,5,7,7,9,11,12,14,14,17,19,21,23,27,27,27,31,33,37,39,41,41,42,42,42,44,46,50,54]},{"name":"Burnley","color":"#7A2450","pts":[0,4,3,3,3,5,7,9,9,11,11,10,12,12,18,18,20,22,24,26,26,28,28,30,32,34,36,40,40,42,44,46,50,54]},{"name":"Sheffield United","color":"#994E4C","pts":[0,0,0,2,2,4,6,10,10,9,10,14,16,16,20,20,24,26,24,26,28,29,31,33,37,36,38,40,42,44,42,41,44,44]}]},{"title":"1994-95 NBA West","slug":"nba-1994-west","meta":"NBA · playoff race · games above .500","url":"/nba/1994/west/","playoffs":"/nba/1994/playoffs/","story":"Three teams won 59 games or more, and the comebacks page still ranks this race first: San Antonio sat seven and a half back in late January, then David Robinson's MVP season climbed past Utah's 60 wins and Phoenix's 59 to take the conference by two. The deepest comeback in charted NBA history, out of the deepest field.","teams":[{"name":"San Antonio Spurs","color":"#101820","pts":[-1,1,2,1,0,-1,0,-1,1,2,4,5,7,9,8,9,9,12,15,15,16,16,19,21,22,23,26,28,31,34,37,36,39,42]},{"name":"Utah Jazz","color":"#002B5C","pts":[1,0,-1,-1,2,4,4,3,6,9,10,10,10,12,15,18,20,23,22,22,21,22,22,25,28,30,31,32,33,31,31,33,35,38]},{"name":"Phoenix Suns","color":"#E56020","pts":[-1,1,1,4,4,6,6,8,10,13,14,14,16,18,19,21,23,25,26,28,29,29,28,29,32,30,31,31,29,30,30,33,34,36]}]},{"title":"1992-93 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-1992-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/1992/efl-championship/","story":"The division's first charted season, and Keegan's Newcastle led it for 239 of its 268 days on the way back to the top flight, winning their first eleven games and finishing eight points clear. Two seasons later the same side was leading the Premier League by twelve and entertaining England; this is where that story starts.","teams":[{"name":"Newcastle United","color":"#232024","pts":[2,4,6,10,12,14,16,20,22,21,22,22,24,28,30,29,29,30,30,34,34,34,33,33,33,35,36,38,37,41,40,42,44,50]},{"name":"West Ham United","color":"#A63A6B","pts":[0,1,0,2,6,6,8,10,12,11,10,12,11,15,14,16,16,16,16,20,20,24,26,28,28,28,31,33,32,33,34,36,38,42]},{"name":"Portsmouth","color":"#30048C","pts":[0,2,1,2,1,1,2,4,4,6,5,7,7,11,10,10,10,14,14,15,17,17,18,20,20,19,25,27,31,33,37,39,40,42]}]},{"title":"2023-24 EPL","slug":"epl-2023-english-premier-league","meta":"English Premier League · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/epl/2023/english-premier-league/","story":"Never more than one result apart: City and Arsenal spent 109 of the season's 120 playing days within three points of each other, the most sustained title race the league has charted. Arsenal, a year on from their collapse, pushed it to the final Sunday; City finished two clear on 91 points and became the first English side to win four straight titles.","teams":[{"name":"Manchester City","color":"#6CABDD","pts":[2,4,6,8,8,12,11,10,10,12,16,16,16,16,15,17,17,21,21,23,23,27,29,33,35,35,35,35,39,41,41,45,47,53]},{"name":"Arsenal","color":"#EF0107","pts":[0,2,4,6,6,8,10,12,12,12,13,15,15,17,20,22,22,20,20,22,22,26,28,32,32,36,36,36,40,39,43,45,47,51]},{"name":"Liverpool","color":"#C8102E","pts":[0,2,4,6,6,8,9,9,9,11,13,15,15,15,21,21,23,25,25,25,27,28,30,34,36,36,36,36,40,39,41,40,42,44]}]},{"title":"2011-12 NBA Southeast","slug":"nba-2011-southeast","meta":"NBA · division race · games above .500","url":"/nba/2011/southeast/","playoffs":"/nba/2011/playoffs/","story":"The lockout season put both ends of the sport in one division. LeBron's Heat won it at 46-20 and took the first of their back-to-back championships that June; the Bobcats went 7-59, the worst winning percentage the league has ever recorded. Thirty-nine games separated the two lines after sixty-six.","teams":[{"name":"Miami Heat","color":"#A52014","pts":[1,3,5,6,7,4,4,6,7,9,11,11,12,13,16,18,20,20,21,19,21,22,21,23,24,22,24,25,24,24,25,28,28,26]},{"name":"Atlanta Hawks","color":"#E03A3E","pts":[0,2,2,1,4,4,6,6,8,8,10,8,8,9,8,7,6,6,5,7,6,7,6,6,8,9,8,9,11,10,10,12,12,14]},{"name":"Charlotte Bobcats","color":"#6E3FA3","pts":[0,0,-2,-2,-5,-8,-8,-9,-12,-15,-16,-18,-19,-21,-23,-23,-24,-24,-25,-27,-28,-28,-30,-30,-31,-33,-36,-38,-40,-42,-45,-47,-49,-52]}]},{"title":"2001-02 EFL Championship","slug":"championship-2001-efl-championship","meta":"EFL Championship · title race · points above draw pace","url":"/championship/2001/efl-championship/","story":"Twenty years before the centurions, Manchester City were a second-tier club ten points off the lead in November. Kevin Keegan, who had won this division with Newcastle nine years earlier, took them to 99 points and 108 goals, ten clear of West Brom, while Wolves gave back an eight-point March lead and missed automatic promotion altogether.","teams":[{"name":"Manchester City","color":"#6CABDD","pts":[2,1,3,5,4,6,9,8,8,8,9,13,13,12,14,18,19,21,21,25,25,27,29,30,32,32,32,38,42,43,43,49,51,53]},{"name":"West Bromwich Albion","color":"#077FA8","pts":[-1,-2,-2,0,2,6,7,9,8,9,9,10,14,13,15,17,18,18,18,19,19,19,21,25,27,26,27,29,29,31,35,39,41,43]},{"name":"Wolverhampton Wanderers","color":"#C87D0A","pts":[0,2,4,4,6,8,12,14,14,15,14,17,17,17,19,20,19,21,20,22,22,26,26,27,29,31,37,39,39,38,38,38,38,40]}]}]}