Here we are, Leafs fans, at 20 games played, fifth in the standings (eighth by points %), and the early disaster-show of a team is all in the past. Twenty games is the magic moment when it’s okay to look at the team level stats. Prior to that they mean nothing, and anything could happen, now at 20 games, they are a hard and fast blueprint to the future.
Now, we all know that’s bullshit, but it is really easy to fall into the reductive trap of claiming smaller runs of game information is not just open to more variance, it’s actually meaningless.