Hockey has the tightest playoff race of the North American sports, and the one where a single week can move four teams. The NHL section is built around that.
The schedule
Every game of the regular season, night by night, with face-off times in US Eastern and the arena each one is played at. Finished nights carry their scores, and the page shows how far into the season you are: games played, games left, and how much of the year is gone.
The simulator
It runs on points and records, the way hockey standings actually work, not on the points-and-difference logic of a soccer table.
You type the score of any game still to be played, or let Simulate season and Simulate night fill them in, and the model sends about a quarter of its games to overtime, where the loser still takes a point. Each result moves both teams in their conference table, and the standings reorder underneath with the playoff places marked. Games already played stay locked.
The wild card is where this becomes interesting. It is the one race in the sport that regularly comes down to the final weekend, and it is almost impossible to hold in your head, because it depends on two divisions at once. Filling in a fortnight of games and watching the last two spots change hands answers a question that a standings table on its own cannot.
Free, no account, nothing stored. Refresh and the season is back to what really happened.