Because the old PvE content is still meaningful and you need to pull real numbers in order to kill stuff . <| sep |> Play McCree literally with the sun <| sep |> Now we simply tax the lower class to make up for the deficit ! <| sep |> I agree that the loser point makes things worse , but the thing it ' s making worse is a standings system that makes comebacks simple to theorize but deceptively hard to implement . Let ' s ignore the loser point for a second . 2 pts for a win , 0 for a loss . Over 82 games a . 500 wildcard team is going to average about 1 ptgame with loser point this is on pace for 1 . 11 ptsgame this season significant but not the primary problem . So when you win you get two points but on average only move one point ahead of your pace . This makes it hard to catch up to teams if your team is 4 points behind another team your team has to win the next 4 in a row while the other team goes . 500 in order to catch up . Sure , 4 points is only 2 wins but that means you need 2 more wins over the rest of the season than the other team . If the other team wins one and your team loses one then this gap turns in to 3 more wins needed over one fewer game it ' s really easy for this gap to grow , but requires hardfought wins to shrink . Plus , if your team is behind by 4 points that ' s probably because your team is worse , which reduces your win chance in comparison to the other team and makes comebacks even harder . As an example , my Leafs are 20 pts in 20 gp . Wildcard 2 is currently the Devils , who are 23 pts in 19 gp . If the Devils lose their next game and then alternate wins and losses for the rest of the season they ' ll end with 85 pts they go slightly under . 500 . The Leafs will have to get 66 pts in 62 games have to go 3329 over the rest of the season , again ignoring the bonus point in order to take the last wildcard spot . I mean , sure the Leafs could do that , but so could New Jersey , making the Leafs ' s path that much harder . The loser point just makes catching up all that much worse .