Annual NHL Best Puck: 2021-22, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26
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Search public Best Puck username history for covered annual NHL seasons, with exposure, roster construction, progression, and pod luck. Public research is separate from private team imports.
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Underdog Network official annual Best Puck archives (2021-22, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26)
One Round 1 tournament entry (16 drafted players). 2021-22: The archive lacks a stable cross-round entry identifier. Only unique complete 16-player rosters with exactly matching source player identities are linked within this season. Every later roster matches exactly one prior-round roster. made_playoffs is not used. 2023-24: Advancement uses stable tournament entry presence in the next official round, with unchanged complete rosters and public usernames verified across rounds. made_playoffs is not used. 2024-25: Advancement uses stable tournament entry presence in the next official round, with unchanged complete rosters and public usernames verified across rounds. made_playoffs is not used. 2025-26: Advancement uses stable tournament entry presence in the next official round, with unchanged complete rosters and public usernames verified across rounds. made_playoffs is not used. Historical LW and RW source positions are combined as W. These 16-pick historical rosters do not change current-season import or construction rules. Luck is actual pod qualification minus expected qualification probability under random pods of the same size, sampled without replacement with fair tie handling. Round 1 wildcards are excluded; Round 4 is the final and has no qualification-luck calculation. These are descriptive historical results, not causal estimates or predictions for future tournaments. Player rates use Round 1 rosters containing that player as the denominator; construction and draft-slot rates use entries in that group. Small samples can produce unstable advancement rates. Season scores cover different periods; compare each season separately rather than pooling raw scores or significance estimates. Historical public usernames are not authenticated account identities; renamed handles cannot be merged reliably across seasons from public names alone. No 2022-23 source is covered. Best Puck annual contests exclude the separate Zamboni playoff contest.
What this page establishes
2021-22: 2,352 Round 1 entries form this season's field baseline; 468, 72, 12 appear in Rounds 2, 3, and 4.
2021-22: advancement from that Round 1 field is 19.9% to Round 2, 3.1% to Round 3, 0.5% to Round 4.
2021-22: public username research is unavailable because the archive does not publish usernames.
2021-22: Season identity is confirmed by complete source pick dates: Round 1 September-October 2021 and later rounds March-April 2022.
2021-22: The source lacks stable cross-round entry identifiers and public usernames. Each round has unique complete 16-player rosters and all later rosters match exactly; linkage is restricted to this season.
2021-22: Draft timestamps contain only time fragments; calendar draft timing remains unavailable. Missing pick points are unavailable, not zero.
2023-24: 14,100 Round 1 entries form this season's field baseline; 2,350, 470, 94 appear in Rounds 2, 3, and 4.
2023-24: advancement from that Round 1 field is 16.7% to Round 2, 3.3% to Round 3, 0.7% to Round 4.
2023-24: public username research is available from the official published names.
2023-24: Advancement is determined from stable entry presence in later official exports, not made_playoffs.
2024-25: 12,924 Round 1 entries form this season's field baseline; 2,500, 500, 100 appear in Rounds 2, 3, and 4.
2024-25: advancement from that Round 1 field is 19.3% to Round 2, 3.9% to Round 3, 0.8% to Round 4.
2024-25: public username research is available from the official published names.
2024-25: Advancement is determined from stable entry presence in later official exports, not made_playoffs.
2025-26: 14,760 Round 1 entries form this season's field baseline; 3,750, 750, 125 appear in Rounds 2, 3, and 4.
2025-26: advancement from that Round 1 field is 25.4% to Round 2, 5.1% to Round 3, 0.8% to Round 4.
2025-26: public username research is available from the official published names.
2025-26: All four selected files are the official June 18, 2026 bucket release. The article-linked April release contains incomplete Round 4 scores and no Round 4 pick points.
2025-26: Entry sets and complete rosters match the earlier release. Round 1-3 numeric results are unchanged; the later release supplies finalized Round 4 scores and one player-name correction.
2025-26: The official rules page repeats top two for Round 3, but its 750-to-125 structure and every observed six-entry pod support one qualifier per six-entry pod.
The 2022-23 season is a coverage gap. The separate Zamboni playoff contest is excluded from annual Best Puck comparisons.
Public username history is separate from authenticated team imports. Cross-season comparisons retain each season's eligible denominators; scores and significance estimates are not pooled across seasons.