Much like you said that bold assumptions do not come true from preseason sims I have to agree that it almost always ends up being the case and any assumptions I am going to make here are not going to be fully based on preseason. Los Angeles for example had almost no strats in for preseason and thus did got awful losing almost every game and just flat out playing terribly. If making guesses based off of that data and stats it would appear LA would be well on their way to last place and throwing out our first round pick while playing absolutely terribly. While LA has by no means played amazing so far to start the season we are still sitting comfortably fighting for top 5 in the conference right now and with a couple wins could jump into the top 3 pretty easily. I think basing stats off of preseason when most teams don't take it very seriously and put actual lines and strats in is pretty inaccurate and its unfortunate for anyone getting their hopes up based on performances during it.

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