Lately, I have been looking into the point shares system published by Justin Kubatko at hockey-reference.com. This is an attempt to credit the points teams have in the standings to individual players on the team. I have first looked at offensive point shares and the top individual seasons by this method. One of the more surprising results is that the season when Wayne Gretzky set the record for most points in a season in 1985/86 with 215 points is ranked tenth in the best all time seasons. Five other Gretzky seasons, two Mario Lemieux seasons and two Phil Esposito seasons rank above it.
This has to do with the way the point share system treats assists. When Gretzky set his point record he did so with a lot of assists. Gretzky scored 52 goals and a record 163 assists for his 215 points in the 1985/86 season.
Source: http://www.kuklaskorner.com/index.php/psh/comments/does_offensive_point_shares_underrate_gretzkys_215_point_season/
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