Agreed, but this is the data available publicly to work with. Looking at first order sched. strength of the 36 games, not a lot changes. (Because only Sharks and OC2 had the clearly beneficial overall schedule.)
At any rate, processing that through, the top 5/6 group remains same and the bottom 3 are same.
Middle ground moves around a bit, which is normal for only 4 game sequence. That is why they needed evaluators.