Standings & Points

Shootouts or draws

By default, every NSL match produces a winner. If the score is level after 90 minutes, the game goes straight to a shootout to decide it. That means every result is either a win or a loss — but how you win changes how many points you earn.

If you disabled shootouts when you started the save, level regular-season matches instead end as draws. That choice is fixed for the career.

How points work

Result	Points
Win (in regulation)	3
Shootout win	1
Shootout loss	0
Loss (in regulation)	0

In shootout careers, a shootout win is worth only a single point — far better than a loss, but a long way from a proper three-point victory. In draw careers, a tie is worth one point.

Reading the table

The standings show, for each club:

• W — wins in regulation
• SW / SL — shootout wins and losses, in careers that use shootouts
• L — losses in regulation
• Pts — total points
• GF / GA / GD — goals for, goals against, and goal difference

You can view the Eastern and Western conference tables separately, and sort by the columns that matter to you.

Breaking ties

When two clubs are level on points, the table separates them in this order:

1. Points
2. Total wins
3. Goal difference
4. Goals for

Goal difference is a tiebreaker, not a target

Chasing a big goal difference isn’t worth risking a result — but when two clubs finish dead level on points and wins, the club that scored more and conceded less gets the better playoff seed. Don’t take your foot off the gas in a game you’re already winning.

Late in the season, CL marks a club that has clinched a top-four place in its conference and E marks a club that has been mathematically eliminated. A club remains unmarked while any combination of its remaining results and the listed tiebreakers can still change its fate. When your own result secures a playoff place, the Post-Match Brief calls it out immediately.