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Policy/AWS Machine Learning Blog/August 7, 2026 at 4:21 PM

Determining playoff clinching scenarios in the NHL using constraint programming

The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center built an automated system that uses constraint programming and custom tree search to determine, with mathematical certainty, when and how an NHL team clinches a playoff spot. The approach was validated against four full NHL seasons of officially published results.

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