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ttun Shenanigans and Arguments (2016 official thread)

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LordJeffBuck said:
How so? Ties count as 1/2 a win. So 0-13-2 record equates to a .067 winning percentage (1/15).

Now back to your regularly scheduled shenanigans....
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There's a call for you on line 6.

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JCOSU86 said:
Oh, I'm 100% sure he is right.

I just think that is stupid - a tie isn't a win so it shouldn't be included in a "win percentage". I guess.
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I used to think so, too, but then how can you have a winning percentage of 1.000 (implying you've won all your games) if your record is, say, 12-0-2 (only actually won 12 of your 14 games)?
 
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JCOSU86 said:
Oh, I'm 100% sure he is right.

I just think that is stupid - a tie isn't a win so it shouldn't be included in a "win percentage". I guess.
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Right, but a tie also isn't a loss, hence the half-point. If you were 0-13-2 you don't have a losing percentage of 1.000, so you cannot have a winning percentage of 0.000.

*sigh* Remember the days when sports weren't so cut-throat that ties were an acceptable outcome?
 
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:lol: sorry I started this inane conversation.

Mili: in that case you would not have a winning percentage of 100. It would be 12/14.

Dryden: Same with losing percentage, it wouldn't be 100, it would be 13/15.

To take this incredibly irrelevant point to a even more irrelevant conclusion: I guess there would be a "tie percentage"
 
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