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Old 02-08-2013, 12:01 AM   #297
Joe Nieuwendyk
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Originally Posted by SebC View Post
Out of 8 available wins, they got 3. Unless you explicitly refer to points percentage and not winning percentage, 0.500 is ambiguous. And here's the kicker: 0.500 points percentage is rather meaningless these days. 0.500 winning percentage is roughly what you need to make the playoffs. It's therefore a better convention to refer to winning percentage in the context of "0.500".
Tell that to Dallas and Colorado who had a better winning percentage than the Stanley Cup champions and still didn't make the playoffs last year. Points matter more than wins so your 'convention' is flawed.
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