Winning % .500 is really the only way to use the term accurately IMO. All those "oh, well it's not a 0.500 record if you count OTL" arguments are meaningless in the end. A team can statistically go 0-0-82 and end up with the exact same number of points as a team going 41-41-0. So why is one team considered 0.500 and the other team not?
And yes, I do realize the 41-41-0 team would win the tie breaker, but the tie breaker is outside of the .500 metric.
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