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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
In sports talk, .500 isn't about "points" or the standings". Heck in hockey, a .500 points percentage is somrthing a 26th or 27th place team has - that is a meaningless metric.
Winning half your games is a meaningful metric. Not to the standings - but to the level a team is playing at.
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In "sports talk" .500 is a metric that shows if you have won half of the points you could have won. If a team plays two games and loses in the shootout of both games it has the same number of points and place in the standings (not counting tie breakers) as if they won one and lost one in regulation. If you took a test and got 50%, it's the same score if someone got all the points on five questions and or half the points on 10 questions.
No one has said having a .500 record gets you into the playoffs. Some of us have even said you will miss the playoffs with a .500 record. Based on your thoughts 43-41-0 is a meaningful metric because it shows the team has won more than half of the games. That team finished with 86 points and will miss the playoffs in a 31 team NHL. A team's record includes all regulation wins, overtime wins, shootout wins, regulation losses, overtime losses, and shootout losses. A .500 record incorporates all six of those scenarios, with different amounts given to categories. A quotient doesn't have and/or give off feelings. It's a result.
Whether a team is .250, .333, .648, .847, or any other figure, you can still feel any way you want about the team. It doesn't change that a .500 record includes points awarded for not winning the game in regulation. If you want to precise, then you can say .500 winning percentage. But saying .500, refers to the record and/or points percentage. For proof, again, look at the standings of the NHL or NFL. The Flames record of 1-0-1 has them listed at 0.750.
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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Us fans don't tune in rooting for their team to get an OTL.
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Obviously I have never started watching a game with my desired result being an OTL. I hope they win every game, but judging by the history of every NHL season, they won't. Now, would you rather have them lose in overtime or would you rather they lose in regulation? If the (obvious) answer is overtime, it's because an overtime loss is different than a regulation loss. One of them you get one point for finishing regulation tied. The other you get nothing because you finished regulation with less goals than the other team.