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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
No, you're wrong here.
The average winning percentage, league wide, is about .540 (due to 3 point games). When teams play only within their own division, their average winning percentage will be about .540 (because they are always playing each other, and there is always a winner and a loser).
If you put the 8 best teams in the league in a division, and they only played each other, they would end up with an average winning percentage of about .540. If you put the 8 worst teams in the league and they only played each other, they would also have an average winning percentage of about .540.
Suggesting the division was not weak, based on the winning percentage, is just flat out wrong - the percentage proves neither good nor bad, it only proves what we already know, that, with 3 point games, the average winning percentage league-wide (or division-wide in a closed schedule) continues to be about .540
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That's not what I said at all.
The 7 Canadian teams had a winning percentage of .542
in 2019-20, playing in their regular divisions. In other words, collectively they were
dead average in that year. They gained
no extra benefit by not having to play any U.S. teams. Therefore, the North Division was close enough to average that the difference amounts to statistical noise.
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Suggesting the division was not weak, based on the winning percentage, is just flat out wrong - the percentage proves neither good nor bad, it only proves what we already know, that, with 3 point games, the average winning percentage league-wide (or division-wide in a closed schedule) continues to be about .540
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I am suggesting the division was not weak
based on those teams' winning percentage in their regular divisions in 2019-20.
Are we all clear now?