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Games above/below ".500"
Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:09 pm
I'm gonna rant a little here. My pet peeve is how 99% of broadcasters will say a team that's 20-10 is "10 games over .500"
Think about it though.. if they played 30 games, winning 15 would be ".500". That team won 5 more, so they are 5 games over .500. if you think otherwise your dumb and should enroll at Mississippi State or something.
Think about it though.. if they played 30 games, winning 15 would be ".500". That team won 5 more, so they are 5 games over .500. if you think otherwise your dumb and should enroll at Mississippi State or something.
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Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:20 pm to Mason Dixon Swine
I didn’t know we were going to have a pop quiz…..
Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:24 pm to Mason Dixon Swine
while that is a valid argument at the end of the season.. how do you classify a team that has played 16 games and is 16-0?
1 game above .500?
No worries.. I’ll call and get you the enrollment data at Miss State.
1 game above .500?
No worries.. I’ll call and get you the enrollment data at Miss State.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:25 pm to Mason Dixon Swine
Or - they were 10-10 and sitting at .500 after 20 games.
Then they won 10 straight to go 10 games above .500
Then they won 10 straight to go 10 games above .500
Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:28 pm to Mason Dixon Swine
Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:39 pm to Mason Dixon Swine
quote:
I'm gonna rant a little here. My pet peeve is how 99% of broadcasters will say a team that's 20-10 is "10 games over .500"
I went to the record calculator and 20-10 is 50%.
Now back to studying for my urine test coming up…..
Posted on 4/29/24 at 6:10 pm to Mason Dixon Swine
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Think about it though.. if they played 30 games, winning 15 would be ".500". That team won 5 more, so they are 5 games over .500. if you think otherwise your dumb and should enroll at Mississippi State or something.
You ae only adding the wins. By taking away losses you get further from .500
They only had 10 losses, not 15 which puts you further from .500 the same way a win does if you are counting from the 15-15 number.
You are really starting from 10-10 and adding 10 wins. Or you could start from 20-0 and add 10 losses.
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 6:14 pm
Posted on 4/29/24 at 7:03 pm to Mason Dixon Swine
Absolutely can’t go for a kill shot and misuse “your”. Come on man.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:30 pm to Mason Dixon Swine
Even if “.500” were a team that you were ahead of, you still don’t know their record. There is no scenario where your correct on this.
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 8:39 pm
Posted on 4/29/24 at 10:23 pm to Mason Dixon Swine
TIL OP doesn't understand baseball standings
Posted on 4/30/24 at 8:42 am to Mason Dixon Swine
Probably a better way to say it would be at 20-10 you're 133% above .500, but that just sound too clunky.
This post was edited on 4/30/24 at 8:43 am
Posted on 4/30/24 at 11:26 am to Mason Dixon Swine
So you want to junk a super simple method that even drunks can see on the screen and know exactly what it means when they hear 5 or 10 or 15 games over .500....
...or so some method that creates a constantly moving target with fractions every other game.
Brilliant.
...or so some method that creates a constantly moving target with fractions every other game.
Brilliant.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 5:26 pm to Mason Dixon Swine
*you're
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