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Old 04-04-2015, 12:00 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by majesty95 View Post
Lesson to everyone, if you start out 1-0, find a way to rain out the rest of your games so you'll be the champ because of winning pct
Except for the fact that league rules mandate that clubs must make every effort to make up postponed games. (Not the least of the reasons being unplayed games equal lost revenue. As private, for-profit businesses, earning revenue from playing games is the point of the enterprise.)


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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn View Post
We've had this discussion a few times in the past, and in the end settled to use GB instead of PCT.
That's fine colloquially, but as the excerpts I posted show, winning percentage is the technically correct method.
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