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Originally Posted by professor ape
If teams right around .500 are on the fence then that probably means that there are a few horrible teams which are inflating everyone else’s records.
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I can see why you would think that, but in reality, what I've seen has been the complete reverse. Each time I've seen a relegation battle around .500, it's been a very strong, evenly matched league. The teams around .500 have been there because they've had decent records against the better teams, and could easily have traded places with playoff teams if they'd have had slightly better RNG. Teams that solid are way too good for gold, so then you get the daft 130+ win seasons in gold.
Apart from perfect, which is a special case, I thinks it's just bad all round to be relegating .500 teams, but fair enough if anyone thinks it's cool.