To: InterceptPoint
Only in the head of a baseball statistician would 25 games over .500 be considered 50 games over .500. You are correct, the Bums are 25 games above the .500 mean of 59.
Sports writers might not be all that good at that arithmetic thingy.
9 posted on
08/16/2017 12:30:28 PM PDT by
Seaplaner
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To: Seaplaner; InterceptPoint
It’s baseball nomenclature. Everyone knows what it means.
Like for example the term winning percentage.
Right now the Dodgers are 84-34 which is referred to as a .712 winning percentage, without the point, e.g. “a seven-twelve winning percentage”.
12 posted on
08/16/2017 12:53:23 PM PDT by
ifinnegan
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