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Baseball MFEs: Why Is 82-80 2 Games Over .500, Not 1 Game?
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:25 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., this has always bothered me. i get *why* the way it's always said makes sense, i.e., if you're 82-80, you can lose 2 games and still be .500
but i still think "1 game over .500" is the more accurate nomenclature because if you're 82-80 and you lost one game you won, then you'd be at .500. one flipped game putting you from over .500 to .500, to me, means you're 1 game over .500
beep beep beep and all, but this has always bothered the fuck out of me. neither is wrong per se. i just think the way it's not done is more right. |
Date: September 30th, 2024 8:26 PM Author: him (🧐) i just cannot believe you are anything besides a long running false flag antisemetic operator. it's really impeccable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48147943) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:28 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48147952) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:26 PM Author: hank_scorpio I think you've more or less accurately described the phenomenon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48147944) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:41 PM Author: snoot Because 82 is 2 more than 80. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48147983) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:42 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., but 82 is 1 more than ( 82+80 ) / 2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48147991) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:42 PM Author: David Poaster Wallace Because 82-80 = 2. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48147989) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:43 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., but 82 - ( 82+80 ) / 2 = 1
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:44 PM Author: snoot ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48147998) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:45 PM Author: David Poaster Wallace Yes, if you take the math i did and then halve it, you get 1. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148001) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:48 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., your and dupa's poasts are low iq simpleton shit. epah at least gave a credible answer that makes sense. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148013) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:49 PM Author: snoot If you are 82-80 and lose 1 game, you are 82-81 which would then be 1 game over .500. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148017) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:56 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., this is circular reasoning and jewish sophistry. your new statement is only true if your original statmement is true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148045) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:58 PM Author: snoot Imagine if we started accusing each other of being Jews like rsf and tmf. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148051) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:58 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148052) |
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Date: October 1st, 2024 12:07 AM Author: gtt (gunneratttt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148621) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 9:54 PM Author: David Poaster Wallace You think that the insight here is that, while it might be possible to do things to change the outcome of future games, it is not so possible with games that have already been played? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148217) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:43 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband Because they're almost always talking about this stat prospectively -- how the team can either get up to 500, or drop below 500.
It would be weird to talk about how if only they hadn't lost that squeaker to the Rays in the bottom of the 9th back in June, they would be 500 right now. |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:46 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., i disagree. we're often talking about sports in terms of "if only [one close game] went the other way, then..." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148008) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:51 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband Don't think so, mate. It's used interchangeably with "two games back" IME (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148024) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:54 PM Author: zarathustra not in the middle of a season
what you're describing is the logic that is used for in-season record comparisons between teams. you're a half game above or below a team if you have one more win or one more loss, which means they haven't completed the same number of games to be able to have the same record.
when people talk about being a game over .500 the intuition they're relying on is that if the team loses the next one game they are back to .500. it's with respect to that team itself over time. two different conventions for two different things. |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:44 PM Author: mtl would you like to discuss innings pitched? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48147999) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:47 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., rofl. when i score a game, i refuse to use .1 / .2 and use actual fractions (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148009) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:50 PM Author: sph Because this point is raised in the context of discussing how the season might turn out, given the games that have already been played (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148020) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:51 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148025) |
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Date: September 30th, 2024 8:54 PM Author: heg (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148041) |
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Date: October 1st, 2024 12:09 AM Author: tommy gnosis Because it is also possible to be 81-80 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5604034&forum_id=2...id#48148629) |