Game Thread GAME# 50: BLAZERS @ SUNS - JANUARY 24, 2019 - THURSDAY, 6:00 PM, NBCSNW

This is true. Not in the sports world anyways.

 

That isn't what i said at all. Not an even number just says 4 1/2 games above. But it seems you want to nit pick this so again "WHAT IS YOUR NUMBER?"

 

I call Bull. Everyone calculates it this way. What you are trying to say is at the end of the season a team that won 50 games is 18 games over 500. That simply is not the case. So what is your number for a team 29-20. Are you going to say 9 games over also?
It's kind of funny how the definition changes during the season and then it morphs into a whole new number at the end. So a team that wins 30 of 50 games is 10 games over and then all the sudden when the last game is played 41 games becomes a 500 team. At this pace the blazers are on course to win 46 or 47 games. So what will they have then?

 

Again,though, the goal isnt working backwards to .500, it's going forward to .500. A 50 win team is 18 above. It would take 18 more losses to get to .500. 29 and 20 is 9 above. The definition isnt changing ever. 50-32 is 18 over.

 

Okay. If you want to say a 50 win team at the end of the season is 18 over 500 i'm good with that. But no 18 more losses would not put them at 500. It would put them at 32 wins. and 50 losses. There are only 82 games in an NBA season.

 

If a team is 50 and 32 and loses 18 more games, they'd be at .500.

 

The Blazers are 10 games above. 500.

In your end of year example they would be 18 games over .500.

 

This is pretty comical.
If a team plays 4 games and they win 3 of them you are trying to say they are 2 games over 500.
When a team plays 82 games 41-41 is 500 ball.
Now you HoopsJock are going to tell me that a team that wins 50 games is 18 games over 500.
Seriously?

 

I guess the league needs to expand the season to 100 games then.

 

Here we Go! @hoopsjock
30-20 = .600 5 games over
29-21 = .580 4 games over
28-22 = .560 3 games over
27-23 = .540 2 games over
26-24 = .520 1 game over
25 - 25 = 500 this is a 500 team record.

How can this be any more clear Jet!

would you like me to do it with an odd record fine....

29-20 = .5918 4 1/2 games over
28-21 = .5714 3 1/2 games over
27-22 = .551 2 1/2 games over
26-23 = .530 1 1/2 games over
25 -24 = .510 1/2 game over
24-25 = .489 under 500....

This is crazy talk. In both scenarios with 5 more losses the record changes to 500 ball. Now tell me again how many games they are above 500?

 

In my very first post I said you were confusing games AHEAD of a .500 pace with games ABOVE .500. You said you weren't but this post proves otherwise. Jet is the one who argued your side while every other person in the forum had the correct way.

In your 50-32 example 32-32 becomes .500 not 41-41.

 

How about you site an example where some article says a team is 4.5 games above .500. I've never seen it presented that way except when people like you try to argue that's how it is. Like never.

 

Only for a 50 win team to get to .500.

 

Oh jeez, quit digging homie

 

I feel like I need a tax refund from the money I'm paying that went to math/statistics education. If you are 20-20, your team is at .500. Win 10 games in a row and they are 30-20.....10 games over .500. At 30-20, if you lose 10 games in a row you are back to .500.....thereby you were 10 games over .500 before.

Not sure why this is so difficult. Props to @hoopsjock @RR7 and some others for paying attention in class.

 

I guess i can agree with you on this. But i would say i am not confused here. A 500 pace is indeed what i am talking about and it holds true until the end of the season when they no longer play any more regular season games. Jet never even began to make sense Hoops. Jet was completely out of the box. This teams winning percentage right now is .600. they would have to lose 10 games to be a 500 team. That is certainly the case. So in that instance yes they are 10 games above 500.

 

The point is they will indeed have to rework it when the season ends. There will only be 82 games played.

 

They don't need to rework it or add games to the season. It's the theoretical amount needed to get to .500

 

Games Above .500 = Wins - Losses
Games Below .500 = Losses - Wins

Different way of looking at the correct context - Games Above .500 references how many wins youd have to eliminate to get the record to .500.

In this case, we'd have to eliminate 10 of our wins. If we were 50-32, we'd have to eliminate 18 games.

Also at 50-32, we'd have to have won 9 less games and lost 9 more to be 41-41. (9+9=18).