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Originally Posted by RM
I beating this to death......but it's driving me nuts. I don't understand why the overtime loss is not included in the loss column.
I could see this happening :
Team A loses all 82 games in overtime : Their record would be :
0-0 (82 points)
Team B has no overtime losses and finishes the season
40-42 (80 points)
It's madness.
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oh, but actually in that example even the 'old' way would ALSO conclude that Team A is superior....we used to get a point for a tie (before their was ever OT) so they would still get the 82 points...going undefeated in Regulation time is rewarded same as always but it's the bonus point that is new and really matters most when all those OT Win bonus points go to teams in your own division...just like in baseball, there is a lot (too much, imo
) of interdivisional play
you would need to get into a 4 team example with certain ones winning same amount of games but some in OT and some in REG and see who got the extra REG tie points for the what if comparison to be made to the tradition point system for standings
i never paid attention to baseball and basketball standings as a young kid cos it was all CFL and NHL until i got into the Expos, then later the Jays in 77...but i notice that GBL is the driving stat for Americans and there is no such thing as ties (except for the odd freakish baseball game)...if you want bizarre there will have to be a separate tutorial on the 'new' way CFL games are attempted to be settled (even though there can still be a tie...which there was the other night out west, 34-34, in a real game between 2 real teams...i dont know if our CFL commish also has rodent bloodlines...