payitforward wrote:Since John Wall returned (this was Ted's notion of a "new beginning"), we are 18-15.
Now, a season has as many home games as it has away games obviously, so if 18 the games had been home games and 15 away games, you'd conclude that we are a .500 team. Or, rather, it would be more accurate to say you'd have no grounds for concluding from those wins and losses that we were better than a .500 team.
But, in fact, only 17 were home games, so why not say that we are now just a little better than a .500 team. At least off that set of data.
Of course, it'd be interesting to look at the records of the teams we played in those 33 games, and see how they'd fared against the rest of the league up to the day we played them, but... that's a lot of trouble! Still, I wish I knew, because in fact without that info we don't really know how good a team we are now that John is back. I.e. if we happened to play a relatively weak schedule, that'd say that maybe we aren't really a .500 team. If we played a strong schedule on the other hand, that would indicate we might be better than a .500 team.
Ok, I had a few minutes to kill before getting ready to go out to dinner. Hence this blah blah blah....
But I would like to know all the same!
Just a cursory scan showed that, of the teams they played against, 17 had winning records and 16 losing records. The early schedule looked tough, the recent part easy,
