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Win Percentage Calculator
Type in a record. Get the win percentage every standings table sorts by. Ties count as half a win, the way the NFL and most leagues handle them.
Win percentage
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As a percent
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How it works
What win percentage actually is
Win percentage is the number that decides who finishes where. Take a team's wins, divide by games played, and you get a figure between .000 and 1.000. A 12-4 team is at .750. The reason standings use it instead of raw wins is fairness: it compares teams that have played a different number of games, which happens all the time once rainouts and byes get involved.
Ties make it slightly more interesting. The standard fix, used by the NFL and most leagues that allow draws, is to count a tie as half a win. A 10-4-2 team works out to (10 plus 1) over 16, which is .688. If your sport never ends in a tie, the ties field stays at zero and the math is just wins over games.
FAQ
Common questions
How are ties counted?
Most leagues count a tie as half a win. The formula becomes (wins + 0.5 times ties) divided by total games. The NFL has done it this way for decades. If your league ignores ties, just leave the ties field at zero.
Why is win percentage written as .XXX?
Baseball convention. A team that wins 6 of 10 games has a .600 win percentage, read out loud as 'six hundred'. It's the same number as 60 percent, just written without the percent sign and without the leading zero.
How do I break a tie in the standings?
Win percentage is usually the first sort. When two teams match, leagues fall back to head-to-head record, then division or group record, then point differential. Decide your tiebreakers before the season so nobody argues about them later.
Does a longer season change the math?
No. Win percentage is always wins over games played, so a 9-1 team and a 90-10 team both sit at .900. That's the point of it: it compares teams that have played a different number of games.