Winning percentage

In sports, a winning percentage is the fraction of games or matches a team or individual has won. It is equal to wins divided by wins plus losses. Winning percentage is one way to compare the record of two teams; however, another standard method most frequently used in baseball and professional basketball standings is games behind.
:\mathrm{Winning}\ \mathrm{percentage} = \frac{\mathrm{Wins}}{\mathrm{Total}\ \mathrm{games}}
Ties count as a game and should be calculated as neither a loss nor a tie.
===National Hockey League===
In ice hockey, standings are determined by points, not wins, changing the nature of this statistic. In the National Hockey League, teams are awarded two points for a win, and one point for either a tie (a discontinued statistic) or an overtime loss. Since this calculation is not based solely on wins, the statistic is called points percentage. It can be calculated as follows:
:\mathrm{Points}\ \mathrm{percentage} = \frac{\mathrm{Points}}{\mathrm{Total}\ \mathrm{possible}\ \mathrm{points}}
Points %	Wins	Losses	Ties	Points	Season 	Team 	Comments
0.825 	60 	8 	12 	132 	1976–77	Montreal Canadiens 	best points % in post-expansion NHL
0.131 	8 	67 	5 	21 	1974–75	Washington Capitals	worst points % in post-expansion NHL
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