In sports, a winning percentage or Copeland score is the fraction of games or matches a team or individual has won. The statistic is commonly used in standings or rankings to compare teams or individuals. It is defined as wins divided by the total number of matches played (i.e. wins plus draws plus losses). A draw counts as a 1 ⁄ 2 win.
16-418: Harry Booth may refer to: Harry Booth (coach) (1941–2022), American college baseball and basketball coach Harry Booth (criminal) or Terence Hogan (1931–1995), English professional criminal Harry Booth (filmmaker) , English filmmaker Harry Booth (rugby league) , English rugby league footballer of the 1910s and 1920s Harry Booth, fictional character in
32-527: A draw, and no points are awarded for a loss. The National Hockey League (which uses an overtime and shootouts to break all ties) awards two points for a win in regulation or overtime/shootout, one point for an overtime loss, and none for a regulation loss. This table lists the best and worst winning percentages in the history of the National League (NL) and American League (AL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). Note: some team records sum to less than
48-408: A team's season record is 30–15–5 (i.e. it has won thirty games, lost fifteen and tied five times), and if the five tie games are counted as 2 1 ⁄ 2 wins, then the team has an adjusted record of 32 1 ⁄ 2 wins, resulting in a 65% or .650 winning percentage for the fifty total games from: In North America, winning percentages are expressed as decimal values to three decimal places. It
64-477: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Harry Booth (coach) Harry Booth (January 19, 1940 – September 12, 2022) was an American college baseball and college basketball head coach for the Saint Joseph's Hawks , representing Saint Joseph's University . He also attended Saint Joseph's and played for their baseball and basketball teams. Booth
80-441: 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 . In baseball , a pitcher is assessed wins and losses as an individual statistic and thus has his own winning percentage, based on his win–loss record . However, in association football , a manager 's abilities may be measured by win percentage. In this case,
96-445: Is the same value, but without the last step of multiplying by 100% in the formula above. Furthermore, they are usually read aloud as if they were whole numbers (e.g. 1.000, "a thousand" or 0.500, "five hundred"). In this case, the name "winning percentage " is actually a misnomer, since it is not expressed as a percentage . A winning percentage such as .536 ("five thirty-six") expressed as a percentage would be 53.6%. Winning percentage
112-726: The Saint Joseph's Hawks men's basketball team, playing in three consecutive NCAA Division I men's basketball tournaments as a reserve. Saint Joseph made it to the Final Four in the 1961 basketball tournament . Booth was a captain for both the baseball and basketball teams. He graduated from Saint Joseph's in 1962. After he graduated, Booth was hired as the varsity men's basketball coach at Bishop McDevitt High School in Wyncote, Pennsylvania , in July 1962. He also became an assistant coach for Saint Joseph's baseball team. Saint Joseph's named Booth
128-499: The Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team as a volunteer assistant coach in 1981. He coached for Villanova when they won the 1985 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament . He also worked in sales. Booth left Villanova in 1986 to focus on his business career. Saint Joseph's inducted Booth into their Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997. The Harry Booth Award, given to a member of the baseball team for outstanding contributions,
144-580: The 1979 film The Black Hole See also [ edit ] Henry Booth (disambiguation) Harold Booth (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry_Booth&oldid=1112278875 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
160-475: The formula is wins divided by total number of matches; draws are not considered as "half-wins", and the quotient is always in percentage form. In the National Football League , division winners and playoff qualifiers are technically determined by winning percentage and not by number of wins. Ties are currently counted as half a win and half a loss, however, prior to 1972 tied games were disregarded for
176-463: The head coach of Saint Joseph's freshmen men's basketball team. After the firing of Jack McKinney , the head coach of Saint Joseph's varsity basketball team, Booth succeeded him, while stepping down as head coach of the baseball team. Booth coached the men's basketball team through the 1978 season, after which he was fired. He coached the Hawks' men's basketball team to a 44–61 (.419) record. Booth joined
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#1733086295143192-499: The head coach of their freshman baseball team in March 1964, and then as the head coach of the varsity baseball team in August 1964. Booth coached the baseball team from 1965 to 1974 and had a 140–80–5 record. His .633 winning percentage is the highest for all St. Joseph's baseball coaches. In 1966, Booth became an assistant coach for the varsity men's basketball team. In 1970, he was named
208-411: The nature of this statistic. In this type of method, used in many group tournament ranking systems , the competitors are awarded a certain number of points per win, fewer points per tie, and none for a loss. The teams are then ranked by the total number of these accumulated points. One such method is the " three points for a win ", where three points are awarded for winning a game, one point is awarded for
224-403: The purposes of this calculation — a 10–2–2 record (10÷12 ≈ 0.833) would then have outranked an 11–3 record (11÷14 ≈ 0.785). Tie games, a fairly common occurrence in football before the introduction of overtime , were thus somewhat more valuable to teams with a winning record, as compared with current rules. Some leagues and competitions may instead use a points percentage system, changing
240-568: Was born on January 19, 1940, in South Philadelphia . He graduated from Bishop Neumann High School and then attended Saint Joseph's University . At Saint Joseph's, Booth played for the Saint Joseph's Hawks baseball as a center fielder , twice being named to the All- Middle Atlantic Conference team. In his junior and senior years, Booth led his team in runs scored , stolen bases , and extra-base hits . He walked-on to
256-443: Was inaugurated in 2010. Booth and his wife, Toni, had four children. His son, Kevin, played college basketball at Mount Saint Mary's College , and his grandson, Michael, played college basketball for Saint Joseph's. Booth died on September 12, 2022, following a short illness. He was 82. Winning percentage For example, if a team's season record is 30 wins and 20 losses, the winning percentage would be 60% or 0.600: If
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