User talk:Destide

I edited the text because it was erroneous in saying Bama's winning percentage at .67. That would be correct had Bama gone 4-2 in its six appearances. It did not. It went 4-1-1. In essence, the current .67 treats a tie as a loss.

There is no foundation for that. Under venerable rules for treating ties, they are calculated as a half win and a half tie. That would for winning percentage calculation purposes mean Bama's record in the Rose Bowl is 4.5-1.5. In other words, .75--consistent with the change I made.

The current text sets the threshold number of appearances at 4. I changed it to five. I have no objection to keeping it to 4 in order for Michigan State to me mentioned--if that was the purpose. But it is erroneous to claim that Mich. St.'s winning percentage is higher than Bama's.

A compromise of our differences would be to restore the threshold number of appearances to four and correct Bama's percentage in accordance with conventional calculations--not the one that treats a tie as a loss. There simply is no basis for converting a tie to a loss. Under that compromise, Bama and Mich. St. would both have a winning percentage of .75.

Destide (talk) 00:28, 25 December 2009 (UTC)