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Le Grande Orange · 05-06-2013, 01:51 PM

Both the *** in Japan and the KBO in Korea allow games to end in a tie. (I believe both have the rule that a game that is still tied after 12 innings goes into the books as a tie). Some of the U.S. summer college baseball leagues also allow ties.

So tie games are a part of baseball. (Even MLB can have tie games, it's just that in its case the tie games are not counted in the standings and are replayed in their entirety though, interestingly, the player statistics from MLB tie games do count.)

Points are typically not used when ties are allowed. What usually happens is that either (a) ties are counted in the winning percentage as half a win; or (b) ties are disregarded when calculating winning percentage. So, for example, a team with a 6-3-1 record would have either a .650 winning percentage (6.5 wins out of 10 games) or a .667 winning percentage (6 wins out of 9 games).

05-06-2013, 01:51 PM	#2
Le Grande Orange Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Up There Posts: 15,642	Both the *** in Japan and the KBO in Korea allow games to end in a tie. (I believe both have the rule that a game that is still tied after 12 innings goes into the books as a tie). Some of the U.S. summer college baseball leagues also allow ties. So tie games are a part of baseball. (Even MLB can have tie games, it's just that in its case the tie games are not counted in the standings and are replayed in their entirety though, interestingly, the player statistics from MLB tie games do count.) Points are typically not used when ties are allowed. What usually happens is that either (a) ties are counted in the winning percentage as half a win; or (b) ties are disregarded when calculating winning percentage. So, for example, a team with a 6-3-1 record would have either a .650 winning percentage (6.5 wins out of 10 games) or a .667 winning percentage (6 wins out of 9 games).