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Re: Where do I ask for unicorns, I mean changes to the official stats?

I tried to adapt MLB's "games back" metric in the spreadsheet I used for my announcing. I'm convinced that it can work, though not that I did it yet.

I used RP since wins isn't as valuable a metric.

If PRP is the total number of ranking points possible (4 * number of matches played) for a given team, I computed (2 * PRP - RP) for each team. I subtracted each team's total from the leader's and divided by two.

This might be entirely equivalent to dividing a ranking score by the number of games, or there might be more happening there, but it does make those teams that are trailing in the rankings because they're a match behind pop out without a lot of searching.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_behind
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