Prior to 1969, the National League champion ( the " pennant winner ") was determined by the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season.

The team's 3. 95 ERA ranked third in the NL, thanks in large part to newcomer Kevin Brown, who finished the season with a 17 – 11 win-loss record and an impressive 1. 89 ERA.

After a slow start, the Marlins finished the year with an 80 – 82 win-loss record to place third in their division.

As of the end of the 2011 season, the Texans ' overall regular season win-loss record is 68-95 (. 417 ).

To some extent the Rangers were the victims of bad luck, as their win-loss record was worse than their + 51 run differential for the season would normally indicate.

A tournament winner is determined using some criteria ( win-loss record, playoff record, etc .).

To James, context is paramount: he was among the first to emphasize the importance of adjusting traditional statistics for park factors and to stress the role of luck in a pitcher's win-loss record.

The team ultimately finished with a league-worst 15 – 67 win-loss record ( tied for worst season in franchise history ).

In 1972, the Bulls set a franchise win-loss record at 57 wins and 25 losses.

Prior to this, the premiers were generally decided based on overall win-loss record, except where a playoff match was needed to break a tie.

Carlton became the first club in the VFL to win three premierships in a row, and its win-loss record of 19 – 1 in the 1908 season ( including finals ) was a record which stood for more than ninety years.

Her singles win-loss record was 900 – 115 ( 88. 7 percent ).

Muster had a 65 – 2 win-loss record on clay during 1995.

His win-loss clay court record in 1996 was 46 – 3.

He compiled a 29 – 8 win-loss record on hard courts, while slumping to 9 – 9 on clay.

His career win-loss record of 1242 – 277 ( 81. 76 %) is third after Björn Borg ( 82. 7 %) and Ivan Lendl ( 81. 8 %), and he holds the record for total number of wins for a male player.

His career win-loss record was 1, 337 – 285 for a winning percentage of 82. 4.

In Davis Cup, his career win-loss record was 54 – 12, including 38 – 3 in singles.

He won 18 of the 32 singles tournaments he entered and compiled a 106 – 16 win-loss record.

Wimbledon champion Newcombe, U. S. champion Rosewall, and Laver ( who won the most titles and had a 3 – 0 win-loss record against Newcombe and a 5 – 0 record against Rosewall ) were ranked the highest by different journalists and expert panels.

Led by Vanessa Nygaard and Sylvia Crawley, the team managed a 10-22 win-loss record in their inaugural season.

The team only gets to choose the schedule ; the opponent is still determined by win-loss records.

At the end of the season, the team with the best win-loss record is the victor.

Australia is ranked the number-one team overall in Test cricket in terms of overall wins, win-loss ratio and wins percentage.

The games are listed in chronological order, the rankings reflect the final BCS standings, and the win-loss data is prior to the BCS Bowls.

The most frequently cited reason is Georgia's 4 – 18 win-loss record in the series since 1990, leading to questions about whether Jacksonville, located from Athens but only from Gainesville, is truly a neutral site.

In both Tests and ODIs, win-loss ratio of recent years is much higher than that of older periods, when it was a weaker team.

His win-loss record at World Cup tournaments is impressive ; he's been in four tournaments ( two less than the record ) and has won three of those, getting to the final in the other they lost in 1996 to Sri Lanka his last in 2007 world cup Australia won to Sri Lanka.

Therefore, even if a player is too weak to obtain one of the top eight win-loss records, such that s / he cannot advance to the three-round single-elimination playoff that concludes the tournament, s / he can wield some degree of kingmaker influence by a ) conceding to the one or more players whose victory s / he would most prefer but b ) doing his / her best to obtain a win against anyone else.

The team begins winning and is able to bring their win-loss percentage to. 400.

In fact, of his outstanding career win-loss record of thirty-two wins, five losses, and one tie, he, arguably, can take some personal and professional satisfaction that his record against the traditionalists is a fine ten wins and one loss.

The rest of the first-round order of picks is in reverse order of the teams ' win-loss record.

Therefore, in determining the participants in championship games and tournaments, it is necessary to distinguish between teams that have compiled impressive win-loss records against strong competition and teams that have defeated weaker opponents.

In the event of an end-of-season tie in total accumulated points, the win-loss record of head-to-head matchups between the tied teams is used as the first tiebreaker, goal difference as the second, and the total number of goals scored as the third.

In practice, the initial value is based on both quantitative ( e. g. win-loss record, average points per game, etc.

As in the amateur draft, the selection order of the teams is based on each team's win-loss record from the prior regular season, each round starting with the team with the worst record and proceeding in order to the team with the best record.

The rest of the first-round draft order is in reverse order of the win-loss record for the remaining teams, or the teams who originally held the lottery rights if they were traded.

Raph Koster also addressed this issue, explaining that "... the average user is below average — meaning, the median user lies below the mean on the win-loss curve, because the win-loss curve turns out to be a power-law distribution.

Geoffrey " Geoff " Philip Howarth OBE ( born 29 March 1951 ) is a former New Zealand cricketer, who remains the only New Zealand captain to have positive win-loss records in both Test cricket and ODI cricket.

As a result, based on their all-time win-loss percentage, the Suns are the most winning franchise to have never won an NBA Championship.

Until the 1990s South Africa were considered one of the most successful rugby nations in Test match history, with a positive win-loss ratio against every Test playing nation including their traditional rivals, New Zealand.