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Old 10-12-2009, 01:15 PM   #251 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Cryomaniac View Post
To elaborate on this, I think in Japan they only play 15 innings then a game is a tie.
It's 12 innings in Japan, at least, that's the last figure I recall being used.

The Korean Baseball Organization also used to allow ties, but dropped that provision starting with the 2008 season.

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How ties should be dealt with in standings should let us choose between them not counting or being worth half a win and half a loss (a-la the NFL).
The NFL has used both methods. Prior to 1972, it used to ignore ties for the purposes of calculating winning percentage. From 1972 onwards, it has considered ties as half won and half lost.
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