Which is in baseball, if you're a 60- or 70-win team you're not that much better off than if you're a 45-win team.
And to play fair, pitchers' winning percentages were measured against those of the teams they pitched for (so a pitcher going 20-10 for a .500 team scores higher than one who goes 20-10 for a 100-win team).
Saints, who are chasing their fourth win in a row in the competition, ran in eight tries in a one-sided win over the team they beat in the 2007 final.
So a club winning 100 games in a relatively balanced season--one in which many clubs hover close to 0.500--scores better than a 100-win team from a season with more disparity between weak and strong.
It was a narrow, defense-minded win, for an offense-crazed team that had previously relied on outscoring its opponents rather than stopping them.
Aberdeen's Stewart Milne, who supports a 10-team top flight, believes a 14-team alternative will not win support.
On the same day, Castleford Tigers full-back Ryan McGoldrick was cautioned for use of his forearm in his side's 19-18 win at Hull FC, while team-mate Mitchell Sargent and Huddersfield Giants hooker Scott Moore were told they will receive warning letters for making dangerous throws.
And even he got caught up in the euphoria after this morale-boosting win by a team determined to make fresh headlines of their own.
Perhaps that helped motivate the players as they claimed a 4-2 win and the team took a detour on the way home to visit their stricken owner.
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The San Antonio Spurs and the Toronto Raptors have roughly comparable payrolls, but the similarities end there: San Antonio won 61 games and ranks fourth in cost-effectiveness, while the woeful 22-win Raptors were the least cost-effective NBA team.
"I had nothing to lose - or win - so I'm driving for the team, " said the Finn, whose title defence came to an end in Japan last week.
Overall, Douglas will leave London with much to celebrate: A gold medal win with Team USA, re-writing history with her gold medal win in the all-around, and a plethora of opportunities by which to earn endorsement dollars.
But the Trojans' penultimate drive in Notre Dame's 22-13 win summarized how each team could end up so differently.
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India, one of the favourites to win the eight-team tournament, have already lost opening batsman Virender Sehwag (shoulder) and pace bowler Zaheer Khan to injury.
He also paraded a new front-row unit in Nick Wood, Olivier Azam and Paul Doran-Jones, while Wasps - the last away team to win at Kingsholm on Premiership business 10 months ago - were captained by former Gloucester favourite Phil Vickery.
We were the difference between what was a good side - and a team that we knew would win the play-offs and comfortably survive in the Premiership.
Kearney was the first African-American coach to win an NCAA national team championship in Division I track and field, and she was the first African-American to serve as a head coach at Texas.
Ninety per cent of the 1, 002 eight- to 16-year-olds said their team-mates felt pressure to win while playing sport.
United has had both the biggest home win in the 20-team league this season and the worst home defeat.
During that time, he became first coach to lead the U.S. Under-18 team to win three gold medals (2005, 2009, 2011).
Cal became the second 12th-seeded Pac-12 team to win in San Jose.
Monday's 2-0 win at Sampdoria lifted the team into the top half of the table, with captain Antonio Di Natale among the scorers.
Louis Cardinals, who qualified for the playoffs on the last day of the regular season, became the fifth wild-card team to win the World Series in 2011.
He previously spent seven seasons coaching USA Hockey's National Team development program, where he became the first coach to lead the U.S. Under-18 team to win three gold medals.
She rocked the world of sports by gracefully competing at the London Olympics and becoming the first American gymnast to win team and all-around gold in the same Olympics.
One is obvious: The Jets have come from behind late in each of the past two weeks to take must-win games something the team has become known for the past two years.
Spurs, on the other hand, will play in the Champions League proper for the first time as they progressed 6-3 on aggregate after a 4-0 win at home to Swiss team Young Boys.
Meanwhile, Luton Town, which became the first non-league side to ever beat a Premier League team following the 1-0 win at Norwich on Saturday, will play first-tier Millwall in the next round.
The three-game win streak is Buffalo's longest since the team won five straight from March 19-27 last season.
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