Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
It's one of those mathematical oddities. With 8-4 record you would be 4 units up but had you lost two more games you would be even.

An 82-80 team appears to be two games above .500 but had they lost just one more game they would be .500.
Looking at things in a relative, opposed to an absolute, way, is how the two-dice, two-envelope, and other thus paradoxes get going. We intuitively end up with abandoning one, or the other, way, and, so, never with the complete resolution of either.