2013 Finals: Heat vs Spurs

[v-zero]

That's simply a result of the fact that those aren't cumulative pythagorean wins, but rather the pythagorean wins recalculated using cumulative point totals. To not have this behaviour you should treat each game's pythag wins as its own measurement, and accumulate these. This method will cause blowouts to have their impact limited.

[Mike G]

Aye, matey. In fact, if we calculate pythagorean wins for each game, we get quite a different total.

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.     score     pyth wins    cumulative
G   Mia   SA    Mia    SA     Mia    SA
1    88   92    .36   .64     .36    .64
2   103   84    .94   .06    1.30    .70

3    77  113    .01   .99    1.30   1.70
4   109   93    .89   .11    2.20   1.80
5   104  114    .23   .77    2.42   2.58

6   103  100    .60   .40    3.02   2.98
7    95   88    .74   .26    3.76   3.24

It kinda quantifies the notion that "a win is a win", whether by 3 or by 33.

[huevonkiller]

Meh, Spurs won the series point differential. They were better. They lost though. Oh well.

I would generally agree, but there were really only three competitive games in the series. With all that garbage time I'm not sure of what to make of the overall point differential.

Yes I had the same thought as well throughout the series.