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HONESTLY now, do we think the NBL could possibly get its league ladder correct anytime soon?

The Breakers' 33% winning record (1-2) puts them into sixth place, not third.

Adelaide, Townsville and Sydney are all 1-1 which is 50%. Last time I looked, 50% of something was a lot more than 33.

Is the same guy who did the maths for the graphics at ONE's televised game in Perth last Friday now calculating the league table?

The "points for/against percentage" is only used to split teams on the same win-loss ratio, NOT as an overall positional determinant.

Sheesh. Should the NBL really need to have its own ladder explained to it?

Just in case it does, in the end, when the regular season is done, the "points for/against percentage" becomes totally irrelevant in splitting teams with tied records because then the head-to-head results of the tied teams decides which finishes higher.

So, in actual fact, the "points for/against percentage" is little more than a handy in-season tool until each team has played every opponent the same amount of times.

Then it gets tossed altogether.

So could someone at NBL headquarters please take a second to realise that, for example, if a team on a 5-1 record has a better "points for/against percentage" than a team on 5-0, it's still the unbeaten team, with its 100% winning record, that occupies the higher slot.

It's about the Ws and the Ls.

The scariest part about this?

Even the Basketball Australia-run WNBL has its table correct and that league has been notorious in the past for getting it wrong.

DON'T know if you caught this but "happy birth" to Beth Rosa Newley, first born for dual Olympian Brad and his wife Brigid yesterday.

It was quite an eventful day too, as you can read here: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/basketball/boomer-brad-newley-goes-from-birth-of-his-daughter-to-helping-spanish-basketball-team-to-victory/story-fnii09gt-1226744050782

It's already my favorite story of the year and thanks to Ian Stacker for the "heads up" on it.

Welcome to grandparenthood too, Arthur and Janelle Newley, auntiehood for Mia, and a lovely new little girl to keep an eye on for Steve and his basketballing Bowley family.