Winning Percentage Calculator

Work out a team's winning percentage from wins, losses and ties.

Wins	10
Losses	5
Ties / draws	1
Ties count as	Half a win

Wins

Losses

Ties / draws

Ties count as

Winning percentage

.656

65.6% from a 10-5-1 record. Football leagues usually count ties as half a win; soccer leagues rank by points (3 for a win, 1 for a draw: 31 points).

Share of games won

65.63 1% of games won in every 100About 66 games in every 100 won

About the Winning Percentage Calculator

Enter wins, losses and ties, and choose how ties count. The calculator gives the winning percentage in the usual three-decimal format and as a percent, plus league points under the 3-1-0 system.

Winning percentage is wins divided by games played. The NFL and many US leagues count a tie as half a win and half a loss. Football (soccer) leagues instead award points, usually 3 for a win and 1 for a draw.

The formula

Win % = (W + ½T) ÷ (W + L + T)

Worked example

A 10-5-1 record

(10 + 0.5) ÷ 16 = .656
= 65.6%
In a soccer table: 3 × 10 + 1 = 31 points

Questions people ask

Why is .500 average?

Half the games won, half lost.

Games behind?

((leader W − team W) + (team L − leader L)) ÷ 2.

Why three decimals?

It's the convention in US sports standings; .656 is read “six fifty-six”.