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You can be undefeated without being pefect
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I brought this situation up with a friend of mine:

If a football team finishes with a record of 15-0-1, (15 wins, 0 losses and 1 tie), is it still technically an undefeated season?

My one friend says no, because the team failed to win every game.

I say winning every game is what makes your season perfect, not undefeated.  Even though they're imperfect, they were still technically undefeated by the fact that they have 0 in the loss column.  Just like how an 0-15-1 team is still winless (I'm still convinced that I won this debate with this point).

My uncle says a tie just counts as a loss for both teams.

And my roommate brought up a good point too, what if the team you tied, you already beat them earlier in the season?  Then what do you make of it?

What's your view?

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Yeah, they win.

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Winning every game makes a season perfect, but NEVER ACTUALLY LOSING A GAME MAKES YOU UNDEFEATED!!!!! A team that is 0-15-1 IS winless, because they haven't actually won a game yet.

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Quote: from GoodFairy13 at 8:04 am on Sep. 5, 2008

Yeah, they win.
Who's they?  There are 4 people in this debate.  >_>

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Undefeated means just that; undefeated. So IMO, even with a tie, that team in undefeated.

If beaten earlier in season, thats a different game.

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Quote: from Pardon my French at 8:05 am on Sep. 5, 2008

Winning every game makes a season perfect, but NEVER ACTUALLY LOSING A GAME MAKES YOU UNDEFEATED!!!!! A team that is 0-15-1 IS winless, because they haven't actually won a game yet.
Thank you.  Every person who agrees with my point is always a friend of mine.  XD

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You can draw every single game and be undefeated. I'm pretty sure there was a time when my football team hadn't won in like 27 matches, but they were also undefeated. Because they had drawn them all. A tie is definitely not a loss.

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Yeah they're undefeated. If they haven't lost, they haven't been defeated. The end.

In other news I'm pretty sure that was the how my school's football team finished the season.

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Quote: from jamesish at 5:06 am on Sep. 5, 2008

Undefeated means just that; undefeated. So IMO, even with a tie, that team in undefeated.

If beaten earlier in season, thats a different game.


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Quote: from Aero360 at 5:05 am on Sep. 5, 2008

Quote: from GoodFairy13 at 8:04 am on Sep. 5, 2008

Yeah, they win.
Who's they?  There are 4 people in this debate.  >_>



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undefeated as tht team was never defeated... simple as

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