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January 27

Winning a tennis match with fewer points than your opponent

It's certainly possible to win a tennis match, even though you've won fewer points overall than your opponent. My question is, on the ATP / WTA / Grand Slam tour, how common is this - for the winner of the match to be the player who has won fewer points overall? I'd love some percentage figures, but, failing this, can some tennis-head offer an estimate? Eliyohub (talk) 13:38, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a column on fivethirtyeight that looked at pretty much exactly this question. Since 1991 (up to when the column was published in 2014) about 8.8% of Wimbledon matches were won by a player scoring fewer points. The other Grand Slam tournaments had a smaller proportion: around 6.5%. Across their larger database of tournament matches, the proportion was about 7.5%. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 15:24, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The source is about a slighty different question: How many players win after winning a smaller percentage of return points than the opponent (a return point is when the opponent serves). The two players will usually have a different number of total return points so the answer can be different from the poster's question but it will probably be rare. The server has a large advantage in tennis so comparing the percentage of won return points may give a more fair idea of which player did "better" when you ignore the scoring system. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:47, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Arrow verse episode synopsis's

for some reason your pages for the flash, arrow, legends of tomorrow and supergirl all have the wrong synopsis's and i don'r know why you can find all the right one on these following websites http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Supergirl_episodes, http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_The_Flash_episodes, http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Arrow_episodes, http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DC%27s_Legends_of_Tomorrow_episodes i hope you can change them to what they should be

This is Wikipedia, the encyclopedia anyone can edit; if you find something incorrect, you are encouraged to correct it. Keep in mind, however, that the sites you listed are also created by anyone who felt like editing them, so they are not considered reliable sources to go by. They are also fan-sites, which are much more lax about original research and opinion, which are discouraged here. As a point of general advice, blanket statements like yours are difficult to examine. If you can provide some specific example of something that's incorrect, it will be easier for people to consider your words. Matt Deres (talk) 16:13, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to write "better" episode plots, please do so, but don´t WP:COPYPASTE from other places, you must use your own words. As long as you just describe and not interpret the story (more like "Arrow cries" and not "Arrow is devastated by grief"), the episode/film/fiction itself is the source, so you don´t need the usual inline citations. In general.

More about what is a "good" plot/synopsis on WP at MOS:PLOT. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:48, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]