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The result was keep. Joyous! | Talk 02:41, 14 February 2023 (UTC) reply

List of NBA teams by single season win percentage (  | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View log | edits since nomination)

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Though an interesting topic, this article is currently OR and mainly sourced to basketball-reference seasons pages. Also unsure why the cutoff is currently 75.6%. Natg 19 ( talk) 00:53, 31 January 2023 (UTC) reply

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Basketball and Lists. Natg 19 ( talk) 00:53, 31 January 2023 (UTC) reply
• Delete Odd collection of statistics, unsure about the cut-off used as well. Could deal with a rewrite and more of a critical discussion. Oaktree b ( talk) 03:28, 31 January 2023 (UTC) reply
• Keep Extremely interesting and informative topic on the NBA's best historical teams. NBA.com does not have a page like this, they seem to focus on individual player records. Removal of this page would be a big resource loss for the web. TheLostBoy ( talk) 17:08, 31 January 2023 (UTC) reply
• Comment THe main question should be whether WP:LISTN can be met. WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP.— Bagumba ( talk) 18:13, 31 January 2023 (UTC) reply
• Keep The rankings for best win/loss record are certainly significant. The Warriors got attention for their 73 win season in 2016, as did the Bulls for winning 72 games in 1996. (Those links are only the tip of the iceberg.) It does make sense for this article to focus on winning percentages, because not all NBA seasons have had the same number of games. Yes, the cut off point is rather arbitrary, but that's an editorial decision. We have to draw the line somewhere. Zagalejo ( talk) 01:25, 1 February 2023 (UTC) reply

• For what it's worth, similar lists are fairly common in books: [1], [2], [3], etc. Some of those are kids' books, but those still help show that this is a subject of broad interest. Zagalejo ( talk) 01:57, 1 February 2023 (UTC) reply

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:22, 7 February 2023 (UTC) reply

• Keep In terms of source issues, the whole article can actually be sourced to a single BBRef page, see [4]. As for the cutoff, I believe it is actually .750, it's just that nobody can finish exactly there because of the current amount of games in a season. I think a significant amount of LISTN problems can be overcome by renaming the article to something like List of best NBA season win–loss records, as there's a ton of notability for the concept of "who has had the best season". Pinguinn  🐧 12:11, 8 February 2023 (UTC) reply
• Keep - per the sources and rationales provided by Pinguinn and Zagalejo. I agree that .756 is an odd cutoff and it should be .750, but there may not be any teams between .750 and .755. Rlendog ( talk) 18:18, 8 February 2023 (UTC) reply

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