Calculating the std dev of a 30 team league with each team having a 50% chance of winning I just want to preface this with the fact it is not a home work question.  I am also not a stats person so I am not sure even how to start with calculating this, what it is called or where to look.  When I google I get not much that looks like it helps.
So my problem, assume you have a 30 team league.  Any game between two teams has a 50% chance of winning or losing, essentially a coin flip.  I know that at the end of the runs all the teams wont have equal amount of wins, you'll get a normal distribution or bell curve.
How do I calculate what the standard deviations of the win% for each team would be?  Let's assume 500 games.
How would I solve this? How would I even start?
Thanks
 A: Consider the number of wins for team $i$ alone (we can convert that to a percentage at the end, by dividing by the number of games and multiplying by 100).
From your statements the results for the other teams have the same distribution by symmetry (though the realizations will be different because of random variation).
For team $i$, we have:

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*The team plays $n$ games.


*each game it has a 50% chance of winning


*the outcome of each game is independent of the outcome of every other game
The outcome of a single game is a $\text{Bernoulli}(p)$ random variable, where $p = 0.5$ - i.e. a metaphorical 'coin toss'.
The distribution of the number of wins for team $i$ is therefore $\text{binomial}(n, 0.5)$.
The standard deviation of a $\text{binomial}(n, p)$ is $\sqrt{n p (1-p)}$ so the standard deviation of the number of wins for team $i$ is $\sqrt{n/4}$.
The proportion of wins is just a scaled binomial, where the count is multiplied by $1/n$.
That means the standard deviation of the proportion of wins is $\frac{\sqrt{n/4}}{n}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{4n}}$.
The percentage of wins is just a scaled binomial, where the count is multiplied by $100/n$.
That means the standard deviation of the percentage of wins for team $i$ is $\frac{100}{\sqrt{4n}}=\frac{5}{\sqrt{n}}\%$.
Your $n=500$, so:

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*the number of wins has mean 250 and standard deviation 11.2


*the proportion of wins has mean 0.5 and standard deviation 0.0224


*the percentage of wins has mean 50% and standard deviation 2.24%

Note that the results of teams $i$ and $j$ are not independent, however, so if you start looking as sums of wins or differences of wins over more than one team, you have to take that into account. Similarly, if you combine the distributions across teams, even though the individual marginal distributions are all the same, there will be slightly more 'structure' to the combined results than you'd see from a random sampling of the individual distribution. (The mean and standard deviation of the number of wins will be fixed, for example.)

Results for an 82-game season:
A regular season has $n=82$, so:

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*the number of wins has mean 41 and standard deviation 4.53


*the proportion of wins has mean 0.5 and standard deviation 0.0552


*the percentage of wins has mean 50% and standard deviation 5.52%

