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American League
Tm W L W-L% GB GBs | R RA pythW-L Luck| Home Road ExInn 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
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Head-to-Head Records (read across for wins and down the columns for losses)
|AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY WSH
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
BAL| 78-75 -- 6 9 5 13 15 9 12
BOS| 76-77 16 -- 14 13 12 12 8 9
CHW| 75-78 13 8 -- 15 13 14 9 13
CLE| 75-78 17 9 7 -- 11 17 10 17
DET| 76-77 9 10 9 11 -- 16 12 15
KCA| 80-73 7 10 8 5 6 -- 4 12
NYY| 74-79 13 14 13 12 10 18 -- 17
WSH| 79-74 10 13 9 5 7 10 5 --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY WSH
Head-to-Head Run Scoring (read across for runs scored and down the columns for runs allowed)
|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY WSH
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
BAL -- 80 75 56 90 90 76 104
BOS 116 -- 101 110 131 97 93 132
CHW 120 89 -- 94 134 122 94 123
CLE 95 111 72 -- 79 132 92 131
DET 92 121 111 98 -- 127 99 141
KCA 80 90 82 67 66 -- 93 141
NYY 104 129 100 103 111 158 -- 152
WSH 98 131 93 53 88 105 84 --
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|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY WSH
Glossary
GBs - Summed Games Back. This was developed by John Dewan of Acta Sports (who publishes a lot of really good baseball books, BTW). He introduced this in a Stat of the Week™. The idea is that you add up how far behind the team is for every team ahead of it in the standings. For example, say the Mets lead the NL EAST with the Braves one game back and the Phillies six back. The Braves are only one game back of the Mets, so GBs=1.0 for them. For the Phillies they are six back of the Mets and five back of the Braves, so their GBs=11.0. It probably isn't a perfect measure of a team's difficulty of getting into first place, but it is likely a better measure than just plain old GB. Note that for the wild card this becomes a bit of a mess, but in this calculation we exclude the current division leaders, to give you a number for just the teams in the current wild card race.
R - Runs scored per game
RA - Runs allowed per game
pythW-L - Pythagorean Win-Loss created by Bill James this estimates a team's Win-Loss record by the runs scored and runs allowed. This is typically more accurate for predicting a team's future record than their actual win-loss record.
Luck - The difference between the team's actual wins and the team's pythagorean wins.
Home - Record in home games.
Road - Record in road games.
ExInn - Record in Extra-inning games.
1-Run - Record in one-run games.
vs.RH - Record in games where the opposing starter was right-handed.
vs.LH - Record in games where the opposing starter was left-handed.
≥.500 - Record in games where the opposing team has a record at or above .500. This is based on the opposing team's record for the entire season.
<.500 - Record in games where the opposing team has a record under .500. This is based on the opposing team's record for the entire season.
L10 - Record in their last 10 games.
L20 - Record in their last 20 games.
L30 - Record in their last 30 games.