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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| 77-76 -- 8 11 10 13 8 12 12
BOS| 77-76 14 -- 8 8 11 11 13 10
CHW| 74-79 11 14 -- 15 13 12 13 16
CLE| 75-78 12 14 7 -- 14 15 11 16
DET| 77-76 9 11 9 8 -- 15 14 10
KCA| 78-75 14 11 10 7 7 -- 5 12
NYY| 76-77 10 9 9 11 8 17 -- 15
WSH| 79-75 10 12 6 6 12 10 7 --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|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 -- 74 69 88 88 71 66 95
BOS 98 -- 85 84 109 108 150 92
CHW 72 94 -- 100 116 105 82 100
CLE 98 103 76 -- 133 131 85 119
DET 90 111 97 107 -- 112 109 87
KCA 89 96 115 97 100 -- 85 99
NYY 84 109 80 92 87 126 -- 109
WSH 90 109 66 78 99 107 70 --
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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.