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National League
Tm W L W-L% GB GBs | R RA pythW-L Luck| Home Road 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|BRO CHC CIN MLN NYG PHI PIT STL
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
BRO| 72-81 -- 13 15 13 15 14 20 15
CHC| 78-75 9 -- 12 8 9 5 11 11
CIN| 78-75 7 10 -- 8 9 12 15 7
MLN| 74-79 9 14 14 -- 14 13 15 13
NYG| 78-75 7 13 13 8 -- 9 11 9
PHI| 76-77 8 17 10 9 13 -- 15 11
PIT| 80-73 2 11 7 7 11 7 -- 5
STL| 76-77 7 11 15 9 13 11 17 --
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|AvgOppRec|BRO CHC CIN MLN NYG PHI PIT STL
Head-to-Head Run Scoring (read across for runs scored and down the columns for runs allowed)
|BRO CHC CIN MLN NYG PHI PIT STL
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BRO -- 135 152 110 136 122 147 153
CHC 101 -- 89 80 110 67 90 96
CIN 96 99 -- 79 101 111 144 84
MLN 96 99 124 -- 100 81 136 102
NYG 118 160 125 77 -- 83 103 102
PHI 88 133 97 76 96 -- 136 90
PIT 84 92 93 80 90 97 -- 86
STL 106 117 108 87 114 105 131 --
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|BRO CHC CIN MLN NYG PHI PIT STL
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.