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American League Eastern Division

 
 Tm   W   L   W-L%   GB   GBs |  R   RA  pythW-L Luck|vEast vCent vWest Inter| Home  Road ExInn 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 TBR  97  65  .599   ---   ---| 4.8  4.1  93-69    4 |43-29 20-18 22-12 12-6 |57-24 40-41 10-6  29-18 72-41 25-24 55-46 42-19|
 BOS  95  67  .586   2.0   2.0| 5.2  4.3  95-67    0 |38-34 24-10 22-16 11-7 |56-25 39-42  8-3  22-23 70-54 25-13 49-49 46-18|
 NYY  89  73  .549   8.0  14.0| 4.9  4.5  87-75    2 |40-32 21-19 18-14 10-8 |48-33 41-40  7-3  27-18 65-51 24-22 51-46 38-27|
 TOR  86  76  .531  11.0  23.0| 4.4  3.8  92-70   -6 |37-35 24-12 17-19  8-10|47-34 39-42  6-9  24-32 66-53 20-23 45-48 41-28|
 BAL  68  93  .422  28.5  93.0| 4.9  5.4  73-88   -5 |22-50 20-18 15-18 11-7 |37-43 31-50  5-6  21-29 52-61 16-32 42-71 26-22|

American League Central Division

 
 Tm   W   L   W-L%   GB   GBs |  R   RA  pythW-L Luck|vEast vCent vWest Inter| Home  Road ExInn 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 CHW  89  74  .546   ---   ---| 5.0  4.5  89-74    0 |15-26 44-29 18-13 12-6 |54-28 35-46  8-4  22-17 58-54 31-20 40-48 49-26|
 MIN  88  75  .540   1.0   1.0| 5.1  4.6  89-74   -1 |13-22 43-30 18-19 14-4 |53-28 35-47  8-10 26-26 59-51 29-24 40-43 48-32|
 CLE  81  81  .500   7.5  14.0| 5.0  4.7  86-76   -5 |20-15 36-36 19-18  6-12|45-36 36-45  5-9  14-17 60-58 21-23 37-38 44-43|
 KCR  75  87  .463  13.5  32.0| 4.3  4.8  73-89    2 |14-26 31-41 17-15 13-5 |38-43 37-44  7-6  20-18 39-63 36-24 41-62 34-25|
 DET  74  88  .457  14.5  36.0| 5.1  5.3  78-84   -4 |15-20 27-45 19-18 13-5 |40-41 34-47  3-9  16-25 48-66 26-22 41-59 33-29|

American League Western Division

 
 Tm   W   L   W-L%   GB   GBs |  R   RA  pythW-L Luck|vEast vCent vWest Inter| Home  Road ExInn 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 LAA 100  62  .617   ---   ---| 4.7  4.3  88-74   12 |30-16 24-17 36-21 10-8 |50-31 50-31  3-5  31-21 67-46 33-16 46-30 54-32|
 TEX  79  83  .488  21.0  21.0| 5.6  6.0  76-86    3 |17-26 22-22 30-27 10-8 |40-41 39-42  5-6  28-18 58-52 21-31 37-54 42-29|
 OAK  75  86  .466  24.5  28.0| 4.0  4.3  75-86    0 |17-23 22-24 26-31 10-8 |43-38 32-48  8-7  25-24 50-58 25-28 39-52 36-34|
 SEA  61 101  .377  39.0  71.5| 4.1  5.0  66-96   -5 |15-29 15-28 22-35  9-9 |35-46 26-55  5-7  18-30 40-70 21-31 31-52 30-49|

American League Wild Card

 
 Tm   W   L   W-L%   GB   GBs |  R   RA  pythW-L Luck|vEast vCent vWest Inter| Home  Road ExInn 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 LAA 100  62  .617   ---   ---| 4.7  4.3  88-74   12 |30-16 24-17 36-21 10-8 |50-31 50-31  3-5  31-21 67-46 33-16 46-30 54-32|
 TBR  97  65  .599   ---   ---| 4.8  4.1  93-69    4 |43-29 20-18 22-12 12-6 |57-24 40-41 10-6  29-18 72-41 25-24 55-46 42-19|
 BOS  95  67  .586   ---   ---| 5.2  4.3  95-67    0 |38-34 24-10 22-16 11-7 |56-25 39-42  8-3  22-23 70-54 25-13 49-49 46-18|
 NYY  89  73  .549   6.0   6.0| 4.9  4.5  87-75    2 |40-32 21-19 18-14 10-8 |48-33 41-40  7-3  27-18 65-51 24-22 51-46 38-27|
 CHW  89  74  .546   6.5   7.0| 5.0  4.5  89-74    0 |15-26 44-29 18-13 12-6 |54-28 35-46  8-4  22-17 58-54 31-20 40-48 49-26|
 MIN  88  75  .540   7.5   9.0| 5.1  4.6  89-74   -1 |13-22 43-30 18-19 14-4 |53-28 35-47  8-10 26-26 59-51 29-24 40-43 48-32|
 TOR  86  76  .531   9.0  13.5| 4.4  3.8  92-70   -6 |37-35 24-12 17-19  8-10|47-34 39-42  6-9  24-32 66-53 20-23 45-48 41-28|
 CLE  81  81  .500  14.0  33.5| 5.0  4.7  86-76   -5 |20-15 36-36 19-18  6-12|45-36 36-45  5-9  14-17 60-58 21-23 37-38 44-43|
 TEX  79  83  .488  16.0  43.5| 5.6  6.0  76-86    3 |17-26 22-22 30-27 10-8 |40-41 39-42  5-6  28-18 58-52 21-31 37-54 42-29|
 OAK  75  86  .466  19.5  64.5| 4.0  4.3  75-86    0 |17-23 22-24 26-31 10-8 |43-38 32-48  8-7  25-24 50-58 25-28 39-52 36-34|
 KCR  75  87  .463  20.0  68.0| 4.3  4.8  73-89    2 |14-26 31-41 17-15 13-5 |38-43 37-44  7-6  20-18 39-63 36-24 41-62 34-25|
 DET  74  88  .457  21.0  76.0| 5.1  5.3  78-84   -4 |15-20 27-45 19-18 13-5 |40-41 34-47  3-9  16-25 48-66 26-22 41-59 33-29|
 BAL  68  93  .422  26.5 125.5| 4.9  5.4  73-88   -5 |22-50 20-18 15-18 11-7 |37-43 31-50  5-6  21-29 52-61 16-32 42-71 26-22|
 SEA  61 101  .377  34.0 200.5| 4.1  5.0  66-96   -5 |15-29 15-28 22-35  9-9 |35-46 26-55  5-7  18-30 40-70 21-31 31-52 30-49|

Head-to-Head Records (read across for wins and down the columns for losses) 

     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS NYY TBR TOR|CHW CLE DET KCR MIN|LAA OAK SEA TEX Interleague Records
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-------------------+
  BAL|   84-77 | --   6   7   3   6|  4   4   4   5   3|  3   0   8   4|CHC:2-1,HOU:3-0,MIL:1-2,PIT:2-1,WSN:3-3
  BOS|   82-79 | 12  --   9   8   9|  4   5   5   6   4|  1   6   6   9|ARI:2-1,CIN:2-1,HOU:1-2,MIL:3-0,PHI:2-1,STL:1-2
  NYY|   83-78 | 11   9  --  11   9|  5   3   2   5   6|  3   5   7   3|CIN:1-2,HOU:3-0,NYM:2-4,PIT:1-2,SDP:3-0
  TBR|   82-79 | 15  10   7  --  11|  6   2   4   5   3|  6   6   4   6|CHC:3-0,FLA:5-1,HOU:1-2,PIT:2-1,STL:1-2
  TOR|   83-78 | 12   9   9   7  --|  7   1   5   5   6|  3   6   4   4|ATL:2-1,CHC:1-2,CIN:2-1,MIL:0-3,PHI:2-1,PIT:1-2
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-------------------+
  CHW|   82-80 |  5   3   2   4   1| --  11  12  12   9|  5   5   5   3|CHC:3-3,COL:1-2,LAD:2-1,PIT:3-0,SFG:3-0
  CLE|   81-81 |  4   1   4   5   6|  7  --  11  10   8|  4   5   4   6|CIN:1-5,COL:0-3,LAD:2-1,SDP:2-1,SFG:1-2
  DET|   82-79 |  3   2   4   3   3|  6   7  --   7   7|  3   3   7   6|ARI:1-2,COL:3-0,LAD:3-0,SDP:2-1,SFG:2-1,STL:2-1
  KCR|   82-79 |  3   1   5   3   2|  6   8  11  --   6|  2   6   7   2|ARI:2-1,COL:3-0,FLA:2-1,SFG:2-1,STL:4-2
  MIN|   80-81 |  3   3   4   3   0| 10  10  11  12  --|  3   5   5   5|ARI:3-0,COL:1-2,MIL:4-2,SDP:3-0,WSN:3-0
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-------------------+
  LAA|   79-82 |  6   8   7   3   6|  5   5   6   3   5| --  10  14  12|ATL:1-2,LAD:3-3,NYM:1-2,PHI:3-0,WSN:2-1
  OAK|   82-79 |  5   4   1   3   4|  4   4   6   3   5|  9  --  10   7|ARI:1-2,ATL:1-2,FLA:2-1,PHI:2-1,SFG:4-2
  SEA|   82-79 |  2   3   2   3   5|  1   5   3   2   4|  5   9  --   8|ATL:1-2,FLA:1-2,NYM:2-1,SDP:5-1,WSN:0-3
  TEX|   81-80 |  5   1   4   3   4|  3   4   3   7   5|  7  12  11  --|ATL:2-1,HOU:3-3,NYM:1-2,PHI:2-1,WSN:2-1
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-------------------+
     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS NYY TBR TOR|CHW CLE DET KCR MIN|LAA OAK SEA TEX Interleague Records

Head-to-Head Run Scoring (read across for runs scored and down the columns for runs allowed) 

     |BAL BOS NYY TBR TOR|CHW CLE DET KCR MIN|LAA OAK SEA TEX Interleague Records
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-------------------+
  BAL| --  76  88  70  77| 39  52  54  41  28| 38  11  51  61|CHC:22-16,HOU:15-11,MIL:13-15,PIT:21-18,WSN:25-18
  BOS|113  --  93  87  60| 37  30  44  45  47| 33  39  35  90|ARI:11-6,CIN:16-7,HOU:18-15,MIL:23-16,PHI:12-12,STL:12-17
  NYY| 91  93  --  76  65| 41  22  33  50  55| 50  24  60  40|CIN:6-11,HOU:23-5,NYM:25-38,PIT:17-16,SDP:18-6
  TBR|125  67  75  --  64| 35  28  40  40  39| 42  31  38  52|CHC:16-9,FLA:41-21,HOU:9-10,PIT:17-12,STL:15-15
  TOR|101  91  82  64  --| 34   8  31  33  35| 33  49  30  41|ATL:10-9,CHC:9-15,CIN:26-8,MIL:11-20,PHI:15-18,PIT:11-12
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-------------------+
  CHW| 39  20  27  37  18| --  84 110 104 101| 40  37  48  43|CHC:32-31,COL:8-11,LAD:8-6,PIT:37-15,SFG:18-9
  CLE| 46  20  23  47  34| 92  -- 115  98  75| 41  33  39  73|CIN:20-28,COL:7-20,LAD:16-10,SDP:19-16,SFG:7-8
  DET| 40  27  37  34  32| 73 101  --  74  90| 33  44  57  86|ARI:6-10,COL:18-10,LAD:22-11,SDP:14-14,SFG:18-11,STL:15-17
  KCR| 37  20  41  27  16| 86  80  81  --  54| 18  40  48  42|ARI:20-7,COL:19-9,FLA:19-16,SFG:20-22,STL:23-20
  MIN| 39  35  43  27  19| 99  84 108  77  --| 27  53  57  63|ARI:18-6,COL:8-11,MIL:34-21,SDP:16-7,WSN:22-6
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-------------------+
  LAA| 46  61  66  30  41| 34  46  38  20  30| --  72  98 110|ATL:8-14,LAD:18-17,NYM:16-15,PHI:16-5,WSN:15-10
  OAK| 28  33  15  38  31| 25  32  41  45  36| 91  --  72  86|ARI:17-14,ATL:9-12,FLA:18-13,PHI:10-6,SFG:19-17
  SEA| 41  25  29  28  29| 20  41  40  26  51| 84  80  --  94|ATL:17-15,FLA:9-18,NYM:18-10,SDP:29-16,WSN:10-18
  TEX| 45  53  32  39  42| 42  71  49  54  53|106 115 101  --|ATL:14-14,HOU:34-28,NYM:11-18,PHI:19-16,WSN:21-10
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-------------------+
     |BAL BOS NYY TBR TOR|CHW CLE DET KCR MIN|LAA OAK SEA TEX Interleague Records

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.

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