1951 American League (AL) Expanded Standings

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1951 AL | NL League Yearly Summary - Expanded Standings: AL | NL - Expanded Leaderboards: AL | ML | NL -
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American League

 Tm   W   L   W-L%   GB   GBs |  R   RA  pythW-L Luck| Home  Road 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 NYY  98  56  .636   ---   ---| 5.2  4.0  95-59    3 |56-22 42-34 18-16 54-36 44-20 40-26 58-30|
 CLE  93  61  .604   5.0   5.0| 4.5  3.8  89-65    4 |53-24 40-37 27-19 48-33 45-28 31-35 62-26|
 BOS  87  67  .565  11.0  17.0| 5.2  4.7  84-70    3 |50-25 37-42 22-17 65-51 22-16 30-36 57-31|
 CHW  81  73  .526  17.0  35.0| 4.6  4.2  83-71   -2 |39-38 42-35 26-26 60-49 21-24 31-35 50-38|
 DET  73  81  .474  25.0  67.0| 4.4  4.8  71-83    2 |36-41 37-40 25-21 50-57 23-24 35-53 38-28|
 PHA  70  84  .455  28.0  82.0| 4.8  4.8  77-77   -7 |38-41 32-43 17-18 56-62 14-22 35-53 35-31|
 WSH  62  92  .403  36.0 130.0| 4.4  5.0  68-86   -6 |32-44 30-48 15-24 38-52 24-40 30-58 32-34|
 SLB  52 102  .338  46.0 200.0| 4.0  5.7  53-101  -1 |24-53 28-49 15-24 39-67 13-35 25-63 27-39|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BOS CHW CLE DET NYY PHA SLB WSH 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BOS|   75-78   --  11   8  12  11  15  15  15
  CHW|   76-77   11  --  12  12   8   9  15  14
  CLE|   74-79   14  10  --  17   7  16  16  13
  DET|   77-76   10  10   5  --  10  13  12  13
  NYY|   74-80   11  14  15  12  --  13  17  16
  PHA|   78-76    7  13   6   9   9  --  14  12
  SLB|   80-73    7   7   6  10   5   8  --   9
  WSH|   79-74    7   8   9   9   6  10  13  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |AvgOppRec|BOS CHW CLE DET NYY PHA SLB WSH

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

     |BOS CHW CLE DET NYY PHA SLB WSH 
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BOS  -- 114 102 106  84 134 126 138
  CHW 126  --  91  78  87  91 130 111
  CLE 120  87  --  95  78  84 114 118
  DET 102  60  72  -- 117 125  99 110
  NYY  96 103  99 133  -- 114 150 103
  PHA 108  98  67 118 107  -- 138 100
  SLB  85  85  80 105  74  98  --  84
  WSH  88  97  83 106  74  99 125  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |BOS CHW CLE DET NYY PHA SLB 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.

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