1949 American League (AL) Expanded Standings

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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  97  57  .630   ---   ---| 5.3  4.1  95-59    2 |54-23 43-34 28-21 63-34 34-23 50-38 47-19|
 BOS  96  58  .623   1.0   1.0| 5.8  4.3  98-56   -2 |61-16 35-42 19-21 68-44 28-14 46-42 50-16|
 CLE  89  65  .578   8.0  15.0| 4.4  3.7  89-65    0 |49-28 40-37 28-22 56-34 33-31 46-42 43-23|
 DET  87  67  .565  10.0  21.0| 4.8  4.2  86-68    1 |50-27 37-40 29-20 56-40 31-27 41-47 46-20|
 PHA  81  73  .526  16.0  45.0| 4.7  4.7  77-77    4 |52-25 29-48 21-21 56-47 25-26 37-51 44-22|
 CHW  63  91  .409  34.0 135.0| 4.2  4.8  68-86   -5 |32-45 31-46 20-29 45-68 18-23 33-77 30-14|
 SLB  53 101  .344  44.0 195.0| 4.3  5.9  55-99   -2 |36-41 17-60 16-25 32-58 21-43 37-73 16-28|
 WSH  50 104  .325  47.0 216.0| 3.8  5.6  51-103  -1 |26-51 24-53 24-26 34-54 16-50 30-80 20-24|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BOS CHW CLE DET NYY PHA SLB WSH 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BOS|   74-79   --  17   8  15   9  14  15  18
  CHW|   79-75    5  --   7   8   7   6  15  15
  CLE|   75-78   14  15  --  13  10   9  15  13
  DET|   75-78    7  14   9  --  11  14  14  18
  NYY|   74-80   13  15  12  11  --  14  17  15
  PHA|   76-77    8  16  13   8   8  --  12  16
  SLB|   80-73    7   7   7   8   5  10  --   9
  WSH|   80-73    4   7   9   4   7   6  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  -- 159  73 133 102 130 156 143
  CHW  98  --  81  66 102  79 122 100
  CLE 101 105  --  95  82  78 104 110
  DET 108  87  89  -- 102 108 115 142
  NYY 101 126  95 105  -- 116 164 122
  PHA  93  96  91  87  91  -- 123 145
  SLB  92  85  69  92  91 132  -- 106
  WSH  74  79  76  77  67  82 129  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |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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