1952 American League (AL) Expanded Standings

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1952 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  95  59  .617   ---   ---| 4.7  3.6  95-59    0 |49-28 46-31 22-19 55-37 40-22 54-34 41-25|
 CLE  93  61  .604   2.0   2.0| 4.9  3.9  93-61    0 |49-28 44-33 23-21 50-36 43-25 49-39 44-22|
 CHW  81  73  .526  14.0  26.0| 3.9  3.6  83-71   -2 |44-33 37-40 20-24 56-49 25-24 40-48 41-25|
 PHA  79  75  .513  16.0  32.0| 4.3  4.7  71-83    8 |45-32 34-43 32-20 56-57 23-18 38-50 41-25|
 WSH  78  76  .506  17.0  36.0| 3.8  3.9  75-79    3 |42-35 36-41 31-27 46-40 32-36 39-49 39-27|
 BOS  76  78  .494  19.0  46.0| 4.3  4.3  77-77   -1 |50-27 26-51 21-22 61-69 15-9  49-61 27-17|
 SLB  64  90  .416  31.0 118.0| 3.9  4.7  64-90    0 |42-35 22-55 26-23 39-65 25-25 39-71 25-19|
 DET  50 104  .325  45.0 216.0| 3.6  4.7  59-95   -9 |32-45 18-59 16-35 37-69 13-35 36-74 14-30|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BOS CHW CLE DET NYY PHA SLB WSH 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BOS|   77-76   --  12   9  16   8  12  11   8
  CHW|   76-77   10  --   8  17   8  11  14  13
  CLE|   74-79   13  14  --  16  10  13  15  12
  DET|   80-73    6   5   6  --   9   5   8  11
  NYY|   74-79   14  14  12  13  --  13  14  15
  PHA|   76-77   10  11   9  17   9  --  14   9
  SLB|   78-75   11   8   7  14   8   8  --   8
  WSH|   76-77   14   9  10  11   7  13  14  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |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  --  83  81 134  60 122 109  79
  CHW  76  --  78  86  86 115  92  77
  CLE 125  87  -- 131 100 124 103  93
  DET  93  66  76  --  78  91  71  82
  NYY  94  93 105 118  --  85 128 104
  PHA  86  90 106 113  63  -- 120  86
  SLB  98  84  77  72  96  90  --  87
  WSH  86  65  83  84  74  96 110  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |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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