1953 American League (AL) Expanded Standings

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1953 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  99  52  .656   ---   ---| 5.3  3.6 101-50   -2 |50-27 49-25 18-18 56-25 43-27 49-36 50-16|
 CLE  92  62  .597   8.5   8.5| 5.0  4.0  93-61   -1 |53-24 39-38 23-16 48-34 44-28 42-46 50-16|
 CHW  89  65  .578  11.5  14.5| 4.6  3.8  90-64   -1 |41-36 48-29 21-22 65-39 24-26 48-40 41-25|
 BOS  84  69  .549  16.0  28.0| 4.3  4.1  80-73    4 |38-38 46-31 35-16 67-57 17-12 39-48 45-21|
 WSH  76  76  .500  23.5  58.0| 4.5  4.0  84-68   -8 |39-36 37-40 19-24 52-46 24-30 39-47 37-29|
 DET  60  94  .390  40.5 143.0| 4.4  5.8  58-96    2 |30-47 30-47 17-22 48-73 12-21 42-68 18-26|
 PHA  59  95  .383  41.5 149.0| 4.0  5.1  60-94   -1 |27-50 32-45 16-18 36-72 23-23 35-75 24-20|
 SLB  54 100  .351  46.5 184.0| 3.6  5.1  53-101   1 |23-54 31-46 16-29 33-64 21-36 30-80 24-20|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BOS CHW CLE DET NYY PHA SLB WSH 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BOS|   75-77   --   6  13  13  10  15  17  10
  CHW|   74-78   16  --  11  14   9  10  17  12
  CLE|   74-78    9  11  --  14  11  19  17  11
  DET|   78-74    9   8   8  --   6  11   7  11
  NYY|   73-80   11  13  11  16  --  17  17  14
  PHA|   78-74    7  12   3  11   5  --  13   8
  SLB|   79-73    5   5   5  15   5   9  --  10
  WSH|   76-77   12  10  11  11   6  14  12  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |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  --  67 102 117  83  91 122  74
  CHW 124  -- 103 120  80 100 109  80
  CLE 114  97  -- 134  84 133 127  81
  DET  75  86  88  --  97 145  95 109
  NYY  82 108  93 148  -- 126 134 110
  PHA  83  94  71 134  67  --  89  94
  SLB  68  60  79 132  71  79  --  66
  WSH  86  80  91 138  65 125 102  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |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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