1954 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|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 CLE 111  43  .721   ---   ---| 4.8  3.2 104-50    7 |59-18 52-25 32-13 74-21 37-22 22-22 89-21|
 NYY 103  51  .669   8.0   8.0| 5.2  3.6 102-52    1 |54-23 49-28 25-19 62-34 41-17 26-18 77-33|
 CHW  94  60  .610  17.0  26.0| 4.6  3.4  98-56   -4 |45-32 49-28 21-25 61-43 33-17 18-26 76-34|
 BOS  69  85  .448  42.0 101.0| 4.5  4.7  74-80   -5 |38-39 31-46 23-23 56-66 13-19 16-50 53-35|
 DET  68  86  .442  43.0 105.0| 3.8  4.3  68-86    0 |35-42 33-44 27-26 50-72 18-14 24-42 44-44|
 WSH  66  88  .429  45.0 115.0| 4.1  4.4  72-82   -6 |37-41 29-47 21-29 45-58 21-30 20-46 46-42|
 BAL  54 100  .351  57.0 187.0| 3.1  4.3  55-99   -1 |32-45 22-55 20-30 32-69 22-31 15-51 39-49|
 PHA  51 103  .331  60.0 208.0| 3.5  5.6  46-108   5 |29-47 22-56 22-26 39-83 12-20 13-53 38-50|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET NYY PHA WSH 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL|   80-73   --  11   7   3   8   5  10  10
  BOS|   78-75   11  --   5   2  14   9  15  13
  CHW|   74-79   15  17  --  11  12   7  17  15
  CLE|   72-81   19  20  11  --  14  11  18  18
  DET|   78-75   14   8  10   8  --   6  13   9
  NYY|   73-80   17  13  15  11  16  --  18  13
  PHA|   80-73   12   7   5   4   9   4  --  10
  WSH|   78-75   12   9   7   4  13   9  12  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET NYY PHA WSH

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

     |BAL BOS CHW CLE DET NYY PHA WSH 
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL  --  82  61  42  64  60  98  76
  BOS  79  --  61  70  97 108 157 128
  CHW 101 101  --  96  86  86 139 102
  CLE 111 128  86  -- 108  99 108 106
  DET  83  84  75  73  --  74 118  77
  NYY 101 147 104  95 132  -- 128  98
  PHA  99  94  67  56  73  60  --  93
  WSH  94  92  67  72 104  76 127  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |BAL BOS CHW CLE DET NYY PHA 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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