1956 American League (AL) Expanded Standings

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1956 AL | NL League Yearly Summary - Expanded Standings: AL | NL - Expanded Leaderboards: AL | ML | NL -
Players: Batting - Pitching - Fielding -
Other: New Debuts - Final Year - Born this year - Died this year - Transactions - Amateur Draft -
League Splits - Bat: ML-NL-AL - Pitch: ML-NL-AL

American League

 Tm   W   L   W-L%   GB   GBs |  R   RA  pythW-L Luck| Home  Road ExInn 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 NYY  97  57  .630   ---   ---| 5.6  4.1  98-56   -1 |49-28 48-29  6-6  18-19 61-40 36-17 49-39 48-18|
 CLE  88  66  .571   9.0   9.0| 4.6  3.7  92-62   -4 |46-31 42-35  6-8  23-24 61-45 27-21 37-51 51-15|
 CHW  85  69  .552  12.0  15.0| 5.0  4.1  91-63   -6 |46-31 39-38  9-9  24-23 51-33 34-36 45-43 40-26|
 BOS  84  70  .545  13.0  18.0| 5.0  4.8  80-74    4 |43-34 41-36 12-7  27-20 69-44 15-26 47-41 37-29|
 DET  82  72  .532  15.0  26.0| 5.1  4.5  86-68   -4 |37-40 45-32  5-4  14-22 53-45 29-27 42-46 40-26|
 BAL  69  85  .448  28.0  91.0| 3.7  4.6  62-92    7 |41-36 28-49  6-7  28-23 48-55 21-30 42-68 27-17|
 WSH  59  95  .383  38.0 151.0| 4.2  6.0  53-101   6 |32-45 27-50  6-7  21-19 47-69 12-26 39-71 20-24|
 KCA  52 102  .338  45.0 200.0| 4.0  5.4  56-98   -4 |22-55 30-47  6-8  18-23 40-72 12-30 33-77 19-25|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY WSH 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL|   78-75   --   6   9   5  13  15   9  12
  BOS|   76-77   16  --  14  13  12  12   8   9
  CHW|   75-78   13   8  --  15  13  14   9  13
  CLE|   75-78   17   9   7  --  11  17  10  17
  DET|   76-77    9  10   9  11  --  16  12  15
  KCA|   80-73    7  10   8   5   6  --   4  12
  NYY|   74-79   13  14  13  12  10  18  --  17
  WSH|   79-74   10  13   9   5   7  10   5  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY WSH

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

     |BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY WSH 
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL  --  80  75  56  90  90  76 104
  BOS 116  -- 101 110 131  97  93 132
  CHW 120  89  --  94 134 122  94 123
  CLE  95 111  72  --  79 132  92 131
  DET  92 121 111  98  -- 127  99 141
  KCA  80  90  82  67  66  --  93 141
  NYY 104 129 100 103 111 158  -- 152
  WSH  98 131  93  53  88 105  84  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY 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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