1959 American League (AL) Expanded Standings

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1959 AL | NL League Yearly Summary - Expanded Standings: AL | NL - Expanded Leaderboards: AL | ML | NL -
Players: Batting - Pitching - Fielding -
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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|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 CHW  94  60  .610   ---   ---| 4.3  3.8  86-68    8 |47-30 47-30 12-3  35-15 65-42 29-18 28-16 66-44|
 CLE  89  65  .578   5.0   5.0| 4.8  4.2  86-68    3 |43-34 46-31  7-6  30-24 76-55 13-10 18-26 71-39|
 NYY  79  75  .513  15.0  25.0| 4.4  4.2  80-74   -1 |40-37 39-38 10-10 23-24 60-57 19-18 20-24 59-51|
 DET  76  78  .494  18.0  34.0| 4.6  4.8  74-80    2 |41-36 35-42  3-9  17-27 58-66 18-12 31-35 45-43|
 BOS  75  79  .487  19.0  38.0| 4.7  4.5  80-74   -5 |43-34 32-45  7-6  25-25 64-66 11-13 29-37 46-42|
 BAL  74  80  .481  20.0  43.0| 3.6  4.0  70-84    4 |38-39 36-41  7-7  25-19 55-57 19-23 33-33 41-47|
 KCA  66  88  .429  28.0  91.0| 4.4  4.9  69-85   -3 |37-40 29-48  5-7  21-27 53-69 13-19 22-44 44-44|
 WSH  63  91  .409  31.0 112.0| 4.0  4.6  67-87   -4 |34-43 29-48  5-8  11-26 56-80  7-11 19-47 44-44|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY WSH 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL|   77-76   --   8  11  10  13   8  12  12
  BOS|   77-76   14  --   8   8  11  11  13  10
  CHW|   74-79   11  14  --  15  13  12  13  16
  CLE|   75-78   12  14   7  --  14  15  11  16
  DET|   77-76    9  11   9   8  --  15  14  10
  KCA|   78-75   14  11  10   7   7  --   5  12
  NYY|   76-77   10   9   9  11   8  17  --  15
  WSH|   79-75   10  12   6   6  12  10   7  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |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  --  74  69  88  88  71  66  95
  BOS  98  --  85  84 109 108 150  92
  CHW  72  94  -- 100 116 105  82 100
  CLE  98 103  76  -- 133 131  85 119
  DET  90 111  97 107  -- 112 109  87
  KCA  89  96 115  97 100  --  85  99
  NYY  84 109  80  92  87 126  -- 109
  WSH  90 109  66  78  99 107  70  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |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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