1961 American League (AL) Expanded Standings

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1961 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 ExInn 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 NYY 109  53  .673   ---   ---| 5.1  3.8 102-60    7 |65-16 44-37 11-2  29-21 74-37 35-16 31-23 78-30|
 DET 101  61  .623   8.0   8.0| 5.2  4.1  98-64    3 |50-31 51-30  7-7  23-21 78-45 23-16 29-25 72-36|
 BAL  95  67  .586  14.0  20.0| 4.2  3.6  92-70    3 |48-33 47-34  7-8  29-26 69-44 26-23 29-25 66-42|
 CHW  86  76  .531  23.0  47.0| 4.7  4.5  84-78    2 |53-28 33-48  6-9  31-23 72-60 14-16 19-35 67-41|
 CLE  78  83  .484  30.5  77.0| 4.6  4.7  79-82   -1 |40-41 38-42  7-6  22-23 64-59 14-24 25-47 53-36|
 BOS  76  86  .469  33.0  89.5| 4.5  4.9  75-87    1 |50-31 26-55  8-5  32-27 52-61 24-25 29-43 47-43|
 MIN  70  90  .438  38.0 119.5| 4.4  4.8  74-86   -4 |36-44 34-46  4-8  22-26 59-75 11-15 27-45 43-45|
 LAA  70  91  .435  38.5 123.0| 4.6  4.8  77-84   -7 |46-36 24-55  5-9  19-30 48-70 22-21 28-44 42-47|
 WSA  61 100  .379  47.5 195.0| 3.8  4.8  64-97   -3 |33-46 28-54  4-8  22-38 40-69 21-31 21-51 40-49|
 KCA  61 100  .379  47.5 195.0| 4.2  5.3  64-97   -3 |33-47 28-53  6-3  23-17 43-66 18-34 19-53 42-47|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA LAA MIN NYY WSA 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL|   79-82   --  11  11   9   9  13   8  11   9  14
  BOS|   81-80    7  --   9   5   8  10  11  11   5  10
  CHW|   80-81    7   9  --  12   6  14  10   9   6  13
  CLE|   81-80    9  13   6  --   6   8  10  10   4  12
  DET|   78-83    9  10  12  12  --  12  14  11   8  13
  KCA|   83-78    5   8   4   9   6  --   9   7   4   9
  LAA|   81-79   10   7   8   8   4   9  --   8   6  10
  MIN|   82-79    7   7   9   8   7  11   9  --   4   8
  NYY|   77-83    9  13  12  14  10  14  12  14  --  11
  WSA|   83-78    4   8   5   6   5   9   8   9   7  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA LAA MIN NYY WSA

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

     |BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA LAA MIN NYY WSA 
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL  --  79  82  53  79  97  81  99  52  69
  BOS  59  --  75  86  73  89  93  94  71  89
  CHW  82  77  -- 110  79  90  83  78  72  94
  CLE  53 119  78  --  62  86 107  84  61  87
  DET  95  75  98  94  -- 119  84  93  85  98
  KCA  45  80  56  76  82  -- 104 103  67  70
  LAA  83  88  86  95  59  93  --  72  64 104
  MIN  72  88  84  84  69 105  78  --  58  69
  NYY  55 106  98  99 104 103  78  88  --  96
  WSA  44  80  69  55  64  81  76  67  82  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA LAA MIN NYY WSA

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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