1962 American League (AL) Expanded Standings

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1962 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  96  66  .593   ---   ---| 5.0  4.2  94-68    2 |50-30 46-36 10-6  28-26 64-52 32-14 42-30 54-36|
 MIN  91  71  .562   5.0   5.0| 4.9  4.4  89-73    2 |45-36 46-35  9-6  21-25 81-65 10-6  39-33 52-38|
 LAA  86  76  .531  10.0  15.0| 4.4  4.4  81-81    5 |40-41 46-35 10-9  28-26 56-52 30-24 32-40 54-36|
 DET  85  76  .528  10.5  16.5| 4.7  4.3  87-74   -2 |49-33 36-43  7-8  28-24 67-57 18-19 32-40 53-36|
 CHW  85  77  .525  11.0  18.5| 4.4  4.1  86-76   -1 |43-38 42-39  9-4  30-25 68-61 17-16 35-37 50-40|
 CLE  80  82  .494  16.0  43.5| 4.2  4.6  74-88    6 |43-38 37-44  5-7  24-21 65-53 15-29 42-48 38-34|
 BAL  77  85  .475  19.0  61.5| 4.0  4.2  77-85    0 |44-38 33-47  6-13 28-32 52-59 25-26 36-54 41-31|
 BOS  76  84  .475  19.0  61.5| 4.4  4.7  75-85    1 |39-40 37-44  7-8  20-19 60-61 16-23 41-48 35-36|
 KCA  72  90  .444  24.0 101.5| 4.6  5.2  72-90    0 |39-42 33-48  3-6  25-25 47-62 25-28 34-56 38-34|
 WSA  60 101  .373  35.5 205.0| 3.7  4.4  68-93   -8 |27-53 33-48  8-7  22-31 38-82 22-19 33-57 27-44|

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|   81-80   --   8   9  11   2  10   8   6  11  12
  BOS|   81-80   10  --   8   7  11  10   6  10   6   8
  CHW|   80-81    9  10  --  12   9   9  10   8   8  10
  CLE|   80-80    7  11   6  --  10  11   9   6  11   9
  DET|   80-81   16   6   9   8  --  12  11   5   7  11
  KCA|   81-79    8   8   9   7   6  --   6   8   5  15
  LAA|   80-81   10  12   8   9   7  12  --   9   8  11
  MIN|   79-82   12   8  10  12  13  10   9  --   7  10
  NYY|   79-82    7  12  10   7  11  13  10  11  --  15
  WSA|   83-78    6   9   8   9   7   3   7   8   3  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |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  --  64  82  85  53  74  72  71  74  77
  BOS  71  --  81  64  83 110  67  95  81  55
  CHW  75  80  --  93  72  89  90  78  68  62
  CLE  69  94  58  --  81  87  83  65  84  61
  DET  92  72  79  86  -- 101 100  71  64  93
  KCA  74  97  76  93  79  --  68  80  84  94
  LAA  78  95  67  79  74  97  --  76  85  67
  MIN 101  82  77 106 110  90  70  --  70  92
  NYY  56  99  80  71  80 120  94 102  -- 115
  WSA  64  73  58  68  60  69  62  75  70  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |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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