1966 American League (AL) Expanded Standings

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1966 AL | NL League Yearly Summary - Expanded Standings: AL | NL - Expanded Leaderboards: AL | ML | NL -
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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|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 BAL  97  63  .606   ---   ---| 4.7  3.8  95-65    2 |48-31 49-32 13-7  27-23 62-38 35-25 36-36 61-27|
 MIN  89  73  .549   9.0   9.0| 4.1  3.6  91-71   -2 |49-32 40-41  5-4  24-26 55-46 34-27 38-34 51-39|
 DET  88  74  .543  10.0  11.0| 4.4  4.3  83-79    5 |42-39 46-35  9-7  29-17 57-46 31-28 39-33 49-41|
 CHW  83  79  .512  15.0  26.0| 3.5  3.2  88-74   -5 |45-36 38-43 14-9  30-32 53-49 30-30 32-40 51-39|
 CLE  81  81  .500  17.0  34.0| 3.5  3.6  79-83    2 |41-40 40-41  7-10 30-30 47-46 34-35 35-37 46-44|
 CAL  80  82  .494  18.0  39.0| 3.7  4.0  75-87    5 |42-39 38-43  9-8  37-23 51-51 29-31 44-46 36-36|
 KCA  74  86  .463  23.0  69.0| 3.5  4.1  68-92    6 |42-39 32-47  9-10 25-23 44-57 30-29 42-46 32-40|
 WSA  71  88  .447  25.5  86.5| 3.5  4.1  68-91    3 |42-36 29-52  7-7  31-25 54-58 17-30 31-59 40-29|
 BOS  72  90  .444  26.0  90.5| 4.0  4.5  72-90    0 |40-41 32-49  6-16 21-32 55-65 17-25 38-52 34-38|
 NYY  70  89  .440  26.5  95.0| 3.8  3.8  80-80  -10 |35-46 35-43  4-5  15-38 42-51 28-38 35-55 35-34|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CAL CHW CLE DET KCA MIN NYY WSA 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL|   78-82   --  12  12   9   8   9  11  10  15  11
  BOS|   81-79    6  --   9  11   7   8   9   6   8   8
  CAL|   80-80    6   9  --   8  10   9   9  11  11   7
  CHW|   80-80    9   7  10  --  11   8  13   4   9  12
  CLE|   80-80   10  11   8   7  --   9   6   9  12   9
  DET|   79-81    9  10   9  10   9  --   6  11  11  13
  KCA|   81-80    5   9   9   5  12  12  --   8   5   9
  MIN|   79-81    8  12   7  14   9   7  10  --   8  14
  NYY|   81-79    3  10   7   9   6   7  13  10  --   5
  WSA|   81-79    7  10  11   6   9   5   9   4  10  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CAL CHW CLE DET KCA MIN NYY WSA

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

     |BAL BOS CAL CHW CLE DET KCA MIN NYY WSA 
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL  --  95  88  64  69 103 102  73  83  78
  BOS  62  --  80  64  77  84  67  74  67  80
  CAL  67  73  --  54  66  60  65  75  71  73
  CHW  63  55  62  --  60  59  82  60  56  77
  CLE  67  78  53  42  --  92  54  60  64  64
  DET  88 109  69  64  71  --  70  74  76  98
  KCA  62  76  61  56  66  84  --  54  51  54
  MIN  75  86  62  88  61  74  67  --  72  78
  NYY  53  75  81  49  59  83  86  68  --  57
  WSA  64  84  87  36  57  59  55  43  72  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |BAL BOS CAL CHW CLE DET KCA 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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