1979 American League (AL) Expanded Standings

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1979 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 Eastern Division

 Tm   W   L   W-L%   GB   GBs |  R   RA  pythW-L Luck|vEast vWest| Home  Road ExInn 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 BAL 102  57  .642   ---   ---| 4.8  3.7  98-61    4 |47-29 55-28|55-24 47-33 11-5  32-20 68-42 34-15 65-46 37-11|
 MIL  95  66  .590   8.0   8.0| 5.0  4.5  88-73    7 |44-33 51-33|52-29 43-37  9-4  33-26 73-49 22-17 63-49 32-17|
 BOS  91  69  .569  11.5  15.0| 5.3  4.4  93-67   -2 |41-36 50-33|51-29 40-40  8-9  28-19 68-50 23-19 60-52 31-17|
 NYY  89  71  .556  13.5  21.0| 4.6  4.2  87-73    2 |41-35 48-36|51-30 38-41 11-5  29-26 52-38 37-33 57-54 32-17|
 DET  85  76  .528  18.0  39.0| 4.8  4.6  84-77    1 |39-38 46-38|46-34 39-42  5-5  22-26 50-42 34-34 53-59 32-17|
 CLE  81  80  .503  22.0  59.0| 4.7  5.0  76-85    5 |35-42 46-38|47-34 34-46  5-6  27-23 60-58 21-22 52-60 29-20|
 TOR  53 109  .327  50.5 230.0| 3.8  5.3  57-105  -4 |22-56 31-53|32-49 21-60  2-10 19-28 35-75 18-34 36-90 17-19|

American League Western Division

 Tm   W   L   W-L%   GB   GBs |  R   RA  pythW-L Luck|vEast vWest| Home  Road ExInn 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 CAL  88  74  .543   ---   ---| 5.3  4.7  90-72   -2 |41-43 47-31|49-32 39-42  4-4  22-22 61-53 27-21 55-56 33-18|
 KCR  85  77  .525   3.0   3.0| 5.3  5.0  85-77    0 |42-42 43-35|46-35 39-42  9-6  34-22 57-55 28-22 52-59 33-18|
 TEX  83  79  .512   5.0   7.0| 4.6  4.3  86-76   -3 |39-45 44-34|44-37 39-42  5-4  23-30 64-46 19-33 56-55 27-24|
 MIN  82  80  .506   6.0  10.0| 4.7  4.5  84-78   -2 |41-43 41-37|39-42 43-38  5-7  19-29 59-54 23-26 44-67 38-13|
 CHW  73  87  .456  14.0  42.0| 4.6  4.7  78-82   -5 |34-48 39-39|33-46 40-41  4-8  18-27 50-52 23-34 52-70 21-17|
 SEA  67  95  .414  21.0  77.0| 4.4  5.1  70-92   -3 |33-51 34-44|36-45 31-50  4-8  23-29 46-69 21-26 46-78 21-17|
 OAK  54 108  .333  34.0 155.0| 3.5  5.3  52-110   2 |29-55 25-53|31-50 23-58  5-6  23-25 35-69 19-39 38-86 16-22|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CLE DET MIL NYY TOR|CAL CHW KCR MIN OAK SEA TEX 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL|   79-82 | --   8   8   7   8   5  11|  9   8   6   8   8  10   6
  BOS|   79-81 |  5  --   6   8   8   5   9|  5   5   8   9   9   8   6
  CLE|   80-80 |  5   7  --   6   4   5   8|  6   6   6   8   8   7   5
  DET|   80-80 |  6   5   6  --   6   7   9|  8   9   5   4   7   7   6
  MIL|   79-81 |  5   4   9   7  --   9  10|  5   7   7   8   6   9   9
  NYY|   79-81 |  6   8   8   6   4  --   9|  5   8   7   5   9   6   8
  TOR|   83-78 |  2   4   5   4   3   4  --|  5   5   3   1   8   4   5
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  CAL|   79-81 |  3   7   6   4   7   7   7| --   9   7   9  10   7   5
  CHW|   80-80 |  3   6   6   3   5   4   7|  4  --   5   5   9   5  11
  KCR|   80-81 |  6   4   6   7   5   5   9|  6   8  --   7   9   7   6
  MIN|   80-80 |  4   3   4   8   4   7  11|  4   8   6  --   9  10   4
  OAK|   82-78 |  4   3   4   5   6   3   4|  3   4   4   4  --   8   2
  SEA|   81-79 |  2   4   5   5   3   6   8|  6   8   6   3   5  --   6
  TEX|   80-80 |  6   6   7   6   3   4   7|  8   2   7   9  11   7  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CLE DET MIL NYY TOR|CAL CHW KCR MIN OAK SEA TEX

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

     |BAL BOS CLE DET MIL NYY TOR|CAL CHW KCR MIN OAK SEA TEX 
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL| --  72  61  61  66  40  64| 56  50  55  48  68  80  36
  BOS| 53  --  74  63  82  45  73| 51  56  72  77  80  61  54
  CLE| 54  61  --  52  48  63  65| 80  65  56  50  60  57  49
  DET| 62  55  69  --  58  50  58| 66  57  55  60  54  59  67
  MIL| 59  57  84  50  --  58  57| 45  51  72  77  53  86  58
  NYY| 46  65  55  57  36  --  69| 57  56  86  38  59  60  50
  TOR| 31  46  66  48  41  39  --| 50  57  57  43  52  44  39
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  CAL| 33  67  69  50  46  63  86| --  87  72  77  99  73  44
  CHW| 49  53  66  51  51  54  68| 73  --  52  44  53  47  69
  KCR| 43  35  67  65  78  63  92| 79  66  --  48  89  61  65
  MIN| 35  51  39  70  65  47  85| 46  65  52  --  61  81  67
  OAK| 38  43  46  44  46  39  43| 41  28  52  43  --  57  53
  SEA| 38  51  44  57  60  56  65| 74  59  65  47  48  --  47
  TEX| 41  55  65  70  45  55  37| 50  51  70  73  84  54  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |BAL BOS CLE DET MIL NYY TOR|CAL CHW KCR MIN OAK SEA TEX

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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