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1897 NL League Yearly Summary - Expanded Standings: NL - Expanded Leaderboards: ML | NL -
  Players: Batting - Pitching - Fielding -
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National League

 Tm   W   L   W-L%   GB   GBs |  R   RA  pythW-L Luck| Home  Road 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 BSN  93  39  .705   ---   ---| 7.6  4.9  91-41    2 |54-12 39-27 18-11 73-32 18-5  30-18 63-21|
 BLN  90  40  .692   2.0   2.0| 7.1  5.0  85-45    5 |51-15 39-25 13-12 67-31 22-9  24-23 66-17|
 NYG  83  48  .634   9.5  17.0| 6.5  5.1  80-51    3 |51-19 32-29 16-14 60-34 20-14 25-23 58-25|
 CIN  76  56  .576  17.0  39.5| 5.7  5.3  70-62    6 |49-18 27-38 28-13 61-46 11-9  23-25 53-31|
 CLV  69  62  .527  23.5  65.5| 5.9  5.2  73-58   -4 |49-16 20-46 16-19 53-36 14-21 17-30 52-32|
 WHS  61  71  .462  32.0 108.0| 5.8  5.9  65-67   -4 |40-26 21-45 10-22 44-53 15-17 19-41 42-30|
 BRO  61  71  .462  32.0 108.0| 5.9  6.2  63-69   -2 |38-29 23-42 16-17 54-57  6-11 23-37 38-34|
 PIT  60  71  .458  32.5 111.5| 5.0  6.2  53-78    7 |38-27 22-44 22-16 47-48 13-20 21-38 39-33|
 CHC  59  73  .447  34.0 123.5| 6.0  6.5  61-71   -2 |36-30 23-43 17-23 48-64  8-7  21-39 38-34|
 PHI  55  77  .417  38.0 159.5| 5.6  5.9  63-69   -8 |32-34 23-43 22-24 39-53 12-22 16-44 39-33|
 LOU  52  78  .400  40.0 179.5| 5.0  6.4  51-79    1 |34-31 18-47 13-17 37-59 12-19 20-39 32-39|
 STL  29 102  .221  63.5 438.0| 4.5  8.2  33-98   -4 |18-41 11-61 14-17 23-75  4-25  6-54 23-48|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BLN BRO BSN CHC CIN CLV LOU NYG PHI PIT STL WHS 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BLN|   63-68   --   9   6   9   6   7  10   5  10   9  10   9
  BRO|   66-64    3  --   3   6   7   7   5   3   6   7   7   7
  BSN|   63-68    6   9  --   8   9   7   9   8  10  10  10   7
  CHC|   67-64    3   6   4  --   5   4   6   5   5   6   8   7
  CIN|   64-66    6   5   3   7  --   7   9   7   8   5  11   8
  CLV|   64-66    4   5   5   8   5  --   5   3   9   6  11   8
  LOU|   66-64    1   7   3   6   3   7  --   6   3   4   8   4
  NYG|   64-67    7   9   4   7   5   9   6  --   7   8  12   9
  PHI|   67-64    2   6   2   7   4   3   9   5  --   5   8   4
  PIT|   66-65    3   5   2   6   7   6   8   3   7  --   8   5
  STL|   69-62    2   5   2   4   1   1   3   0   4   4  --   3
  WHS|   66-65    3   5   5   5   4   4   8   3   8   7   9  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |AvgOppRec|BLN BRO BSN CHC CIN CLV LOU NYG PHI PIT STL WHS 

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

     |BLN BRO BSN CHC CIN CLV LOU NYG PHI PIT STL WHS 
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BLN  -- 112  75 100  74  62  79  61  92  83 142  84
  BRO  65  --  83  97  63  43  92  70  78  65  75  71
  BSN  75 110  -- 107  86  86  92  76  89  85 136  83
  CHC  60  83  65  --  57  64  94  66  83  81  93  86
  CIN  64  68  54  53  --  57  82  76  59  89  79  82
  CLV  49  44  68  84  55  --  80  45  70  83 110  86
  LOU  49  83  48  58  49  64  --  68  50  61  86  59
  NYG  63 109  63  86  75  72  71  --  79  81 114  86
  PHI  60  78  53  90  60  58  79  76  --  63  83  52
  PIT  68  52  42  77  64  64  68  55  54  --  80  52
  STL  52  45  52  62  49  50  60  53  59  58  --  52
  WHS  64  61  62  81  73  58  73  50  79  86  90  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |BLN BRO BSN CHC CIN CLV LOU NYG PHI PIT STL WHS 

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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