1939 National League (NL) Expanded Standings

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1939 AL | NL League Yearly Summary - Expanded Standings: AL | NL - Expanded Leaderboards: AL | ML | NL -
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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|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 CIN  97  57  .630   ---   ---| 4.9  3.8  95-59    2 |55-25 42-32 21-25 81-54 16-3  46-42 51-15|
 STL  92  61  .601   4.5   4.5| 5.0  4.1  90-63    2 |51-27 41-34 27-15 73-48 19-13 48-39 44-22|
 BRO  84  69  .549  12.5  20.5| 4.5  4.1  83-70    1 |51-27 33-42 23-18 69-53 15-16 42-46 42-23|
 CHC  84  70  .545  13.0  22.0| 4.6  4.3  82-72    2 |44-34 40-36 24-19 70-58 14-12 42-46 42-24|
 NYG  77  74  .510  18.5  44.0| 4.7  4.5  79-72   -2 |41-33 36-41 20-23 67-65 10-9  41-46 36-28|
 PIT  68  85  .444  28.5  94.0| 4.4  4.7  72-81   -4 |35-42 33-43 19-24 47-67 21-18 42-68 26-17|
 BSN  63  88  .417  32.5 118.0| 3.8  4.3  67-84   -4 |37-35 26-53 21-31 52-72 11-16 41-68 22-20|
 PHI  45 106  .298  50.5 244.0| 3.6  5.6  47-104  -2 |29-44 16-62 25-25 36-90  9-16 29-79 16-27|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BRO BSN CHC CIN NYG PHI PIT STL 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BRO|   75-77   --  12  11  10  12  17  13   9
  BSN|   78-74   10  --   6   6  10  13   9   9
  CHC|   75-77   11  16  --  10  11  12  14  10
  CIN|   73-78   12  16  12  --  11  19  16  11
  NYG|   76-76   10  11  11  11  --  14  11   9
  PHI|   80-71    4   8  10   3   7  --   8   5
  PIT|   77-74    9  12   8   6  11  14  --   8
  STL|   74-78   13  13  12  11  12  17  14  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |AvgOppRec|BRO BSN CHC CIN NYG PHI PIT STL

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

     |BRO BSN CHC CIN NYG PHI PIT STL 
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BRO  --  98  97  87  96 137 105  88
  BSN  87  --  58  68 101  99  67  92
  CHC 106 116  --  96 104 119  98  85
  CIN  88 108 126  -- 108 120 123  94
  NYG  98  89 102 101  -- 126  97  90
  PHI  64  69  94  64  73  -- 106  83
  PIT  78  89 102  82  98 116  -- 101
  STL 124  90  99  97 105 139 125  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |BRO BSN CHC CIN NYG PHI PIT STL

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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