1955 National League (NL) Expanded Standings

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1955 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|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 BRO  98  55  .641   ---   ---| 5.6  4.2  96-57    2 |56-21 42-34 21-19 94-48  4-7  44-22 54-33|
 MLN  85  69  .552  13.5  13.5| 4.8  4.3  85-69    0 |46-31 39-38 25-23 71-60 14-9  35-31 50-38|
 NYG  80  74  .519  18.5  23.5| 4.6  4.4  80-74    0 |44-35 36-39 24-19 51-47 29-27 27-39 53-35|
 PHI  77  77  .500  21.5  32.5| 4.4  4.3  79-75   -2 |46-31 31-46 18-26 45-62 32-15 26-40 51-37|
 CIN  75  79  .487  23.5  40.5| 4.9  4.4  85-69  -10 |46-31 29-48 19-23 41-52 34-27 39-49 36-30|
 CHC  72  81  .471  26.0  53.0| 4.1  4.6  68-85    4 |43-33 29-48 28-30 57-72 15-9  36-51 36-30|
 STL  68  86  .442  30.5  80.0| 4.2  4.9  66-88    2 |41-36 27-50 25-20 40-36 28-50 37-51 31-35|
 PIT  60  94  .390  38.5 136.0| 3.6  5.0  55-99    5 |36-39 24-55 21-21 31-52 29-42 31-57 29-37|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BRO CHC CIN MLN NYG PHI PIT STL 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BRO|   73-80   --  14  12  15  13  16  14  14
  CHC|   77-76    7  --  11   7  12  10  11  14
  CIN|   77-76   10  11  --   9   9  11  14  11
  MLN|   75-78    7  15  13  --  14  14  11  11
  NYG|   76-77    9  10  13   8  --  10  17  13
  PHI|   76-76    6  12  11   8  12  --  15  13
  PIT|   79-74    8  11   8  11   5   7  --  10
  STL|   78-75    8   8  11  11   9   9  12  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |AvgOppRec|BRO CHC CIN MLN NYG PHI PIT STL

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

     |BRO CHC CIN MLN NYG PHI PIT STL 
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BRO  -- 127 117 132 112 134 102 133
  CHC  93  --  77  66  91  87  93 119
  CIN  88 107  -- 116 102 106 127 115
  MLN 113 100 117  -- 122  89  97 105
  NYG 113  83 101  96  --  77 148  84
  PHI  80 105 102  78  87  -- 111 112
  PIT  81  88  63  89  82  68  --  89
  STL  82 103 107  91  77 105  89  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |BRO CHC CIN MLN 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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