1956 National League (NL) Expanded Standings

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1956 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

National League

 Tm   W   L   W-L%   GB   GBs |  R   RA  pythW-L Luck| Home  Road ExInn 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 BRO  93  61  .604   ---   ---| 4.7  3.9  90-64    3 |52-25 41-36  6-5  25-21 86-54  7-7  21-23 72-38|
 MLN  92  62  .597   1.0   1.0| 4.6  3.7  92-62    0 |47-29 45-33  7-9  22-21 79-55 13-7  25-19 67-43|
 CIN  91  63  .591   2.0   3.0| 5.0  4.2  89-65    2 |51-26 40-37 14-7  29-22 65-41 26-22 20-24 71-39|
 STL  76  78  .494  17.0  48.0| 4.3  4.5  74-80    2 |43-34 33-44 10-8  22-17 50-44 26-34 24-42 52-36|
 PHI  71  83  .461  22.0  68.0| 4.3  4.8  69-85    2 |40-37 31-46  6-10 17-25 62-73  9-10 32-34 39-49|
 NYG  67  87  .435  26.0  88.0| 3.5  4.2  64-90    3 |37-40 30-47  6-11 28-25 48-62 19-25 21-45 46-42|
 PIT  66  88  .429  27.0  94.0| 3.7  4.2  68-86   -2 |35-43 31-45  5-8  25-29 46-60 20-28 22-44 44-44|
 CHC  60  94  .390  33.0 136.0| 3.8  4.5  65-89   -5 |39-38 21-56 11-7  22-30 46-70 14-24 21-45 39-49|

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

     |AvgOppRec|BRO CHC CIN MLN NYG PHI PIT STL 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BRO|   74-79   --  16  11  10  14  13  13  16
  CHC|   79-74    6  --   6   9   7  13  10   9
  CIN|   74-79   11  16  --   9  14  11  17  13
  MLN|   74-79   12  13  13  --  17  10  14  13
  NYG|   78-75    8  15   8   5  --  11  13   7
  PHI|   77-76    9   9  11  12  11  --   7  12
  PIT|   78-75    9  12   5   8   9  15  --   8
  STL|   77-77    6  13   9   9  15  10  14  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |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  -- 103 102  78 106 106  95 130
  CHC  72  --  81  99  66 101  87  91
  CIN 114 111  --  93 109 123 109 116
  MLN  80 113 109  -- 111 106  83 107
  NYG  66  96  77  62  --  82  92  65
  PHI  90  95 104 102  79  --  96 102
  PIT  78  87  79  60  86 111  --  87
  STL 101 103 106  75  93 109  91  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |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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