1968 National League (NL) Expanded Standings

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1968 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 ExInn 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 STL  97  65  .599   ---   ---| 3.6  2.9  97-65    0 |47-34 50-31 15-8  34-28 60-49 37-16 41-31 56-34|
 SFG  88  74  .543   9.0   9.0| 3.7  3.2  92-70   -4 |42-39 46-35  5-8  27-22 64-52 24-22 38-34 50-40|
 CHC  84  78  .519  13.0  17.0| 3.8  3.7  83-79    1 |47-34 37-44  7-4  30-22 58-62 26-16 35-37 49-41|
 CIN  83  79  .512  14.0  20.0| 4.2  4.1  83-79    0 |40-41 43-38 12-10 23-27 59-58 24-21 34-38 49-41|
 ATL  81  81  .500  16.0  28.0| 3.2  3.4  77-85    4 |41-40 40-41  7-13 27-30 61-53 20-28 32-40 49-41|
 PIT  80  82  .494  17.0  33.0| 3.6  3.3  87-75   -7 |40-41 40-41  9-12 27-36 54-59 26-23 41-49 39-33|
 LAD  76  86  .469  21.0  57.0| 2.9  3.1  76-86    0 |41-40 35-46  9-4  35-33 48-58 28-28 42-48 34-38|
 PHI  76  86  .469  21.0  57.0| 3.4  3.8  73-89    3 |38-43 38-43  9-2  37-29 50-58 26-28 40-50 36-36|
 NYM  73  89  .451  24.0  81.0| 2.9  3.1  76-86   -3 |32-49 41-40  2-13 26-37 44-62 29-27 37-53 36-36|
 HOU  72  90  .444  25.0  90.0| 3.1  3.6  70-92    2 |42-39 30-51  6-7  28-30 48-62 24-28 37-53 35-37|

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

     |AvgOppRec|ATL CHC CIN HOU LAD NYM PHI PIT SFG STL 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  ATL|   81-81   --   8  10  11   9  12  11   6   9   5
  CHC|   80-81   10  --   7  10  12   8   9  10   9   9
  CIN|   80-81    8  11  --   9   9  10  11  10   8   7
  HOU|   82-80    7   8   9  --  11  10   9   5   8   5
  LAD|   81-80    9   6   9   7  --   7  10  10   9   9
  NYM|   81-80    6  10   8   8  11  --   8   9   7   6
  PHI|   81-80    7   9   7   9   8  10  --   9   9   8
  PIT|   81-80   12   8   8  13   8   9   9  --   7   6
  SFG|   80-81    9   9  10  10   9  11   9  11  --  10
  STL|   79-82   13   9  11  13   9  12  10  12   8  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |AvgOppRec|ATL CHC CIN HOU LAD NYM PHI PIT SFG STL

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

     |ATL CHC CIN HOU LAD NYM PHI PIT SFG STL 
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  ATL  --  68  62  69  46  56  61  54  53  45
  CHC  74  --  90  52  65  41  80  62  76  72
  CIN  63 100  --  80  67  67 100  88  66  59
  HOU  60  50  68  --  64  47  60  57  59  45
  LAD  42  50  66  49  --  44  60  50  52  57
  NYM  55  55  63  56  51  --  57  44  55  37
  PHI  40  71  77  59  50  75  --  53  62  56
  PIT  73  68  98  90  47  59  64  --  44  40
  SFG  68  67  85  51  73  63  70  61  --  61
  STL  74  82  64  82  46  47  63  63  62  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |ATL CHC CIN HOU LAD NYM PHI PIT SFG 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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