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1997 Baseball - Division | League | Wild Card

"Smart" Division Standings on May 7

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1997 AL Standings What are these?
East W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
New York 18 15 .545 4.5 199 142 96.3 65.7 32.9 24.2 57.1
Baltimore 21 9 .700 - 169 112 100.8 61.2 49.4 22.4 71.7
Boston 15 16 .484 6.5 176 154 88.1 73.9 12.9 17.3 30.1
Toronto 15 15 .500 6 114 118 79.0 83.0 4.1 7.1 11.2
Detroit 13 19 .406 9 161 169 69.9 92.1 0.8 1.7 2.5
Central W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Milwaukee 15 14 .517 0.5 145 154 79.8 82.2 19.0 3.8 22.7
Cleveland 16 14 .533 - 193 186 88.3 73.7 46.0 3.7 49.7
Kansas City 15 15 .500 1 140 146 80.3 81.7 21.1 3.1 24.2
Chicago 10 19 .345 5.5 122 152 74.2 87.8 10.7 1.7 12.4
Minnesota 13 20 .394 4.5 148 192 66.8 95.2 3.3 0.6 3.8
West W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Texas 16 13 .552 2 134 125 87.9 74.1 37.7 6.4 44.1
Seattle 19 12 .613 - 189 175 91.6 70.4 51.1 5.6 56.7
Anaheim 14 16 .467 4.5 142 158 72.8 89.2 6.9 1.7 8.6
Oakland 15 18 .455 5 147 196 70.2 91.8 4.2 1.0 5.2

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1997 NL Standings
East W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Montreal 17 14 .548 5.5 168 147 88.3 73.7 13.2 23.2 36.4
New York 16 17 .485 7.5 154 131 83.3 78.7 6.7 15.3 22.0
Atlanta 23 9 .719 - 157 89 106.3 55.7 76.4 11.7 88.1
Florida 17 15 .531 6 120 118 79.7 82.3 3.7 9.8 13.5
Philadelphia 10 21 .323 12.5 114 167 57.6 104.4 <0.1 0.2 0.2
Central W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
St. Louis 15 17 .469 2.5 121 115 83.7 78.3 34.8 4.3 39.0
Houston 18 15 .545 - 135 117 86.2 75.8 45.5 3.8 49.3
Pittsburgh 17 15 .531 0.5 119 136 75.9 86.1 15.0 2.3 17.4
Chicago 8 23 .258 9 115 159 65.1 96.9 3.4 0.3 3.7
Cincinnati 10 22 .313 7.5 112 186 60.2 101.8 1.3 0.2 1.5
West W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Los Angeles 18 13 .581 3 116 105 87.5 74.5 30.2 10.6 40.8
Colorado 21 10 .677 - 212 165 92.8 69.2 49.5 8.9 58.3
San Diego 12 18 .400 8.5 122 121 79.3 82.7 12.6 5.8 18.3
San Francisco 19 12 .613 2 111 120 76.0 86.0 7.7 3.8 11.5

Baseball statistics
x: Clinched Division   y: Clinched Wild card
W: Wins  L: Losses  PCT: Winning percentage
GB: Games Back (Number of games behind the Division leader)
RS: Runs Scored  RA: Runs Against

Baseball "coolstats"   What are these?
EXP W: Expected season Wins  EXP L: Expected season Losses
DIV: % chance of winning the Division  WC: % chance of winning the Wild Card
POFF: % chance of making the Playoffs



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