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1956 Baseball

"Smart" League Standings on May 8

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1956 AL Standings What are these?
American W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL POFF
New York 14 5 .737 - 122 80 98.8 55.2 54.0
Boston 9 7 .563 3.5 74 83 79.7 74.3 7.4
Cleveland 9 8 .529 4 69 48 87.5 66.5 18.6
Baltimore 10 11 .476 5 81 96 64.2 89.8 0.6
Chicago 6 7 .462 5 38 54 81.6 72.4 10.3
Washington 9 11 .450 5.5 93 113 61.9 92.1 0.2
Kansas City 7 10 .412 6 85 90 61.6 92.4 0.4
Detroit 7 12 .368 7 87 85 80.8 73.2 8.5

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1956 NL Standings
National W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL POFF
Milwaukee 8 3 .727 - 53 35 92.7 61.3 41.6
St. Louis 12 6 .667 -0.5 104 79 79.0 75.0 9.1
Cincinnati 11 7 .611 0.5 101 88 81.4 72.6 13.0
Brooklyn 9 9 .500 2.5 75 77 85.4 68.6 20.2
New York 9 9 .500 2.5 70 72 79.6 74.4 10.8
Pittsburgh 8 10 .444 3.5 74 72 69.6 84.4 2.7
Philadelphia 5 11 .313 5.5 62 91 69.5 84.5 2.3
Chicago 4 11 .267 6 43 68 58.8 95.2 0.4

Baseball statistics
W: Wins  L: Losses  PCT: Winning percentage
GB: Games Back (Number of games behind the League leader)
RS: Runs Scored  RA: Runs Against

Baseball "coolstats"   What are these?
EXP W: Expected season Wins  EXP L: Expected season Losses
POFF: % chance of making the Playoffs



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