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1956 Baseball

"Smart" League Standings on May 21

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1956 AL Standings What are these?
American W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL POFF
New York 22 10 .688 - 186 128 99.5 54.5 49.8
Cleveland 18 11 .621 2.5 126 82 96.1 57.9 36.0
Boston 16 12 .571 4 135 133 81.9 72.1 6.8
Chicago 12 13 .480 6.5 97 116 76.4 77.6 3.3
Baltimore 15 17 .469 7 117 144 64.8 89.2 0.2
Detroit 12 17 .414 8.5 134 129 78.6 75.4 3.9
Washington 12 18 .400 9 126 165 58.5 95.5 <0.1
Kansas City 10 19 .345 10.5 130 154 60.2 93.8 0.1

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1956 NL Standings
National W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL POFF
Milwaukee 13 8 .619 - 104 75 93.4 60.6 43.7
St. Louis 18 12 .600 -0.5 166 135 84.6 69.4 16.4
Brooklyn 16 11 .593 - 125 116 86.5 67.5 22.3
Cincinnati 16 12 .571 0.5 154 156 77.0 77.0 6.4
Pittsburgh 15 13 .536 1.5 129 114 76.6 77.4 6.1
New York 13 16 .448 4 111 118 74.7 79.3 4.1
Philadelphia 10 18 .357 6.5 113 148 66.4 87.6 0.8
Chicago 7 18 .280 8 90 130 56.7 97.3 0.1

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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