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1956 Baseball

"Dumb" 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 81.5 72.5 32.4
Boston 9 7 .563 3.5 74 83 77.9 76.1 13.7
Cleveland 9 8 .529 4 69 48 77.7 76.3 13.3
Baltimore 10 11 .476 5 81 96 76.5 77.5 9.4
Chicago 6 7 .462 5 38 54 76.4 77.6 9.9
Washington 9 11 .450 5.5 93 113 76.0 78.0 8.7
Kansas City 7 10 .412 6 85 90 75.4 78.6 7.1
Detroit 7 12 .368 7 87 85 74.6 79.4 5.5

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1956 NL Standings
National W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL POFF
Milwaukee 8 3 .727 - 53 35 79.5 74.5 20.7
St. Louis 12 6 .667 -0.5 104 79 80.1 73.9 23.1
Cincinnati 11 7 .611 0.5 101 88 79.0 75.0 18.6
New York 9 9 .500 2.5 70 72 77.1 76.9 10.7
Brooklyn 9 9 .500 2.5 75 77 77.0 77.0 10.6
Pittsburgh 8 10 .444 3.5 74 72 75.9 78.1 8.0
Philadelphia 5 11 .313 5.5 62 91 74.0 80.0 4.5
Chicago 4 11 .267 6 43 68 73.4 80.6 3.8

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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