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1997 Baseball - Division | League | Wild Card

"Dumb" Division Standings on July 17

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1997 AL Standings What are these?
East W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Baltimore 57 35 .620 - 484 368 91.9 70.1 71.3 19.8 91.1
New York 54 39 .581 3.5 496 386 88.6 73.4 27.5 44.8 72.3
Toronto 44 47 .484 12.5 355 387 79.5 82.5 0.9 3.3 4.2
Detroit 43 50 .462 14.5 481 472 77.4 84.6 0.3 1.1 1.4
Boston 42 52 .447 16 524 532 76.0 86.0 0.1 0.4 0.5
Central W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Cleveland 50 38 .568 - 501 465 87.0 75.0 74.8 2.3 77.1
Chicago 47 46 .505 5.5 468 478 81.5 80.5 17.4 2.8 20.1
Milwaukee 43 47 .478 8 395 432 79.0 83.0 6.1 1.8 7.9
Minnesota 41 52 .441 11.5 463 490 75.5 86.5 1.4 0.3 1.7
Kansas City 37 53 .411 14 408 459 73.0 89.0 0.4 0.1 0.5
West W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Seattle 53 42 .558 - 559 526 86.5 75.5 48.1 10.9 59.0
Anaheim 52 42 .553 0.5 497 457 86.1 75.9 45.4 8.9 54.3
Texas 46 47 .495 6 465 456 80.5 81.5 6.4 3.5 9.9
Oakland 40 57 .412 14 482 583 72.5 89.5 0.1 <0.1 0.1

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1997 NL Standings
East W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Atlanta 61 34 .642 - 498 351 94.5 67.5 72.3 19.7 92.0
Florida 55 38 .591 5 404 376 89.5 72.5 19.5 40.6 60.0
New York 52 42 .553 8.5 453 412 86.0 76.0 5.4 17.6 23.1
Montreal 51 42 .548 9 414 399 85.5 76.5 2.8 16.3 19.1
Philadelphia 27 65 .293 32.5 353 535 62.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Central W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Houston 48 48 .500 - 423 402 81.0 81.0 35.8 0.2 35.9
Pittsburgh 47 47 .500 - 391 439 81.0 81.0 36.1 0.2 36.3
St. Louis 45 49 .479 2 397 367 79.0 83.0 19.3 0.1 19.4
Cincinnati 42 51 .452 4.5 362 432 76.5 85.5 7.9 <0.1 8.0
Chicago 39 56 .411 8.5 407 432 72.5 89.5 0.9 0.0 0.9
West W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
San Francisco 54 41 .568 - 419 448 87.5 74.5 72.8 2.0 74.8
Los Angeles 50 45 .526 4 424 373 83.4 78.6 22.7 2.9 25.5
San Diego 44 51 .463 10 494 544 77.5 84.5 2.4 0.3 2.7
Colorado 44 52 .458 10.5 550 566 77.0 85.0 2.1 0.2 2.3

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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