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1997 Baseball - Division | League | Wild Card

"Smart" Division Standings on August 20

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1997 AL Standings What are these?
East W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Baltimore 79 44 .642 - 636 478 102.2 59.8 81.1 18.8 99.9
New York 75 50 .600 5 677 520 97.1 64.9 18.9 78.9 97.8
Boston 64 63 .504 17 714 682 81.7 80.3 0.0 0.1 0.1
Toronto 60 65 .480 20 504 530 77.2 84.8 0.0 <0.1 <0.1
Detroit 58 67 .464 22 620 635 75.0 87.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Central W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Cleveland 65 58 .528 - 659 632 85.8 76.2 76.4 0.0 76.4
Milwaukee 62 63 .496 4 548 584 80.0 82.0 10.5 0.0 10.5
Chicago 62 64 .492 4.5 608 632 79.9 82.1 13.1 0.0 13.1
Kansas City 52 71 .423 13 565 626 69.7 92.3 0.1 0.0 0.1
Minnesota 52 73 .416 14 597 668 69.2 92.8 <0.1 0.0 <0.1
West W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Seattle 70 56 .556 - 712 648 90.1 71.9 61.4 0.9 62.3
Anaheim 69 58 .543 1.5 672 615 88.5 73.5 38.5 1.2 39.7
Texas 60 67 .472 10.5 609 642 76.8 85.2 0.1 0.0 0.1
Oakland 50 77 .394 20.5 586 728 64.4 97.6 0.0 0.0 0.0

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1997 NL Standings
East W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Atlanta 78 49 .614 - 612 452 99.6 62.4 90.5 9.1 99.6
Florida 73 52 .584 4 552 510 92.4 69.6 8.7 70.1 78.8
New York 67 57 .540 9.5 579 541 86.4 75.6 0.8 11.4 12.1
Montreal 61 63 .492 15.5 544 569 78.8 83.2 <0.1 0.1 0.1
Philadelphia 45 77 .369 30.5 503 678 60.4 101.6 0.0 0.0 0.0
Central W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
Houston 66 60 .524 - 592 524 86.6 75.4 87.7 <0.1 87.8
Pittsburgh 63 63 .500 3 553 594 79.6 82.4 9.4 0.1 9.5
St. Louis 58 67 .464 7.5 507 498 77.5 84.5 2.7 <0.1 2.7
Cincinnati 55 69 .444 10 484 581 71.6 90.4 0.1 0.0 0.1
Chicago 50 77 .394 16.5 520 595 66.6 95.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
West W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL DIV WC POFF
San Francisco 71 56 .559 - 604 609 88.4 73.6 46.0 5.4 51.5
Los Angeles 68 57 .544 2 548 471 88.7 73.3 53.3 3.8 57.1
Colorado 61 65 .484 9.5 709 719 77.8 84.2 0.5 <0.1 0.5
San Diego 60 66 .476 10.5 626 679 76.1 85.9 0.2 <0.1 0.2

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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