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1940 Baseball

"Smart" League Standings on May 23

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1940 AL Standings What are these?
American W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL POFF
Boston 19 8 .704 - 161 134 90.3 63.7 30.1
Cleveland 18 10 .643 1.5 157 119 93.4 60.6 40.9
Detroit 15 13 .536 4.5 132 136 79.6 74.4 8.4
Chicago 13 16 .448 7 145 143 76.4 77.6 5.1
Washington 13 17 .433 7.5 157 185 66.3 87.7 0.6
Philadelphia 12 16 .429 7.5 143 168 61.0 93.0 0.3
St. Louis 11 15 .423 7.5 132 133 65.0 89.0 0.7
New York 11 17 .393 8.5 106 115 84.0 70.0 14.0

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1940 NL Standings
National W L PCT GB RS RA EXPW EXPL POFF
Cincinnati 18 8 .692 - 135 95 98.6 55.4 48.7
Brooklyn 18 8 .692 - 125 104 91.1 62.9 23.4
New York 15 11 .577 3 131 106 87.9 66.1 16.0
Chicago 17 13 .567 3 129 115 84.9 69.1 10.5
Philadelphia 11 13 .458 6 89 97 60.6 93.4 0.1
St. Louis 10 17 .370 8.5 118 154 68.8 85.2 0.8
Boston 8 15 .348 8.5 114 128 65.9 88.1 0.5
Pittsburgh 6 18 .250 11 121 163 58.3 95.7 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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