Help Entries
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Rank
The rank column ranks teams for the given season first by winning percentage, then by pythag to resolve ties. During the season the rank change arrow indicates up, down or equal, relative to the last time the stats were updated. Once the season is completed the rank change arrow indicates rank change relative to the previous season.
Pythag
From: Baseball Reference
"The Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball is a creation of Bill James which relates the number of runs a team has scored and surrendered to its actual winning percentage, based on the idea that runs scored compared to runs allowed is a better indicator of a team's (future) performance than a team's actual winning percentage. This results in a formula which is referred to as Pythagorean Winning Percentage."
Formula Used:
1 / ( 1 + [Total Runs Scored For] / [Total Runs Scored Against] ^ 1.83 )
Pythag+
Pythag+ is the difference between actual Winning Percentage for your team, and Pythag.
Formula:
[Win %] - [Pythag]