What is the formula for determining how many "Games Back" a team is in the standings?
Question:
Answers:
Why do some major leauge baseball teams like the yankees not have their names on their uniforms?
No big formula. Take the first place team and youre team and subtract.Who's winning the mets/yankees game?
This is how I do it. Take the the first place teams record for shits and giggles we will say 20-10 . thats ten games over .500 . We will say the second place team is 19-10 . 9 games over. 10- 9= 1 divided by 2= .5 game. we will say the last place team is 10 games under. 10+10=20 divided by 2 = 10 games out.What MLB team has the most 1st round draft picks on their current 40-man roster?
Here think of "1" and "2" as subscripts to identify two different teams.GB == ( abs(W1 - W2) + abs(L2 - L1) ) / 2
W == wins
L == losses
abs == absolute value (we want the differential, not the direction thereof)
The total differential of wins, and of losses, divided by two.
Example: on the last day of the 2008 season, the AL East includes these standings:
Boston 100-62
New York 40-122
Games back == ((100-40) + (122-62))/2
GB == ((60) + (60))/2
GB == (120)/2
GB == 60
The Yankees would have to win 60 games, which at this pace would take more than a full season, to catch up to the Red Sox. Yankees fans can celebrate the new major league record for losses though.
More Questions & Answers...