Standings 2006

[Frayed Knot]

No single team in the NLWest is all that good, but every team is hanging
a couple games above .500

The NL East is obviously being brought down by the two anchors.

Basically so far it's 3 really bad teams: Pitt, Fla & Wash taking a serious
beaing from most of the other 13.
Only the Cubs are hanging in that limbo between average and lousy - and
that can be at least partially written off to them missing Wood, Prior & Lee.


The NL holds a slight (like 4 games) edge in Interleague since it started in
1997 - even as the AL won a significant chunk of last year's tilts.

[Willets Point]

Aren't the Cubs always missing Wood and Prior?

[The Big O]

NL East Head-to-head
Squadron	NY	PHI	WAS	FLA	ATL	Tot
Mets		3-3	6-2	4-1	5-4	18-10
Phils	3-3		1-2	3-1	4-1	11-7
Nats	2-6	2-1		2-3	2-3	8-13
Fish	1-4	1-3	3-2		1-6	6-15
Braves	4-5	1-4	3-2	6-1		14-12

National League East
Squadron	W	L	%	GB	home	road	RS	RA	streak	L10
New York	30	19	.612	--	16-8	14-11	246	211	W2	6-4
Atlanta	27	23	.540	3.5	12-6	15-17	267	243	W4	7-3
Philadelphia	25	24	.510	5	14-15	11-9	242	247	W1	3-7
D.C.	21	30	.412	10	10-13	11-17	228	242	W1	7-3
Florida	15	33	.313	14.5	7-16	8-17	223	260	L2	4-6

4 of their last 4
6 of their last 7
10 of their last 13
13 of their last 17
15 of their last 20
I hate the Braves.

* NYM Pythagorean record: 28-21.
* Philly is phreefalling -- 2-4 last week after 1-6 the previous.
* If you needed any additional proof that the Cubs are just terrible, they were swept by the Marlins, who were swept by the D-Rays the week before.
* We have the same RA number as the Snakes (tied for 2nd in the NL [3rd in MLB] behind StL [Detroit]). Lez fix that.

Monday's game
Houston 10, Washington 3
Florida 9, Cubs 1
Atlanta 3, San Diego 1

Tuesday's games
Washington 4, Houston 1
Florida 5, Cubs 4
Mets 9, Philadelphia 8 (16 innings)
San Diego 2, Atlanta 1

Wednesday's games
Florida 9, Cubs 3
Washington 5, Houston 1
Mets 5, Philadelphia 4
Atlanta 10, San Diego 6

Thursday's games
Washington 8, Houston 5
Philadelphia 5, Mets 3

Friday's games
Atlanta 6, Cubs 5
Washington 10, Dodgers 4
Milwaukee 6, Philly 5
Florida 5, Mets 1

Saturday's games
Atlanta 2, Cubs 1
Dodgers 3, Washington 1
Mets 7, Florida 4
Milwaukee 9, Philadelphia 6

Sunday's games
Washington 10, Dodgers 4
Mets 7, Florida 3
Philadelphia 6, Milwaukee 2
Atlanta 13, Cubs 12

Next series
Arizona 29-20 [Vargas (5-2, 4.93), Batista (4-2, 4.60), Webb (8-0, 2.18)] at N.Y. Mets 30-19 [Trachsel (2-4, 4.99), Soler (0-0, 3.00), Martinez (5-1, 2.79)]

Washington 21-30 (O'Connor, Armas, Hernandez) at Philadelphia 25-24 (Lieber, Myers, Lidle)

L.A. Dodgers 28-22 (Penny, Sele, Tomko) at Atlanta 27-23 (Thomson, Sosa, Hudson)

San Francisco 26-24 (Morris, Lowry, Schmidt) at Florida 15-33 (Olsen, Moehler, Johnson)


Weekend series

San Francisco 26-24 [Cain (3-5, 5.07), Morris (3-5, 5.49), Lowry (1-2, 3.62)] at N.Y. Mets 30-19 [Glavine (8-2, 2.59), Hernandez (3-4, 6.04), Trachsel (2-4, 4.99)]

Arizona 29-20 (Cruz, Gonzalez, Vargas, Batista) at Atlanta 27-23 (Ramirez, Smoltz, Thomson, Sosa)

Philadelphia 25-24 (Floyd, Madson, Lieber, Myers) at L.A. Dodgers 28-22 (Lowe, Seo, Penny, Sele)

Washington 21-30 (Hill, Ortiz, O'Connor) at Milwaukee 26-24 (Eveland, Davis, de la Rosa)

Florida 15-33 (Willis, Nolasco, Olsen) at Colorado 26-24 (Fogg, Kim, Jennings)

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Yancy would say ... the magic number is 110.

Edit: Hey, edit isn't the same as post reply. Oh well. Lost the week of May 15 to cyberhistory.

[Elster88]

The Braves have played 18 games at home and 32 on the road. I think that is the lowest home/away ratio in baseball.

They are 12-6 at home and return to Atlanta to play LA today.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

The magic number is now 108.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

A few days later, and the magic number is now 105.

If everything goes perfectly this weekend (a long shot, I know) we'll be in double digits on Monday morning.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

On Saturday, the Mets win one, the Braves lose two, and the Phillies lose one.

The magic number is now 103.

[Elster88]

Thanks to a 7 game win streak by the Reds, right now the Mets would not qualify for the wildcard.

[Frayed Knot]

Nor would we have to.

[Elster88]

Really?

[Gwreck]

Elster88 wrote: Really?

I think the point was that we're in first place.

Also, I'm not sure what the "not qualifying for the WC" comment was about. At the close of business on 6/7, the Mets had the best record in the National league, 1/2 game better than co-division leaders StL and CIN, 1.5 games ahead of ARZ.

[Elster88]

Thanks for the helpful info, all, but I realize that the Mets are in first and would make the playoffs if the season ended today regardless of wildcard standings. This is not new to me.
You are correct now Gwreck, but I posted before the Mets won yesterday, so they were in a virtual tie. Maybe the percentage points were leaning one way or the other, but you and FK are both nitpicking and missing what I was saying.

Here's what I am saying: The Mets are not, at this point, running away from the majority of the league with a great record, so the playoffs may not be as easy to qualify for as it seemed a few weeks ago.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Playoffs haven't seemed easy to me at all this season.

The rotation is too shakey, and the magic number too high, for us to be making October plans just yet.

[Elster88]

What's the quick and easy way to calculate magic number?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Determine the maximum number of wins that the second place team can get. (162 - the number of games that the team has lost.)

See how many games the first place team needs to win to get one more win than that maximum number.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

NY Mets 35 23
Philadelphia 32 27
Atlanta 29 31
Washington 27 33
Florida 21 36

With 27 losses, the Phillies can win, at most, 135 games.

For the Mets to get 136 wins, they'd need to win 101 more games.

Therefore, the magic number is 101.


Edited to highlight the magic number.

[Elster88]

Thanks. Double digits would be nice.

Edit: So, technically, everyone's magic number on Opening Day is 163?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I guess so, yes.

If the number of games you win, plus the number of games that your opponent loses, adds up to 163 or more, then you know you've finished ahead of them in the standings.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Magic number over Atlanta is currently 97.

[Elster88]

The only team in the AL West with a record over .500....Texas.

What a strange world we live in.

[Elster88]

Elster88 wrote: Thanks. Double digits would be nice.

99

[Elster88]

PL.	East	W	L	PCT	GB	NGB	HOME	ROAD	EAST	CENT	WEST	INTER	L10	STRK
1	New York	37	23	.615	-	-	19-11	18-12	18-10	6-5	10-7	2-1	6-4	W3
2	Philadelphia	32	29	.525	5.5	5.5	16-16	16-13	13-9	5-10	13-7	1-2	5-5	L2
T-3	Atlanta	29	33	.468	9	12.5	14-14	15-19	15-14	3-4	11-14	0-0	2-8	L3
T-3	Washington	29	33	.468	9	12.5	12-13	17-20	12-16	12-15	2-1	2-1	8-2	W3
5	Florida	21	37	.362	15	36.5	9-17	12-20	6-15	8-10	7-8	0-3	6-4	L1

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

After Friday's action, the magic number is 97.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Atlanta fighting with the Nats for third. Excellent.

[Elster88]

Whenever I add that chart, it stretches out my window so that other posts run off the screen so I need the horizontal scroll bar to view them. How do I avoid that?

[Elster88]

Is 6 and half up the high-water mark for the year? Or was it seven?

Elster88 wrote: Whenever I add that chart, it stretches out my window so that other posts run off the screen so I need the horizontal scroll bar to view them. How do I avoid that?

Anybody? Bueller?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Since the last magic number update, the Mets have won twice, and the Phillies lost once. The magic number is now 94.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

The Mets beat the Phillies tonight. The lead is up to 7� games.

And the magic number has dropped to 92

[Frayed Knot]

I hate you

[Elster88]

Keeping a daily count of magic number makes for a really, really, ugly and uninteresting thread.