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Subject: Baseball Standings
Category: Sports and Recreation > Team Sports
Asked by: jailor-ga
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Posted: 16 May 2004 09:47 PDT
Expires: 15 Jun 2004 09:47 PDT
Question ID: 347164

What is the formula for calculating "Games Back" in baseball
standings?  For instance in the current standings on MLB.com - how is
it determined Atlanta is 2.5 games out of first place?

 Philadelphia	19	15	0.559	-
  Florida	20	16	0.556	-
  Atlanta	17	18	0.486	2.5
  New York	17	20	0.459	3.5
  Montreal	12	25	0.324	8.5

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Subject: Re: Baseball Standings
From: lotd-ga on 16 May 2004 10:48 PDT

Hi Jailor,

A very similar question was asked previously:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=234414

lotd

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