RE: "Errors" On MLB Standings Page - Updated

I mean you look at the standings and listen to the MLB shows and they only talk about what's on the page standings. 

This chart shows New York LAST in the AL East with more wins than Boston and Toronto.

That means New York is not in last and is in first / second place in all other divisions.

They are not counting the "game differential" in the amount of games payed vs. the win total.

They only mean win / loss percentage for TODAY not counting teams that played less games.

Toronto and Boston have LESS losses that New York which mean they played fewer games.

That is the "games played vs. loss differential", they don't count the "more wins" over the extra losses on the game percentage score that determines standings.

This could be corrected as a human decision over the stats calculation to put the more wins up higher in the standings and not count the loss in the standings because the other teams have played less games.

If implemented, this stat would be "game +/- win differential" to show that the teams with less games played have a lower standing than the team with more wins and more losses because of extra games played on the schedule.

After all teams play the same amount of games, this automatically gets corrected on the official stats calculation by the end of the season for the playoff spot.

Updated Standings...

 

Now you could say the difference between the PCT difference is 0.39 

That would be the games played vs. losses +/- differential, the difference between .590 and .561 .

Then you could add a new column to the standings with the +/- PCR Game Differential is 0.39 for both teams making it a two way tie for third place between New York and Toronto.

After the games played differential is calculated. 

The removes in the standings lower place in league position because of more games played, keeping in mind most teams lose as many as they win or barely over.

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