http://lyle.smu.edu/~olinick/riot/american_league.htmlBetter than Magic Numbers!
Welcome to the RIOT baseball pages! We provide detailed standings for Major League Baseball with new, informative statistics that allow fans to track how well their teams are performing.
For those new to the site, here's what we do: RIOT, a project started at the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department of the University of California-Berkeley and recently moved to department of Engineering Management, Information, and Systems of the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University, provides users exclusive data for each team, including:
Number of additional games, if won, guarantees a first-place finish
Number of additional games, if won, guarantees a postseason berth
Number of games team must win to avoid elimination from first place
Number of games team must win to avoid elimination from the postseason
These numbers are more informative than magic numbers, since they take into account each team's remaining schedule of games. More details about the numbers and the method of their calculation are available.
Information is updated daily, so be sure to return every day. Click on league logo above to check out who's on the fast track for the postseason, and who's already done for the year.
