"You're losing the game at one point (could be first or 2nd inning) but come from behind and win -or- you're winning the game at one point but end up losing. Which team in the NL had the BEST improvement between the first half of the season and the second half of the season between 2003 and 2019? A positive value indicates the team did better. A negative value, the team did worse.
If you want to see the significance again of the ZScore and what it can be telling you, please see:https://baseballfan999.wixsite.com/baseballdat/post/what-does-the-zscore-tell-you Most improved Team in 2nd half of season compared to their first half with comeback wins.
From the July to the end of the season
The best team: St. Louis Cardinals ZScore: 1.53
The worst team: the Milwaukee Brewers - ZScore: -2.34
Second Half Improvement:
Team ZScoreTotalImprovement
0 CIN -0.541386
1 SLN 1.530251
2 PIT 0.420129
3 CHN 0.939843
4 SFN -1.073388
5 SDN -1.064556
6 LAN 0.088267
7 PHI 0.305650
8 NYN 0.048661
9 ATL -0.886873
10 WAS 0.939516
11 HOU 0.562065
12 ARI 0.255660
13 MIL -2.341292
14 COL 0.713767
15 MIA 0.103687
Team ZScoresComebackWinsFirstHalf ZScoresComebackWinsSecondHalf
0 CIN 0.177132 0.133027
1 SLN -0.080514 1.181358
2 PIT 0.080514 0.037724
3 CHN -0.305955 0.133027
4 SFN 0.724629 0.418935
5 SDN 0.724629 -0.629396
6 LAN 0.821246 0.927217
7 PHI 0.370366 1.562569
8 NYN -0.434778 -0.565861
9 ATL 0.660218 0.387168
10 WAS -0.273749 -0.407023
11 HOU -3.558735 -3.107270
12 ARI 0.563601 0.164794
13 MIL 0.563601 -0.184649
14 COL -0.016103 0.387168
15 MIA -0.016103 -0.438790
Second Half Won/Loss Spread over First Half Won / Loss spread:
Team FirstHalfImprovementZScores SecondHalfImprovementZScores
0 CIN -0.116351 -0.657737
1 SLN 0.258268 1.788519
2 PIT -0.524375 -0.104245
3 CHN -0.114507 0.825335
4 SFN 0.993777 -0.079611
5 SDN 0.385533 -0.679023
6 LAN 1.879707 1.967974
7 PHI 1.003819 1.309469
8 NYN -1.339193 -1.290532
9 ATL 1.532754 0.645881
10 WAS -1.296362 -0.356845
11 HOU -0.701648 -0.139583
12 ARI -0.743448 -0.487789
13 MIL 0.907500 -1.433792
14 COL -1.019290 -0.305524
15 MIA -1.106183 -1.002495
Team ComebackWinsFirstHalf BlownLeadsFirstHalf ComebackWinsSecondHalf \
0 CIN 245 251 243
1 SLN 237 236 276
2 PIT 242 258 240
3 CHN 230 239 243
4 SFN 262 239 252
5 SDN 262 253 219
6 LAN 265 221 268
7 PHI 251 230 288
8 NYN 226 264 221
9 ATL 260 225 251
10 WAS 231 267 226
11 HOU 129 172 141
12 ARI 257 275 244
13 MIL 257 237 233
14 COL 239 267 251
15 MIA 239 269 225
BlownLeadsSecondHalf
0 268
1 216
2 245
3 215
4 257
5 243
6 201
7 246
8 267
9 230
10 239
11 140
12 263
13 285
14 264
15 261
Team FirstHalfWPercentTot SecondHalfWPercentTot
0 CIN 0.502049 0.497951
1 SLN 0.461988 0.538012
2 PIT 0.502075 0.497925
3 CHN 0.486258 0.513742
4 SFN 0.509728 0.490272
5 SDN 0.544699 0.455301
6 LAN 0.497186 0.502814
7 PHI 0.465677 0.534323
8 NYN 0.505593 0.494407
9 ATL 0.508806 0.491194
10 WAS 0.505470 0.494530
11 HOU 0.477778 0.522222
12 ARI 0.512974 0.487026
13 MIL 0.524490 0.475510
14 COL 0.487755 0.512245
15 MIA 0.515086 0.484914
First half of season Apr-Jun (includes any March games)
Team FirstHalfW ComebackWinsFirstHalf FirstHalfWPercent
0 CIN 650 245 0.376923
1 SLN 737 237 0.321574
2 PIT 635 242 0.381102
3 CHN 666 230 0.345345
4 SFN 697 262 0.375897
5 SDN 637 262 0.411303
6 LAN 744 265 0.356183
7 PHI 664 251 0.378012
8 NYN 667 226 0.338831
9 ATL 709 260 0.366714
10 WAS 664 231 0.347892
11 HOU 357 129 0.361345
12 ARI 673 257 0.381872
13 MIL 681 257 0.377386
14 COL 641 239 0.372855
15 MIA 630 239 0.379365
Team FirstHalfL BlownLeadsFirstHalf FirstHalfLPercent
0 CIN 706 251 0.355524
1 SLN 616 236 0.383117
2 PIT 712 258 0.362360
3 CHN 680 239 0.351471
4 SFN 666 239 0.358859
5 SDN 730 253 0.346575
6 LAN 624 221 0.354167
7 PHI 692 230 0.332370
8 NYN 683 264 0.386530
9 ATL 651 225 0.345622
10 WAS 693 267 0.385281
11 HOU 437 172 0.393593
12 ARI 699 275 0.393419
13 MIL 677 237 0.350074
14 COL 723 267 0.369295
15 MIA 725 269 0.371034
Second Half Jul-End (includes Oct reg season)
Team SecondHalfW ComebackWinsSecondHalf SecondHalfWPercent
0 CIN 647 243 0.375580
1 SLN 790 276 0.349367
2 PIT 635 240 0.377953
3 CHN 738 243 0.329268
4 SFN 697 252 0.361549
5 SDN 650 219 0.336923
6 LAN 773 268 0.346701
7 PHI 742 288 0.388140
8 NYN 690 221 0.320290
9 ATL 742 251 0.338275
10 WAS 708 226 0.319209
11 HOU 413 141 0.341404
12 ARI 650 244 0.375385
13 MIL 687 233 0.339156
14 COL 652 251 0.384969
15 MIA 654 225 0.344037
Team SecondHalfL BlownLeadsSecondHalf SecondHalfLPercent
0 CIN 752 268 0.356383
1 SLN 610 216 0.354098
2 PIT 769 245 0.318596
3 CHN 669 215 0.321375
4 SFN 692 257 0.371387
5 SDN 738 243 0.329268
6 LAN 613 201 0.327896
7 PHI 656 246 0.375000
8 NYN 713 267 0.374474
9 ATL 651 230 0.353303
10 WAS 687 239 0.347889
11 HOU 413 140 0.338983
12 ARI 732 263 0.359290
13 MIL 709 285 0.401975
14 COL 740 264 0.356757
15 MIA 742 261 0.351752Here's the input data (includes Houston leaving to go to AL in 2013)
Team,AprW,AprL,MayW,MayL,JunW,JunL,JulW,JulL,AugW,AugL,SepW,SepL,AprW_LBY5Plus,AprW_LBY4,AprW_LBY3,AprW_LBY2,AprW_LBY1,MayW_LBY5Plus,MayW_LBY4,MayW_LBY3,MayW_LBY2,MayW_LBY1,JunW_LBY5Plus,JunW_LBY4,JunW_LBY3,JunW_LBY2,JunW_LBY1,JulW_LBY5Plus,JulW_LBY4,JulW_LBY3,JulW_LBY2,JulW_LBY1,AugW_LBY5Plus,AugW_LBY4,AugW_LBY3,AugW_LBY2,AugW_LBY1,SepW_LBY5Plus,SepW_LBY4,SepW_LBY3,SepW_LBY2,SepW_LBY1,AprL_WBY5Plus,AprL_WBY4,AprL_WBY3,AprL_WBY2,AprL_WBY1,MayL_WBY5Plus,MayL_WBY4,MayL_WBY3,MayL_WBY2,MayL_WBY1,JunL_WBY5Plus,JunL_WBY4,JunL_WBY3,JunL_WBY2,JunL_WBY1,JulL_WBY5Plus,JulL_WBY4,JulL_WBY3,JulL_WBY2,JulL_WBY1,AugL_WBY5Plus,AugL_WBY4,AugL_WBY3,AugL_WBY2,AugL_WBY1,SepL_WBY5Plus,SepL_WBY4,SepL_WBY3,SepL_WBY2,SepL_WBY1
CIN,199,228,236,242,215,236,208,233,226,254,213,265,1,11,5,20,41,3,5,10,26,41,2,4,7,15,54,4,5,11,24,45,2,4,7,18,43,1,6,8,14,51,3,4,10,17,38,4,4,7,33,45,6,9,7,21,43,5,1,19,15,47,0,6,12,24,44,1,7,5,25,57
SLN,249,174,255,219,233,223,251,190,279,194,260,226,1,7,12,21,46,3,3,6,20,43,3,3,6,21,42,4,3,11,30,43,1,4,16,25,52,1,5,10,16,55,1,4,11,21,38,0,4,13,20,39,1,3,11,27,43,2,4,6,20,40,0,4,3,20,29,2,2,8,29,47
PIT,196,222,230,246,209,244,220,219,205,276,210,274,2,3,6,24,37,2,8,10,26,42,1,6,10,22,43,2,2,12,25,53,2,8,5,18,43,0,3,4,15,48,0,4,11,22,40,5,2,5,26,51,5,7,11,27,42,2,1,12,21,39,1,3,12,28,45,3,5,8,14,51
CHN,213,198,227,243,226,239,233,208,245,237,260,224,1,2,15,21,32,1,2,3,22,50,2,0,12,21,46,5,3,9,16,50,0,3,13,20,40,2,4,6,18,54,2,6,6,25,38,0,5,17,28,41,0,3,8,27,33,3,0,4,26,43,4,2,7,19,37,0,3,12,21,34
SFN,217,210,248,228,232,228,220,217,238,243,239,232,1,4,10,26,41,3,2,10,21,56,2,5,16,20,45,0,3,5,25,56,0,6,9,25,44,3,4,9,26,37,6,2,9,14,46,1,3,5,24,43,2,6,4,25,49,2,1,8,19,39,4,5,6,22,55,3,3,9,21,60
SDN,193,245,236,241,208,244,192,245,232,239,226,254,5,2,7,24,38,3,2,11,25,56,4,4,12,20,49,3,2,4,21,39,2,4,8,19,44,4,2,6,19,42,0,2,7,18,46,1,1,7,27,49,1,2,16,26,50,2,1,7,22,57,1,1,7,23,38,0,2,8,22,52
LAN,237,196,265,208,242,220,240,191,270,207,263,215,2,5,14,13,41,1,6,10,25,50,2,6,10,22,58,1,2,8,16,49,3,2,7,29,58,5,2,13,23,50,2,0,15,20,46,2,1,6,18,47,1,3,10,19,31,2,3,4,15,38,1,2,10,13,47,3,2,5,21,35
PHI,214,207,245,230,205,255,237,201,247,226,258,229,3,3,10,17,41,0,4,18,23,47,1,1,13,24,46,3,4,4,26,49,7,4,9,31,49,4,8,12,26,52,2,4,9,19,34,1,5,15,19,41,3,4,12,28,34,2,2,8,20,39,7,4,14,18,55,3,6,8,22,38
NYN,220,197,238,237,209,249,217,219,241,240,232,254,0,1,5,14,57,1,6,8,22,53,1,0,7,16,35,4,0,5,23,36,3,2,6,19,39,2,5,6,26,45,3,4,5,20,38,3,7,7,20,51,1,3,16,30,56,2,4,6,14,48,3,4,10,27,50,2,3,12,25,57
ATL,215,204,261,221,233,226,240,195,256,222,246,234,3,3,5,18,48,5,5,8,26,50,1,5,13,30,40,1,2,8,24,49,2,4,7,17,53,3,2,12,21,46,3,2,8,18,46,1,1,5,26,43,1,3,9,28,31,1,4,5,18,44,1,5,7,18,47,5,3,12,17,43
WAS,204,225,237,239,223,229,207,228,250,231,251,228,6,1,6,19,36,1,2,6,28,51,5,2,8,22,38,1,4,11,16,32,5,7,12,20,31,1,2,15,27,42,2,2,6,20,51,1,4,9,29,45,1,5,11,29,52,4,5,4,18,46,1,2,5,26,51,3,3,5,20,46
HOU,108,133,126,160,123,144,120,141,142,142,151,130,2,1,2,11,16,2,2,7,19,20,0,3,5,8,31,0,1,3,5,27,1,2,5,19,26,2,3,6,13,28,1,3,7,9,31,1,3,6,13,36,0,3,9,19,31,1,2,9,14,24,1,5,4,13,22,1,2,3,4,35
ARI,225,213,224,251,224,235,202,232,228,248,220,252,2,8,15,19,49,3,3,6,21,45,3,8,11,22,42,3,3,11,12,35,1,4,6,27,47,0,3,16,17,59,2,5,10,27,37,2,4,8,22,64,0,5,13,24,52,1,4,12,24,47,2,7,6,24,48,4,2,10,25,47
MIL,215,214,232,244,234,219,211,240,227,236,249,233,1,3,11,18,49,2,5,18,20,45,2,4,9,31,39,1,6,11,24,37,1,2,7,21,39,2,3,4,23,52,1,5,8,14,49,1,3,7,27,36,3,3,9,17,54,7,8,10,30,48,3,6,9,32,46,1,1,13,20,51
COL,211,213,209,267,221,243,208,228,214,263,230,249,1,1,9,25,43,3,1,10,19,42,1,6,8,25,45,7,2,15,18,31,1,6,8,24,56,6,1,6,27,43,1,8,13,21,35,6,6,12,18,53,5,6,16,23,44,2,4,16,18,44,2,5,11,24,45,7,6,14,26,40
MIA,197,222,218,261,215,242,226,213,202,274,226,255,1,3,11,18,40,0,1,13,21,48,3,6,7,26,41,3,3,5,28,47,4,4,4,20,40,2,3,9,24,29,2,4,9,18,41,4,5,15,28,55,1,4,13,21,49,3,2,5,23,40,3,5,4,30,52,1,6,10,30,47
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