Our Criteria here: Win - a given team wins the game if they were losing/tied (in this order) in extra innings, 9th, 8th or 7th inning. Loss - a given team loses the game when they were winning/tied in extra innings, 9th, 8th, or 8th inning.
ZScore: is based on the population standard deviation and mean here. It tells you how many standard deviations from the mean you are. For wins, a positive ZScore is what you want as that relfects "you came back to win more than others". So 1.5 is better than 0.5. For the loss, a negative ZScore is what you want as that reflects "you did not lose your leads like others around the mean". So -1.5 is better than -0.5
Winner: Cardinals 1.79
The figures based on this time frame 2013-2019
Green Most improved "devil magic" NL team in the 2nd half of the season
Second Half ZScore improvement over First Half:
Team ZScoreImprovement
25 SLN 1.785680
21 PIT 1.360681
7 CIN -0.014525
15 MIL -0.173729
6 CHN -0.208515
Team ZScoreImprovement 2ndHalfImprovement 1stHalfImprovement
25 SLN 1.785680 1.548881 -0.245067
21 PIT 1.360681 1.300996 -0.064901
7 CIN -0.014525 -0.901330 -1.020249
15 MIL -0.173729 0.041755 0.185358
6 CHN -0.208515 -0.383741 -0.245067
Team Disp1stHalfLIW Disp1stHalfLIL Disp2ndHalfLIW Disp2ndHalfLIL
25 SLN 57 61 74 54
21 PIT 62 63 66 47
7 CIN 58 73 40 55
15 MIL 61 58 53 52
6 CHN 57 61 55 60
Weighted..
Team 1stHalfLIW 1stHalfLIL 2ndHalfLIW 2ndHalfLIL
25 SLN 1.686916 1.931983 3.365704 1.816822
21 PIT 1.995846 2.060748 2.677320 1.376324
7 CIN 1.746625 2.766874 0.983405 1.884735
15 MIL 1.931983 1.746625 1.726490 1.684735
6 CHN 1.686916 1.931983 1.859250 2.242991
Team 1stHalfW 1stHalfL 2ndHalfW 2ndHalfL
25 SLN 305 255 330 244
21 PIT 289 273 295 276
7 CIN 260 303 248 323
15 MIL 285 284 283 283
6 CHN 292 267 318 258The data file can be found here
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