Runnings - Baseball Standings on the Run in 2020

Last updated 2020-09-30 08:00 EDT.

This page has MLB's 2020 baseball standings as graphs. These are generated each morning (Eastern Time), after the previous day's scores are reported at www.baseball-reference.com and related pages. A full description of the data is at my original runnings page that I wrote the year after the Red Sox won the World Series from the Yankees. Okay, it was the St. Louis Cardinals, but beating the Yankees after losing the first three games was much more impressive than winning the World Series in four games.

Wildcard races for 2020

[Snarky comments about 2020 are in brackets below.] I start displaying wildcard races halfway through the season. [Hah - the season is 60 games long (if it goes that far*). I think my code will start displaying the wild card races with game 82. Oops. I guess I should change that to game 31.] I create them every day, but they aren't worthwhile until well after the start. If you can't wait, check out AL Wildcard and the NL Wildcard

The wildcard code picks out the top contenders. Instead of watching the top four or five teams, I try to include contenders and other teams that are close in the standings. The graphs show the division leaders with narrow lines and contenders with thick lines. Note that some of the contenders can be well above the leader in another division.

By the way, Baseball Prospectus has an interesting standings list that shows the probability of the teams reaching the playoffs.

*: Ha! Not looking good. On Jul 27th the first Covid-related cancellation was announced:

Major League Baseball's season is less than a week old, but one team has already experienced a COVID-19 outbreak that will sideline a chunk of its roster and has caused a game to be canceled.

The Miami Marlins, who had four players test positive during their opening series against the Philadelphia Phillies, had an additional eight players and two coaches test positive on Monday, less than 12 hours before they were supposed to play their home opener against the Baltimore Orioles, according to ESPN's Jeff Passan.

What are they going to do? Quarantine the Marlins for two weeks?

Notes about 2017 (and more recently!)

I don't expect to have time to do anything worthwhile with the graphs. I have some requests from readers, some things I'd like to do, and ideas for things that will never get done unless I need to learn HTML 5 or Javascript.

I may be the last person to access the WWW on a desktop computer. For anyone who reads this on a phone, feel free to drop me a note about how well this works. I promise to read it, I don't promise to do anything about it.

      -Ric Werme


AL East 2020

AL Central 2020

AL West 2020

AL Wildcard 2020


NL East 2020

NL Central 2020

NL West 2020

NL Wildcard 2020


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Last updated 2020-09-30 08:00 EDT.