Runnings - Baseball Standings on the Run in 2021

Last updated 2021-10-06 08:00 EDT.

This page has MLB's 2021 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 2021

I start displaying wildcard races halfway through the season. 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 projected standings page that shows the possible final standings and uncertainty.

Notes about 2021 (and maybe more recently!)

I've long wanted to make the graphs be interactive, but have never had time to search/write/steal Javascript code for doing what I envisioned. I'm now retired, so I might get to it, but higher in the queue is code to take wind turbine infrasound recordings and make them audible enough for people to understand the ebb and flow over a bad night. It can be very, very bad.

Some days I feel that 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


NL East 2021

NL Central 2021

NL West 2021

NL Wildcard 2021


AL East 2021

AL Central 2021

AL West 2021

AL Wildcard 2021


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Last updated 2021-10-06 08:00 EDT.