I have a question about the baseball.

Question

(My favorite baseball team is Minnesota Twins)..

We lost a game against the Chicago White Sox who are in first place..we play another game tonight at 7:10..

Apparently White Sox has played 1 more game then us..

Currently we are 1 & 1/2 games out..

I don't really get how 1 game behind = 1/2 game..

Could someone explain?

Answer 1

Yes becasue you have played one game less than whitesox. yet we dont know the out come of this game. So instead of being two games out they are 1 1/2  If the win tonight thye will be out 1/2 game. Becasue chicago will still have played one more game.

Answer 2

When it says 1/2 game it means that the White Sox played one more game than the Twins

Answer 3

Basically, when comparing two teams in the standings, add a half game for each win above the other that one team has and subtract a half game for each loss.

The twins have 60 wins, Chicago 59.  that's one half game up for the twins.

Twins have 46 losses, Chicago 48.  That's a one game advantage to the Twins

Add them up to get the 1.5 games.

Now if you have more time I'll explain the magic number calculations.