
Explanation for those unfamiliar. "RDiff" is run differential per game; "SOS" stands for Strength of Schedule, and is the average run differential per game of a team's opponents; "SRS" stands for Simple Rating/Ranking System, and is the sum of the two previous numbers.
For the majority of MLB teams, these numbers are only going to be shown to a single significant digit this way. I'm usually unsatisfied with the amount of information that rounding to the tenths place gives me.
What's weird is that Sports Reference understands this for other sports. Pro Football Reference displays these numbers to the tenths place, which makes sense because football score differences are larger than baseball's. But hockey's score differences are closer to baseball's, and SOS/SRS numbers are displayed to the hundredths place accordingly. In fact, even Basketball Reference shows the numbers to the hundredths place, even though basketball score differences resemble football's much more than hockey's or baseball's.
The SOS numbers are really Sports Reference's main contribution as a stat, and baseball's SOS figures show the weakness of rounding to the tenth's place the most. No 2025 team's SOS left the range between -0.1 and 0.1. And while I haven't checked, I doubt too many historical teams have gone outside that range. So, just about all the BBRef page is telling you is a ternary division between teams whose schedule was strong, weak, or about average. It definitely leaves some to be desired.
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u/baseball_reference would be interested in this.
the college football playoff committee has decided to award the Brewers the 2025 World Series title.
Go Giants