What is a magic number in baseball stats?!
 

Ok so ever since the longest time this has bugged the heck out of me. On this page of MLB standings there is a stat named "Magic #." Does anyone have any clue what that means? I tried searching for an FAQ and never could find anything! :confused:

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/standings Thanks for the help! :)

From about.com:

http://baseball.about.com/od/glossar...gic_Number.htm


“Magic Number”

Definition: A magic number is a number used to indicate how close a front-running team is to "clinching" a season title. It represents the total of additional wins by the front-running team or additional losses by the rival team after which it is mathematically impossible for the rival team to capture the title in the remaining games

Awesome man thanks! :D

Yup, he hit the spot, but fox is pretty stupid for showing a magic number at this time, IMO.