# ⚾ Simple Baseball standings tracker

> Track your baseball league standings with wins, losses, winning percentage, and games back. Simple, fast, shareable. Schedule and stats too.

Canonical: https://simplestandings.com/baseball

## What your baseball standings look like

Default columns for baseball: W, L, PCT, GB. You can customize, add, or remove any column.

| # | Team | W | L | PCT | GB |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Team 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Team 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Team 3 | — | — | — | — |

## Player statistics for baseball

Default stat columns: GP, AB, H, HR, RBI, SB, AVG. Check Statistics when creating to enable a player stats table on the same share page.

| # | Player | GP | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Player 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Player 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Player 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |

[Learn more about league statistics tracking](https://simplestandings.com/league-statistics-tracker)

## Baseball schedule

Check Schedule when creating to add games on the same share page. Visitors filter by team or venue automatically, so each team sees only their own games.

| Date | Time | Venue | Home Team | Away Team |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| — | — | — | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | — |

## The easiest way to track baseball standings

Whether you run a Little League, rec league, or adult softball-baseball hybrid, Simple Standings makes it easy to keep your baseball standings up to date. Add teams, type in wins and losses, and share a clean standings page with your league. No spreadsheets, no apps to install, no complicated setup. It does more than the table, too: tick Schedule to add games with dates, times, and venues that visitors can filter by team, and Statistics to track batting averages, home runs, and RBIs. Enable any combination — all three sit on the same shareable link.

## How baseball standings work

Baseball standings are ranked on **winning percentage**: wins divided by games played (W ÷ (W + L)), shown to three decimals, so 9–3 is .750. Ties are rare, because games go to extra innings, so most baseball tables have no tie column at all.

The other number every baseball table carries is **games back** (GB): how far a team is behind the leader. It is the gap in wins plus the gap in losses, divided by two. A team one win and one loss behind the leader is 1 game back; a team one loss behind with the same wins is half a game back.

Percentage and games back usually agree, but not when teams have played different numbers of games — which happens all the time in rec and youth baseball, thanks to rainouts. Winning percentage is the fairer ranking then; games back tells you what a team needs to make up.

## A worked example

Five teams, twelve-game season, one game rained out and not yet made up:

| Team | W | L | PCT | GB |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Owls | 9 | 3 | .750 | — |
| Comets | 8 | 3 | .727 | 0.5 |
| Bears | 6 | 6 | .500 | 3 |
| Hawks | 3 | 8 | .273 | 5.5 |
| Foxes | 3 | 9 | .250 | 6 |

Comets and Hawks lost their game against each other to rain, so both have played eleven. Comets have one fewer win than Owls and the same number of losses, which is half a game back: (1 + 0) ÷ 2.

Hawks and Foxes have the same three wins, but Hawks are ahead on percentage because they have one fewer loss. Sort by wins alone and the two look tied.

If Comets win the rescheduled game, they go to 9–3 and tie Owls exactly. That is what half a game back means.

## Common baseball tiebreakers

When teams finish level, these are applied in order until the tie is broken:

1. **Head-to-head** record between the tied teams.
2. **Run differential** (runs scored minus runs allowed), often capped per game at the league’s mercy-rule margin.
3. **Fewest runs allowed.**
4. **Coin toss**, or a one-game playoff if the schedule allows it.

See the [tiebreaker rules guide](https://simplestandings.com/blog/tiebreaker-rules) for three-way ties and capped differentials.

## How baseball seasons are scheduled

- **Weekly games on booked fields.** Youth and adult leagues get diamond time from the city or school board and build the schedule around it, usually one or two games per team per week.
- **Doubleheaders** — two games back to back on the same day — make up rainouts and fit more games into limited field time.
- **Divisions** inside a league, each with its own standings and games back measured against its own leader, with interlocking games between them.
- **Playoffs** for the top four or the whole league, often best-of-three series rather than single games.

## Setting up baseball standings in Simple Standings

Pick Baseball when you create a league and the standings start from the Simple preset — W and L — or from Advanced: W, L, PCT, and GB, with PCT worked out as `W ÷ (W + L)`. New baseball leagues sort by W. Every column can be renamed, removed, or added to. A computed column can read every typed-in column, plus any computed column to its left.

On the Advanced preset, PCT is computed (`W ÷ (W + L)`), so it updates as soon as you change the record. GB stays a number you type in: a formula only sees its own row, and games back compares each team with the leader. The [winning percentage guide](https://simplestandings.com/blog/how-to-calculate-winning-percentage) has a calculator for both.

Sort by PCT rather than W so teams with games in hand rank fairly. Box scores come set up for nine innings, with hits and errors beside the line score, and extra innings simply number on.

## Features for baseball leagues

- Custom columns tailored for baseball (wins, losses, points, and more)
- Computed columns for auto-calculated stats like win percentage and point differential
- Shareable read-only link for players, parents, and fans
- Dark and light mode — set your own colors for each theme
- Smart schedule filters — visitors filter by team, venue, or any column automatically
- Public description for announcements, rules, or league info at the top of your page
- Add links to your share page — waivers, social media, sign-up forms, anything
- Game schedule with custom columns, dates, times, venues, and scores
- Player statistics table prefilled for baseball — batting averages, home runs, and RBIs
- Customize colors and fonts for your shareable page
- QR code sharing and CSV export
- Your league’s logo and custom pages in your league’s navigation
- Box scores for every game: the score inning by inning, each player’s line, and a page of its own
- Works on desktop and mobile — no app to install
- No spreadsheets, no imports — just type it in

## How to set up baseball standings

### 1. Create your standings

Sign up, click “Create new”, and choose Baseball. Default columns (W, L, PCT, GB) are ready to go.

### 2. Add teams and enter results

Type in your teams names and fill in the stats. Update them after each game or whenever you like.

### 3. Share the standings

Hit “Share” to get a read-only link. Send it to teams, coaches, parents — anyone who wants to see the standings.

## Frequently asked questions

### How do I create baseball standings?

Sign up for a free account, click "Create new", choose your columns (wins, losses, points, etc.), add your teams, and type in the data. No spreadsheets or imports needed.

### Can I share my baseball standings with others?

Yes. Every standings you create gets a unique shareable link. Anyone with the link can view the standings — no account required.

### Can I make a baseball schedule too?

Yes. Check Schedule when creating and add games with dates, times, venues, and scores. Visitors can filter the schedule by team or venue, so each team sees only their own games.

### Can I track baseball stats?

Yes. Check Statistics when creating and you get a stats table with the columns already prefilled for baseball — batting averages, home runs, and RBIs. Add computed columns for anything you work out with a formula, and sort by whichever column matters.

### Is Simple Standings free for baseball leagues?

Free — standings, schedule, and statistics with no team limits, no game caps, and a public share link included. Public pages carry ads, which is what pays for it; a one-time $9.99 USD removes them from a league, with no subscription and no renewal.

### Do baseball scores automatically update the standings?

Only if you want them to. Typing the table in yourself is the default, and it is what most leagues stick with — no syncing, no broken formulas. You can also enter one game at a time and let it do the arithmetic, report a score and have the standings update themselves, or keep a full box score for each game that updates the standings and every player's totals at once.

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