Baseball OVERVIEW

Baseball standings guide

Baseball on Standings Now is built around Major League Baseball, the sport’s leading league, with the other baseball competitions listed on this hub. The tables show wins, losses and win percentage, with runs difference alongside. Thirty teams contest MLB, fifteen in the American League and fifteen in the National League, each league split into three divisions of five.

Each team plays 162 regular-season games — the longest schedule in major professional sport — and the standings are ordered on win percentage. The three division winners in each league reach the postseason automatically, joined by three wild-card teams, the best remaining records in the league, for six postseason teams per league. Interleague games between the American and National Leagues are part of the regular schedule, so every club faces opponents from the other league each season. The postseason opens with the wild-card round, followed by the division series, the league championship series, and the World Series between the American and National League champions.

A 162-game season means the table moves slowly and streaks matter: a ten-game winning run in April barely registers, while the same run in September can decide a division. Runs scored and conceded sit alongside wins and losses because they show whether a record is built on comfortable wins or narrow ones — a useful check when two clubs are level on win percentage. That is why the standings reward consistency over months rather than weeks, and why the wild-card race — the fight for the last postseason places — often stays open until the final weekend of the regular season.

The hub below links into the full MLB table and every other baseball competition on the site, all ordered the same way: win percentage first, then head-to-head record where the competition uses it. Every competition on the hub is listed the same way, so the wild-card race reads identically whether the league is MLB or one of the sport’s other tables.