See current major league baseball standings at http://espn.go.com/mlb/standings/_/sort/pointdifferential See the column DIFF. If you pause your cursor over DIFF you will see that it means Run Differential.and it clearly means in this case Runs Scored - Runs Allowed. Clearly this could be specialized to apply to one team against just one other team instead of against all other teams. On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Isn't the usual jargon "point spread" ?
--Dan
Thane wrote: ----- I'm no fan, but how to reformulate this one without getting all wordy?
"Golden State had a higher point differential vs. Memphis than it did vs. the Pelicans, despite losing two games to the Grizzlies." -----
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