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In some North American sports, the phrase games behind or games back (often abbreviated GB) refers to a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division.^[1]

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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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American League

The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is the younger of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada.

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American League East

The American League East is one of Major League Baseball's six divisions.

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American League West

The American League West is one of Major League Baseball's six divisions.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

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Baltimore Orioles

The Baltimore Orioles (also known as the O's) are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Baseball Prospectus

Baseball Prospectus (BP) is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball.

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Baseball-Reference.com

Baseball-Reference is a website providing baseball statistics for every player in Major League Baseball history.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

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Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston.

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Brooklyn Dodgers

The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League Baseball team founded in 1883 as the Brooklyn Grays, next year in 1884 becoming a member of the American Association as the Brooklyn Atlantics before joining the National League in 1890.

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Canadian football, or simply football (in Canada), is a sport in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete on a field long and wide, attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's end zone.

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The Canadian Football League (CFL; Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada.

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Central Division (NBA)

The Central Division is one of the three divisions in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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The Chicago Stags were a National Basketball Association team based in Chicago from 1946 to 1950.

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Chicago White Sox

The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.

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Cincinnati Reds

The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati.

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Denver Nuggets

The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver.

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Des Moines Tribune

The Des Moines Tribune was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Eastern Conference (NBA)

The Eastern Conference is one of two conferences that make up the National Basketball Association (NBA), the other being the Western Conference.

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Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram is a daily newspaper published in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, by Adams Publishing Group.

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Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Eau Claire (French for "clear water") is a city in Eau Claire and Chippewa counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.

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Kansas City Royals

The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri.

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List of NFL tied games

In the National Football League (NFL), a tied game occurs when a regular season game ends with both teams having an equal score after one 10-minute overtime period.

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Los Angeles Angels

The Los Angeles Angels are an American professional baseball team based in the Greater Los Angeles area.

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Los Angeles Clippers

The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in the Greater Los Angeles area.

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Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles.

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Magic number (sports)

In certain sports, a magic number is a number used to indicate how close a front-running team is to clinching a division title and/or a playoff spot.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Major League Baseball Wild Card

In Major League Baseball (MLB), the wild card teams are the three teams in each of the two leagues (American and National) that qualify for the postseason despite failing to win their division; the three wild card teams in each league possess the three best winning percentages in their league after the league's three division winners.

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Milwaukee Bucks

The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball team in Milwaukee.

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Minnesota Twins

The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis.

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MLB.com

MLB.com is the official site of Major League Baseball and is overseen by Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. (a subsidiary of MLB).

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Montreal Expos

The Montreal Expos (Les Expos de Montréal) were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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National League (baseball)

The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league.

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National League East

The National League East is one of Major League Baseball's six divisions.

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NBA playoffs

The National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs is the annual elimination tournament held to determine the league champion.

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NBC Sports

NBC Sports is an American programming division of the broadcast network NBC, owned and operated by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal and subsidiary of Comcast.

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New York Giants (baseball)

The New York Giants were a Major League Baseball team in the National League that began play in the season as the New York Gothams and became known as the Giants in.

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New York Yankees

The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.

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Oklahoma City Thunder

The Oklahoma City Thunder are an American professional basketball team based in Oklahoma City.

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Pacific Division (NBA)

The Pacific Division is one of the three divisions in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Philadelphia Phillies

The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia.

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Pittsburgh Pirates

The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh.

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Portland Trail Blazers

The Portland Trail Blazers (colloquially known as the Blazers) are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon.

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Pro Football Reference (PFR) is an analytics database providing a variety of statistics for American football.

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Ranking

A ranking is a relationship between a set of items, often recorded in a list, such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than", or "ranked equal to" the second.

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Retrosheet

Retrosheet is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose website features box scores of Major League Baseball (MLB) games from 1906 to the present, and play-by-play narratives for almost every contest since the 1930s.

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Sacramento Kings

The Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California.

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Seattle Mariners

The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball team based in Seattle.

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Sports Reference

Sports Reference, LLC is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com for baseball, Basketball-Reference.com for basketball, Hockey-Reference.com for ice hockey, Pro-Football-Reference.com for American football, and FBref.com for association football (soccer). Games behind and sports Reference are sports records and statistics.

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St. Louis Cardinals

The St.

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Standings (sports)

In sports, standings, rankings, or league tables group teams of a particular league, conference, or division in a chart based on how well each is doing in a particular season of a sports league or competition. Games behind and standings (sports) are sports terminology.

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Tampa Bay Rays

The Tampa Bay Rays are an American professional baseball team based in the Tampa Bay area.

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Three points for a win

Three points for a win is a standard used in many sports leagues and group tournaments, especially in association football, in which three points are awarded to the team winning a match, with no points awarded to the losing team. Games behind and three points for a win are sports terminology.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_behind

Also known as Games back.

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