Because there's so much to learn from the data in the daily baseball standings, I invented a standings graphic in 1994. There's a mind-boggling amount of information represented here, including:

• Each team's daily win-loss results
• Relative standings (place) for each team for each day
• Absolute standings (games-back) for each team for each day
• Winning and losing streaks
• Elimination ("magic") number

Here's this year's NL Central — now showing the full season results. Don't forget to scroll right for the full view.

Also available: a minimized view that will fit on a single letter-sized page and a one-page, crisp-printing PDF for download (109K).